Young Chinese are sick of working long hours

Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours by ekianjo on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:32PM (#17040420)

yeah and they had nothing to eat at all some years if the harvest was bad, and no medical care and most people died in their 30s. So, which scenario do you prefer?

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Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours by danharaj on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:43PM (#17040520)

Ok, so now you're making an observation about medicine instead of hours of work. What exactly is your point here? Things are better now than they were in the past, so there's no reason why they should be better?

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Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours by ekianjo on Saturday May 12, 2018 @09:38AM (#17054012)

I mentioned harvests which have nothing to do with medicine. I know we don't suffer from famines nowadays but this was a real thing before.

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Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours by cdelsolar on Thursday May 10, 2018 @01:42PM (#17041179)

most people didn't die in their 30s, if you could make it through childhood you'd usually live to your 60s/70s.

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Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours by xvf22 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:43PM (#17043228)

Care to provide a citation or clarify the period you're referring to?

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Re:Young Chinese are sick of working long hours by cdelsolar on Friday May 11, 2018 @09:42AM (#17047222)

Citation: common knowledge of much higher infant mortality rates throughout history + the intricacies of the mathematical mean

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