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To reduce dependence on China, more of us need to work in factories (www.politico.eu)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

So after 8 decades of psychological warfare to get manufacturing and fabrication moved to nations that used to have lucrative slavery, we've decided (because of a dry, boring "national security" issue) to bring back these factories...

so... $2 an hour? Honestly, we'd rather make it $2 a day, but... yeah... maybe we can make it $2 a day, if payment of rent is included into the salery? We can't trust China, but we sort of want to recreate the conditions.