• Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    3 days ago

    Yeah in a global environment essentially China is the workforce/factory workers of the previous gilded age.

    And it’s pretty much exactly my point that their union (the government) is finally pushing back against the management while being not exactly kind to their workers.

    We are essentially reliving through a new worker rebellion but from the governments of the global south with their own layers of local nuance underneath that.
    Weird times.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      A government is not a union.

      The rebellion is mostly demographics. We are at a point, where globalization reached most countries. At the same time births are around 138million ± 5milliion since 40 years. China itself even has population decline.

    • vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Yeah in a global environment essentially China is the workforce/factory workers of the previous gilded age.

      Maybe 15-20 years ago, but not so much anymore. Cost of labor has been rising in China dramatically to the point that a lot of manufacturing is leaving China.