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arrow-up1657arrow-down1imagePublic transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳 lemmy.worldDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square253fedilink
minus-squareBakerBagel@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·1 day agoWait until you see the absolute dog shit they are building in the US right now for 4x the cost in China
minus-squaregurnu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·18 hours agoEasy to build cheaply when you use slave labor
minus-squareThirdConsul@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours 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.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-224 hours 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.
Wait until you see the absolute dog shit they are building in the US right now for 4x the cost in China
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.
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.