• Eldritch@piefed.world
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    3 hours ago

    A new Triangle Shirtwaist dropped? I shudder to think. But knowing China, it doesn’t give me confidence that it isn’t something similar. Or that the death toll numbers aren’t going to rise precipitously.

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      2 hours ago

      Bet on the local government to cover their asses. Up to central CCP whether to take action or let this slip.

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        1 hour ago

        Considering their record on workers rights is basically as bad as the West was when it was industrializing. I have very low confidence in anything happening. Unless someone in the party lost family or money on it.

        This is after all the same government that allows companies to drive workers so hard they were literally throwing themselves from the building to escape. Eventually installing nets to stop them from going Splat. But to the best of my knowledge never correcting the conditions that made the workers want to do it.