Comment on 996 isn't about productivity, it's about keeping workers' living expenses low
MangoCats@feddit.it 22 hours agoI hope it doesn’t spread outside of China, and I hope it ends (in practice) there soon.
“Although the Chinese Supreme People’s Court ruled 996 illegal in 2021, the practice remains a de facto standard in many private companies due to lax labor law enforcement.”
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Laws in China is so funny.
You can “jaywalk”, drive across red lights, have food safety violations, tofu-dreg, and even just ignore One Child Policy (when it was a thing)
Its random and arbitrary enforced.
Which might be a good thing since VPNs traffic often just leaks through anyways, such an… interesting country
MangoCats@feddit.it 16 hours ago
A direction the US is moving towards…
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
>Be me
>Be Born in China
>Family moves out of China
>Be in USA
>Fast Forward to January 20, 2025
>Looks around the country
>It’s PRC all over again
MangoCats@feddit.it 14 hours ago
On the surface I agree - what’s being shown at top headlines, etc. But the PRC wasn’t as TACO as 2025 USA.