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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Sure, but regarding wages, there’s no place to go after China. Do they want slaves?


16 posted on 01/27/2015 11:14:28 AM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: raybbr

There are at least 100 countries with lower wages than China. That’s why I mentioned “comparative advantage”. In this case, what matters is productivity/dollar of wages. (Where productivity includes quality of the product.) To simplify somewhat, Chinese workers make 3 or 4 times more than Vietnamese workers (on average), because they each produce at least that many times more goods or services.


34 posted on 01/27/2015 12:07:43 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: raybbr

Actually, there is. China has been outsourcing to South America. Foxconn was so overloaded that some iDevice production is being carried out in Brazil.


41 posted on 01/27/2015 1:03:08 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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