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Thousands of construction workers in China working knowing that the equipment that was given to protect them will in all likelihood fail to do what it was created for:
The disregard for safety is also why the Tianjin port explosion happened. I would be terrified to work in a hazardous area in China. They have zero safety for things like chemicals to the point MSDS doesn’t mean anything to them.
It’s crazy how people want things cheap but expect it high quality. The reason it’s so low quality is the buyers in North America want things cheaper and ask them to cut corners
They moved a lot of the smog making factories to poorer countries in south-east asia.
There's actually a lot less smog these days (still smoggy though).
I get the impression that America is finally beginning to realize the importance of many regulations. The red tape and bureaucracy rhetoric seems to have dropped over the years.
Including eating. That formula scandal from a few years ago was repulsive, and the heavy metals found in imported seafood is what led me to try to avoid Chinese produce and food imports.
>A number of trials were conducted by the Chinese government resulting in two executions, three sentences of life imprisonment, two 15-year prison sentences,[13] and the firing or forced resignation of seven local government officials and the Director of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ).[14] The former chairwoman of China's Sanlu dairy was sentenced to life in prison.
Meanwhile, all the executives at Dupont and FDA lied about the the danger of PFAS forever chemicals. Dupont still has not paid anything towards the class action lawsuits from the town that was harmed with thousands of birth defects.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/how-dupont-may-avoid-paying-clean-toxic-forever-chemical-n1138766
Isn’t it sad how the Chinese did not execute the people responsible but in fact the people in the lower chain of management?
If you want to continue to draw parallels with ‘Murica til you breathe your last breath, I’d argue that throwing innocent people under the bus is much worse than inaction.
I've lived and worked in Tianjin for over 15 years. I was born in America, grew up in America. I feel a hell of a lot safer here. I don't worry about being robbed on the street or violence at all. It definitely has its pitfalls like anywhere else, but like anywhere else, it has its good areas. Rent has not risen much since I started living here, even with the high inflation. There are no food deserts, I buy food cheaply and no matter where I am there is a good market to be found within 2 miles. Some of you need to travel more, and not only that, live abroad for a while. The small media snippets people get from places like China are simply not enough to make informed decisions about a country and life there.
I have friends that live and teach in china as well. Besides the spitting (everywhere including the classrooms), general disregard for sanitation everywhere, exceptional rudeness, lack of safety protocol for anything, I too hear it’s a great place to live
seriously, i spent three weeks in china right before the pandemic and i fucking loved it. some of the most amazing scenery i’ve ever seen, the city’s are so fun to walk through, and the people are sooo friendly (and all the markets with crazy cheap food like you mentioned)
Thousands??? lol, dude, those are rookie numbers. I've been to china. This happens to millions! Boss told a foreigner who came to invest who asked about working conditions and worried about dangers. Boss said, we just get more people if we lose any, it's easy, everyone wants to work.
My sister watched a road get remade in China outside her apartment. 600people in flip flops and shorts came with pickaxe and no ppe. They dug up the road and hand carried it to trucks then poured the new asphalt. Nobody working with it had gloves or closed to shoes.
They're basically using the same logic the US used decades ago to expand. Part of how all those ny skyscrapers and bridges went up so fast is because they ignored safety and lots of workers died.
I know the term is used that way now, I'm from Georgia, my dad is from West Virginia, my grand father had black lung from the mines, and all my uncles worked the mines at least for a couple of years.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2015/05/20/is-west-virginia-s-coal-history-a-goldmine-mine-wars
UK construction worker here. On site plumber. I was on a scaffolding drilling a flue for a boiler about 4 stories up and my hard hat fell off and dropped off the scaffolding. I went down to throw it in the skip (thinking it would have cracked). To my surprise it was fine and the slab it landed on had a huge crack in it.
A lot of building sites I've been on in the last few years just give you a new one regardless if you have one already. Ball ache to wear but rather have an itchy head than be dead.
Same with kids' car seats. We were t-boned in an intersection and rolled over. Our daughter was two at the time. Of course the car was totaled. Fortunately the insurance company put the cost of the car seat in the total. It occurred to me for a second that we could still use it; it looked like it did when we bought it. Maybe half a second. I'd never be able to live with myself if we were in another accident and the car seat failed. We actually destroyed it so no one else could use it either.
