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Re:Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage by lupire on Saturday May 14, 2022 @06:16PM (#31383189)
> There are more tooling engineers in the city of Shenzhen than in all of North America combined.

This is because tariffs are not high enough to compensate for Chinese workers being paid below US minimum wage.

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Re:Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage by kokken on Saturday May 14, 2022 @09:45PM (#31384520)
Chinese tooling engineers are highly paid
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Re:Bad government policy is fueling the infant formula shortage by gadflyinyoureye on Saturday May 14, 2022 @11:24PM (#31385000)
https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/tooling-engineer/chi... Average pay is ¥230,664 or approximately $34,000 USD. That's probably pretty good at twice the average Chinese salary.
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