Lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production to the US • Hacker News Board

Re: Lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production to the US

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 10:17 PM UTC

padseeker wrote: post #59

eddieplan9 wrote: post #45

> This is due to less-expensive pig-feed prices and larger farms, but it's also because of loose business and environmental regulations, especially in red states, which have made the U.S. an increasingly attractive place for foreign companies to offshore costly and harmful business practices. Come on. Chinese government does not give a shit about "offshore costly and harmful business practices". The price of pork in…

Isn't it surreal that the people who yell and scream about the government regulation and interference are the same ones with their hands out looking for government money to subsidize the animal feed they use? Is it cognitive dissonance? Or are they that delusional they cannot see the connection? These people will occasionally feign righteousness over government regulation and spending unless its spending in their dis…

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Re: Lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production to the US

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Post by ggm » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 3:04 AM UTC

If you are blocked by trade wars from selling produce in an economy, but are able to legally buy the means of production inside that economy, then whilst it has lower direct employment outcomes to doing it at home, Surely as a business and investment opportunity, it stands on it's own merits?

China has been buying farms in Australia for some time. Many people make cynical comments about it, but it looks to me like a legal, and profitable way of operating with Australia, as a foreign investment opportunity.

Re: Lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production to the US

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Post by galdosdi » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 5:16 AM UTC

wallawe wrote: post #31

lsaferite wrote: post #28

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I'll not argue the point you are making as I don't disagree. I would just like to say I find it highly annoying when people denigrate people from the south by using 'words' like 'gubment' and 'granpappy' as some sort of assumed indicator of intelligence level of the subject being discussed. You being from NC and using this same backhanded insult troubles me even more TBH. Do people from the south use those words, or…

100% agree. It's become so commonplace to stereotype southerners in a particular way in the media and by Hollywood. I live in NYC now and have to deal with constant judgement whenever I mention I'm from Alabama. The most ironic thing is that it's typically from the "tolerant" left.

I've seen subcultures in NYC that are like that, but the majority subcultures are not IMHO.

Try hanging out with more diverse typical immigrant and native lower middle class to middle class new yorkers, not just other several-generation upper middle class suburban new englanders and transplants from the midwest and rest of the country which are a minority in NYC... You'll be pleasantly surprised.

Basically, hang out with non software tech people :)

Re: Lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production to the US

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Post by sageabilly » Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC

jjeaff wrote: post #66

sudosteph wrote: post #41

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I'm from NC too. I didn't really interpret those words in that context as implying low intelligence. Some people in NC do really talk that way. The stereotype that people who talk like that aren't educated or intelligent is a big problem, but I didn't interpret OPs comment as reinforcing that problem. It was a pretty accurate description of something people in NC hear often from a certain type of southerner. I interp…

I took it as mocking. And I'd wager a hefty sum that I am right.

OP here- not mocking, going for the Mark Twain "slice of life" approach.

Re: Lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production to the US

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Post by dang » Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 3:54 PM UTC

mido22 wrote: post #27

dang wrote: post #21

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We changed the title above.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I am not blaming HN of anything. I am just sad about rollingstone's opinion about developing nations.

That was clear! We just try to respond to title complaints so readers who come by later understand when we changed the title.