Dutch said:
Indeed. Those Chinese work their asses off for a penny. They have to just to survive. If they goof they get fired.
Could you see Westerners do that? Westerners know how to whine and bitch, though. Superior feelings about Western-made products are mostly based on exactly that: Patriotism.
Meanwhile the Chinese get a stranglehold on our market. Pretty soon it'll be the Peoples Republic of the World.
Let's just hope the Chinese workers get a bit more vocal and go insist on better circumstances and compensation. Stuff will get more expensive, but we have more of a chance competing.
We're living in a bubble, guys!
Anybody check the US debt lately? To whom do you think much of that debt is owed?
I agree with most of this but what some may consider "whining" and "bitching" others may rightly see in my opinion as workers demanding what's right. Yes we would have to pay more for American-made products but I for one am ready and willing to do so. The case that Chinese workers (underpaid slaves) take their job more seriously and may make a better product solely out of fear of starving to death isn't really anything to celebrate. There isn't a doubt in my mind that an American worker can produce a product of the highest quality but he is much more willing, as he SHOULD be, to demand a fair wage. To not do so would be to throw in the towel.
All that being said, yes I agree that the Chinese worker must demand more if we have any chance of competing from a manufacturing standpoint. It's manufacturing today, eventually it will be the technological side as well. Then we're toast.