These are about 250% the prince of regular seats, so if you go from SH to SZ or something it's incredibly expensive (flying is cheaper) but if it's a short distance say 80kms or 20 minutes, between two nearby cities, it's like $10 USD, half the price of a taxi for that distance, so send me to reeducation camp or whatever but yes I've tried it once for fun. They still give you a box of treats (crab roe flavor sunflower seeds, a tiny pastry, an airplane meal-esque bread roll, etc) no matter the distance.
Isn't a lot of their manufacturing advantage still cheap labor? Won't the manufacturing leave if wages reach that high? Or are they hoping the economy will transition to more service oriented jobs by then? Not really knowledgable on the manufacturing there, just wondering.
By now most of the manufacturing advantage is expertise and network effect. If you're in China you can get specialized parts in under a day by literally showing up to the factory and asking for a one off, which saves a lot of money, and you save on shipping and can iterate faster, and you can find skilled workers for literally anything in a week or two. So even if you're paying 2x as much for labour you still end up saving massive amounts of money.
Oh wow that's interesting. I kind of figured at this point something like that was going on. How'd you learn this stuff? Any good articles or books to read?
These are about 250% the prince of regular seats, so if you go from SH to SZ or something it's incredibly expensive (flying is cheaper) but if it's a short distance say 80kms or 20 minutes, between two nearby cities, it's like $10 USD, half the price of a taxi for that distance, so send me to reeducation camp or whatever but yes I've tried it once for fun. They still give you a box of treats (crab roe flavor sunflower seeds, a tiny pastry, an airplane meal-esque bread roll, etc) no matter the distance.
Only $10? That's pretty cheap. What are wages like in China?
that first number is about $15,379
for comparison the US number for 2020 is $35,977
their median wage will pass the US in under 15 years I think
Isn't a lot of their manufacturing advantage still cheap labor? Won't the manufacturing leave if wages reach that high? Or are they hoping the economy will transition to more service oriented jobs by then? Not really knowledgable on the manufacturing there, just wondering.
China does keep its currency deliberately cheap by buying US government bonds.
By now most of the manufacturing advantage is expertise and network effect. If you're in China you can get specialized parts in under a day by literally showing up to the factory and asking for a one off, which saves a lot of money, and you save on shipping and can iterate faster, and you can find skilled workers for literally anything in a week or two. So even if you're paying 2x as much for labour you still end up saving massive amounts of money.
Oh wow that's interesting. I kind of figured at this point something like that was going on. How'd you learn this stuff? Any good articles or books to read?
If you can stomach listening to Tim Cook, he talks about that quite a bit in this interview. About 9 minutes in is the most relevant portion.
Looks even better if you include Purchasing power.