Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
Keep in mind to that regardless of how much hand work is involved most CF frames are made in China who employs workers with an average wage of $27.50 a day, so really any hand labor being done is being done dirt cheap.
And not necessarily made by a bicycle technician with extensive training and years of experience under their belt either. The assembler could just as easily have been working in a rice paddy the week before. That's the great Chinese economic miracle.