This is just factually untrue. Real wages for the working class have increased substantially year over year for decades in the PRC. The reason why it’s cheaper is because the PRC has become that much better at producing goods.
It wasn’t slave labor, exactly, but it was massively exploited labor. 75 years ago China was easily the poorest country in the world and it’s people were living in the equivalent of $1/day, possibly less.
However, the entire goal of the socialist program was to alleviate that poverty and exploitation, not by enslaving people but by developing the country’s economic and industrial base.
Today, Chinese people have a higher average purchasing power than US citizens do. That means the average Chinese family can afford to buy more goods and services than the average American family. Wealth inequality is also way lower in China than in the US which means that way more of Chinese people have better purchasing power than USians do, simply because that’s how averages work. The US raises the average by making very few people very wealthy and China raises the average by making their billion residents sustainably and incrementally more wealthy.
As for slave labor, the US imprisons more of its people than any other nation on the planet and all of those prisoners are subject to slave labor and massive debt burdens. Official US slave labor from prisons produces over $11Bn in goods and services, much of which goes to the profits of for-profit prison management companies.
The PRC is not murdering, enslaving, nor sterilizing Uyghurs. It’s genuinely a complex situation, but you can absolutely rely on the west to uncritically report their paid propagandist and christian nationalist Adrian Zenz of the “Victims of Communism” state department propaganda outlet. The reason why the west keeps pushing this distortion of what’s actually going on in Xinjiang is because they wish to stoke political and civil instability, creating a wedge to force through economic liberalization and capitulation to US demands.
The U.S. doesn’t give a shit about muslims, and are actively committing genocide in Palestine. There’s absolutely no reason to trust what the U.S. State Department says on the matter, especially when nearly all evidence circles back to testemonials (and fabrications!) from Adrian Zenz.
You can’t bring us evidence because there isn’t any.
The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing Salafi terrorist into Xinjiang, and once its efforts failed, it made lemonade out of its lemon by concocting and promoting a genocide narrative.
The only countries pushing this narrative are the “always the same map” imperial core countries, which just so happen to be largely the same ones supporting Israel’s genocide.
#HRC51 | Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.6 on holding a debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of #China, was REJECTED.
I should have noticed it earlier, but seeing that photograph comparison made me realize that Herzlians deny the extermination of Gazans despite its overwhelming evidence whereas they completely believe in the Uygur genocide conspiracy theory despite its utter lack of evidence.
Slave labour.
Do you want to be paid $0.0001 per widget you produce 12hrs per day, 7 days a week? Because that’s how you get cheap things.
The world found a place that had people that desperate.
This is just factually untrue. Real wages for the working class have increased substantially year over year for decades in the PRC. The reason why it’s cheaper is because the PRC has become that much better at producing goods.
So they’re up to $0.01 per widget? That is substantial!
Purchasing Power in 2022 was 25 times higher than 1978. This process is continuous. You need to turn off Fox News and actually look at what’s happening in China right now.
It wasn’t slave labor, exactly, but it was massively exploited labor. 75 years ago China was easily the poorest country in the world and it’s people were living in the equivalent of $1/day, possibly less.
However, the entire goal of the socialist program was to alleviate that poverty and exploitation, not by enslaving people but by developing the country’s economic and industrial base.
Today, Chinese people have a higher average purchasing power than US citizens do. That means the average Chinese family can afford to buy more goods and services than the average American family. Wealth inequality is also way lower in China than in the US which means that way more of Chinese people have better purchasing power than USians do, simply because that’s how averages work. The US raises the average by making very few people very wealthy and China raises the average by making their billion residents sustainably and incrementally more wealthy.
As for slave labor, the US imprisons more of its people than any other nation on the planet and all of those prisoners are subject to slave labor and massive debt burdens. Official US slave labor from prisons produces over $11Bn in goods and services, much of which goes to the profits of for-profit prison management companies.
China has no such system.
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. It’s well-known they use slave-labor concentration camps filled with Uighurs.
Xinjiang: A Report and Resource Compilation
The PRC is not murdering, enslaving, nor sterilizing Uyghurs. It’s genuinely a complex situation, but you can absolutely rely on the west to uncritically report their paid propagandist and christian nationalist Adrian Zenz of the “Victims of Communism” state department propaganda outlet. The reason why the west keeps pushing this distortion of what’s actually going on in Xinjiang is because they wish to stoke political and civil instability, creating a wedge to force through economic liberalization and capitulation to US demands.
The U.S. doesn’t give a shit about muslims, and are actively committing genocide in Palestine. There’s absolutely no reason to trust what the U.S. State Department says on the matter, especially when nearly all evidence circles back to testemonials (and fabrications!) from Adrian Zenz.
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I should have noticed it earlier, but seeing that photograph comparison made me realize that Herzlians deny the extermination of Gazans despite its overwhelming evidence whereas they completely believe in the Uygur genocide conspiracy theory despite its utter lack of evidence.
Even if you believe in the Uyghur genocide claiming that all products made in China is made by them is just absurd.
Eh. The “sweatshop” labour pretty much always pays better than staying on the subsistence farm. And might have better conditions.
Were they desperate compared to Westerners? Sure. Is it bad to do business with desperate people? That’s pretty questionable.