Chinese goods are heavily subsidized because the chinese state knows humans with free time and no money are an expensive liabiliry. They see busywork in itself as useful in itself, if it brings in any foreing currency on top, that's just gravy.

[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Of course, Temu is a secret CCP plan to fight unemployment!

Yeah, but that's a hard fucking no. For example, https://youtu.be/vFII7t9FtO8

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Temu ? No, that's the structure of the whole chinese economy

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