Have to travel to San Luis Potosi, Leon, and Queretero for work next week. Am I gonna die?

What's fucked is that by 2020 the workers at the Mercedes Aguascalientes, Ford Hermosillo, and VW-Audi Puebla and FCA Mexico plants are going to be making more than new hires at American plants by the same brands will be making.

The Mexican auto workers are all going to be pegged to $16 per hour starting in 2020 with a five year base wage trickle up to $21 after that. The Mexican central bank somehow convinced Trump and the other USMCA signatories that this will provide incentive for automakers to keep more workers in the US, Meanwhile, the non union plants in the deep south start at $14-$15 and there is no push to make them pay more from any government authority.

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What did the UK mean by this?

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for what its worth, that sort of thing could absolutely push manufacturing back up to the US. the political and supply chain risks with dealing with mexico arn't worth saving only a few dollars in labor cost. not to mention, then you have to deal with mexico.

>Potosi
The legendary silver mountain?

>for what its worth, that sort of thing could absolutely push manufacturing back up to the US.

Not really, IMO, I used to do quality control for the North American manufacturing chain of one of the big three Germany automakers and then one of the big 3 American firms. Mexican workers flatly put more effort into their shit plain and simple, meanwhile the hicks and nigs throwing this shit together stateside are often entitled and showing up hungover expecting $35 per hour plus benefits. Mexicans know they've landed a good paying job if they get a factory job and reflect it. It's easier to get more work out of Mexicans, and they've been doing this shit so long now that they're often just as skilled as US workers.

Canadians ironically are the worst of all the North American workers though, most of the Canadian auto plants are closing so I have a feeling some of that production will move back to the US, but I feel a chunk of it is still going to go to Mexico. You also have to take into account that US based operations typically buy more expensive US/Canadian sourced parts and have to pay workers benefits and the like. Mexico has socialized medicine and the German firms in Mexico typically hold 10%-20% of their pay in a pension fund for when they retire, they don't pay an extra fee on top of their wage like in the US, and workers there feel like they're paid way more too, as everything is cheaper in Mexico so they have way more spending power. Even on equal wage footing, Mexican workers still provide more productivity. FCA has even backtracked and is apparently going to make the next gen Ram HD in Mexico after all even though they claimed it would be built in the US. The time that these policies would have made an impact is when NAFTA was still new almost 30 years ago, now Mexico is already too competitive and we're fucked.

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>Yucatan
>increased caution
Yeah sure buddy, my state is safer than 83% of the US

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not that i'm disagreeing with what you're saying in general because my evidence is all empirical, but i have struggled much more with quality issues in mexico than in the US. there may not be much difference in the actual worker himself, but the ability to put together a factory that runs and runs to whatever sigma standard you need is far less developed in mexico than it is in the US. i wasn't involved in it, and maybe it's better now, but i was told by friends at audi that despite the lower wages, they were losing money vs their expected cost reduction factors because of the inflated rate of quality problems

additionally you have all kinds of unnecessary externalities like stolen trailers, border shut downs, customs hold-ups, etc. it's not all just indirect labor, though i'm sure that's what drove the investment in the first place.

sometimes the problems with crime are so bad that it actively inhibits business. we had to delay quality visits to some of the border factories for several months, and were thus unable to actually use them. i'm not going to say that mexican workers are any better or worse than anyone elses, but it's a difficult country to do business in. we just have no choice because of NAFTA and its legacy.

Not at all, they are safer than any other northern and southern mexico shitholes

We dont even have a specific cartel controlling these states

You'll be fine, just watch out for pickpocketers in leon

I'm going to found the Leon cartel and become very rich and powerful

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Wait, I thought that peninsula area was supposed to be really dangerous too?

The south is the safest part because its free from Spanish kara boga genes.

Why not create a cartel in Switzerland?

Because I'd be arrested

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Arent prisons in Switzerland like heaven?

That's another Potosi located in Bolivia

Yeah but I don't want to really found a cartel kek. And its always better to be free

Oh yeah right. Idk how much silver they found in that mountain but really a lot kek. The letters from Spaniard in the New World were always full of reports on that mountain

If u ever found it pls send me a gf

How much of it is now in Swiss vaults?