> can't compete with slave labor

Slave labor cannot compete with free labor, that's why it disappeared well over a century ago.

> stolen and unlicensed manufacturing tech

I bet you're right the US would be far more innovative and efficient if patents were done away with entirely.

Or just charge a fee of $1,000,000 to register a patent. That'll end all the stupid frivolous patents and the patent troll industry.

If someone had told me last week that WB would categorically deny that the government traffics incarcerated Uyghurs from the concentration camps to manufacturing centres for forced labour, I would have said he's crazy.

A shame, really. Your account is on the CCP apologia watchlists now.

What?! He didn't deny anything! What he is saying is that slave labor always loses out to free labor. Which is why that happened in the US and why it will happen again against China. So even if China uses slave labor, the American industry can still compete. Otherwise, if slavery is so much more competitive , the northern states would've lost out to the confederacy. It's not an excuse to give up. The Uyghur camps are real, but they won't make China outcompete everyone else. Unless we give up and let it happen.

> He didn't deny anything!

Wrong.

> What he is saying is that slave labor always loses out to free labor.

No, he literally wrote that "it disappeared well over a century ago". This is plain false, but telling this lie plays into the hand of governments like UAE and PRC that use slaves, but would like to forget the world that they do.

I understand your point and agree with it.

But I meant slavery disappearing in a different sense. It is still used to oppress people, but it is not economically competitive.