• ledasll@lemmy.wtf
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      I don’t think it’s for workers rights. Of course there is part of civil unrest, that might happen if million of people are ot of work. But also power is more consolidated in fewer people, so it would be more danger in long run (for Xi of course)

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      I think in terms of workers rights, China is rapidly coming up to the West in the 50s. There’s a massive growth in middle class as well as white collar jobs, especially in tech and engineering.

      This has put pressure on society as a whole for much higher standards of living, and thus better wages and better rights. They are no longer the cheap ass labor country, that’s being exported to Africa and such.

      Although the 996 culture is still insane, but I think that partly comes from the extreme competitive environment in the tech sector. There were similar stories years ago in the video game industry, and that probably hasn’t changed much.

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        996 is illegal in China. Employers caught violating the law are prosecuted when found out, to my understanding.

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          Please, everything you know about the Uyghur was manufactured by Zionist media with the “data” of literal cofounder of Victims of Communism Memorial Association and rabid Christian conservative “Adrian Zenz”.

          It’s beyond me why after seeing the literal entire western media establishment manufacturing consent for a genocide that we’ve seen televised in our own phones for the first time thanks to Chinese social media such as TikTok, people are still willing to take these same media’s claims at face value when it comes to the human rights of peoples in geopolitically tense regions of the world.

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              Conflating Zionism with Judaism is extremely antisemitic, thankfully many Jews are not rabid genociders like Zionists, certainly most I interact with aren’t.

              Whenever you pretend to be 1% as concerned about Roma people in Europe or black people in the US as you concern-troll for Uyghurs, you’ll be taken seriously.

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                  You’re concern-trolling for a particular ethnicity outside your country you know nothing about while continuously disregarding the systematic and much worse abuses against ethnic minorities in your own, because Zionist media told you so.

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        My concern is that there aren’t enough resources to go around.

        1st world countries live off of the work of China and 3rd world countries. If China becomes a 1st world country, we will all need to get our products from somewhere else. China has more people than Europe and America combined.