If one country has labor protection and pollution regulations, and another country has near-slave labor and dumps chemicals into rivers, would you consider the former inferior? Unable to compete?
It’s fairly funny to a european that it isn’t immediately clear which half of the comparison is intended to apply to the US, and which half is supposed to apply to China.
It's funny as an American that Europeans are either this ignorant or think this kind of comment is clever.
If you think that labor in the USA and China are treated similarly, you really need to pull your head out of the sand.
Most consumers don't care about the conditions under which a product is made. Whining about labor practices is just an excuse for making an inferior product.