A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.
Idk. On one hand I really appreciate the energy but on the other hand this is kind of fucked up for everyone else that works there, and I assume there were people inside when he did this. Like what are all his coworkers going to do for work now that the factory is burned down? I know that’s part of why capitalism sucks but it’s not like they can do anything about it as individuals.
Assumption they were getting paid considering he wasn’t
form a union?
Usually that works best before you burn the factory down
They’re already in a union, this is China. All companies over a certain size are unionized by law.
There’s plenty of other factories that might even pay their workers.
Burn down the executive’s houses?
FTFY.
Cave Johnson made a lemon for that.