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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by DiggyJohnson on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @12:11PM (#43707139)
Doesn't that feel like a massive overstatement? They have worse working conditions for sure. "Enslavement" is absurd if we are speaking about the macro level.
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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by jofla_net on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @01:08PM (#43707799)
Those nets tho...
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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by astrange on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @07:47PM (#43711559)
There's nothing unusual about suicide nets in a place with a lot of people. They're on the Golden Gate Bridge but that doesn't mean SF is a sweatshop.

(The suicide rate at Foxconn is lower than average for China.)

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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by jofla_net on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @11:02AM (#43773007)
Crossing the bridge is hard work.
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Re:America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufac... by martin_a on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:15AM (#43717188)
Overstatement? China is going fully facist on the Uyghurs for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin...
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