Re: Children?
>It's cheap for a reason. And not a good one.
If you've seen a modern electronics production line in action then you'd know that its not the labour intensive activity that it used to be even 20 years ago. Most of the assembly is automated, it has to be because humans just aren't fast or accurate enough to handle the parts. Much of the manual labour in building something like an Echo will be in a handful of operations, typically working with power devices, possibly final assembly and testing at board and product level.
China might have a huge population but its still having problems with shortages of skilled and semi-skilled labour. Wages are also increasing which means that some types of labour intensive production are being offshored.
(BTW -- its not just electronics production.)
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