How Can They Do This?

[vtcnc]

The answer to how did they get that low price probably down to economy of scale, automation, very low labor cost and low human right.

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They live there. They eat there. Their children attend school there. But most of all, they work there. They are the 17,000 employees of EUPA, a "Factory City...
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I struggle with the question about human rights on this. I think the answer to this is that it is all relative. When I worked for one of the big battery companies, they subbed out their flashlight manufacturing to a similar company. It was mostly a few thousand young adult women, who were happy to sacrifice 2-3 years of their time and effort in exchange for their retirement. Once that third or fourth Chinese New Year arrived, they went home and stayed home - presumably to never work again.

At least that was the story we were told.

 

[vtcnc]

When you can’t provide for your family, and your children are starving. A job that provides sounds pretty good. Life giving work.
Eventually you want more than food and shelter.
I believe Maslow’s Hierarchy explained it.
Sooner or later the Chinese labor force will demand more pay.
Japan is a good example. IMHO

Yeah, and their middle class desiring "something more" out of life is larger than our entire population by a few factors. Something has got to give.

 

[vtcnc]

I looked up "Adopted Premium Copper Alloy" on Google. It only appears in ads for the battery terminals. It sounds like Marketing Speak to me.

Lol. I assumed that was a typo and they meant to say, "adapted". But in this case: six one half dozen the other - they are still cheap!

 

[MrWhoopee]

I looked up "Adopted Premium Copper Alloy" on Google. It only appears in ads for the battery terminals. It sounds like Marketing Speak to me.

Most likely a translation from Chinese by someone who thinks he speaks English.

 

[nnam]

I struggle with the question about human rights on this. I think the answer to this is that it is all relative. When I worked for one of the big battery companies, they subbed out their flashlight manufacturing to a similar company. It was mostly a few thousand young adult women, who were happy to sacrifice 2-3 years of their time and effort in exchange for their retirement. Once that third or fourth Chinese New Year arrived, they went home and stayed home - presumably to never work again.

At least that was the story we were told.

It is indeed not apparent in the video. However, comparing their workers rights and human rights as general, we would know they don't get benefit such as over time pay, or the right to challenge work condition. As a result, the company dont pay extra for those overtime or work condition such as air condition, safety process. These adds up quickly. Furthermore, other human rights and rights else where around their country causes alternative jobs with lower salary. As a result, this company can afford lower salary. Their living standard is lower, for example, more than one family can live together, which is forbid in many US localities. Everything in the country contributes to the workers there having lower salaries and result in lower cost

 

[Mitch Alsup]

Yeah, and their middle class desiring "something more" out of life is larger than our entire population by a few factors. Something has got to give.

What is "currently giving" is the american lifestyle. For ½ of us it is going along just fine. For the other ½ of us it is deteriorating at a rapid rate.

 

[MikeInOr]

Sooner or later the Chinese labor force will demand more pay.
Japan is a good example. IMHO

That isn't the way China works though. When my fathers company (Stanley Tools) was building a collated nail plant in China their plans kept getting rejrcted by the Chinese government. They had 2m x 1m rooms to house a pair of workers.... HECK NO!!!! They finally figured out that workers can't have their own rooms, even with 2 of them sharing a tiny room, if they did nobody would work at the factory down the street. Only rows of bunks in a massive bunk house were allowed. This was in the 90's and I can't fathom a family living with a worker back then... so maybe things are getting better? From what I saw when I visited workers had no rights in China.

They had a Chinese supervisor at another plant (spoke broken English and several of the Chinese dialects). They would tell the guy how they wanted something done then he would turn around and tell the workers to do it a different way. They couldn't fire him, he would kill himself if they did. They finally got so ****** off at his complete refusal to follow directions that they promoted him to move him off of the factory floor and replaced him with someone that would follow directions.

I know that even today the Tiananmen Square masaquere never happened in China... it was just capitalist propraganda manufactured by our govenment amongst others... according to the Chinese authorities at least. Talk to someone that lives in China and they have probably never even heard of the Tiananmen Square masaquere. If they have they certainly would never admit to hearing about it.

Even in the 21st century the world is a very messed up place.

 

[vtcnc]

That isn't the way China works though. When my fathers company (Stanley Tools) was building a collated nail plant in China their plans kept getting rejrcted by the Chinese government. They had 2m x 1m rooms to house a pair of workers.... HECK NO!!!! They finally figured out that workers can't have their own rooms, even with 2 of them sharing a tiny room, if they did nobody would work at the factory down the street. Only rows of bunks in a massive bunk house were allowed. This was in the 90's and I can't fathom a family living with a worker back then... so maybe things are getting better? From what I saw when I visited workers had no rights in China.

They had a Chinese supervisor at another plant (spoke broken English and several of the Chinese dialects). They would tell the guy how they wanted something done then he would turn around and tell the workers to do it a different way. They couldn't fire him, he would kill himself if they did. They finally got so ****** off at his complete refusal to follow directions that they promoted him to move him off of the factory floor and replaced him with someone that would follow directions.

I know that even today the Tiananmen Square masaquere never happened in China... it was just capitalist propraganda manufactured by our govenment amongst others... according to the Chinese authorities at least. Talk to someone that lives in China and they have probably never even heard of the Tiananmen Square masaquere. If they have they certainly would never admit to hearing about it.

Even in the 21st century the world is a very messed up place.

Gentle reminder to all to keep this off the political track and within the bounds of civil discourse.

With that said, there must be a big difference in working rights between multi-national employment and state-owned employment.

 

[Janderso]

That isn't the way China works though.

This reality is so far outside my frame of reference I just can't comprehend how it can exist.
We are so very fortunate!

 

[Janderso]

Gentle reminder to all to keep this off the political track and within the bounds of civil discourse.

I get it. It's really hard sometimes.