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China has vertically integrated the entire construction process, making the machines that, extracting the materials, transporting them, and building the infrast
by colinmhayes 6y ago
China has vertically integrated the entire construction process, making the machines that, extracting the materials, transporting them, and building the infrastructure all using slave wage labor. Americans would never accept that quality of life.
- mlillie 6y agoIs their "slave wage labor" really any worse than being a construction worker in the US, in relative terms?
- aianus 6y agoYes, significantly so. ~18 workers died and hundreds were injured building the HK bridge to Macau and the Mainland which opened in 2018.
- velp 6y agoUm.. yes? Construction work may be back-breaking and hard but it often pays well, or at least can serve as a path towards a trade or higher earning.
- BurningFrog 6y agoIt's not about the wages. It's about a bias towards building things and taking action. Construction in the US bordering on a "Vetocracy". Everyone and their NIMBY uncle can oppose anything being done. So what little gets done happens after many years and at great cost.