• TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    While I agree that worker wages and safety protections are shit in China, one thing nobody mentions when they compare wages is the fact that Chinese people are given free healthcare and affordable housing.

    93 percent of Chinese citizens own their house. They also have a low retirement age. So there are some things that kind of make up for the shit wages and toxic workplace in China.

    I still think its pretty terrible to be lower class over there, but I don’t think its really any more terrible than it is to be lower class in America, honestly.

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        6 months ago

        Have you not seen where and how the iPhone factory workers live? We got prisons that look more homely.

        A very burger comment straight delivered out of CIA ovens

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        6 months ago

        Are you talking about the Foxconn factory with the suicide nets in Taiwan (which I predict you consider an independent country from the mainland)?