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Given their M/O is seemingly using indentured Uighur servants, it probably wouldn’t work economically here. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportati

by judge2020 2y ago

Given their M/O is seemingly using indentured Uighur servants, it probably wouldn’t work economically here. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinese-workers-byd-brazil-factory-signed-contracts-with-abusive-clauses-2025-01-31/ https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chines...

hnburnsy 2y ago
Well at least we are protecting those automotive union jobs so that the average MSRP can top $50K.
- tzs 2y ago
  Are we? Only about 16% of US auto workers are union. When states started offering incentives like big tax breaks to get auto makers to build factories outside of they often made those breaks contingent on the plants not being unionized. Those states also often had laws designed to make it much harder for unions to organize.
  - rangestransform 2y ago
    remember when biden tried to offer an increased EV tax credit for union built EVs shameless UAW vote buying
999900000999 2y ago
Thank God we never do that here. >Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP investigation into prison labor that tied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of agricultural products to goods sold on the open market. https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-inve...
- calvinmorrison 2y ago
  Tuquoque.
  - FireBeyond 2y ago
    Not really, if only because the OP specifically said "so it wouldn't work here". Not just whataboutism.
    - calvinmorrison 2y ago
      Tu che
Freedom2 2y ago
Isn't prison labor a large part of some town's economies? Sounds like it could work just fine, so your assertion is false.
Mr-Frog 2y ago
I read the article and while it definitely seems like visa abuse, I saw no reference to Uyghur people. I think you are conflating several issues here. Also the workers in that article are supposedly being paid very close to $7/hr, which is close to Brazil's median income.
tzs 2y ago
They've also got factories in Europe, South America, and a bunch of other countries. The cars from those factories aren't as inexpensive as the cars from the Chinese factories but they are still pretty low priced for the areas those factories are building for. They could probably build cars in one of those places that would be economically viable in the US if not for the tariffs, and would satisfy US labor sensibilities.
suraci 2y ago
i trust uyghur workers uyghur workers are same as other chinese workers, smart, hardworking, diligent, reliable, and they don't bring drugs to factory btw, we are all forced labor in the 'world factory', forced to work overtime and earn little, to serve the empire and its golden 1b people

hnburnsy 2y ago

Well at least we are protecting those automotive union jobs so that the average MSRP can top $50K.

tzs 2y ago
Are we? Only about 16% of US auto workers are union. When states started offering incentives like big tax breaks to get auto makers to build factories outside of they often made those breaks contingent on the plants not being unionized. Those states also often had laws designed to make it much harder for unions to organize.
- rangestransform 2y ago
  remember when biden tried to offer an increased EV tax credit for union built EVs shameless UAW vote buying

999900000999 2y ago

Thank God we never do that here. >Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP investigation into prison labor that tied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of agricultural products to goods sold on the open market. https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-inve...

calvinmorrison 2y ago
Tuquoque.
- FireBeyond 2y ago
  Not really, if only because the OP specifically said "so it wouldn't work here". Not just whataboutism.
  - calvinmorrison 2y ago
    Tu che

Freedom2 2y ago

Isn't prison labor a large part of some town's economies? Sounds like it could work just fine, so your assertion is false.

Mr-Frog 2y ago

I read the article and while it definitely seems like visa abuse, I saw no reference to Uyghur people. I think you are conflating several issues here. Also the workers in that article are supposedly being paid very close to $7/hr, which is close to Brazil's median income.

tzs 2y ago

They've also got factories in Europe, South America, and a bunch of other countries. The cars from those factories aren't as inexpensive as the cars from the Chinese factories but they are still pretty low priced for the areas those factories are building for. They could probably build cars in one of those places that would be economically viable in the US if not for the tariffs, and would satisfy US labor sensibilities.

suraci 2y ago

i trust uyghur workers uyghur workers are same as other chinese workers, smart, hardworking, diligent, reliable, and they don't bring drugs to factory btw, we are all forced labor in the 'world factory', forced to work overtime and earn little, to serve the empire and its golden 1b people