chinas a communist country and authoritarian
china is a late stage capitalist techno feudalism state
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Some lucky manager just found his bottom 5% for the force ranked annual review. /s
Seriously, if you've ever managed in large corporation, you'll understand this.
Quite the communism they are doing huh
China is not communist in any form anymore, they're authoritarian late stage techno-capitalism with remnants of communist social structures. And before someone says "but they execute billionaires", they only execute billionaires that get in the way of other billionaires' profits, they never execute billionaires for being billionaires or for making those billions by exploiting the workers.
China is not communist in any form anymore
Just a planned economy governed by it's native population with a public policy centered on general social welfare.
Nothing Communist about this at all, no sir.
And before someone says “but they execute billionaires”, they only execute billionaires that get in the way of other billionaires’ profits
That's certainly the American spin. It's actually double-plus capitalism when you prosecute plutocrats. Because a rules based national order promoted domestic growth. And that's... bad?
Anyway, don't ask about their social housing, public education, public health care, and public mass transit. That's Not Real Communism!
His 'fainting' was likely cardiac arrest. It sounds a lot like heart attack symptoms.
I have heard of this happening to people in the US who work in finance. It's never 'overwork' here. It's just a heart attack from poor life style choices.
On occasions I have done overtime or feel under pressure due to work, I do feel my heart palpitating. But I am lucky I immigrated to a country where the work culture is more relaxed compared to others. Had I gone to another country, I might have ended up the same as the guy in the article.
Known as 過労死 (karoshi) in Japan, sadly not a new concept. This is the result of the misconception that working harder will yield better results - it only leads to stagnation and ruin. Hoping that more people will realise this and initiate some change in the work culture; not only in Asia, but in the West too... The work culture in both the US, UK and many parts of the EU needs some serious overhaul.
Currently playing Cyberpunk2077.
Kind of fascinating how this word sounds very similar to 'Kiroshi' which is a fictious corporate providing optical eye implants.
It could be a play on words based on the root verb 切る (cut). 切ろ死 (kiroshi) could then mean something like "cut to death", a very reassuring name for a surgical implant corporation.
Great. A double meaning :D
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The US labor laws are not far behind the fucked up Chinese 9-9-6.
Wasn't that deemed illegal back in 2021 by the Chinese Courts?
And didn't it kick off a wave of labor protests? The lie flat movement?
I saw a bunch of articles in the past few weeks about seniors needing to work more years and the idea of retirement in the US "needing to change". Presumably because we are tossing out big chiunks or our labor force and probably social security will be gutted by the republicans.
Just wait… they can get worse. And will if we don’t have free and fair elections anymore.
China needs unions.
People in China really need to do what their anthem says:
起来，不愿做奴隶的人们 (Arise, those who refuse to be slaves)
Didn't you hear? China's been one gigantic people's union since 1949. That's the whole point of Communism. As you can see, it's working swimmingly well.
Tiananmen square protests were (also) against introduction of capitalism to China, so... you know... (https://jacobin.com/2019/06/tiananmen-square-worker-organization-socialist-democracy)
I was implying nothing about any other type of societal organization. However, since you mention it, I will point out that Capitalism (which is an economic, not political philosophy) can become horrific for the same reasons Communism becomes horrific - People. Communism was a response to naked, mercantilist Capitalism. Marx's heart was in the right place, but he was describing a Utopia.
I think Democracy (in its many forms) designed with checks and balances is a viable answer to the problem. It ain't magic, though. People still need to ensure it remains balanced. We've been having some trouble with that lately. It took fifty years of planning for the authoritarians to get us here. It's a good sign it was so difficult, but now we have to work hard to fix the mess.
Chinas communist party is as communist as trump is a democratic leader.
Or as our German „Christian party“ is christian…
Christianity: love thy neighbour German christianity party: the immigrants are ruining our cityscapes by their presence
Sounds like American Evangelism. I bet they coordinate.
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