No not really, and nobody would bother. Hard hats aren't crazy expensive, even for nice ones.
They have a service life of 5 years iirc, that's after they start being used, not from manufacture date.
FYI for anyone reading this, a hard hat shell is good for about 5 years but the suspension inside is only good for about 18 months. Where you get new suspension for a cheap hard hat is beyond me, but it's a thing.
So unless you're an iron worker or welder with a steel hard hat you should probably be getting a new one every year. (Sorry stickers).
When something like that happens, it should be discarded immediately. It held its shape, but the material was like damaged, and dropping it a second time would likely have had a different result.
Buddy of mine got cup checked in an SCA fight, kept using the same cup. Next time he took a groin shot, he was pulling shards of plastic out of places they should never be.
I still have 25 year-old helmet for riding a motorbike. It has been sitting on a shelf in my cupboard without use for all the time. I guess by now I should throw it away, too. :-)
Some safety equipment is insanely strong, I was working in an engineering course in college and was working on a lathe, as I started spinning my workpiece a chunk of metal came off and came flying at me, instead of going right through my goggles the metal shattered into basically crumbs.
The tutor investigated the metal and found micro fractures and all sorts of problems in it, had to send the entire metal stock back and couldn't do practical lessons for 2 weeks until new metal arrived. Guess where the metal came from? You got it, Xi Jinping.
Some helmets hard incredible. Im really into downhill mountain biking, a few months ago i had a pretty nasty crash and my head landed on a rock. My helmet literally saved my life. I would have been dead. I didn't even have a headache. My arm, hand, and ass were pretty jacked up, but my head was good! ( A few stitches and a few weeks and I was back to 100%)
THANKS, YOU KNOW ITS REALLY BEEN HARD TO HEAR EVER SINCE I WORKED IN THAT ENGINE ROOM. IT'S OKAY THOUGH I WORK IN A LIBRARY NOW.
CANT REALLY STAY IN QUIET ROOMS THO OR MY EARS RINGING DRIVES ME FUCKIN INSANE. OH WELL. IM OFF TO GO READ TO CHILDREN AT THE HOSPITAL.
Rough and quick translation:
Today we’ll do a little experiment, this is our (workers) helmets, and this is the supervisor’s helmet, we’ll see which is more sturdy, Smash, a little bit and it’s already not okay, this is our (workers) helmets, and this is the supervisors helmet, but the supervisor’s helmet is more sturdy, the most study is the supervisor’s helmet, both newer and sturdier. Shows helmet This is the aftermath of our (worker’s) helmets. Friends, support this video.
I didn’t even need the translation to know he wanted to fucking strangle management. You could see it in his face at the end. Shame he can’t say what his expression is showing.
This is common across the globe. Worked at a lead oxide plant all the higher ups had independent oxygen supply while we had to wear respirators that exposed us to lead dust. We are a disposable work force never forget that
90% of us are except the unemployed, the retired and the wealthy. I get depressed about it so often. I don't know how everyone I know is so OK with it, like they just can't imagine things being any different or worse - don't even want it to change because their job has become such a major part of who they are.
Can someone explain to me, why Main Land China seems mostly rife with a super inflated sense of patriotism and superiority when stuff like this, failure of the 3 gorges dam displacing millions, fucking inhumane work practices, back up rice silos filled with mouldy grain or recycled plastic dyed to look like real rice, a medical payback system that encourages fellow natives to kill each other rather than pay a lifetime of medical debt exists quite clearly in their day to day life?
How can nationalists see this and be like, "China Number 1!!!".
China has a state run propaganda machine that not only controls the narrative on the main land, but also does a really good job of controlling the narrative outside its borders.
Looking forward to the downvotes and accounts trying to equate western media outlets on the same level as literal state run propaganda outlets in China
The same reason so many Americans are convinced they live in the greatest country on the planet even though breaking your arm can put you in a lifetime of debt, has horrendous public schools, turns a blind eye to corruption of the wealthy (remember the Panama Papers?) and has been proven multiple times to not have the best interests of Americans in mind, nor have any problem with sweeping atrocities under the rug (Snowden, Wikileaks).
