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Old 03-18-11, 01:12 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by mookiemookie View Post
I was figuring it was cheap Chinese labor because they could have always sent the lumber to someplace closer with cheap labor like Mexico, Guatemala or the Dominican Republic, but yet they still chose faraway China.
From pictures, Im guessing the situation in china is this:
- No labor unions
- No regulations
- No EPA.

I'll bet in china, the situation probably a throwback to the industrial revolution. You know, back before child labor laws and the like. In short, its probably a corporate paradise.

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Originally Posted by the_tyrant View Post
And face it, shims are made by machines, the labor involved is minimal
Yeah, thats not lost on me. You can make them by hand, most defiantly, but if your mass producing something, it's machined, or at the very least, you have one fancy jig set up.
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