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And some people still think that China is communist. Nah it's just capitalism with a different flavor. Same goes for Vietnam which recently joined some wacky ass organisation of a certain orange American neoimperialist.
The housing situation is notably better though. They've got some good ideas (also the high speed rail).
All (or a lot of) the apartments in cities are leased from the government for 99 years.
And so the prices are incredibly reasonable for an average living space. No greedy layers of middlemen trying to suck passive income out of you.
I'm sure there's examples of where it's bad, but from what I've seen, their housing situation is pretty enviable.
They have entire cities with empty houses if I remember correctly, and the ultra high speed rail is immensely inefficient as air resistance is raising in square proportionally to speed
I think building houses that will never be used as similar bad as to less housing..
China is what the US is turning into, except the US doesn't have any good infrastructure.
Trump is the shit version of Xi Jinping (literally).
Vietnam is just a Chinese work around for US tariffs.
Didn't know China has the same workaholic mentality as the US lol
Its so much worse in east asia. Japan and especially SK are even worse.
- Nine am to Nine pm, 6 days a week
chinas a communist country and authoritarian
china is a late stage capitalist techno feudalism state
Pick a comment and it probably is one of these two
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His 'fainting' was likely cardiac arrest. It sounds a lot like heart attack symptoms.
I have heard of this happening to people in the US who work in finance. It's never 'overwork' here. It's just a heart attack from poor life style choices.
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Some lucky manager just found his bottom 5% for the force ranked annual review. /s
Seriously, if you've ever managed in large corporation, you'll understand this.
China needs unions.
People in China really need to do what their anthem says:
起来，不愿做奴隶的人们 (Arise, those who refuse to be slaves)
Thank you for this
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The US labor laws are not far behind the fucked up Chinese 9-9-6.
Wasn't that deemed illegal back in 2021 by the Chinese Courts?
And didn't it kick off a wave of labor protests? The lie flat movement?
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