Don't the Chinese have a saying which means 'Pay low price, expect to get screwed over'? Bangladesh is even worse than India.

I've read an article about Chinese culture of "good enough". That many apartments fall apart right after they're built because if you do 80% of the job then that's pretty much considered "done".

Doing it correctly or completely isn't part of the contract.

That was a great article: https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-a...

I don't know how true it is about China, but I certainly recognized that attitude.

A more apt idiom is "if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys." [0]

[0] https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/if+you+pay+peanuts%2C+y...

another is "you get what you pay for"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you_get_what_you_pay_for

Another is "you don't get what you don't pay for."

There are two similar sayings that spring to mind:

一分钱，一分货 which means you get the equivalent in goods of what you pay in price, and

好货不便宜，便宜无好货 which means good products aren't cheap and cheap products aren't good.

He meant to say "cheap Asians".

Nothing against people from Asia, of course, it's just what happens when there's a billion people and people are cheap - the best leave, and the rest do whatever they have to.

People are exaggerating their skills because a job that you aren't qualified for is better than no job.

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