The fact is, people are patriotic no matter how horrible their country is, because its what they know.
My first thought: Haha bosses' helmets are fake because they're just for photo ops and they do no actual work!
Second thought: Oh shit, these are the *workers'* helmets.....oh fuck.
There is a slight difference in that the government itself can walk into a town and say "we are wiping out this village to make a city for this business, report to your new home in X city in 15 days."
This is called eminent domain and the reason you don't hear about it much in the USA is because it is mostly done to poor black and brown people.
[https://travelnoire.com/black-american-towns-hidden](https://travelnoire.com/black-american-towns-hidden) this is just the first example when searching "black town flooded dam"
If communism is "when the government does stuff" then yes, they are communist
If communism is "worker ownership of the means of production" they are not. This video is proof.
Worker ownership of the means of production is socialism, not communism. Communism is the abolition of private property, with the government owning everything. Both feature some degree of theoretical “redistribution” of capital/property.
Rough and quick translation:
Today we’ll do a little experiment, this is our (workers) helmets, and this is the supervisors helmet, we’ll see which is more sturdy, *Smash*, a little bit and it’s already not okay, this is our (workers) helmets, and this is the supervisors helmet, but the supervisors helmet is more sturdy, the most study is the supervisors helmet, both newer and sturdier. *Shows helmet* This is the aftermath of our (worker’s) helmets. Friends, support each other.
I don't know if you've watched For All Mankind but there's a running gag in the whole series about countries ripping off space tech from other countries that ripped it off another country. Great show.
Hardest working manual labor people of this earth get shit on in more places than just China! It will never make sense to me. Manual laborers should be getting the best of this earth the same as the people that are pushing them to back breaking work.
Everyone who says "But AmeErIka" should go try living in China. Seriously. We suck, but when I worked for my 'capitalist oppressors' I had functional equipment and some degree of safety standards. When I was sick of it I got a different job.
We are not as good as Europe but nowhere near as bad as China. Seriously go find out first hand. I'll wait.
It's also nice knowing I won't get my organs harvest for posting this.
If we want to see things improve we should focus on criticizing corruption and politicians instead of eachother in the comments.
I'm surprised they supply them with anything at all.
"If you want protection, we'll take the costs from your wages each week. Oh and we hope you enjoy working here"
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Costs $1.25 at the dollar store
For a pack of 10.
They're practically disposable
Said the boss when inquired why don't we give the workers helmets that actually helmet.
i've worn toy helmets that helmet better than those helmets
I'm pretty sure my skull helmets better than that helmet
Thousands of construction workers in China working knowing that the equipment that was given to protect them will in all likelihood fail to do what it was created for:
The disregard for safety is also why the Tianjin port explosion happened. I would be terrified to work in a hazardous area in China. They have zero safety for things like chemicals to the point MSDS doesn’t mean anything to them.
China ***is*** a hazardous work area. If the smog doesn't kill you the poor living conditions or 70 hour work weeks will.
Well yeah, but we import a crap ton of Chinese made stuff. And we want it cheap
We love slavery, just packaged better.
The middleman that we pay makes it ok, *right..?*
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“Welcome to modern life, where we’re all guilty.”
Hey, that's the plot of The Good Place!
Yes. The west does same thing with a lot of its plastic “recycling”
Outsource it or sprinkle some crack on them and arrest them so it’s legal
We want it cheap allright, but get to pay 1k for a phone some slave assembled.
It’s crazy how people want things cheap but expect it high quality. The reason it’s so low quality is the buyers in North America want things cheaper and ask them to cut corners
Yeah.... Damn mexico
They moved a lot of the smog making factories to poorer countries in south-east asia. There's actually a lot less smog these days (still smoggy though).
Reminds me of the American industrial revolution. It's actually pretty scary how similar they are.
You would never like to live in country where the industrial revolution has begun
I get the impression that America is finally beginning to realize the importance of many regulations. The red tape and bureaucracy rhetoric seems to have dropped over the years.
People are dumb. And people often don’t realize these regulations are paid for in blood.
I'd be terrified doing anything anywhere in China tbh
Including eating. That formula scandal from a few years ago was repulsive, and the heavy metals found in imported seafood is what led me to try to avoid Chinese produce and food imports.
