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.
Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada
BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 months agoWait until you see the absolute dog shit they are building in the US right now for 4x the cost in China
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
gurnu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Easy to build cheaply when you use slave labor
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 2 months 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.