first world prices and slave labor

i hate to tell these assholes, but made in japan did mean cheap at first.  simple, inexpensive items started the japanese industrial dominance, but the inexpensive part was very important.  japan didn't start marketing top of the line electronics or charge outrageous prices for their lowest quality items.  if rapha wants to have stuff made by suicidal slave laborers in china, that's perfectly legal, but not too sharp if you are going to charge uber-premium prices.  good stuff from china should be really fucking cheap inexpensive.  teh same sort of shit made in switzerland should command the premium price.  rapha are just the latest in a long proud horrible tradition of british exploitation of foreign labor.  wogs, anyone?