In most Chinese workplaces, the stereotype is far from the reality.
  • culpritus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    19 days ago

    The part about naps and the disability quotas sounds pretty nice actually.

    And they have a strong economy, what an interesting contradiction of capitalist logic.

    There’s so many parenti moments in this.

      • KuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        18 days ago

        I agree with StillNoLeft. This article is entirely hostile and actually frames the overtime underpay abuse of 996 as a positive (‘hustle and industriousness’), and then just peddles in ‘Communist bureaucracy inefficient and corrupt’ anecdotes. It would be counterproductive to share this with libs as a myth busting article, imo

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
          1·
          18 days ago

          I find these are the kinds of articles they respond to. The key part of it is that it acknowledges 966 is not the norm, and whatever moaning it does supports that point. So, when libs smugly point out how people have to work crazy hours in China, this is a piece of acceptable media they will engage with.

          • KuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            18 days ago

            “See, they’re not actually all hard working, it’s because they’re actually mostly corrupt and lazy” <— this is the thrust of the article, and I fail to see how that is a win if it ‘dispels’ one notion in order to actively entrench another. I appreciate the effort, but an article by James Palmer ain’t it, I feel

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
              2·
              18 days ago

              But if that’s the angle they take, you can just point out how China is running laps around the west technologically, in terms of production, infrastructure, and so on. So, if Chinese get to be ‘lazy’ and achieve all that, then that surely must be a sign of a superior system. If we’re working hard, and we can’t do these things, then what are we even doing?

            • DonLongSchlong@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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              18 days ago

              It’s mostly about being able to counter the 996 myth with a liberal source. A china friendly post will always be rejected as propaganda.

              I also don’t think it really entrenches a new myth of them being lazy. That would go against the narrative of the CPC being a totalitatian dictatorship, as naps, low quality work and late documents are not exactly part of that story. In that way, the new laziness myth would actually work against the rest of the propaganda which positions the entire population as mindless worker drones that don’t have time to question their state.