You wouldn't think this kind of dodge pretending China has no agency would work but look at Trump's economic populism
-
-
Replying to @arthur_affect
"Oh, stop, stop making me ship your jobs overseas! Those dastardly Chinese workers are forcing me at gunpoint to pay them three cents a day"
1 reply 4 retweets 18 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
(Is it also the fault of rich middleman fucks from Taiwan, well yeah duh)
1 reply 4 retweets 12 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
The Shenzhen "Special Economic Zone", the existence of HK and Taiwan, all v convenient so PRC to still technically be a "communist" country
1 reply 7 retweets 14 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
FOXCONN: "Its not our fault we became the suicide net company! WE didn't set up a country where workers' legal rights are nonexistent!"
1 reply 7 retweets 12 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
"It was OUR CLIENTS who demanded massive productivity gains through slave wages, we just passed that along"
1 reply 6 retweets 13 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
"I didn't ask to be born on an island perfectly positioned to be a conduit btwn rapacious American consumerism and a captive labor pool"
1 reply 7 retweets 19 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
"It just kind of happened, and presented me with a ripe juicy dangling incentive of lucre beyond the dreams of lesser men"
1 reply 5 retweets 12 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
Sorry I get all emotionally mixed up abt the economic boom of my ancestral homeland sometimes
1 reply 4 retweets 17 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
I mean the "Communist" flip side of PRC/Taiwan relations is just as disgusting
3 replies 5 retweets 10 likes
As a Taiwanese-American that's always been critical of the Foxconn situation in the same way you are, totally feel you rn.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.