Chinese tech chief quits after berating her staff for daring to moan about working 12-hour shifts with only one day off a week

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1. Karl Marx must be spinning in his grave:

   > socialists believed that common ownership of the means of production (i.e. the industries, land, wealth of nature, trade apparatus and wealth of the society) would abolish the exploitative working conditions experienced under capitalism.

   China, the single largest Communist country, imposes vastly more exploitative working conditions on its workers than ‘capitalist’ countries ever did!

2. Oil/gas worker here. That’s called 6 and 1 and a welcome vacation. We routinely work 12’s up to 24 days straight. It is typical to work 80+ hours per week. Not including travel to/from work each day (often not paid, per se).

   People need to realize just how much industrial workers work, which make the world go round.