Like we don’t have child labor here in the good ol’ USA.
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derpgon@programming.dev 3 weeks agoAlso labor price is unmatched. Nobody would work for the wage they give to children in China.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dearth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
China has compulsory education for children just like America. There’s no child labor in China.
They pay adult workers less in China, but these yuan has 7x buying power than the dollar in China
derpgon@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
That’s what Chinese propagandists want you to think, there are way more people living in (borderline) poverty (per capita) than in the US.
Social media is being fed with a slice of mainland China, but anything beyond that is people struggling to keep ends meet.
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
They’re being pretty ruthless about grabbing all the world’s resources to make them as well.
Flagg76@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No the rest of the world has been sleeping when China silently bought all the mines and harbors in the past decades.
iridebikes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If our CEOs and business leaders are supposedly the world’s best, why didn’t they spent their capital shutting China down instead of their lavish lifestyles and payouts for their wealthy stockholders? I guess they aren’t as good at running businesses as they claim to be.
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When the only goal by law is maximize profits, the motivation tends to favor minimizing cost. Change the rules, and enforce a new set of values. Only then will the situation improve.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
China is performing a new colonialism. Exploiting poor countries for their cheap resources.
While the rest of the world is trying to steer away from it because it is so horrible. So please, don’t praise China for it.
Flagg76@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You don’t understand colonialism much. They aren’t taking anything by force like the rest of the west did for centuries.
They are doing business, there is a difference.
kemsat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s true, but we could subsidize the cost of labor too. People make a living wage, but the company pays less than that because government covers the difference.
Flagg76@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Very few children work in china right now, Chinese workers even have 5 days of vacation a year by law.
That’s 5 more than the US…
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the slavery they are refrencing.
apnews.com/…/brazil-slave-labor-china-car-factory…
fergrg@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Yes, there may not be child labor. But in places we cannot see, there are still black industry chains. A brick factory was exposed some time ago. They let some people with low IQ or disabilities work. They were not given masks, and the air was full of dust. They may work more than ten hours a day or even more. What is the difference between this and slavery? I just want to give this example to illustrate that there are still many black-hearted factories in society, and there is also the possibility of employing child labor. In China, young people who have not studied will choose to work in factories, but they must be at least 16 years old. If they are younger, they will not be hired. Back to the issue of BYD, although we are proud that it can be recognized by the world as a Chinese brand, and many people in China also buy it. But recently there have been some news that they blindly work overtime within the company, and have meetings after get off work, etc. Someone exposed the chat records within the company. We are all ordinary people. We just want to fight for our rights. Even if it is a big company, as long as it exploits people, we must oppose it.
radioactivefunguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lol, managers are Tesla are contracted for 80hr work weeks…
Agreed! Fuck em all!
Flagg76@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes but they are trying to better themselves, it’s a slow process, but there is progress. And they came a long way since the 70’s.
Countries like America are going backwards. At this rate the USA is a worse country for the working class than China in 20 years, if not already.
fergrg@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
We still have a question, why do we work so hard when we have achieved what we have now? We envy people in Europe, who have easy work. Every time we take a holiday, we have to make up for it with more working days. You often say that Chinese people are hardworking, but the younger generation does not want to suffer unnecessary hardships. We realize that we come to this world to enjoy life, not to spend the best decades of our lives working.
fergrg@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I agree with this. No country has ever been like China, which has grown from the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to the world’s second largest economy. This is all the joint efforts of the people and the government. But we are not like our parents’ generation, who were satisfied even with low salaries, and always had a smile on their faces, often saying that they were working to build a new China. We are in our twenties now, but our bodies are already in our thirties or forties. We stay up late every day and have to work overtime, and we don’t like working. We refuse to work overtime for any reason, work in bad weather, and give ourselves very low salaries. This is not for the motherland but for the capitalists who seek personal gain.