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Ehhh, I don't buy it's simple a wage/motivation issue You know cheap immigrant labor in the US also makes squat and they don't do generally do a shabby job. The issue is that no one is held to a high standard here. In the US if you do a sloppy job you'll get fired and they'll find someone who can do it better for the same horrible wage. Here "average" work is expected an no one really seems to mind (as long as "it ge…
Immigrant labor in the states isn't paid 10 Kuai an hour, and the American government isn't so worried about a peasant uprising that they would want to keep all the low skilled labor particularly busy. To the CCP, however, the construction industry is just a big jobs program for farmers who can't find enough work in the country side, hence the heavy use of concrete (easy to work with) and overbuilt buildings that fee…
I'm sure it's very different from Singapore/Taiwan/HK (though judging by the lack of attention to detail by immigrants in San Francisco I'll wait to see for myself), but this is a country of peasants/farmers run by peasants and farmers. It's going to take a very very long time for the culture to change - I'm talking several generations - b/c it's the culture of the "weakest-link". I guess their only blessing is that they have these other places to learn from.