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by iancmceachern 251 days ago
This isn't true. They've showed that slave (or nearly) labor is cheap or even free.
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This was somewhat true at once point but is a highly outdated view. Labor is no longer cheap in China relative to other nearby countries and there's a huge amount of automation with some factories that don't even turn on lights because they are effectively 100% automated.