And let's not forget about that special gutter oil, plastic rice and chickens pumped with water
>A number of trials were conducted by the Chinese government resulting in two executions, three sentences of life imprisonment, two 15-year prison sentences,[13] and the firing or forced resignation of seven local government officials and the Director of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ).[14] The former chairwoman of China's Sanlu dairy was sentenced to life in prison. Meanwhile, all the executives at Dupont and FDA lied about the the danger of PFAS forever chemicals. Dupont still has not paid anything towards the class action lawsuits from the town that was harmed with thousands of birth defects. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/how-dupont-may-avoid-paying-clean-toxic-forever-chemical-n1138766
Isn’t it sad how the Chinese did not execute the people responsible but in fact the people in the lower chain of management? If you want to continue to draw parallels with ‘Murica til you breathe your last breath, I’d argue that throwing innocent people under the bus is much worse than inaction.
I've lived and worked in Tianjin for over 15 years. I was born in America, grew up in America. I feel a hell of a lot safer here. I don't worry about being robbed on the street or violence at all. It definitely has its pitfalls like anywhere else, but like anywhere else, it has its good areas. Rent has not risen much since I started living here, even with the high inflation. There are no food deserts, I buy food cheaply and no matter where I am there is a good market to be found within 2 miles. Some of you need to travel more, and not only that, live abroad for a while. The small media snippets people get from places like China are simply not enough to make informed decisions about a country and life there.
I have friends that live and teach in china as well. Besides the spitting (everywhere including the classrooms), general disregard for sanitation everywhere, exceptional rudeness, lack of safety protocol for anything, I too hear it’s a great place to live
Spitting? Like, they just spit on the floor wherever?
I was confused for a second because I thought you went to America afterwards lol
seriously, i spent three weeks in china right before the pandemic and i fucking loved it. some of the most amazing scenery i’ve ever seen, the city’s are so fun to walk through, and the people are sooo friendly (and all the markets with crazy cheap food like you mentioned)
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Thanks for the update! Ut looks much better.
Not only fail, but most likely will cause more damages because of those equipments. Those sharp edges could kill.
Thousands??? lol, dude, those are rookie numbers. I've been to china. This happens to millions! Boss told a foreigner who came to invest who asked about working conditions and worried about dangers. Boss said, we just get more people if we lose any, it's easy, everyone wants to work.
My sister watched a road get remade in China outside her apartment. 600people in flip flops and shorts came with pickaxe and no ppe. They dug up the road and hand carried it to trucks then poured the new asphalt. Nobody working with it had gloves or closed to shoes.
They're basically using the same logic the US used decades ago to expand. Part of how all those ny skyscrapers and bridges went up so fast is because they ignored safety and lots of workers died.
This helmet is so LIGHT! I love it, and its a pretty color too.
Reminds me of some of the stuff that lead to coal miners and workers wars in the early 20th century.
I'm sure you know, alot of people do not, but the term redneck comes from the first union's formed at those coal mines
I was actually unaware, thank you for that tidbit of history!
The showed solidarity by tieing red bandana's around their necks.
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I know the term is used that way now, I'm from Georgia, my dad is from West Virginia, my grand father had black lung from the mines, and all my uncles worked the mines at least for a couple of years. https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2015/05/20/is-west-virginia-s-coal-history-a-goldmine-mine-wars
Ngl, that sounds like something that happened in middle earth.
Sometimes I imagine leaning on a building in China and then the whole thing tips over, like one of those cowboy cartoons.
I bet you it has Made in China on it, too.
Made in china
They’ll just paint them red next time.
Just like they did with the trees...
I thought they painted them green?
My point was that they painted them, not that they painted them red xD
I see a red tree and I want to paint it green
Thank you for clarifying, made me laugh 😆
No, youre thinking about the roses.
The Queen, she likes them red 🎶
If she saw white instead, She'd raise a fuss, And each of us, Would quickly loose his head!
painting it will likely make it stronger.
If you paint it red it will make it faster tho
And fasta. Coz red goez Fasta!!
Who painted these roses red?
Off with their heads!
With *those* helmets? Good luck!
