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Casual reminder that China has been modernizing and enforcing labor laws. There will be no such thing as "cheap Chinese slave labor" in fifteen years and manufacturing our goods in China will become unsustainable for us.
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2030 is looking to be a shitty year. All the shaky predictions (automation of transportation industry, the moment the US outpaces pre-revolutionary France in wealth inequality, and now I guess China catching up to the west) seems to pick that date. Which makes me wonder, is that just the most comfortable date for people to use for prediction because it is far enough in the future, is 2030 really the year/decade western capitalism boils over? 

Though it should be said there is a whole lot more developing world out there just waiting to become the next China. I feel like Africa might do some interesting shit before the century is over, especially now that parts of West Africa are urbanizing and growing a middle class. Time will tell I suppose.