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Every building is a shoddily built hazardous death trap prone to collapsing at any moment
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Food and consumer products are full of toxic chemicals because no one cares
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Slavelike working conditions, insane working hours, suicide nets at factories
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Every citizen is spied on constantly, one wrong thought means they will be dragged off in the middle of the night by the secret police
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Arbitrary and nonsensical censorship of the media, to quote Mike from RLM on why Ghostbusters 2016 wasn't available in China "Your Communist government thinks the movie is witchcraft"
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LGBT people oppressed
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No regard for the environment, pollution everywhere, pristine nature destroyed to build empty ghost cities for no reason
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A dystopian inhumane culture where everyone hates each other and has no regard for human life. There were so many Reddit stories about how in China drivers double back to kill pedestrians they hit so they won't be held criminally liable or because people faking accidents for lawsuits is so common. Also people step over people having medical emergencies on the street for the same reasons
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Racist and jingoistic
it's kind of funny that this is used as a knock on other countries when every company in america is quite happy for you to die by suicide or otherwise on the job. we have a term in our vernacular for workplace suicides where the worker kills their coworkers while they do it
But it’s just like squid game which makes it more wholesome chungus
wasnt the suicide nets from a building owned by a taiwanese company?
i don't see how that's relevant if the PRC sets the labor standards and building codes, tbh
My Western country university had to put up suicide nets and barriers in the atrium of its newest building because at least two students tried to jump off after an exam.