The current issue of National Geographic has an interesting article on the rapid growth of business and housing in China. It gives a lot of insight into how things really are over there. Factories spring up overnight in abandoned warehouses, they poach experienced workers away from competing factories for pennies more. Workers routinely lie about their age in order to get work, some only 14 or 15. There is no political correctness; employers openly advertise who they want, 35 yuan for men, 25 yuan for women, no one from provinces we don’t like, “must be willing to eat bitterness and work hard”. Then the factory typically moves in less than a year to avoid rent increases and inspections. Thousands of sprawling apartment complexes are being built over farmlands, selling for up to half a million dollars to rich factory owners, built by worn-out workers for pennies. Profit is the only morality. And the pollution is staggeringly toxic.
>>>>The current issue of National Geographic has an interesting article on the rapid growth of business and housing in China. It gives a lot of insight into how things really are over there. Factories spring up overnight in abandoned warehouses, they poach experienced workers away from competing factories for pennies more.
And for those of you that don’t have a National Geographic handy.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614929/posts
Eminent domain, communist Chinese-style