Living in China is getting cheaper. Because rents in my neighborhood in central Beijing are dropping, my wife and I pressed our landlord to reduce ours by $140 a month in a new lease that we signed last month. He wasn’t too happy about it, but he’s lucky that we didn’t move out. Given the desperation of local landlords, we probably could’ve saved another $500 a month had we switched to a comparable apartment nearby.
BUT AT WHAT COST?
“Why would someone buy a dishwasher now if it can be cheaper tomorrow?”
…because people still need dishwashers?
“China has too much supply and too little demand”.
Cool, well here in the US we have the opposite problem. Not too good either. Besides, employers seem to be thriving when labor is high in supply and demand for workers is borderline nonexistent. How about let’s stop with the austerity and union busting to get people employed. Why bother hiring now when it could be cheaper later, right?
i don’t even buy that china “has too much supply/not enough demand” tbh. there are over a billion people there. you could find demand for anything you can supply
they’re conflating lack of overconsumption with lack of demand. they also export shit loads to the entire world so i dont see how they would possibly have that problem
just sounds like capitalist pig cope. i hate these people
Who does the dishes after the revolution?
Everyone. Wash your own or at least start the dishwasher when it gets full.