RE: Is contemporary atheism sufficient to sustain a civilisation?
August 14, 2016 at 12:16 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2016 at 12:30 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Being treated like human trash in sweatshop factories is actually such an enormous improvement over immemorial state of rural poverty that is the alternative, that the countryside of China had emptied by its own accord, and China actually had to impose internal immigration control to stem the flood of voluntary movement into sweatshop conditions. So disparaging sweatshop conditions fail to recognize it has proven to be a effective, perhaps necessary step into the progress up the wealth ladder.
The reason why a place will remain a sweat shop is low wage labor is its only exploitable competitive advantage. But while China was the default sweatshop in the 1990s and early 2000s, it is no longer so. This is because it now has superior infrastructure as well as progressively more skilled workforce. As labor rates go China is actually now quite expensive compared to places like Vietnam, India, Thailand. It now compete more in higher value added activities. But the fact that it remain a force in lower market manufacturing is not because it's workers were the most exploitable, but because it's infrastructure allows it to compete on final price even if it's labors rates were not longer its primary exploitable competitive advantage. This again indicate bargaining power for China's labor pool. One again this belies the notion that in China there are no rights.
In practical sense the workers enjoys far more assured range of activities then Chinese workers and farmers had ever enjoyed before.
The reason why a place will remain a sweat shop is low wage labor is its only exploitable competitive advantage. But while China was the default sweatshop in the 1990s and early 2000s, it is no longer so. This is because it now has superior infrastructure as well as progressively more skilled workforce. As labor rates go China is actually now quite expensive compared to places like Vietnam, India, Thailand. It now compete more in higher value added activities. But the fact that it remain a force in lower market manufacturing is not because it's workers were the most exploitable, but because it's infrastructure allows it to compete on final price even if it's labors rates were not longer its primary exploitable competitive advantage. This again indicate bargaining power for China's labor pool. One again this belies the notion that in China there are no rights.
In practical sense the workers enjoys far more assured range of activities then Chinese workers and farmers had ever enjoyed before.
