Originally Posted by
nissangeek
Chinese make things cheaper because they have lower standards of living. They do work hard I'm sure. They don't seem to complain etc. and demand their rights as we in West do.
But their prosperity is due to Government intervention -not entrepreneurial spirit of working classes, and probably light regulations. There's no way with the best will in the world you could set up a factory here to compete with things made in China - surely you can see that ? You'd have to have workers on less than 1 pound an hour wages and the like. Even then it would probably fail.