If I go buy a Tesla right now in Estonia, the US government isn’t paying Tesla extra for building the car, despite the fact that Musk was literally president of the united states a year ago. If I buy a Mercedes, Germany won’t pay the company to build the car. If I buy a BYD, the Chinese government will pay BYD.
Tesla received tax benefits and grants for building factories, but that’s normal, the Chinese do that too. Nobody’s complaining about that. It’s the fact that they literally still pay per car built, even if the cars are sold to other countries, long after the companies are successful.
Then there’s the working hours. 996 is technically illegal now, but plenty of Chinese companies still do it. There was another comment somewhere in this thread where a person said they thought Chinese factory employees have good living conditions, as he’d done the job for a few months and didn’t have any issues affording things. When asked how much they had to work? 84 hours. That’s worse than 996, which is “only” 72 hours.
If I go buy a Tesla right now in Estonia, the US government isn’t paying Tesla extra for building the car, despite the fact that Musk was literally president of the united states a year ago. If I buy a Mercedes, Germany won’t pay the company to build the car. If I buy a BYD, the Chinese government will pay BYD.
Tesla received tax benefits and grants for building factories, but that’s normal, the Chinese do that too. Nobody’s complaining about that. It’s the fact that they literally still pay per car built, even if the cars are sold to other countries, long after the companies are successful.
Then there’s the working hours. 996 is technically illegal now, but plenty of Chinese companies still do it. There was another comment somewhere in this thread where a person said they thought Chinese factory employees have good living conditions, as he’d done the job for a few months and didn’t have any issues affording things. When asked how much they had to work? 84 hours. That’s worse than 996, which is “only” 72 hours.