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[-] blazera@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Its a combination of being unaware of how bad things are in the US, and having nothing but stereotypes to inform how you think Chinese labor is. Guess who has mandated maternity leave and who doesnt. Or paid sick leave. Or laws tying minimum wage to cost of living.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 0 points 6 months ago

Unpaid wages are a chronic problem in China. Migrant workers are rarely given formal employment contracts. China’s state-run labour unions (independent ones are banned) often side with management in disputes. So companies are under little pressure to pay workers in a timely manner. Sometimes, when business is bad, they refuse to pay them at all. Tensions typically come to a head in the period before the Spring Festival, when migrant workers scramble to get months of back pay before going home. source

Now talk about environmental issues and state market manipulation.

[-] blazera@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Shitty migrant worker treatment, which country are you talking about again?

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz -1 points 6 months ago

Jesus Christ. I feel like I'm back on reddit with a bunch of assholes. The original person was posting about tariffs being anti-free market. I made a post saying it's not a fair comparison due to several issues. I never said the US was fantastic or some utopian paradise. Your reply is also an insincere comparison. Migrant workers in the US are often undocumented workers from a different country (Don't try to say I'm excusing their treatment). The article I posted was about Chinese citizens being migrant workers in China. Even then, this dumb ass argument is a strawman to my original point. But for some reason, people on here have a weird hard on for China or the US. It's fucking ridiculous.

[-] blazera@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I made a post saying it’s not a fair comparison due to several issues. I never said the US was fantastic or some utopian paradise. Your reply is also an insincere comparison.

Right, you're arguing US and China labor protections arent comparable and Ive been making the case theyre very comparable.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social -1 points 6 months ago

Guess who also has to put suicide nets in their factories due to the working conditions of employees who are forced to live on-site and spend their earnings in company stores.

[-] blazera@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago
[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

It's Foxconn, which is a Chinese manufacturing company.

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