with all this tariff stuff, i keep seeing libs coping that we dont need chinese manufacturing anyway (lmfao) because “they can only make cheap garbage”

these people are so fucking stupid.

US companies are ORDERING cheaply made garbage to sell you at massive profits for themselves. that doesnt mean china is incapable of making good reliable shit. your companies dictate the quality of what they’re having manufactured there. they use the cheapest materials, the lowest level of quality assurances and checks, and this is all to save them money at the expense of the product’s reliability and at YOUR expense. you’re a piggy being fed the slop you paid for. welcome to america.

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[–] dead@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's a confusion about China. Let me at least give you my opinion. The popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labor cost.

I'm not sure what part of China they go to but the truth is China stopped being the low labor cost country many years ago and that is not the reason to come to China from a supply point of view.

The reason is because of the skill and the quantity of skill in one location and the type of skill. The products we do require really advanced tooling and the the precision that you have to have in tooling and working with the materials that we do are state-of-the-art and the tooling skill is very deep here.

In the US, you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I'm not sure we could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields.

It's that vocational expertise is very, very deep here and I give the the education system a lot of credit for continuing to push on that even when others were de-emphasizing vocational.

Now I think many countries in the world have woke up and said you know this is a key thing and we've got to correct that but China called that right from the beginning.

Tim Apple in 2017 https://youtu.be/_ng8xQ-SNGc?t=566

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

commenting for link

[–] dead@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

huh. I posted the youtube video where Tim Cook (Apple CEO) says it. The time stamp is 9m26s.

The reason I post this quote is that it is an example where an American CEO admits that China manufactures higher quality products than the US and he even says that the labor from China costs more.

[–] TommyBeans@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

might have been commenting as a way to save it for later, I used to do that on other forums

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

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