US small business owner says China tariffs endanger her company: ‘I could lose my home’
www.theguardian.com
Beth Benike, whose products are manufactured in China, is ‘terrified’ what Trump trade war will mean for Busy Baby

Trump is bad. I agree… but why is the left suddenly all sympathetic towards rich people & CEOs like this, who exploit cheap labor.

  • NigahigaYT@lemmy.worldEnglish
    185·
    12 days ago

    What part of “small business” do you not understand? Most SBOs are nowhere near the 1% and manufacturing wages in China are pretty competitive globally, not to mention their manufacturing infrastructure is the only in the world capable of handling certain build demands. Your perception of China seems ~20 years out of date.

    • Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
      22·
      12 days ago

      Small capital is still capital and relies on labor exploitation. If your talking about manufacturing wages globally then you should be talking about that SBOs income globally too which would put them in the top 1%. If there were no labor exploitation and the revenue from the sale of the products were split evenly among the laborers the SBO would be payed far less and the manufacturing workers in China would be paid far more.

      • NigahigaYT@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        12 days ago

        I’m just going to take that website at its face value because I’ve never heard of it but China’s ranking is just below the US itself and far above other countries in SEA. Is it the best possible scenario? No. Are American SBOs the Devil for manufacturing in China (versus Vietnam, Thailand, etc.)? No.