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Comment by piyushpr134 | Hacker News Reader

Americans discovering the real reason why things are made in China

Or third world countries in general. As sexy as made in home country sounds, modern day manufacturing is truly deadly.

Look at the chemical exposure Samsung treats their workers to. It happened in south Korea, but that's an other country, so it didn't matter. But it also happened in Canada, now it's news.

yups. Not to mention the amount of environmental damage such things do. For instance, all the rare earth metals have huge open air mines with of all kinds of acid & arsenic poisoning which is used during leeching & refining process

But is it better if my lifestyle kills foreigners instead of fellow citizens?

One of the many reasons. The biggest reason the last place I worked at that did manufacturing was that there were import tariffs on components but not assemblies so they just built the assemblies in China.

Wow: Import tariffs on components and not on assemblies sounds like corruption to me. No policy maker can be this incompetent

It's not corruption. It's naive legislation written by idiots and complex HS code manipulation.

Biden’s revisions

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

I'm not in the US. There are other countries with this problem :)

Hey it's just a discarded rocket first stage with hypergolic propellant, no need to worry if it falls on a population center.

How would complaining about this be received in China? I guess you have very few rights.

It won't come this far. First of all the website itself won't be allowed to be hosted. Moreover, the person would most likely be dead or in one of the reeducation camps for a long time. Most of the chinese large tech companies are funded by Chinese govt so complaining against them is like complaining against the govt or the party.

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