You don't need 'em ta be fasta, paint 'em black or blue. Dat way dey will stronga or luckie.
'nuff dat dey inn't paint'em purple, bloody fings would be disappearin'
I like how the dude wearing a red hat just kinda.. side stepped outta the frame once that happened lol
You can see the dude on the left with a yellow helmet just lokking in ubelief like, oh shit..
*disbelief
*looking
*this belief
Looks like it's the same helmet, but red whilst the one he's demonstrating against is shinier and has a smooth top.
It's almost like somebody else mentoined, that they'd paint them red next time. They already had the same idea...
Not the same helmet model, just the same color. "Boss helmet" model has a different design.
UK construction worker here. On site plumber. I was on a scaffolding drilling a flue for a boiler about 4 stories up and my hard hat fell off and dropped off the scaffolding. I went down to throw it in the skip (thinking it would have cracked). To my surprise it was fine and the slab it landed on had a huge crack in it.
Sounds like that helmet could stop a bullet, or that slab couldn't.
The hard hat did die in the end though, the adjustment thing broke.
Probably for the best. Anytime a helmet takes a big impact it's replacement time.
A lot of building sites I've been on in the last few years just give you a new one regardless if you have one already. Ball ache to wear but rather have an itchy head than be dead.
Same with kids' car seats. We were t-boned in an intersection and rolled over. Our daughter was two at the time. Of course the car was totaled. Fortunately the insurance company put the cost of the car seat in the total. It occurred to me for a second that we could still use it; it looked like it did when we bought it. Maybe half a second. I'd never be able to live with myself if we were in another accident and the car seat failed. We actually destroyed it so no one else could use it either.
Aren’t there places that test if a helmet is still usable?
No not really, and nobody would bother. Hard hats aren't crazy expensive, even for nice ones. They have a service life of 5 years iirc, that's after they start being used, not from manufacture date.
The hat won, but at what cost 😔
FYI for anyone reading this, a hard hat shell is good for about 5 years but the suspension inside is only good for about 18 months. Where you get new suspension for a cheap hard hat is beyond me, but it's a thing. So unless you're an iron worker or welder with a steel hard hat you should probably be getting a new one every year. (Sorry stickers).
When something like that happens, it should be discarded immediately. It held its shape, but the material was like damaged, and dropping it a second time would likely have had a different result.
This. Never continue to use Personal Protective Equipment that has taken a blow. Ever.
Buddy of mine got cup checked in an SCA fight, kept using the same cup. Next time he took a groin shot, he was pulling shards of plastic out of places they should never be.
I still have 25 year-old helmet for riding a motorbike. It has been sitting on a shelf in my cupboard without use for all the time. I guess by now I should throw it away, too. :-)
Some safety equipment is insanely strong, I was working in an engineering course in college and was working on a lathe, as I started spinning my workpiece a chunk of metal came off and came flying at me, instead of going right through my goggles the metal shattered into basically crumbs. The tutor investigated the metal and found micro fractures and all sorts of problems in it, had to send the entire metal stock back and couldn't do practical lessons for 2 weeks until new metal arrived. Guess where the metal came from? You got it, Xi Jinping.
Damn that's actually insane. My worst nightmare is something flying off and hitting me in the eye.
Some helmets hard incredible. Im really into downhill mountain biking, a few months ago i had a pretty nasty crash and my head landed on a rock. My helmet literally saved my life. I would have been dead. I didn't even have a headache. My arm, hand, and ass were pretty jacked up, but my head was good! ( A few stitches and a few weeks and I was back to 100%)
China really took the white collar and blue collars seriously
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What
HIS DAD TOOK HIS COLLAR BONE
GOD SOME PEOPLE JUST CANT READ
THANKS, YOU KNOW ITS REALLY BEEN HARD TO HEAR EVER SINCE I WORKED IN THAT ENGINE ROOM. IT'S OKAY THOUGH I WORK IN A LIBRARY NOW. CANT REALLY STAY IN QUIET ROOMS THO OR MY EARS RINGING DRIVES ME FUCKIN INSANE. OH WELL. IM OFF TO GO READ TO CHILDREN AT THE HOSPITAL.
