The European Union voted on Friday to impose tariffs as high as 45% on electric vehicles from China, threatening a broader trade conflict with Beijing which has already vowed to protect its companies.
Slave labor will undercut fair wages every time. The point of the tariffs is to prevent China from setting the expected price of EVs to be too low for fair wage companies to compete, and defining a slave labor standard for the industry.
Despite what many commenters say, this is a good thing.
And that trade Union serves the interests of capital. Try to form your own that fights for the workers, and you’ll get locked up. Its literally illegal.
Slave labor is a system in which a person is bought sold and indentured to a master for a substantial duration, often life. Their labor is coerced as property of that master.
That is not how China produces cars. They use highly automated systems and paid workers like everywhere else. While Chinese workers are paid less due to the forces of unequal exchange (a system imposed by the US) and an export economy (a system usually imposed by the US but more of a 4D chess move by China to develop productive forces, with the US gladly taking the deal for exploitation), that is not really why the cars are so much cheaper. It is because China has highly concentrated industry and a much less financialized system.
Speaking about “fair” is amazing in this context. The US is simply trying to protect domestic monopsony industry and to damage Chinese industry. This is a jingoistic and corporate policy.
That’s true but the logic applies. The EU is part of the imperial core that eats from that trough and in turn supports its maintainer. It is simply following the US’ lead.
A US State Department “fact sheet” from 2021 that cites no sources. Amazing.
Anyways, Chinese companies make electric cars in modern factories with normal workers paid for their labor. Y’all are peddling in orientalist assumptions that only work on people that know nothing at all about the country aside from, say, US State Department single page propaganda pieces.
Slave labor will undercut fair wages every time. The point of the tariffs is to prevent China from setting the expected price of EVs to be too low for fair wage companies to compete, and defining a slave labor standard for the industry.
Despite what many commenters say, this is a good thing.
This. Chinese workers cannot legally form a trade Union.
They can’t form new trade unions because everyone already has to join a registered trade union.
And that trade Union serves the interests of capital. Try to form your own that fights for the workers, and you’ll get locked up. Its literally illegal.
what are you smoking https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-unions-work-china-2021-09-02/
Of course not, they don’t want that pinko communist nonsense affecting the economy.
Slave labor is a system in which a person is bought sold and indentured to a master for a substantial duration, often life. Their labor is coerced as property of that master.
That is not how China produces cars. They use highly automated systems and paid workers like everywhere else. While Chinese workers are paid less due to the forces of unequal exchange (a system imposed by the US) and an export economy (a system usually imposed by the US but more of a 4D chess move by China to develop productive forces, with the US gladly taking the deal for exploitation), that is not really why the cars are so much cheaper. It is because China has highly concentrated industry and a much less financialized system.
Speaking about “fair” is amazing in this context. The US is simply trying to protect domestic monopsony industry and to damage Chinese industry. This is a jingoistic and corporate policy.
Maybe not hardware, but practically all textiles in China are made with Uyghur slave labor. That would include upholstery.
https://www.state.gov/forced-labor-in-chinas-xinjiang-region/
Already responded to this one comment over.
I love how people still peddle US state propaganda unironically.
Were talking about labour laws in the EU, not the US
My not American wage has me with less and less buying power with each passing year.
Do you loose all your savings and fall into years of debt if you have to spend a week in the hospital?
That’s true but the logic applies. The EU is part of the imperial core that eats from that trough and in turn supports its maintainer. It is simply following the US’ lead.
Labor conditions in the EU are better than in the US and better than in China
Depends on which part of the EU you are in. There is a reason the poor of Poland move to places like the UK.
Though this is neither here nor there as the original allegation was slave labor, which is simply a lie.
But it’s not.
https://www.state.gov/forced-labor-in-chinas-xinjiang-region/
A US State Department “fact sheet” from 2021 that cites no sources. Amazing.
Anyways, Chinese companies make electric cars in modern factories with normal workers paid for their labor. Y’all are peddling in orientalist assumptions that only work on people that know nothing at all about the country aside from, say, US State Department single page propaganda pieces.
That’s valid. Better to cite Amnisty and HRW
Ah yes, the US would absolutely be the place you’d go for factual information about their biggest geopolitical rival. 😂