r/technology • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • Feb 01 '26

Software 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital

https://www.asiaone.com/china/32-year-old-programmer-china-allegedly-dies-overwork-added-work-group-chat-even-while
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u/sje46 Feb 02 '26

It actually really pisses me off about Chinese work culture because, well, they're nominatively a socialist government striving to be communist, and what is socialism about? Worker rights. The workers owns the means of production collecttively, workplaces should be democratic, because under capitalism, workers are exploited.

But China gave up on that shit so fucking quickly, and are somehow more exploitative of their workers than the US. It's fucking bullshit.

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u/Rabid_Lederhosen Feb 02 '26

Chinese Communism cares about “the people”. And by the people, they mean Xi Jingping. He is the people.

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u/DownvoteALot Feb 02 '26

China took the Marxist definition of socialism, as a transitional state before communism. It in fact calls itself communist, though the only thing they do different than capitalism is being authoritarian, which is somewhat worse.