if everybody just quit buying their shit it wouldn't take that long before their factories started closing and their society would be in chaos as now their youth has had a taste of a little prosperity they would quickly turn on their government if it were taken away from them. But, you know how it goes, daddy needs a new electronic toy and mama needs more trinket arts and crafts to decorate her house. So, China keeps rolling and growing.
I would not say it really cracks me up, but it is a life-long study in the absurd for me. When I was a kid people complained about unions AND foreign imports, seemingly incapable of seeing the connection between refusing to buy products made by American unions and the rising American sales of foreign made products. Now that I am grown they have graduated to complaining about their job being outsourced to China while they buy Chinese products to "save" money, again as if there is absolutely no connection at all.
We may literally be too stupid (or at least shortsighted) to live.
I am still unsure how much real "prosperity" their youth is enjoying though. The children of senior party officials and factory directors (to the extent there is a difference) may be well enough off, but they always were.
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Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
- 21/01/2012 10:10:30 PM
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The sad fact is...
- 22/01/2012 02:56:46 AM
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I am SO sick of hearing this false rhetoric.
- 22/01/2012 06:39:07 PM
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Well, you're both presenting the far sides of the situation, surprisingly enough.
- 23/01/2012 10:22:23 AM
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Well, yes, I do realize there are people out there too good for decent jobs.
- 23/01/2012 10:44:57 AM
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Re: Well, yes, I do realize there are people out there too good for decent jobs.
- 23/01/2012 11:29:53 AM
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I don't believe its false. I believe its true. As seen, daily, by myself.
- 25/01/2012 07:11:00 PM
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You probably aren't aware that even though it is a crime in China...
- 23/01/2012 04:59:27 AM
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I guess threatening mass suicide isn't a big fuss?
- 23/01/2012 10:25:48 PM
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According to the NYT article "nothing like Foxconn City exists in the United States."
- 24/01/2012 10:58:56 AM
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It will be acceptable as long as the US remains a market for products made that way.
- 22/01/2012 06:10:20 PM
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It always kind of cracks me up when people bitch about China when...
- 23/01/2012 05:04:36 AM
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That really is the bottom line.
- 23/01/2012 05:24:57 AM
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People really should read the rest of the article and not just the first page.
- 23/01/2012 11:21:39 PM
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Are you saying the US should heavily subsidize its supplies like the Chinese government does?
- 24/01/2012 11:15:37 AM
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Re: Are you saying the US should heavily subsidize its supplies like the Chinese government does?
- 24/01/2012 01:06:51 PM
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The difference is there would be tremendous hue and cry over such subsidies in the US.
- 25/01/2012 11:39:04 AM
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Of course not. Where did I even say anything about that?
- 24/01/2012 08:10:29 PM
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You did not say it, but citing the importance of cheaper supplies suggests it.
- 25/01/2012 11:10:04 AM
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What a bunch of shit.
- 24/01/2012 01:33:19 AM
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Maybe you could share something less shitty? *NM*
- 24/01/2012 10:12:38 AM
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Perhaps, but he's spot-on regarding on China's industrial and currency policies. *NM*
- 24/01/2012 01:12:44 PM
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Then he could surely find something to share.
- 24/01/2012 03:01:00 PM
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What is was all about amounts to America playing by softball rules in a hardball game.
- 24/01/2012 11:27:30 PM
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