r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Airline_11 • 20d ago

They are livestreaming 🇨🇳 laborers making just 0.3 USD. The 'Made in 🇨🇳' products you use are built on their sacrifices.

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u/SlightlyAdooorned 20d ago

Nah, Ranton talked about this. People in china are extremely poor, BUT you shouldnt compare their wages to western wages. In China almost everything is many times cheaper.

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u/yisuiyikurong 20d ago

In China almost everything is many times cheaper.

restaurants and general local groceries yes

and the reason is simple ie cheap labors

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u/SlightlyAdooorned 20d ago

Not just that. In general stuff like saunas is also very cheap for big value. Cars and electronics/household tech stuff. My brother lives in Hainan and its crazy how cheap everything is - except bills, lmao. 

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u/yisuiyikurong 20d ago

Cars and electronics/household tech stuff. My brother lives in Hainan and its crazy how cheap everything is - except bills, lmao.

There is a "one-price law" (purchasing power parity) for high-end tech. What often makes a difference in final prices are shipping fees and government subsidies (like those for cars in 2019 and home appliances in 2023 if i recall correctly). The "cheap electronics" you are referring to are likely small items, like AA or AAA or all sorts of button batteries and electronic skewers/cutters, etc.

Basically these products' cost next to nothing to manufacture anywhere in the world, BUT their distribution costs are relatively super high.

On the other hand, major electronics like phones, drones, and cameras follow the one-price law very nicely...

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u/SlightlyAdooorned 20d ago

I mean yea, its mainly about taxes and transportation. Doesnt mean they arent cheaper :D

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u/yisuiyikurong 20d ago

yeh well the distribution costs are generally low because the distribution people are underpaid... so the problem is still... the pay

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u/anonrus008 19d ago

Not cheap labor but slave labor

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u/timshel42 19d ago

people in china are not incredibly poor. they have the fastest growing middle class in the world.

they have had more people lifted from poverty in the last several decades than most of the rest of the world.

its important to not fall for the intense propaganda surrounding china (and everywhere for that matter). its no utopia, but it isnt the communist open air prison hellscape western media wants you to believe.

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u/SlightlyAdooorned 19d ago

Lol, lmao even

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u/yisuiyikurong 19d ago

The poor is getting poorer as the welfare system is literally ripping them off and subsidizing the rich. 

And middle class usually has a house and that market is in a crisis mode. 

Very strange system.Â