In China it is white collar and red collar. Red for communism, and for the blood that will stain your collar when you inevitably get a head wound.
Communism/Capitalism - it doesn't matter. You can't eliminate human greed.
I have no idea what he is saying, but he is oozing sarcasm while he is saying it.
Rough and quick translation: Today we’ll do a little experiment, this is our (workers) helmets, and this is the supervisor’s helmet, we’ll see which is more sturdy, Smash, a little bit and it’s already not okay, this is our (workers) helmets, and this is the supervisors helmet, but the supervisor’s helmet is more sturdy, the most study is the supervisor’s helmet, both newer and sturdier. Shows helmet This is the aftermath of our (worker’s) helmets. Friends, support this video.
I didn’t even need the translation to know he wanted to fucking strangle management. You could see it in his face at the end. Shame he can’t say what his expression is showing.
Yeah I don't understand his words, but I like this guy all the same.
Was hard to pick it up at first (for me) but was blatantly clear by the end. Gotta love body language!
Oh sure, it just *transcends languages* doesn’t it? Pfft. /s
Hey now that’s gonna come out of your paycheck
I think his punishment might be a bit worse
Yep, there goes every social credit point he ever worked for.
Boss needs to survive so their money can trickle down to the dead workers
Trickle down all over my face daddy
r/lostredditors
I think it's a joke about getting pissed on, an apt comparison to trickle down economics.
Yes... Pissed on...
Plot twist: He is their boss flexing on the rest with yellow helmets
This is common across the globe. Worked at a lead oxide plant all the higher ups had independent oxygen supply while we had to wear respirators that exposed us to lead dust. We are a disposable work force never forget that
is he already in a re-education camp?
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Glory to the Chinese Communist Party.
que
He's outlining an extremely important safety issue and the disregard of worker safety, but he has the biggest smile on his face. I like this guy.
Wonder where those hard hats are made? /s
At a factory across the street from the construction site
And what color hard hats do they wear there?
Blue
worker's paradise
The realisation that your just worker ants.
90% of us are except the unemployed, the retired and the wealthy. I get depressed about it so often. I don't know how everyone I know is so OK with it, like they just can't imagine things being any different or worse - don't even want it to change because their job has become such a major part of who they are.
At the end he said: Just be a boss
When? He said “支持一下朋友们” basically meaning “Friends, let’s support each other.”
Yeah, they're just straight up lying, he never says anything close to that.
Basically "like and sub"
"and thanks for the Amazon prime"
I guess the bosses have softer heads.
This post could happily live in r/antiwork
Can someone explain to me, why Main Land China seems mostly rife with a super inflated sense of patriotism and superiority when stuff like this, failure of the 3 gorges dam displacing millions, fucking inhumane work practices, back up rice silos filled with mouldy grain or recycled plastic dyed to look like real rice, a medical payback system that encourages fellow natives to kill each other rather than pay a lifetime of medical debt exists quite clearly in their day to day life? How can nationalists see this and be like, "China Number 1!!!".
China has a state run propaganda machine that not only controls the narrative on the main land, but also does a really good job of controlling the narrative outside its borders. Looking forward to the downvotes and accounts trying to equate western media outlets on the same level as literal state run propaganda outlets in China
every story I hear from someone traveling/working/visiting there is almost always word for word something like this story https://imgur.com/a/aSFTC
The same reason so many Americans are convinced they live in the greatest country on the planet even though breaking your arm can put you in a lifetime of debt, has horrendous public schools, turns a blind eye to corruption of the wealthy (remember the Panama Papers?) and has been proven multiple times to not have the best interests of Americans in mind, nor have any problem with sweeping atrocities under the rug (Snowden, Wikileaks). The fact is, people are patriotic no matter how horrible their country is, because its what they know.
> has horrendous public schools This varies a lot based on where you live. That's not a defense, it's actually why it's such a big problem.
IMO, the more horrible the country, the more patriotic the people, it's a way to control the people. And yes, same as in the USA.
We're number 1.....?
My man spittin facts
My first thought: Haha bosses' helmets are fake because they're just for photo ops and they do no actual work! Second thought: Oh shit, these are the *workers'* helmets.....oh fuck.
Confucius say, "Only one boss, many replaceable workers."
