Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D...
by kelseyfrog on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:37PM
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That is why China is losing to the US. China massively more social programs than the US and it has reduced their economy to shambles because no one has incentive.
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Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D...
by bradthebeaverfa on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:50PM
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China forces its citizens to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. The idea that it has better social programs than the US is utterly laughable.
Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D...
by nmfisher on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:53AM
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> China forces its citizens to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.
As someone who lived there for 5 years, this is laughable and totally untrue.
I'm guessing you heard that some tech companies have a 996 policy and inferred that the government is somehow imposing this on every single worker in China.
Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D...
by kelseyfrog on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:55AM
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As someone whose only idea of China is what I see in western media and what I project onto it based on my deepest fears, it is 100% true.
Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D...
by handle584 on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:12AM
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> some tech companies
Actually most, programmers have protested a few years ago to no veil. The movement is called 996.icu if you are interested, and they complied lists of companies that run 996 schedule and the normal 955.
> the government is somehow imposing this on every single worker
Of course not, the gov with communism in its name is simply not enforcing their own labor law and cracking down labor movements.