Chinese Press Workers: Why American manufactures can't compete

[liberal N proud]

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When you have people willing to do this all day long, how can anyone expect us to compete?
We showed this video at work in a meeting discussing safety and the business. This is unreal how these people will put themselves in harms way all day long.

[Monkeyman]

1. One Break down sitting dead men

[bridgit]

2. china is having a grand old time running it's economy off the map...

much like our turn of the century capitalists with their child labor, no labor laws, no oversight, don't give a shit about anything but money...but it was just reported on the way back in, that china will soon be facing a host of requirements i.e. a ton of chinese steel produces factors & magnitudes more pollutants than a ton of american steel = tariffs on the horizon

chinese manufacturers making 'a point' about chinese hammers costing 9-$12 with american hammers $25 & up, hubby mentioned he won't use chinese tools cause they're brittle, and break away in your hand, they're pumped with air bubbles and the faces degrade as do the claws snapping after a handful of nail pulls,

Mao sent people into the streets to rid Beijing of birds to keep his statues shit-less, and so they did...till the insects came it all seemed like a great idea...

Mao also decreed people smelt steel in their backyards, and so they ruined ore production for generations...

have you seen how they built the damn on the Yangtze? there's machinery here & there alright that's all groovy, but there's also 100,000 chinese running all round in straight lines with baskets full of dirt, that's just the way they do it...

when a chinese coal mine disaster occurs it can take out numbers approaching 100's...

sadly, far too many are taking these jobs having come from depleted backgrounds right out of The Good Earth, beyond dirt poor...

[Old and In the Way]

3. A human progressive die.

Instead of automating the part station-to-station, they gang a bunch of single part dies together and use humans to index the part to the next station. Notice how the guy has to duck so the ram doesn't hit him? If he should forget to do that...his head would be crushed with a few hundred tons of force.

[liberal N proud]

4. Scary, isn't it

[Selatius]

5. It's like looking back in a time machine to the 1880s.

The workers look different, and the machines are more powerful than they were back then, but the conditions are much the same: Primitive, unsafe, unhealthy.