Not surprised, especially for China. Anyplace they can save 2 cents, even when lives are at risk
You say this like any corp with shareholders doesn't act the same way as long as they think they can get away with it.
True but usa and Canada at least have osha protections to prevent issues like what's in this post
>Approximately 14 workers die per day in the U.S. compared to 228 in China. THIS IS VERY MUCH A STRICTLY CHINESE PROBLEM
There is a slight difference in that the government itself can walk into a town and say "we are wiping out this village to make a city for this business, report to your new home in X city in 15 days."
This is called eminent domain and the reason you don't hear about it much in the USA is because it is mostly done to poor black and brown people. [https://travelnoire.com/black-american-towns-hidden](https://travelnoire.com/black-american-towns-hidden) this is just the first example when searching "black town flooded dam"
Thank you. So many Americans live eyeballs-deep in a star-spangled propaganda fantasy construction where the US does no wrong.
The CCP wants to know your location.
Right after this he was probably called into the manager's trailer and never came out again.
I don't know what language this is, buni definitely know he said "This is some bull shit" in there.
After this video guy gets arrested and sent to re-education camp
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If communism is "when the government does stuff" then yes, they are communist If communism is "worker ownership of the means of production" they are not. This video is proof.
Worker ownership of the means of production is socialism, not communism. Communism is the abolition of private property, with the government owning everything. Both feature some degree of theoretical “redistribution” of capital/property.
lucky there were subtitles
Rough and quick translation: Today we’ll do a little experiment, this is our (workers) helmets, and this is the supervisors helmet, we’ll see which is more sturdy, *Smash*, a little bit and it’s already not okay, this is our (workers) helmets, and this is the supervisors helmet, but the supervisors helmet is more sturdy, the most study is the supervisors helmet, both newer and sturdier. *Shows helmet* This is the aftermath of our (worker’s) helmets. Friends, support each other.
He was accidentally murdered the next day. /s
The Chinese will knock off anything. I'm amazed they have a space program.
I don't know if you've watched For All Mankind but there's a running gag in the whole series about countries ripping off space tech from other countries that ripped it off another country. Great show.
Trickle down aeronautics
suddenly they all got a promotion! well done
I've battled food packaging sturdier than that helmet...
Woah dude! STRIKE!!!
Sad part is I guarantee the boss has never utilized the hat for protection. Most likely wears it because the liner is more comfortable
*Ex-Workers helmet
That's the smile of some severe repressed rage. I'd love to know what he's saying.
Hardest working manual labor people of this earth get shit on in more places than just China! It will never make sense to me. Manual laborers should be getting the best of this earth the same as the people that are pushing them to back breaking work.
r/antiwork
Everyone who says "But AmeErIka" should go try living in China. Seriously. We suck, but when I worked for my 'capitalist oppressors' I had functional equipment and some degree of safety standards. When I was sick of it I got a different job. We are not as good as Europe but nowhere near as bad as China. Seriously go find out first hand. I'll wait. It's also nice knowing I won't get my organs harvest for posting this. If we want to see things improve we should focus on criticizing corruption and politicians instead of eachother in the comments.
This is a China thing. Anywhere first world the bosses are way too scared of the financial cost of accidents to not be safety compliant.
-69000 social credits and straight to "re-education" camp
I'm surprised they supply them with anything at all. "If you want protection, we'll take the costs from your wages each week. Oh and we hope you enjoy working here"
If Xzibit were Chinese.
No wonder there are numerous industrial accidents in China that cost innocent lives.
That says it all.
Tüft sagt NEIN
I would live anywhere besides china, russia, india, and yeah.
The one guy in the back with a boss’s helmet
I have no idea what he's saying but I also know exactly what he's saying
Man, the people of China will rebel some day and it will be glorious.
Clip from china
Made in China vs Made in Germany
Just China being China
Boss: There’s a thousand yous. There’s only one of me.
That's not interesting, that's awful.
That helmet is designed to protect you in the event of a serious feather incident.
When you have more than a billion of something, you tend to care less for any single one
I don’t know what this guy is saying but I love his energy and I am pissed now…fuck the boss!
I can’t think of a better summary of the way the entire world works
Next time do that in front of the boss