Not after Covid, where they saw their neighbors and family literally boarded up in their homes, doors welded shut, and the decomposed bodies carried out months later. These people are traumatized. They haven't been paid for months while they're still working and making profits for the company. Now they're saying "FUCK YOU!" and burning the whole damn thing down.
Another recent phenomenon is the installation of bollards everywhere in response to "crimes against society." This is what they call vehicle attacks. People go bankrupt, or have their money stolen by flimsy banks, or just get fed up "eating bitter" as a slave in China and they lash out by running over children outside schools or people in wealthy shopping districts. China is fucked, dude.
Nah, fires are dangerous and everyone can see them, plus you lose the capital investment and you can't undo it quickly, so you have no leverage. If you want to create a shortage for international leverage, there's a million bureaucratic ways to do it. "Oh these products are unsafe, your factory permit expired, we're investigating corruption, the shipment is uninsured, there's a covid outbreak" on and on, and there's a mandatory ccp officer in every factory so it's easy to do. The government can also just buy the products and dump them in a field somewhere, they did this with electric cars and scooters.
They'd be shooting themselves in the foot, since the quickest way to deal with the shortages would be to move production instead of waiting for the Chinese factories to be rebuilt.
Be careful what you wish for. With leftists comparing themselves with Tank Man these days, you may see a bunch of unproductive losers who receive perfectly fine pay burning down factories because they think they deserve more income for even less work.
They were never getting paid. The factories go like this for months and then shut down. They know their situation. There is no OSHA or Dept. of Labor over there. They were going to get fucked and they got the last laugh. Now all the inventory is gone and the company owners have to find a way to fulfill their orders without a factory. Fuck 'em!
I mean you can file for labor arbitration. I wouldn’t be surprised if political connects could get those cases thrown out, but they theoretically have recourse
I wonder if the CCP is actually behind this, making the world have shortages of whatever got made there
The totalitarian omni-surveillancing govt that needs to install suicide nets in factories because of how "awesome" it is to work there?
...honestly I'm not sure. Uncharacteristic of the bug people to have that strong of an action from the "ground up" though
Well, as a soft reminder China is well known for its history of bloody and extremely violent civil wars.
"20 to 30 thousand eaten, decisive Tang victory" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WpccLU6polA
Not after Covid, where they saw their neighbors and family literally boarded up in their homes, doors welded shut, and the decomposed bodies carried out months later. These people are traumatized. They haven't been paid for months while they're still working and making profits for the company. Now they're saying "FUCK YOU!" and burning the whole damn thing down.
Another recent phenomenon is the installation of bollards everywhere in response to "crimes against society." This is what they call vehicle attacks. People go bankrupt, or have their money stolen by flimsy banks, or just get fed up "eating bitter" as a slave in China and they lash out by running over children outside schools or people in wealthy shopping districts. China is fucked, dude.
Nah, fires are dangerous and everyone can see them, plus you lose the capital investment and you can't undo it quickly, so you have no leverage. If you want to create a shortage for international leverage, there's a million bureaucratic ways to do it. "Oh these products are unsafe, your factory permit expired, we're investigating corruption, the shipment is uninsured, there's a covid outbreak" on and on, and there's a mandatory ccp officer in every factory so it's easy to do. The government can also just buy the products and dump them in a field somewhere, they did this with electric cars and scooters.
If this is true, it’s got the same energy of Iran(I think) trying to flood the US oil market with oil.
President Trump will reinforce that the US wilk product manufacturing here and honey it cheaper taxes.
They'd be shooting themselves in the foot, since the quickest way to deal with the shortages would be to move production instead of waiting for the Chinese factories to be rebuilt.
If only Americans were more like this.
♬ "And I think to myself, what a wonderful world." ♬
Maybe they are, they haven't been pushed as far as the factory slaves in China yet.
Be careful what you wish for. With leftists comparing themselves with Tank Man these days, you may see a bunch of unproductive losers who receive perfectly fine pay burning down factories because they think they deserve more income for even less work.
Alright, when's the next bloody civil war happening?
Once someone decides to try real communism, and over throw their government
"Oh no, My Temu and Ali Express orders!"
Climate Change!
That seems like a really good way to ensure you never get paid
They were never getting paid. The factories go like this for months and then shut down. They know their situation. There is no OSHA or Dept. of Labor over there. They were going to get fucked and they got the last laugh. Now all the inventory is gone and the company owners have to find a way to fulfill their orders without a factory. Fuck 'em!
I mean you can file for labor arbitration. I wouldn’t be surprised if political connects could get those cases thrown out, but they theoretically have recourse
We're talking about China, LOL.
You know the scene in every prison movie where the new guy punches the gang leader even though he knows he'll get his ass kicked for it? It's that.