The tragic attempt by this food delivery worker to take his own life has not only revealed his desperate plight, but also the broader exploitation of workers in China.

See https://chuangcn.org/2020/11/delivery-renwu-translation/ for another expose on the brutality of working conditions imposed on delivery workers in China, by a Marxist collective

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    When he collected his wages for November, Liu was expecting about 6,000 RMB, but only received around 1,000. The other 5,000 RMB, according to Liu, was deducted because the owner of the original station he worked for most likely has seen him working for the other company

    :gui-better:

    • s0ykaf [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      6,000 RMB

      this is probably the wrong thread for this but holy fuck... if you earn that in brazil you're straight up in the "upper" middle class (like, class B by income levels, going from the lowest E to the highest A), most likely living well with a wife and a single kid

      i'm not even joking, that would put you right up in the 25% to 15% richest depending on the region

      our per capita gdp isn't even that much worse than china's.......... jesus i really do live in a fucked country

      • MerryChristmas [any]
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        4 years ago

        How well do people pulling in Class B income levels live? I'm ashamed to say I know very little about Brazil aside from Bolsanaro and the indigenous struggle.

        • s0ykaf [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          our biggest expense is, like everywhere else, our rent - i live in a 3-bedroom, 2-bathrooms, 76 m² apartment with a balcony in a closed community and my rent is about 1/5 of that

          it's hard to adjust by ppp because it changes so much by region, but if you do it nationally it's more like 1/3

          honestly 6,000 RMB would be a reasonable amount of money in all of latin america and i bet in any other 3rd world country, that a food delivery worker could ever earn this is absolutely unthinkable to me

          unless i'm messing up on the math here