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‘Obedience and fear’: the brutal working conditions behind China’s tech boom
- bozzcl 5y agoCan’t open the article without a subscription. Should HN have rules around sharing paywalled content? I don’t see the point of sharing something if most people aren’t going to be able to read it.
- grzm 5y agoThere are rules about sharing paywalled content: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > "Are paywalls ok?" > "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds." > "In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."
- avidiax 5y agohttps://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F37e9e0c6-952e-4fcf-9318-786ebd5e3a3d https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2...
- avidiax 5y agoChina's tech companies seem like a giant version of the prisoners' dilemma. If the workers could just agree to cooperate, they could have reasonable working conditions. They could rotate the "privilege" of being the "loser", where the loser purposely puts in a low effort, and the 4 other workers agree to limit their hours and productivity to a reasonable level, and perhaps they have a lottery to pick the one "winner" who gets to work harder and advance their career. That would effectively be a union.