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Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI
(www.caixinglobal.com)
China has better worker's policies than America.
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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This one policy is better in this extremely superficial description.
Neither country has workers rights on par with Europe for example.
Neither country has workers rights on par with Europe for example.
For now. Now watch us fuck it all up.
Valid.
Europe has executed CEO's for violating their worker's human rights?
Murdering people isn't the flex you think it is.
Murder is when crimes against humanity are prosecuted. You're so smart.
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Did you even hear about America's Apple's Foxconn factory in China where the factory has nets on the windows to stop the frequent 'inconvenient' problem of cheap labor workers attempts of window jump suicides, for example? Co-operative structure (worker-owned) companies have more likelihood to have more human policies to, uh, themselves, than ponzi scheme corporations. Despite a fancy socialist ('communist') sounding title of government structure, Russia and China both took International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans, with their conditions of worker rights suffocation policies and market concentration monopolization policies. America's and China's feudalist monopolist billionaires have a lot more proximity of ideology than either of their propaganda machines has acknowledged so far.
Yeah, I know about all of that, and they still have a better working environment than Americans.
As China has prospered, they have managed to reduce most poverty in their nation. As we have prospered under MAGA, Americans' quality of life is decreasing, and the slide is increasing. China is going the right way, we are definitely going the wrong way.
I'm not saying that China doesn't have issues, but they are still committed to the betterment of their country's future, while American leaders are ONLY concerned with exploiting our country and it's people to the absolute maximum degree. They don't want to leave one illegal penny on the table.
I don't want to be China, but I don't want to be MAGAMERICA either.
Typical Chinese factory workers have 10-12 hour shifts 6 days a week. Many workers literally live at the factory. Sounds way better than the US or Europe.
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I would kill to live in a country like China that optimizes its economy for use value over exchange value.
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It just means they have to write "mistakes" or "performance issues" on the paperwork instead of "replaced by robots"
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The great leap sideways.