>>I wonder what plan B should be for the Western labor forces that are not competitive with 9-9-6 kind of labor It's not really tongue-in-cheek to suggest that

>>I wonder what plan B should be for the Western labor forces that are not competitive with 9-9-6 kind of labor It's not really tongue-in-cheek to suggest that labour rights for other countries are being fought to emulate other Western labour forces that transitioned away from 9-9-6 to 9-5-5 (and maybe aspirationally eventually 10-3-4). For example, there is a growing backlash in China around the "inevitability" of 9-9-6 resulting in more youth (still a tiny minority, but growing) opting out. As manufacturing and the 9-9-6 (or worse) schedule transitions to cheaper countries, the cycle will repeat.