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Re:African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to ... by anonylizard on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @10:00PM (#35796809)
It is absolutely true that China hates unions because it is form a organisation outside of the parties control. It hates organised religion, NGOs, or even apartment strata/bylaw level organisations.

However, they also do hate labour regulations. They only accepted 5 day weeks because of the WTO, and they absolutely no not enforce it. The CCP genenuiely believes that harsh working conditions and hours is critical to China's success.

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Re:African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to ... by gmerc on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:46PM (#35797675)
So they hate the same things as Peter Thiel
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Re:African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to ... by daveguy on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:08AM (#35797854)
Okay, but party in this case is the Party of Thiel.
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Re:African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to ... by bmitc on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:12AM (#35799891)
It's always interesting to find out what billionaires hate once they become billionaires.
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Re:African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to ... by darthrupert on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @10:22AM (#35802748)
Yep. China is quite capitalist. The largest thing that's left of communism there is the absolute centralized power.
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Re:African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to ... by Aunche on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @03:49AM (#35799343)
China doesn't hate labor regulations so much as rule of law simply isn't really a thing there, especially when you compare it to the west. Labor, conditions have dramatically improved in China, though it's motivated by a sense of Confucian noblesse oblige rather than regulation.
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