While police dispute the story, Chinese netizens express sympathy for “800 Brother” over how workers are treated.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/30901392

A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.

  • destructdisc@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 hours ago

    I know lol. This is like when the CIA put out that one recruitment video aimed at Chinese citizens a few weeks ago – the video was supposed to lament the terrible conditions of Chinese workers, but inadvertently turned out as a brutal critique of American capitalism