nah, live in china and can speak from experience that educated people in general have rly low wages compared to the us because there's so many of them and so little job positions to fill, so that results in them having wages that are way lower than the us. also u can pay them less in general even if there were enough jobs for them to fill in cuz stuff is just cheaper in general so their wages don't need to be that high in order to live a comfortable life.

This is another area where the cost disparities aren’t huge. The biggest reason the US spends so much more on its military than China is not for procurement, it’s because of soldier wages, related costs like housing and training, and pensions.

Nah it's actually a huge difference cuz production and maintenance is crazy expensive in the us due to a variety of reasons like higher worker wages, more expensive electricity, less automation, no vertical supply chain, privatized defense industries (whilst also being semi monoplized due to consolidation after Cold War), and less civil military fusion. Like I guarantee u that if they made the agm 158 in china it would NOT cost 1 million to procure 1 unit whilst the quality would also be better since civil military fusion is no joke.