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Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them With AI
(www.caixinglobal.com)
wow, rare win for Chinese workers.
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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I don't think it's for workers rights. Of course there is part of civil unrest, that might happen if million of people are ot of work. But also power is more consolidated in fewer people, so it would be more danger in long run (for Xi of course)
I think in terms of workers rights, China is rapidly coming up to the West in the 50s. There's a massive growth in middle class as well as white collar jobs, especially in tech and engineering.
This has put pressure on society as a whole for much higher standards of living, and thus better wages and better rights. They are no longer the cheap ass labor country, that's being exported to Africa and such.
Although the 996 culture is still insane, but I think that partly comes from the extreme competitive environment in the tech sector. There were similar stories years ago in the video game industry, and that probably hasn't changed much.
996 is illegal in China. Employers caught violating the law are prosecuted when found out, to my understanding.
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A couple of million Uyghurs would like a word.
Please, everything you know about the Uyghur was manufactured by Zionist media with the "data" of literal cofounder of Victims of Communism Memorial Association and rabid Christian conservative "Adrian Zenz".
It's beyond me why after seeing the literal entire western media establishment manufacturing consent for a genocide that we've seen televised in our own phones for the first time thanks to Chinese social media such as TikTok, people are still willing to take these same media's claims at face value when it comes to the human rights of peoples in geopolitically tense regions of the world.
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This assumes that people can generally be replaced by AI, which is not true.
AI is an excuse to fire people, and a powerful marketing tool to make a company look better to investors, but it has not had the massive impact techbros want us to believe it has.
Shame, because like everything, it could genuinely be helpful, and instead, we’ve mostly got a bunch of applications no one asked for, and a constant bombardment of dreadful predictions that make regular people go mad.
In practice, I've heard of companies using AI to "replace" large groups of people, then higher back a few of them with expanded responsibilities and worse pay.
So, they are using it to replace workers, just not in the neat sci-fi sense.
They don’t need AI for that. I was handed the exact same deal in 2008.
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