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Re: Neijuan

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Post by yorwba »

kjshsh123 wrote: post #24

>When capital owners are driven by competition they must work increasingly more for little or no marginal gain despite falling prices for consumers so price fixing or 'price leadership' becomes impossible. A lot of the people in the comments here seem to miss that this explicitly isn't about workers or feeling overworked and if anything should make the average consumer better off.

The next sentence is "On a personal level, neijuan reflects a life of being overworked, stressed, anxious and feeling trapped, a lifestyle where many face the negative effects of living a very competitive life for nothing."

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Post by tancop »

Is there a way to only apply this to corporate profits but not the labor market? A world where production and labor demand is constantly growing but returns stay flat would be a great one.

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Post by nixon_why69 »

yorwba wrote: post #27
torginus wrote: post #16

What I love about the Chinese is how incredibly aware and self-reflective they are about the wheel of suffering they are building for themselves.

The people building the wheel of suffering and the ones complaining about it may both be Chinese, but they're not the same person.

It's not even a person, it's a system. There's a million people behind you who will take your job if you don't grind, and that goes for your boss as well.

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Post by handle584 »

kjshsh123 wrote: post #24

>When capital owners are driven by competition they must work increasingly more for little or no marginal gain despite falling prices for consumers so price fixing or 'price leadership' becomes impossible. A lot of the people in the comments here seem to miss that this explicitly isn't about workers or feeling overworked and if anything should make the average consumer better off.

Overworked Chinese workers have been making western consumers better off for more than two decades now. Chinese domestic consumption is very low even among developing countries, negligible compared to its gigantic export.

Upon joining WTO one prerequisite is 5 days-8 hours work week, while presently in China you often find 996 schedule instead, with factory workers even worse with 12 hour shifts and 2 days off a month.

It is simply sweatshop in the 21st century again, a hallmark of Neijuan.

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Post by mikhael28 »

Neijuan as a word has transcended itself; it now means many different things, to many different people, in many different contexts.
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