Re:How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
by ChrisNorstrom on Saturday January 21, 2012 @05:25PM
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They "like" the factory because it's Better than starving and working on a farm. They make more money in a factory than on the farm. China is the place to manufacture but NOT the place to live. Everyone wants to do business with china but no body in their right mind wants to actually live there.
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That's right. Assuming you're American, its exactly what your grandparents or great grandparents might have done in the late 1800s or early 1900s when they got off the farm.
When the Chinese people have had enough of their working conditions, they'll change things themselves.
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Good for your great-grandparents. I've had white co-workers who took me to the textile mills where their grandparents worked in the Boston area, in abysmal conditions by today's standards. They've been long shut down and turned into office buildings.
There are no property rights in China as we understand them. Farmers grow stuff on "their" land, but get to keep their produce. They're actually pretty productive.