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.
Should have just given the man his stapler.
My dear overworked and underpaid fellow Americans please take notes…
Where’s his picture so we can canonized him like St Luigi.
Should have given him his $111
Fight back!
Note that RFA is mentioned as a very bad source in other communities.
RFA is a literal CIA propaganda outlet. Like directly created and funded by the CIA to spread anti China propaganda.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia_(Committee_for_a_Free_Asia)
Radio Free Asia (RFA) was a news agency operated from 1951 to 1955 by the Central Intelligence Agency, through the Committee for Free Asia, to broadcast anti-Communist propaganda.
Well China is more or less state capitalist now so… Based CIA?
I don’t know if I’m joking or not, I hate both the CIA and China so whatever.
Meanwhile most Americans who are forced to work full time with no paid vacation or healthcare instead go off and say, “I don’t pay attention to politics, it’s depressing. I’m just gonna work on myself,” as they accept never being able to afford their dream vacation, their own home, or that new truck they desperately need.
Based
Ummm, based?
BASED
What a king
This is how you do it!
We (the west) often look at the chinese with some amount of arrogance about them being “peasants”.
Truth is, Winnie Pooh has to take some care, because they will fuck things up if their situation gets worse instead of better.I mean, people who think the Chinese people are just ‘peasants’ tend to be pretty goddamn ignorant.
Systems are difficult to oppose in every society. We’re all just trying to get by.
ignorant is too light, I say racism, say whatever you want about china, if you see Chinese people as peasants you’re a racist POS
I see plenty of typical* Americans on the streets who can barely plot their own country on a world map. At some point, it is an actual lack of information, ignorance, whether by their environment or their own disinterest, rather than some racial or nationalist prejudice. It’s offensive and stupid, and shouldn’t be excused, but sometimes I think it isn’t even racism. Or, at least, their own racism - it’s still the effect of a nationalist exceptionalist government and culture, so racism is still relevant to their ignorance regardless of what their own opinions, morals and character might be.
Now, all that said, there are millions who are just racist pieces of shit who know better. So fuck them.
* I know the country isn’t homogeneous and there is no typical American, but I’m not talking about just super rural folk or the centers of cities
The vast majority of people saying Chinese people are ‘peasants’ are racist, but if someone told me that they met someone in Fuckknowswhereville, USA, who genuinely thought that mainland China was still struggling under a feudal regime, living hand-to-mouth with villages of illiterates who lacked the educational tools to organize against their overlords, and was genuinely overjoyed to hear the contrary, that the Qing Dynasty had fallen and that China entered the modern world, rather than disbelieving or dismissive… well, I’ve heard too many innocently stupid opinions from my fellow Americans about international issues to reject that out of hand.
Admittedly, being from Fuckknowswhereville, USA, also greatly increases the chance of them being horrifically racist pieces of shit.
But that was absolutely the same for peasants? Which then would make it accurate again to call them oppressed peasants?
“Peasant” has much more wide-reaching connotations than just powerlessness.
That’s not the defining characterisric for peasants, you pawn :p
Peasants? In one of the top capitalist countries?? Haha, good one… They certainly have farms, but that’s just one end of the production …
Nothing wrong with being a peasant, in this context: History is full of peasant revolts. People in the European middle ages were perfectly aware of how the system was stacked against them. Arguably, more than they’re now.
“just 800 yuan (or US$111)”
“just”
Fuck man, I’d go ballistic over $111 of unpaid wages, and that’s probably a bigger chunk of that employee’s monthly wages than mine.
Most payments in China are monthy, not weekly/bi-weekly as with in the west.
You’d be mad too if you find out you’re not gonna be paid for work done for the past month*.
Edit: *Or if its only partial payment
Most payments in China are monthy, not weekly/bi-weekly as with in the west.
Where in “the west” do you live? My paychecks (Switzerland) are definitely monthly.
I only ever heard of North Americans getting paid weekly/bi-weekly as standard.
With west you mean usa? Most of Europe gets paid on a monthly basis.
https://www.erieri.com/salary/job/factory-worker/china
The average pay for a Factory Worker is CNY 58,959 a year and CNY 28 an hour in China.
That’d be 26 hours at average factory wage, according to this site. I don’t think that it’s likely more than a week, if that.
My first reaction was “That’s not very much - guess they should have paid him!”
I doubt they actually owe ¥800 in total, because they could have just pay 99 other workers ¥8 less and can still pay this person ¥792, this way, the factory owner only owes ¥8 to 100 different individuals rather than oweing ¥800 to one individual. I doubt someone is gonna do arson for ¥8 delayed payment.
So I assume they probably owe other employees as well. Just to illustrate:
If they owe ¥800 to 100 employees, each.
That’s ¥80 000 Yuan/RMB ≈ $11 140 USD
A lot of debt.
We should all strive to be more like this man.
