Og> "everything" even includes paying workers very low wages. they
Og> are a highly repressed and surveilled peoples. maybe the top
Og> engineers/designers do well but the quality of life of factory
Og> workers is very low. production in China is not on an even
Og> playing field with other country's worker/employer policies.
That perspective comes purely from our outside view. Considering how their
cities and infrastructure looks comparing to 30-50 years ago.. I'd say standard
of living in China significantly improved even for simple people.
When I discussed China 20 years ago it was obvious that they are one big
offshore country with little to no domestic market... but it'd be funny to
observe they have a domestic market, then global numbers in many cases may
change.. Like Microsoft's situation I was discussing then with their 95%
dominance in the windows Market... I'd say just 500M of Chinese using their own
local operating system would change this value dramatically.
Things like that are happening today, from OS to BYD cars.. still changing lives
of 1B of people is not what happens over night and they of course have a very
oppressive system in the way we see the values...
But I talked to many Chinese that you'd consider middle class and they seem to
be happy and confident. and if they only had 5% of such people in their country,
we're still talking about 70 millions of happy and prospering people, which may
be already more than US-counterpart.
If they had 20% of such then they'd have more happy and regular-life-rich people
than whole population of USA...
Such numbers trigger a lot of imagination.
-h1
... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.
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