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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.
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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.
What a king
The Pingshan county police confirmed an incident of arson and said the arsonist had been detained at the scene of the fire.
A better way to do it is to wait a couple of weeks, burn the place down so it looked like a naturally occurring fire, and not get caught.
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.
A quick peek at the article doesn’t show any fatalities/injuries, so based?
BASED
Ummm, based?
If the CCP’s all about championing the humble worker then surely they’ll approve of this guy’s actions, right?
CCP shuts down alternative unions and prevents any left wing demonstrations, it’s ironic, you don’t have to fall into a party line when you’re not a party member yet they’re being hunted down as if they just broke the rules of centralised democracy
Surely they’d prefer workers to go through official channels so the owner of the factory can be prosecuted, not act alone and go on adventurist rampages. They’re not anarchists lol
From the article:
Police, however, said the claim that “800 yuan in wages were owed” was false, and that the company was in the process of approving payment of 5,370 yuan in wages. It blamed the factory fire on the arsonist’s suicidal thoughts, and said police would deal strictly with those spreading rumors.
So the “official channels” would just tell him unpaid wages don’t exist
What about the ACFTU? Or one of the labour inspectorates? Going to police is the first step, but it’s hardly the only official channel.
The education system clearly failed to prepare this worker for what they should do if their boss steals their wages, but there were definitely other options besides going all propaganda of the deed on the factory. I certainly sympathize with them though!
Official Channels
So same as an US-American petitioning trump? 🤣
so the owner of the factory can be prosecuted, not act alone and go on adventurist rampages
I guess you oppose burning teslas? Bootlick much?
Have you lit a factory on fire or are you a bootlicker too?
So same as an US-American petitioning trump? 🤣
What if I told you that the US and China are different countries and that they have different governments?
I guess you oppose burning teslas? Bootlick much?
I oppose adventurism.
People should be organized and follow democratic centralism, parties and unions and organizations and such. They shouldn’t just go off on whatever adventure pops in their head because they’re mad at some rich guy for being a piece of shit.
Again, that shit is for anarchists, and in case you haven’t noticed they haven’t been very historically successful.
We should all strive to be more like this man.
“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
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.
800 yuan to this person could be equivalent to the entire factory for the company
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.
Proletariat Uprising
Power to the people!
To quote the CCP (which is ironic, given they are the oppressors): “革命无罪，造反有理！” (Revolution is not a Crime, Rebellion is Just!)
