• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      The absolute, shameless gall to write something like this

      “I’m not allowed in China, but it’s not because of free speech restrictions or ‘commercial disputes’, it’s because I am in debt and cannot fulfill my legal obligations”

      “Yeah, they’d imprison me for being unable to adequately compensate my workers because I was so trash at running a business”

      “Well, they might not imprison me, but they might prevent me from leaving the country”

      Why would that matter, hmmm? You said you were paying the people who deserve to be paid. Why would you need to leave the country?

      And that’s just the drivel in this screenshot

      This is a snake in the truest sense

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    Wish you could use that argument with late bills. “These are fair, and I’m paying them. Incrementally. It’s actually authoritarian to believe you deserve payment on time.”

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    wait so they’re not even at risk of imprisonment, just prevented from leaving the country? dude we do worse than that here to people who smoke weed. shit that’s just what not having money does to you.

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    This is refreshingly honest, they at least admit that it’s not because of their political opinions

    They’ll get the re-education camp instead of the wall

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        I believe in rehabilitation, and self-awareness is the first step for that

        From the text all I got was that they admit the reason they are held in the country and their responsibility, the workers deserve the compensation, and they can’t leave the country before it’s paid off

        The rest of the article might change the tone, but going off from what’s provided, they sound like almost aware class traitor

        They obviously suck since the workers are going to be paid “incrementally”, but for me the wall is reserved for people who are an immediate or unavoidable danger for everyone else

        It isn’t politics, simply because they can.

        Based on this we’d have to massacre half of the population

        Personally I reserve the wall for people with no hope of rehabilitation; Puyi lived as a happy communist gardener for the rest of his life

        If an emperor can be rehabilitated, I hope we as leftists can give the same grace for upper management

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    Anne Stevenson-Yang founded J Capital Research in late 2007 and is J Capital’s Research Director. Her coverage areas include solar, internet, medical devices, property, some consumer and direct-sales names, and China’s macro-economy. Anne was formerly co-founder of a group of Online Media Businesses called Blue Bamboo Ventures and also founded and operated a CRM software company, Clarity Data Systems, and a publishing company whose flagship magazine is City Weekend.

    I bet you this woman has plenty of scratch to be able to pay two workers a year’s salary, but there’s some shady reason she isn’t doing it (or it’s just straight up greed).

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    WaPo thinks Americans will be horrified at the thought that laws that tell capitalists what to do are actually enforced in China.