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This isn’t a comment on China and trade, just on the title of the article. There have been a lot of articles over the past that promote this misleading idea. Chinese paid .34c per hour. What they don’t say is what does that translate into purchasing power in China. The left loves to use titles like this to play on sympathies, yet they have no perspective.

I recall in the 80s a big fuss over Nike in Vietnam paying workers something like 10c per hour. What the article didn’t state is that in the Vietnamese economy at the time, the average worker made 2c per hour, so working for Nike greatly increased their lifestyle and caused there to be high demand for Nike jobs in Vietnam.

“The left loves to use titles like this to play on sympathies, yet they have no perspective?”

In case you hadn’t noticed, China is Communist and as P.J.O’Rourke said, “Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”

But Comrade, I’m sure your “logic” brings a lot of joy & comfort to those who are persecuted, beaten & starving to death in China.
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“I recall in the 80s a big fuss over Nike in Vietnam paying workers something like 10c per hour. What the article didn’t state is that in the Vietnamese economy at the time, the average worker made 2c per hour, so working for Nike greatly increased their lifestyle and caused there to be high demand for Nike jobs in Vietnam?”

Have you ever been to Viet Nam?

Well I have not only been there but I fought the NVA & VC.

And NIKE wages & working conditions in Viet Nam are outrageous! How Michael Jordan et al, who receive millions in shoe endorsements can shave in the morning while people are treated like garbage is a mystery to me.