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This petty bourgeoisie in the making complains about how he cant manufacture in America and that if he makes in china they copy “his” ip…

Is the wittle capitalists getting exploited?? Awwww so saaaddd 😢 😂

  • bdonvrAEnglish
    371·
    6 days ago

    I mean he has a point in that the US not having like, any basic Tool/Die ability is pretty bad (for the US), and fostering local ability isn’t a bad idea.

    But he clearly impregnates the rest of the video with anti-Chinese bullshit. Like, he couldn’t find any US supply for the chain-mail, so he compromises and imports it - but going to great lengths specifically to avoid China. Then when he does find a supplier (in India), turns out they’re just drop-shipping Chinese parts lmao.

    And at one point he specifically mentions the CCP as some evil force.

    The whole video kinda made my skin crawl I dunno. Dude makes some interesting videos but this one is kinda gross. It reads less “pro-local” and more “anti-Chinese”

    • Nora@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      17·
      6 days ago

      Yeah if it was a youtuber making this and it was a workers co-op or something and they just explained things it would be fine. The Sinophobia is cringe. Also exploiting workers is cringe.

      Making a product paid for by your patrons only to then sell it for a profit while stealing wages from your workers… Super cringe.

    • tripartitegraph [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      6 days ago

      This guys is based out of Hunstville, Alabama, and if you do anything STEM-adjacent there it’s for the military in some capacity. I’ve been around those types and the Sinophobia runs deep. It’s lame though, his videos could be a lot better if his worldview didn’t come through as much.

      “Fun” fact: the civic center in Huntsville is (still) named after Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        He’s openly talked about his long career in engineering for the military, as of the last time I kept up with his channel (8 years ago maybe).

        He’ll go do humanitarian stuff like building orphanages in Peru and see absolutely no contradiction between that and his day job.