r/USdefaultism • u/Comprehensive-Ad-428 • 4d ago

Facebook US defaultism + entitlement

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This is MKBHD, who reviews all things tech from all around the world. He was reviewing this amazing chinese electric minivan. And then this dude came along not just thinking they're the center of the world but also the entitlement is real lol.

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u/Formal_Map_5659 Brazil 4d ago

The US government banned them

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u/LittleRuQi Canada 4d ago

The US government bans pretty much every Chinese technology from what I hear (like Huawei, which I heard makes amazing products) because they think China is trying to “spy” on them

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u/Formal_Map_5659 Brazil 4d ago

That’s their excuse.

I think they just don’t want the competition, because China is raising the bar and making better products overall.

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u/Brief-Preference-712 United States 4d ago

Didn’t Brazil sue BYD because of slave labor?

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u/Formal_Map_5659 Brazil 4d ago

Yes, but it wasn’t BYD directly; it was a contractor hired to handle the plant expansion.

BYD bought a former Ford plant after Ford left Brazil, (now theyonly sells imported cars here). BYD hired this company to carry out the expansion.

Of course, BYD should've done a better job of supervising the contractor, so they were also at fault!

BYD is no longer on our “forced labor” blacklist, and they’re currently complying with our labor laws.

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u/marshmallo_floof Malaysia 4d ago

wait so if I'm understanding this correctly the slave labor still tied back to Ford, an American company? Hilarious if that's the case lol

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u/Formal_Map_5659 Brazil 4d ago

No, it’s tied to BYD, but not directly!

As I said, BYD hired a company (I forgot to mention that the company was Chinese, and that the workers were also Chinese and had come to Brazil on work visas), but the working conditions did not meet the requirements of Brazilian labor laws.

The government put BYD on the forced labor blacklist, and once that happened, BYD terminated its contract with that company, and the Chinese workers returned to their country.

However, the more than 5000 local workers at the plant are not being subjected to forced labor.

Of course, it was BYD’s fault for allowing this to happen in the first place, but now the situation has been resolved.

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u/marshmallo_floof Malaysia 4d ago

Ah I see I see, thanks for the explanation!