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So that means we’ll get cheap EVs and solar panels, right?

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Cheap and not exploiting people and environment unfortunately don’t go hand to hand. You have to choose your priority.

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They actually do go hand in hand. Just not under the american economic system. China has cheap evs higher average wages when factoring in ppp, and a better environmental track record and future than the US.

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Oh yes, the famously non exploitative economy of China. The country where some companies are installing fences on the roofs so that their working forces can’t suicide so easily. The country were political prisoners are being used as cheap working force. That one? Doesn’t sound so much better or even different from the American economic system.

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Easy to do when you skip 200 years of industrialization. I get what you’re saying, and you’re not wrong, but they just happened to be in a more advantageous position to start with in this instance.

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They actually do go hand in hand.

they actually do not. whatever your business is, you can do it with or without passing negative externalities on your employees and environment you operate in.

in one case your product will be cheaper, but with bad consequences, and you have to choose one of these paths.

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“Cheap” is relative, stop being deliberately obtuse.

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How do you think your food gets to your table?

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