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Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI
(www.caixinglobal.com)
China has better worker's policies than America.
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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Did you even hear about America's Apple's Foxconn factory in China where the factory has nets on the windows to stop the frequent 'inconvenient' problem of cheap labor workers attempts of window jump suicides, for example? Co-operative structure (worker-owned) companies have more likelihood to have more human policies to, uh, themselves, than ponzi scheme corporations. Despite a fancy socialist ('communist') sounding title of government structure, Russia and China both took International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans, with their conditions of worker rights suffocation policies and market concentration monopolization policies. America's and China's feudalist monopolist billionaires have a lot more proximity of ideology than either of their propaganda machines has acknowledged so far.
Yeah, I know about all of that, and they still have a better working environment than Americans.
As China has prospered, they have managed to reduce most poverty in their nation. As we have prospered under MAGA, Americans' quality of life is decreasing, and the slide is increasing. China is going the right way, we are definitely going the wrong way.
I'm not saying that China doesn't have issues, but they are still committed to the betterment of their country's future, while American leaders are ONLY concerned with exploiting our country and it's people to the absolute maximum degree. They don't want to leave one illegal penny on the table.
I don't want to be China, but I don't want to be MAGAMERICA either.
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They're a worker's republic, of course they do.
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I would kill to live in a country like China that optimizes its economy for use value over exchange value.
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It just means they have to write "mistakes" or "performance issues" on the paperwork instead of "replaced by robots"
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The great leap sideways.
Step 1: give unrealistic KPI, cited performance increase due to AI Step 2: put employee into PIP Step 3: fire employee due to performance Step 4: do stock buyback because you have extra budget from firing employees
I'm not sure about step 4. I mean, China is pretty strict with those kinds of things.
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Just to save your eyes from being assaulted (had to turn off styling):
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How the hell does an article that we can't even read get so many upvotes.
Stuff like this really shakes my belief in the voting system.
If you're on Firefox, just enable reading mode.
Because hate for AI is so blind that you can post anything and people will immediately fall for it.
Headline goes brrrrrr… I guess?
My take as well.
Was recently "assaulted" by a load of China-stans. So I assume this is similar pro-china (neutral about it) or at least anti-US (positive about that) community upvoting it.
Yeah, I certainly don’t wanna just blindly promote china, they do a lot of things I find abhorrent, but it can’t be denied that they are so much better than the US in a number of areas.
Totally in agreement.
It’s one of those subscription blocks you can get around by selecting reading mode in Firefox.
I’m not sure if it works for other browsers but I was able to read the article.
People only read the title, not the article
You can't require reading the article before someone vote/comment, but what if communities could enable "ponder voting" where users can only vote 30 seconds after viewing the post? This would prevent people from scrolling by from voting, but people who at least slightly skim the article first won't be affected.
Probably not viably due to it having to be supported by all platforms, but just a thought.
EDIT: It could work by returning a JWT with a post ID and time when fetching the post and having the vote endpoint support providing it. Although, I can also see it being a bit annoying and being trivially bypassed by adding some code to the client.
I'm not going to hand my money to that paywall on such an overstimulating website riddled with AI.
China (its court, anyways) is a civil law jurisdiction (i.e. precedent doesn't exist too much) so I'm curious what law's letter is being applied here.
Firefox -> Reading mode gets past the paywall.