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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
There were 2200 Americans working at the plant and 200 Chinese. Few if any of the Chinese were laborers. They were management and supervisory personnel.
One reason they invested here was $10 million in tax incentives from Dayton and the state of Ohio.
My observations are several. Chinese workers in China are trained to be robots and don’t have lives in the sense of being human that we recognize. Going home to visit your family twice a year? That’s productive but inhumane by our standards.
US workers are work slow, waste time, and are not invested in the success of their company. I’ve witnessed this first hand. The most salient statement in the whole comparison of workers is “Chinese workers come to the plant to make glass. US workers come to make money.”
There is a lot to unpack in this film.
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I understand the Chinese were in supervisory positions at the plant but I would still consider them laborers. Six factory 'management' workers living in one apartment? Not exactly what we would consider a supervisory type lifestyle outside of work. Which again, makes me wonder how much they were being paid to work there.
Also, the way they were teaching them how to 'handle' Americans kind of made me question why the Chinese are even doing this. Is it really to sell the most glass at the lowest price the quickest way? Or is this the start of the Chinese trying to take over the US? They've already made it pretty much impossible for the US to survive without them. Our entire economy and lives would be nothing without their technology. They own tons of our real estate and rent it back to us.
Like I said...it's all about money and power. On one hand it's the Chinese thinking they have all the money and power (as evidenced by Chairman wanting to move the fire alarm just because he didn't like where it was even though it was illegal) and on the other, unions telling the Americans that they have all the power (and money) if they just can find a way to unionize the factory.