>why should he be paid only $1,000 USD when the same Ford car he built is being sold way more expensive in China than in the US?
Because otherwise he'd be paid $0 since it'd be cheaper to manufacture the car somewhere other than China. Also, Chinese politicians are perfectly free to require such things so it's odd that you're blaming western companies which only have power in China because politicians let them have power. Of course, massive unemployment rates tend to cause more issues so it's clear why they don't.
> Because otherwise he'd be paid $0 since it'd be cheaper to manufacture the car somewhere other than China.
I asked the exact same question to my then boss many many years ago on why Chinese software engineers are paid far less than American engineers. His answer was almost identical to yours above and we all know what happened in the last 10 years.
Because otherwise he'd be paid $0 since it'd be cheaper to manufacture the car somewhere other than China. Also, Chinese politicians are perfectly free to require such things so it's odd that you're blaming western companies which only have power in China because politicians let them have power. Of course, massive unemployment rates tend to cause more issues so it's clear why they don't.