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Firstly based zoomers.

Secondly, for a good time, compare the wikipedias for the blatantly illegal 996 system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

The actual law:

The State shall practise a working hour system wherein labourers shall work for no more than eight hours a day and no more than 44 hours a week on the average.

Btw the recently disappeared Jack Ma was a huge proponent of 996!

Now lets look at the wikipedia for crunch time, since it’s effectively the same thing but isn’t illegal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_developer#Crunch_time

It doesn’t even have it’s own page and the whole section is entirely like “it’s Good, Actually”, because the law says they can do it and they uhhh provide food.

Crunch time has been used in the industry but until 2004 was generally not discussed openly. A 2004 survey by the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) found only about 3% of respondents did not work any overtime, and of those that did, nearly half were not compensated for overtime.

Seems like a pretty widespread problem if 97% of surveyed devs were forced to do crunch. They need to take a cue from the zoomers.

Final edit:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/01/japan-has-some-of-the-longest-working-hours-in-the-world-its-trying-to-change.html

Nearly one quarter of Japanese companies require employees to work more than 80 hours of overtime a month, according to a 2016 government survey. Those extra hours are often unpaid.

damn i wonder why China gets singled out for the ILLEGAL labor violations tho

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21 points

If it is illegal, why doesn’t the party swing the hammer and let it come down hard on these companies?

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i mean, apparently they are if you believe reddit about what happened to jack ma ;)

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24 points

One dude, and if he got got it was probably not for labor violations, right?

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Building socialism takes time, but all the trends are in the right direction. Sorry it isn’t swift and pure enough for you, sitting in your computer chair in America.

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Letting capitalist corporations squeeze their workers for the last drop, and that for years and years while the CPC watches on. Such great socialism.

I’m sorry, I’m really not against China or anything(if you want check my post history), but you don’t need to defend everything that happens in China.

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this is what i tell people who ask my why i haven’t joined an org.

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