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Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI (www.caixinglobal.com)
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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

financial fraud and corruption are not violating workers' human rights

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They absolutely are. When a building collapses due to the safety inspectors being bribed, it's not the rich people that die -- they live in the nice buildings. When an investigation into fair wages gets bribed away who suffers? The workers.

    When a politician spends his career working against the workers who suffers? The Workers.

    China at a local level is incredibly directly democratic, with workers voting on most things. Directly going against the will of the people is harming those people's essential right to self determination, compromising their safety, and denying them all other rights afforded by China's constitution.

    While this isn't actually how money works in any country, the workers pay the wages of the politicians, they demand honest service, and the whole system is based on the idea that can be done.

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    that's politicians. politicians do get relatively long sentences for corruption in europe. there's so many ways to abuse workers besides bribery

    and in any case, none of the executions have been for bribery that caused neglect to workers' rights or safety collapses as you calimed. the most i've found for these cases is 15 years and merely expelling for Yang Dongliang—whose neglect caused 173 deaths, 798 injuries, and nearly ¥7B of property damage in the horrific Tianjin explosions—not even anywhere close to a single life expectancy. the medicine Duilio Poggiolini took bribes to approve didn't even kill anyone and he still served half of Yang's sentence.

    the only tangential one was Zheng Xiaoyu, who state-approved medicine that in one instance caused "14 patient deaths, hundreds being permanently disabled, and several thousand more falling seriously ill", which has no comparable case in europe with a similar impact per-capita.

    China at a local level is incredibly directly democratic

    i actually agree with that. but the local governments cannot override the system decided higher-up by democratic centralism.

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