[newfriend]

If one country has labor protection and pollution regulations, and another country has near-slave labor and dumps chemicals into rivers, would you consider the former inferior? Unable to compete?

[hananova]

It’s fairly funny to a european that it isn’t immediately clear which half of the comparison is intended to apply to the US, and which half is supposed to apply to China.

[nickff]

If you think that labor in the USA and China are treated similarly, you really need to pull your head out of the sand.

[irishcoffee]

It's funny as an American that Europeans are either this ignorant or think this kind of comment is clever.

[hackyhacky]

Most consumers don't care about the conditions under which a product is made. Whining about labor practices is just an excuse for making an inferior product.

[ndsipa_pomu]

Pollution regulations?