2026-02-02 15:24 UTC
Replies (18)
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@Zephorah@discuss.online 2026-02-02 16:13
China needs unions.
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@worhui@lemmy.world 2026-02-03 04:52
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.
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@huxley75@lemmy.world 2026-02-02 15:28
Typical day in America...except we can't afford the actual hospital and die working from home
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@mastertigurius@lemmy.world 2026-02-03 03:22
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.
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@Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 2026-02-03 12:51
>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
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@Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2026-02-03 03:50
The US labor laws are not far behind the fucked up Chinese 9-9-6.
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@Fokeu@lemmy.zip 2026-02-04 07:18
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.
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@MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2026-02-03 12:22
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.
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@clot27@lemmy.zip 2026-02-03 12:22
Quite the communism they are doing huh
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@bridgeburner@lemmy.world 2026-02-04 11:38
Didn't know China has the same workaholic mentality as the US lol
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@pipe01@programming.dev 2026-02-03 00:14
All the more reason for AI to replace us! /s
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@HubertManne@piefed.social 2026-02-07 14:03
A programmer died at the place I last worked. I had worked with him and I don't think it was overwork but he was the type who naturally worked on the software so much because he genuinely enjoyed programming. After he died some of the management when talking about him went into how he worked so hard and the best way to honor him was work harder. At least it sounded that way to me. It ws creepy.
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@Sims@lemmy.ml 2026-02-02 15:41
A random person dies by ordinary reasons - without sources - but he was Chinese, so therefore we just write it anyway.. Nonsense 'article'..
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@Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2026-02-02 21:50
_Regarding AC_ >Well, not unheard of, but the way you over there use it is. Slight correction - yes. Turning it full on to have temperature 10 Celsius degrees lower than on the outside - no. I said half of the world, which is completely accurate. It is completely unheard of for a huge swath of humanity. The energy costs are INSANE to run a heat pump in 2026 prices outside of the wealthy elite globally. Let's arbitrarily say top 10% or so of earners, which is something between 35k and 47k... hardly a princely sum in the US, given that the US median is something like 62k. There are places in latin america that have air conditioning, obviously. It's exceptionally uncommon based on my firsthand experience though outside of tourist areas like hotels and high end restaurants. There are wealthy areas in nearly every country on earth that are exceptions to the rule.
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@Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2026-02-03 16:28
lol, what? You have to maintain filters, but if maintained properly it isn't going to be causing all kinds of colds. If you're immunocompromised and it's an unmaintained system then perhaps. Filtering the air should be a net positive. Most of the colds I get are september to may, aligning with kids going to school and parents bringing in their illnesses to work and social meetups (in US this is thanksgiving, christmas - i'm sure these things depend on the place.)
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@just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-02-03 11:14
Christianity: love thy neighbour German christianity party: the immigrants are ruining our cityscapes by their presence
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@MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2026-02-04 02:35
Thank you for the assist. You are correct. I made the fatal assumption that most people discussing such things would have the context of Mao, the long march, the various purges, the decades of poverty, the suppression and outright murder of minorities under their belt and would recognize that the statement was so obviously false that it could only be taken as sarcasm. Unfortunately, I didn't account for people having arrogance and a sense of other people being ignorant morons by default.
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@KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-02-03 20:38
Yeah no, sounds more like a dig at communism, ya know, the usual rhetoric, hey, look at this dictatorship, as you can clearly see, communism doesn't work