this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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Prices starting at 2000 USD, even with the legalised child labour that red states are pushing for.
The Chinese child and adult slave labor that is currently used to build these products isn't any better.
Nobody thinks about that. They just see the price and pretty much always pick the cheaper one. Ignoring the fact that Chinese work conditions are way worse than American work conditions, and the MSRP reflects that. People feign that they care about it until they actually have to pay, then cry that they cant buy the exploitative product because its more expensive now. Since they cant see the exploitation, its easier for them to justify it because it gives them a better price.
Red, blue, or magenta, the political landscape of the people involved doesn't matter. People being greedy and selfish is way older than American politics.
China aren't really known for dirt cheap labour anymore because they are mostly doing what the West is doing, which is offloading their labour to even poorer countries in South-East Asia and other developing countries.
Which doesn't really change the equation overall, of course.