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Old Posted Jul 24, 2018, 3:25 PM
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Originally Posted by mousquet View Post
They don't have decent workers yet in China; they still have slaves.
It's true that China is not really comparable to the US in terms of labor, but the cost of labor doesn't fully explain why US infrastructure is so expensive. Western Europe, where labor is expensive too, is able to build trams and subways for much less money than the US.
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