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Tens of thousands of Chinese migrant workers have gone to Indonesia to work in nickel for EV batteries, risking their safety to save money for a better life back home https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-migrant-workers-indonesia-nickel-ev/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky
The Chinese migrant workers powering the deadly EV nickel boom
30,000 Chinese workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Eastern Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk on the frontier of the green energy transition.
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December 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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South Korea has doubled its productivity since 2000, overtaking Japan—

The economist Paul Krugman once said, “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run, it’s almost everything”.
South Korea has doubled its productivity since 2000, surpassing Japan. Line chart showing productivity measured as GDP per hour of work from 2000 to 2023 for South Korea and Japan. Y axis labeled 0 dollars per hour to 60 dollars per hour; x axis shows years 2000 to 2023. South Korea’s line rises from a labeled point of $25 per hour in 2000 to a labeled point of $54 per hour in 2023, crossing and ending above Japan’s line. Japan’s line stays relatively flat, roughly in the range of about 45 to 52 dollars per hour with a small peak around 2010 and a slight decline afterward. Data source: Feenstra et al. - Penn World Table (2025). Note: This data is expressed in international‑$ at 2021 prices per hour, using multiple benchmark years to adjust for differences in living costs between countries over time. License: CC BY.
December 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM