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g947oyesterday at 10:08 PM4 repliesview on HN

You can pretty much replace BYD with any Chinese company (and to some extent, almost any company in the world) and the sentence would still make sense.

So I have mostly lost interest in the argument. Not that it is an incorrect or irrelevant argument, but none of that has really mattered.


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thesmtsolver2yesterday at 11:04 PM

This is the standard “nothing can be done and everyone does it” argument when shown that BYD is literally at the bottom of the pile.

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bawolffyesterday at 10:30 PM

Presumably you can't make the statement that almost all companies are below average on human rights. Mathematically at least half have to be above average.

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jgalt212yesterday at 11:16 PM

> and to some extent, almost any company in the world

This is weak sauce.

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gloryjulioyesterday at 10:13 PM

This. Most of the Chinese products met the definition of dumping. They over produce with suppressed wages, currency exchange rate, and government subsidies. The current generations of Chinese workers do not benefit from this. To clarify, they have top products, some are well paid. But the general trend is dumping.

I am curious when will other countries would actually start of defend their industries properly.

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