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Visited a dozen bioplastic and stainleed steel fabricating factories in northern and southern china six monthes ago. The labor rates they pay the thousands of workers they house and employ had doubled or tripled in the last 1.5 years as competition for them has increased.

It's a pretty small data point, but it's pretty incredible to comprehend that ~half the country is making so much more money. And many times more than their parents did.




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