Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars

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You forgot the uyghurs and slave labour...
Convenient.

Well the US has 1.2 million prisoners who get paid on average 86 cents a day. So effectively slave labor. That they aren't directly building cars doesn't matter because money is fungible. Every dollar saved not paying prisoners is more money elsewhere in the economy.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/

Ugh I can't believe I'm wading into a "who's worse" thing on the internet, but here we go! Are the imprisoned Uyghurs all convicted criminals? Not that it makes it ok that the US prisoners are effectively slave labor but they did do something to get there (yeah yeah unfair justice system sure but I want to believe most are there for a legit reason). Maybe the Uyghurs broke the law of "don't be a Uyghur" and the US prisoners all jaywalked. I don't know. Even if we can say one is worse, everybody sucks. Why did I say something here? I feel gross now. I have to go take a shower. Look what you've made me do! It looks like I've defended effective slave labor and somehow endorsed the US' incarceration system!

Maybe the Uyghurs broke the law of “don’t be a Uyghur” and the US prisoners all jaywalked.

I suspect "don't be Uyghur" in China is equivalent to "driving while Black" in the US.

The chinese dictatorship is worse

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Yes I did, I mentioned human rights abusers, it's right there in the comment that I made, I can still see it.

I find it's always a good idea to actually read the comments before getting angry about them.

That’s capitalism. You don’t get to complain because someone else gets a better deal.

China will always be able to produce cheaper products because the cost of living is lower there. But that is hardly a major revelation.

Where?

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