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But cars are more expensive when we have to pay a living wage :'(
We should only build steam rollers in this country so we could squish the people who don’t want to pay living wages like human tubes of toothpaste
Mane I’ve had too much to drink today. Or mortar is the sweet spot. I don’t know.
Soylent Green!
In this case, the CCP also provides massive subsidies to them. If they did not build in China, all the money would dry up
Xpeng builds it's cars for the EU market in Austria.
Sooo many economists on Lemmy.
It's a very old myth that Chinese labor is cheaper. That was true 25 years ago. It's a reach to call UAW skilled labor.
https://www.aiu.edu/innovative/the-myth-of-cheap-chinese-labor-unpacking-a-complex-reality/
This article doesn't refute that Chinese labor is cheaper than the rough equivalent western worker. China has been upskilling its workforce, and has invested in a lot of manufacturing-specific infrastructure and ecosystem, but the individual workers for any given skill level and education level still gets paid significantly less than a similarly situated worker in North America or Europe.
The workers assembling iPhones in China are both high productivity and low pay (on Western standards). Despite rapidly increasing pay, starting pay was still less than $4 USD/hour for the peak season last year.
And much of that is just the reality of exchange rates, but from the perspective of a multinational company, the exchange rates feed right into their bottom line. They'd prefer to pay Chinese wages over Canadian wages, especially if the Chinese labor is more productive/efficient.