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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by Cthulhu_ on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:57AM (#20083765)
> It helps to be a dictatorship that can force anybody to do what they want, and send to camp people that don't. It also helps to have millions of cheap workers, and a gigantic, rich, soil. And it's easier if you not care about destroying everything in your way.

Is this about China or the US? I mean it's got prison / slave labor, cheap workers (minimum wage, what's that?), huge lands, etc. Don't think the US moved away from those practices a hundred years ago, they're still doing it, they're just calling it differently and it's coming from financial interests now instead of political ones (e.g. private prisons that make sure to keep their cells (over) full and their cheap labor supply up)

Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by dang on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:46AM (#20084456)
Please don't take HN threads even further into ideological and nationalistic flamewar. These discussions are all the same, which makes them predictable, which makes them boring apart from the intense indignation they provoke. That is not what HN is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by otaviokz on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:23AM (#20084120)
It has the largest inmate population in the world, in total number, not %.

Can you imagine if China locked up the same % of it's population?

Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by ionised on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:24AM (#20084129)
You might be surprised to learn about some of the shit the US does to its own citizens.
Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by wavefunction on Monday June 03, 2019 @11:24AM (#20084133)
Some contend that family separations are still occurring: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-migrant-fam...