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toolmanmike said

Agreed. Too many rules and regulations, unions and benefit packages. Too many stockholders that demand a good return on their money and way too many CEO's that get bonuses for how much the company profits. Way cheaper to make it in China and ship it over here. They don't have all that over there.

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Not wrong, but that’s not the whole story either. A HUGE part of the labor shift besides just it being cheaper was /is the available, young work force. China being the largest population, had an ungodly number of available workers and those were willing to work in crappy conditions.

that said, China as well as Japan will be having a major demographic problem in the next couple decades. Both of their populations have aged so dramatically due to the stringent population controls ongoing since the 1940s that there are actually more people dying or aging out of the work force in China than there are young people to replace them. Japan is the same way