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Miguelito Loveless

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11. Not sure how we are "cheap" labor

Fri Sep 19, 2025, 12:22 PM

Sep 19

Unless they are looking to cut a lot of costs with minimum wage jobs, absence of safety/environmental reg enforcement. Even then I can't see how the US would be cheaper than China (or closer). This is either sunk cost fallacy, or Hyundai is promising big production numbers it won't deliver, and will delay actual production due to a labor "shortage" and is hoping to wait until the next admin to bring back incentives and green-friendly policy. Another answer would be they are paying Trump a bribe, but I don't know if he can be trusted to stay bought, or has enough remaining cognition to remember he was bought.

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