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Is that really true? It's not unusual in the US but from most accounts here of Argentines, they barely work one job let alone 2 or 3.

There was a funny thread about this last year. I have zero business experience in Argentina but I was visiting a good friend in BA, he told me a funny story about a local he was dating who declared "I'm a lazy person from a lazy country". We'd had a fair bit to drink, and he did fabulous job...

Why is that Wally? :)

Amazon is truly amazing in the US and that is largely due to their obsessive focus on logistics. That's why I find this failure so interesting, other companies are beating them at their favorite game.

Interesting. Amazon is truly expert at shipping and logistics, so it's surprising that Chinese companies are succeeding where they are not.

Interesting. Why do you think Temu and SHEIN are having success in Argentina while Amazon is struggling?

I think that 100% tariff is more to do with the level of govt subsidy in China. Japanese and Korean cars are superb but they're properly competitive and just pay the standard 15%.

That's really interesting Mike. It's also the kind of immigration you want to see, working hard, starting businesses and pursuing the dream. CBI programs were designed for that. It wasn't so expensive that you had to be rich but you needed the means to get invested in your citizenship and not...

And that happened while China is recoiling from a downturn largely driven by massive over investment in real estate. If the CBI was in force 15 years ago when China was on a tear, I suspect BA would look quite different.

That was the thinking and for years it was a net positive, but we didn't consider the consequences of a nation with 40x our population that was starting to generate wealth and immediately wanted to get it out of there along with their families. It swamped us and the same happened in Australia.

Most Canadian cities have a great Chinatown and hard working immigrants. What you would get with CBI is a whole other kettle of fish.

Have to disagree with you there.

It's a good thing. Major areas of BA would have become Chinatown. Canada should have shut CBI down after the Hong Kong migration in the 80s, but they let it stand and our cities were swamped with Chinese immigrants. Homes became unaffordable to citizens. You have to laugh at the media...

Wow, that is the definition of irony

Awesome!!

Boy isn't that the truth

This is a fabulous thread :)

All he had to do? :ROFLMAO:

Hard to tell, it usually comes with a side of anger :)

I'm pretty sure my wife feeds me donkey meat whenever I've been bad :)