Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by throwaway173738 on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:05PM
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In many ways the US is just returning to the approach to governance from the time of Upton Sinclair.
Re:China's 200M gig workers are a warning for the world
by LunaSea on Sunday September 21, 2025 @05:58AM
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Not to detract from the fact that China did indeed do a lot of things right, but I wonder how much of this was not going to happen anyway since the country was the most populated in the world and had low wages compared to the west.
They've steered a massive ship (and its crew) well enough to corner the manufacturing market for everything, globally, in less than 30 years. They've steered that same ship well enough to create mirror (and sometimes superior) industries in pretty much everything else. They also created global soft power in the process.
If they need to retool/manage gig work, the command and control economy in China has a much better chance at figuring it out than waiting for the "hand of the market" in US.