> But you’re also wrong if you think that China only cheated its way to global manufacturing dominance. It did cheat, copy and force technology transfers.
The future was never really "ours" if American businesses can't afford American labor. America's future has been in Chinese escrow for the past 2 decades.
> The future was never really "ours" if American businesses can't afford American labor
This is worth hanging on the wall in big letters. There was a time when in the West governments and even a good number of enterprises big and small cared for their people. This responsibility has by and large been replaced by a view of the world where profit is the only aspect that counts.
I'm not one to defend dark patterns in, shall we say, 'creative resource acquisition', but then the West including the US is definitely not free from this particular guilt. More to the point, it is precisely the managerial class in the Free West that has been insisting for decades that wherever it's cheaper to have people work for you is where production facilities should be moved, and it's our societies who still take it as gospel that employing people is basically a burden that should be avoided as much as possible.
For the same reason and under the dictate of efficiency things like, to pick a random example, the number of repair and maintenance facilities operated by the Deutsche Bahn and Berlin public transport both have been pared down to a minimum because having more of one kind for these manager types means redundancy that you can just throw out of the window. In this case it's the people who rely on public transport who have to pay the price (in terms of less reliable and BTW more expensive service) while said managerial class is enjoying the-sky-is-the-limit pay raises.
So I'm not a fan of the CCP and in particular not of their present leadership but it's not like the West hasn't be handing over their know-how and their means of production quite happily: for the managers it has so far nearly always meant better bottom lines and handsome bonuses. All the while everybody else has to believe that higher productivity will trickle down in terms of higher paychecks for everyone (which stopped to be true at some point in the past), and, as for China, the unfounded hope that somehow democracy will travel back to China in those half-empty cargo ships that are headed for Shanghai.
They didn't put a gun to anyone's head, they offered competitive pricing in exchange for moral bankruptcy. The corporate elite of America chose this so they could wield immense profits and avoid the cost of ethics and worker rights. And the American people happily accompanied them the whole way, now going so far as to prop up Temu in their pursuit of cheap crap.
And yet America is (perhaps soon to be was) still rampantly wealthy and productive and powerful. Moreso than any nation on the planet.
Go to Rome. Sit down, anywhere you can, and watch the tourists flocking around the ruins, snapping selfies among the crumbling stones.
The future was never Republican.
Dude, technology is not utopia
> But you’re also wrong if you think that China only cheated its way to global manufacturing dominance. It did cheat, copy and force technology transfers.
They Lied, They Cheated, They Stole
They stole our future from US
You're blind to everything else they did, and your blindness is a problem for you.
https://archive.is/fgeUJ btw
Our ruling class and the idiot scammers in power sold our country out. They should be the ones you get mad at.
The future was never really "ours" if American businesses can't afford American labor. America's future has been in Chinese escrow for the past 2 decades.
> The future was never really "ours" if American businesses can't afford American labor
This is worth hanging on the wall in big letters. There was a time when in the West governments and even a good number of enterprises big and small cared for their people. This responsibility has by and large been replaced by a view of the world where profit is the only aspect that counts.
I'm not one to defend dark patterns in, shall we say, 'creative resource acquisition', but then the West including the US is definitely not free from this particular guilt. More to the point, it is precisely the managerial class in the Free West that has been insisting for decades that wherever it's cheaper to have people work for you is where production facilities should be moved, and it's our societies who still take it as gospel that employing people is basically a burden that should be avoided as much as possible.
For the same reason and under the dictate of efficiency things like, to pick a random example, the number of repair and maintenance facilities operated by the Deutsche Bahn and Berlin public transport both have been pared down to a minimum because having more of one kind for these manager types means redundancy that you can just throw out of the window. In this case it's the people who rely on public transport who have to pay the price (in terms of less reliable and BTW more expensive service) while said managerial class is enjoying the-sky-is-the-limit pay raises.
So I'm not a fan of the CCP and in particular not of their present leadership but it's not like the West hasn't be handing over their know-how and their means of production quite happily: for the managers it has so far nearly always meant better bottom lines and handsome bonuses. All the while everybody else has to believe that higher productivity will trickle down in terms of higher paychecks for everyone (which stopped to be true at some point in the past), and, as for China, the unfounded hope that somehow democracy will travel back to China in those half-empty cargo ships that are headed for Shanghai.
No, China did not.
They didn't put a gun to anyone's head, they offered competitive pricing in exchange for moral bankruptcy. The corporate elite of America chose this so they could wield immense profits and avoid the cost of ethics and worker rights. And the American people happily accompanied them the whole way, now going so far as to prop up Temu in their pursuit of cheap crap.
And yet America is (perhaps soon to be was) still rampantly wealthy and productive and powerful. Moreso than any nation on the planet.