Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada

• gurnu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Easy to build cheaply when you use slave labor

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  • ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean…

    www.walkfree.org/…/united-states/

    www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/…/china/

    3.3 slaves per thousand people vs 4.0 per thousand seems very similar to me.

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• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You have to adjust for labour cost. For reasons that have to do with certain industries not existing in the third world, it’s much higher in the West.

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