Re:Why Stuff From China Is So Cheap
by betterunix on Sunday June 02, 2013 @12:54PM
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Yeah, and the solution is not to only mandate safety standards at your own factories, but to impose a stiff tariff on goods produced in countries without comparable standards (and without meaningful enforcement). Yeah, I know, "free trade," but it is not a fair market if some people are playing by a different set of rules, and we do not want to have a race to the bottom.
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Re:Why Stuff From China Is So Cheap
by icebraining on Sunday June 02, 2013 @02:31PM
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Agreed. Then some factory owners will build robots instead (as they're already doing due to wage rises in China) and wipe out any foreign competition along with jobs. It's for their own good, after all.
It is for their own good. Robots are inevitable, better to push them out now and start addressing what they mean for society than pretend they're never coming.
Re:Why Stuff From China Is So Cheap
by icebraining on Sunday June 02, 2013 @05:14PM
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Isn't it better if they have time to transition to more services oriented economy first?
Sure, that would be better. It'd be awesome if they could transition to any type of better economy. But I think given all the circumstances and what is happening, facing and accepting reality is the best way to go. Because the robots are coming, waiting for the country to be ready just isn't going to happen.