this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
597 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

80634 readers
5953 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Fokeu@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

And some people still think that China is communist. Nah it's just capitalism with a different flavor. Same goes for Vietnam which recently joined some wacky ass organisation of a certain orange American neoimperialist.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The housing situation is notably better though. They've got some good ideas (also the high speed rail).

All (or a lot of) the apartments in cities are leased from the government for 99 years.

And so the prices are incredibly reasonable for an average living space. No greedy layers of middlemen trying to suck passive income out of you.

I'm sure there's examples of where it's bad, but from what I've seen, their housing situation is pretty enviable.

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 hours ago

They have entire cities with empty houses if I remember correctly, and the ultra high speed rail is immensely inefficient as air resistance is raising in square proportionally to speed

I think building houses that will never be used as similar bad as to less housing..

[–] mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

China is what the US is turning into, except the US doesn't have any good infrastructure.

Trump is the shit version of Xi Jinping (literally).

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Vietnam is just a Chinese work around for US tariffs.

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Didn't know China has the same workaholic mentality as the US lol

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Its so much worse in east asia. Japan and especially SK are even worse.

[–] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago
  1. Nine am to Nine pm, 6 days a week
[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (19 children)

chinas a communist country and authoritarian

china is a late stage capitalist techno feudalism state

Pick a comment and it probably is one of these two

load more comments (19 replies)
[–] worhui@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago (1 children)

His 'fainting' was likely cardiac arrest. It sounds a lot like heart attack symptoms.

I have heard of this happening to people in the US who work in finance. It's never 'overwork' here. It's just a heart attack from poor life style choices.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Some lucky manager just found his bottom 5% for the force ranked annual review. /s

Seriously, if you've ever managed in large corporation, you'll understand this.

[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Known as 過労死 (karoshi) in Japan, sadly not a new concept. This is the result of the misconception that working harder will yield better results - it only leads to stagnation and ruin. Hoping that more people will realise this and initiate some change in the work culture; not only in Asia, but in the West too... The work culture in both the US, UK and many parts of the EU needs some serious overhaul.

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 154 points 3 days ago (34 children)
[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 76 points 3 days ago (1 children)

People in China really need to do what their anthem says:

起来,不愿做奴隶的人们 (Arise, those who refuse to be slaves)

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you for this

load more comments (33 replies)
[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The US labor laws are not far behind the fucked up Chinese 9-9-6.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Wasn't that deemed illegal back in 2021 by the Chinese Courts?

And didn't it kick off a wave of labor protests? The lie flat movement?

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›