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South Korea U-turns on 69-hour working week after youth backlash (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.ml

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They were fully prepared to turn the working populace into slave labor and then the government was shocked to see that descision was unpopular.

One thing that catches my eye about this article is that the Guardian specifies "young people" as the cause for the pushback, Gen Z and Millennials, as if everyone else would be perfectly fine working until they fucking die. Just more "Zoomers bad" rhetoric.

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[–] vaguevoid@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“but south korea is democratic unlike the evil communist north korea”

[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In this specific case they did actually cave to the people though.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They will do it the Euro way - they will try again and again and again until people will not protest. And in the meantime they will attack the workers from another angle.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's right. They'll add an hour a week until they get to 69.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Btw since i wrote that comment the Euro way just changed too, Macron said "fuck you" and forced that as a decreee by his totally democratic dictatorial power.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He's getting the people ready for a big 60 year anniversary of May '68. This time the communists will get into power.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 2 years ago

Macaron accelerationist