Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI - Judges classify AI adoption as a controllable business strategy rather than an unavoidable disruption, shielding employees from automation-driven layoffs
It’s not nearly as authoritarian as people like to claim. Chinese citizens hold tens of thousands of protests each year against a wide variety of topics, and the government is legally required to respond to them. As a consequence, the Chinese government is orders of magnitude more responsive to local corruption or abuses of power than almost any western country.
Turns out when you run a government like a corporation properly, you can think about long-term profits instead of only next quarter. It isn’t fully-automated luxury gay space communism, but it’s a hell of a lot better than neoliberalism.
In the sense that they’re maximizing (tax) revenue by investing in infrastructure, maintaining a strict hierarchy, and so on, not the Reaganite destroying it and selling it off for parts.
Strange to see China of all places to be societal ahead of everyone else.
No, it isn’t.
Of all place? Have you been living under a rock?
Not really to be honest. They’re an authoritarian regime, but they do a lot of social policies. It’s a weird mix but not a new one.
It’s not nearly as authoritarian as people like to claim. Chinese citizens hold tens of thousands of protests each year against a wide variety of topics, and the government is legally required to respond to them. As a consequence, the Chinese government is orders of magnitude more responsive to local corruption or abuses of power than almost any western country.
It absolutely is. Have a look at the definition of authoritarianism, China checks all the boxes.
Literally all governments are definitionally authoritarian, it’s a stupid criticism
So does the US at this point.
Not fully yet, but heading there head first, yep
Turns out when you run a government like a corporation properly, you can think about long-term profits instead of only next quarter. It isn’t fully-automated luxury gay space communism, but it’s a hell of a lot better than neoliberalism.
This is not what China has done though…
Stop trying to launder this “run the government like a corporation” garbage
In the sense that they’re maximizing (tax) revenue by investing in infrastructure, maintaining a strict hierarchy, and so on, not the Reaganite destroying it and selling it off for parts.
It is indeed a weird mix in China, but I had not expected this one. Its a law that could be useful everywhere, even though it is hard to prove.