Yhea I know a thing or two about china.

Work conditions are pretty similar to that of early industrial age workplaces.

in what sense

As in, there is no welfare at all, your boss practically owns you, you are paid only to survive, you have to work rediculous hours, if you get hurt on the job you will be fired and left on the streets to rot, and there are a million other people who are lined up who will take your job in an instant if given an opportunity.

oh i mean yeah but not necessarily for us laowai

for born-and-raised chinese of course

but laowai (foreigners) are paid quite well, have decent hours (usually)

@rail5 you’re in China?

and yet we're easily replaced by people who come here to work illegally

How are you communicating

yeah i live in beijing

lol well discord isn't blocked here and on facebook etc you just use a vpn

@rail5 Ironic isn't it? If mao was here, he would probably puke his guts up at what china has become.

i'm not myself a maoist but i have maoist friends here who would 100% agree with that

I’m going to work at a diner

@rail5 Yhea, wasn't the goal to end this oppression? Not to accelerate it?

deng xiaoping "we're building socialism with chinese characteristics"

or the english translation

"capitalism"

and yeah exactly

also hell yeah roberto join the working classes in our futile struggle for survival

I’m going to be one of a few actual workers of the world in this chat

oh you're in the IWW?

Maoism made the population despensible due to it's bloated and unsustainable size, and post maoism just made the state into a giant capitalist controlled one, which oppresses it's workers just like that of the industrial revolution.

No

I will join once I get a job

hell yeah boy

I don’t think the unemployed will be accepted

@Deleted User Is walmart in bolivia?

I don’t live there

I’m in Michigan

workers unemployed and employed alike are allowed to join the IWW but you might struggle paying dues

No dues are based on your income

@Deleted User Get a job at something like walmart then.

Does that mean joining is free if your income is 0?

oh cool i didnt know that about the wobblies

idk man i've never been in a union

although all this stuff going on back home in the states with the teacher's strikes is making me want to join one

@rail5 Unions are memes.

The socialist ones died out half a century ago.

@Deleted User yeah but they make you *feel* like you're making a difference, like voting and recycling