• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    Why do you believe the US median salary is higher than the median Chinese salary if China is the country producing the majority of what is used in the US? Chinese manufacturing is technologically advanced and high-quality, we no longer live in the 80s and 90s.

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      I looked it up on the internet, e.g here it has only mean data: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-income-by-country

      Maybe 5 is not the exact number but it should be in that range.

      I never said the quality is generally bad, but I think he misunderstands why other companies ask for details, that’s my point. If you don’t design something with enough details, you basically allows someone else to design it with your name on it.

      Do you think Apple just sends a vague sketch about the iphone to china and let them figure out the details? As a designer you shouldn’t do that, because if something wrong happens with that thing it’s your liability.

      He won’t tell the Chinese company what kind of welding should they use, so you can be sure they will use the cheapest method, because they also need money for food. If he would design the product correctly, with requiring standards, than I guess the price would be also higher, because now the Chinese company can’t use the cheaper option.

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        I’m aware of the design process, Engineers frequently write specs and requirements for manufacturing in addition to schematics, dxfs, etc. My point is more to why you seem to keep a 1990s attitude towards Chinese manufacturing and seem to think a USian-made commodity would be better than a Chinese-made commodity. US manufacturing is lagging behind because the US’s manufacturing has atrophied.