• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    If they are too expensive due to cost of labor, they can do, look at other comments, increased automation.

    With automation China’s advantages over US are mostly in the bureaucratic efficiency area. Both in the government’s parts interacting with big companies and in the companies themselves.

    US big companies are just too used to preferential treatment and solving market problems with lobbying, which worked when they were the spearhead of progress or something.