Originally posted by Sonadow
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Go look at where the Asian countries you mentioned were prior to Nixon normalizing relations with China and allowing/encouraging American companies to do business with China, and friends.
Make no mistake, the U.S. was built on cheap labor, first with slavery, then with indentured servants, then with low skilled / low wage workers, then with minimum wage workers and finally after unions and all the employee protection laws went into effect we exported our slavery/indentured servants/peons to China, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the rest. In the process we also exported all our technology and intellectual properties to countries that have vastly different standards than us and had no problem blatantly and overtly and covertly stealing the technology we used to build factories and manufacture goods over their.
We needed cheap labor, and by we I mean the U.S. and most European countries, because workers in these countries demand/command decent salaries and the Chinese and other Asian countries needed technology and trade to build up their countries are being ravaged with a number of significant wars during the 20th century.
The also have no problem with slavery / forced labor, liberals like to talk about the slavery of Black people from Africa by White Europeans but they conveniently ignore the duplicity of the Black African kings and tribal chiefs that sold their country men into slavery and the also conveniently ignore the slavery that goes on today in China, where if you want something built really cheap, the Chinese government is more than happy to wake up 100 thousand people at 2 AM to work for literally less than a dollar an hour and allow you to build a million units in a month, while of course stealing your IP and if you have the balls to complain about them stealing your technology they will just steal/confiscate your plant, accuse your executives in that country of either espionage or corruption and threaten to jail them for 10 years unless you abandon the plant within 48 hours.
The Chinese are no one's friends and we shouldn't be doing any business with them, if we, the U.S. really want cheap labor that badly, we should start looking at partnerships with certain South American countries, where we may be able to have more favorable outcomes and where such investments would probably go a long way towards stemming the illegal immigration problem that half this country doesn't seem to care exists.
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