Comment by Workaccount2
12 days ago
> It’s years of accumulated skill, but it’s also a culture that is oriented around hard work and education that the United States no longer has.
Sounds more like China has an exploited educated class/lack of oppurtunity than America has bad education.
Plenty of American workers can multiply in their heads and diligently perform there work. These people work in white collar jobs though, not in factories snapping together phone cases for 12 hours a day.
The author isn't totally wrong here, Americas bottom tier labor pool sucks, but they miss the bigger picture when comparing Chinese and American workers. China has skilled workers doing unskilled work. That's why they are so good. That's also why bringing manufacturing to the US will be so hard. Ain't nobody wanna get a degree so they can work a hot factory floor all day.
Westerners have had too good of a life and you cannot compete with an asian who is told every day if he doesn't perform he will be homeless. You just cannot compete.
> Westerners have had too good of a life
You're not going to sell the electorate on ".. and so we're going to make your life worse to compete with China", though.
Just talking about the reality we face
Combined with his point 8 about work conditions, the exploitation seems willful.
Factories can be air conditioned.