Originally Posted by
CEBEP
In general, I can’t understand people saying that you have to pay the price for bike built in England. I bought my Brompton because of it’s features. I would never consider paying extra for anything because it’s made in England by overpaid workforce.
I realize that labor costs in Great Britain are higher than labor costs in China, where the vast majority of folding bikes are made. I don't know that that makes the British labor force "overpaid."
Dahon, for example, is an American company that chooses to make its bikes in China because labor costs (and regulatory barriers and worker protection legislation are nearly non-existent) are very low. Should that be the ceiling for labor costs? Does that make workers in Europe, or the United States, or Great Britain, "overpaid"?
That's fine. Speaking for myself, I
would consider paying extra for something rather than benefit by exploiting impoverished workers.