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  • Maybe 20 years ago, but that hasn’t been the case for awhile now. There’s a reason textile manufacturing moved most of their operations to countries like Bangladesh where you can shove 1000 workers and 1000 sewing machines into an un-airconditioned building, and then skip town instead of paying your workers.

    Manufacturing stays here because while unskilled labor is only very cheap instead of dirt cheap, China has cheaper inputs like electricity, materials, machinery, skilled labor, and access to the Chinese market.

    Of course they still have a long way to go, but a median wage of 124K RMB (17K USD) isn’t terrible when you can get a good meal for 10 RMB and rent a 2bd in most cities that aren’t Beijing and Shanghai for 2000RMB/mo.