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Agreed, however there are only two ways to handle this, race to the bottom and then everyone has Chinese working conditions and salaries, or it is about time th

by pjmlp 3mo ago

Agreed, however there are only two ways to handle this, race to the bottom and then everyone has Chinese working conditions and salaries, or it is about time that we build our walls and kind of, no kidding, make each country great again, which is why right wing parties are going up all over the place. I still remember how it was in most European companies before we started offshoring everything, textil, shoes, TVs, mobiles, software,..., the whole bunch, with the colonist mindset that of course the "slaves" would never have the skills to master the end to end production themselves, what a joke, naturally as humans they have exactly the same skills. And it isn't only China of course, we even do it among ourselves across European countries, for the new factory in some random eastern country, a bunch of folks in western Europe join the job center line. All for the bank accounts for the managers of course, as employees get thrown around like pawns in the MBA chess, more akin to mediaeval lords managing their feudal servants.

close04 3mo ago
> race to the bottom and then everyone has Chinese working conditions and salaries I think it’s doable to be competitive even under Western conditions assuming you have the rest of the ultra optimized supply chains because you can find ways to support them even with just a nudge here and there, compared to when the only German part if the business is the one who says “designed un Germany”. > or it is about time that we build our walls and kind of, no kidding, make each country great again, which is why right wing parties are going up all over the place. Right wing parties are going up to say they’ll make the country great again. Can’t think of a significant time in history when these parties actually did make a country great.
- pjmlp 3mo ago
  They didn't of course, however when they happen to have such an easy speech to sell about who is to blame about factories closing down, queues increasing sizes at the job center, no longer able to afford the same supermarket basket size even when employeed,.... It is no accident that in a way we are reliving the same uptake they had during the big depression, and there doesn't seem to be any way to counter that.

by pjmlp 3mo ago

close04 3mo ago

> race to the bottom and then everyone has Chinese working conditions and salaries I think it’s doable to be competitive even under Western conditions assuming you have the rest of the ultra optimized supply chains because you can find ways to support them even with just a nudge here and there, compared to when the only German part if the business is the one who says “designed un Germany”. > or it is about time that we build our walls and kind of, no kidding, make each country great again, which is why right wing parties are going up all over the place. Right wing parties are going up to say they’ll make the country great again. Can’t think of a significant time in history when these parties actually did make a country great.

pjmlp 3mo ago
They didn't of course, however when they happen to have such an easy speech to sell about who is to blame about factories closing down, queues increasing sizes at the job center, no longer able to afford the same supermarket basket size even when employeed,.... It is no accident that in a way we are reliving the same uptake they had during the big depression, and there doesn't seem to be any way to counter that.