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theprof00 on 30 July 2012
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badgenome said:
theprof00 said:

Their ability to compete comes from their infrastructure. It comes from them doing well financially and economically, and all we do is pour more and more coffers into their pockets. It's not just our seamstress jobs, it's every manufacturing job, and not only that, but with all the turn-key partnerships we have with them, we are technologically advancing them faster than anyone else. But maybe you're simply not aware of important details like that.

So, when the Soviets and East Germans dominated the '88 games, it was a sign of their stellar economies and infrastructure? Because I could have sworn they were on the verge of collapse and just fielded a bunch of unstoppable professional athletes who were 'roided to the gills.

It sounds to me that just like poor old Harry Reid, you're wracked with some kind of inchoate angst about the future, but to me all this Sinophobia is just a warmed over version of the panic about the Japanese taking over back in the '70s and '80s. Different millennium, same old Yellow Peril. But just to put your racing mind at ease, if you're "stealing" seamstress jobs, it's a pretty good indicator that you're not all that technologically advanced yet. More importantly, trade is not a zero-sum game, but maybe you're simply not aware of basic economics like that.

What? I have no fear of the Chinese. I have fear that we are slicing up our own country and selling every piece to the rest of the world.

And whoa man easy with the retorts like that. Brutal. Anyhoo, we do get cheap labor out of them so we can make more mone...oh wait, I mean so the company can simply use greater income to open up more venues in emerging markets while keeping all the money out of our country.....and all we have to give China is THE PATENTS AND SOURCE CODING AND TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWHOW TO PRODUCE THINGS THAT WERE INVENTED ONLY A YEAR PRIOR. Yes, in exchange for the cheap labor that never sees a single benefit to our country, other countries blossom their own domestic product, creating jobs to produce their own replicas of the products our companies charge us top dollar for a fraction of the price. WOWZERS

I am so happy that apple decided to save 40$ on every iPad they make in China as opposed to making them in the US, post record profits, and keep tens of thousands of jobs, and hundreds of millions of dollars out of our economy, so that they could post a bigger profit than they would have, except for the fact that they'd be putting money into peoples hands who could then buy their product...derp.

You know what's happening here badger? China is disrupting us.

No no, you fools, it's fine...Let them have the seamstress jobs.