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Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI
(www.caixinglobal.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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Maybe it's the fact that every Chinese citizen is registered in the province of their birth, and can only draw social services in the province of their birth. All social services are paid for at the province level, and rich provinces do not subsidize poor provinces.
Citizens are legally barred from changing this registration except in cases of extreme wealth. The thing is, there are lots of jobs in the rich provinces and no jobs in the poor ones, so you have a permanent legal underclass who is exploited to make the lives of about 15% of the population seem pretty good.
That 15% is the ones who get free healthcare, unemployment, and generally all of the workers rights. The rest get shit all.
The problem with China is all of the fundamental lies that conflict each other. It's communist but also the most capitalist, it's free and citizen focused but also you have to sacrifice all of your rights and no complaining, it's unified but also you can't leave your province.
It's a generic authoritarian playbook that somehow tricked a bunch of people with red flags and prettu uniforms as if it's something more than that.
For me the litmus test is always freedom of information. No country is "for the people" while keeping people purposefully in the dark. Either it's a lie or extreme incompetence - neither should be taken as anything other but that.
Yeah, there do exist not only class struggle but also regional supremacism and what appears to be localized form of xenophobia, that is, some groups of Chinese detest others, including economic migrants from other parts of the country.