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arrow-up1777arrow-down1imagePublic transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳 lemmy.worldDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 days agomessage-square294fedilink
minus-squareBakerBagel@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·5 days agoWait until you see the absolute dog shit they are building in the US right now for 4x the cost in China
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 days agoYou have to adjust for labour costs. For reasons that have to do with certain industries not existing in the third world, it’s much higher in the West.
minus-squaregurnu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·5 days agoEasy to build cheaply when you use slave labor
minus-squareThirdConsul@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoI mean… https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studies/united-states/ https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studies/china/ 3.3 slaves per thousand people vs 4.0 per thousand seems very similar to me.
Wait until you see the absolute dog shit they are building in the US right now for 4x the cost in China
You have to adjust for labour costs. For reasons that have to do with certain industries not existing in the third world, it’s much higher in the West.
Easy to build cheaply when you use slave labor
I mean…
https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studies/united-states/
https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studies/china/
3.3 slaves per thousand people vs 4.0 per thousand seems very similar to me.