People point to China's 'cheap labor' but this downplays why this is only possible under its political system and the tremendous human cost involved. Rather th

People point to China's 'cheap labor' but this downplays why this is only possible under its political system and the tremendous human cost involved. Rather the framing shouldn't be whether its too expensive or cheap but why so many people are willing to arbitrage industrial scale abuse of human labor only possible under an authoritarian regime and then virtue signal about anything else. Even more puzzling to me is why nobody is making the connection between the dilution of US dollar value via exporting inflation that props up totalitarian regimes and its growing reliance on it to make things its people want to feel they are above others. They tried Made in the US but customers found it too morally expensive to care as to why making it outside the US is cheaper especially in China.