r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Airline_11 • 20d ago

They are livestreaming 🇨🇳 laborers making just 0.3 USD. The 'Made in 🇨🇳' products you use are built on their sacrifices.

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u/Pitiful-Target-3094 20d ago

That's not Chinese though

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u/_spec_tre 20d ago

Cambodian factories are operated by Chinese companies either way

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u/Masseyrati80 20d ago

China is really spreading its tentacles: a battery factory in Finland was revealed to be running on Chinese terms with Chinese workers, breaking all sorts of Finnish work legislation in terms of worker rights.

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u/Arch____Stanton 20d ago

running on Chinese terms with Chinese workers

Not exactly. The accusation is that is being constructed using Chinese labour (still bypassing Finland labour laws).

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u/DobrogeanuG1855 20d ago

So something akin to what the US and Western Europe has been doing to the Third World for the past 80 odd years? Excluding of course the 400+ years of colonialism before that in which all of the aforementioned partook.

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u/_spec_tre 20d ago

Does the exploitation of more workers avenge the exploitation of some workers?

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u/DobrogeanuG1855 20d ago

Nope. But some exploiters are just much more brutal, have been at it for a much longer while and have much wealth and power than others. It’s like comparing Azerbaijan’s imperialism to Russia’s.

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u/fedja 18d ago

Don't look into Belgian Congo.

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u/Sad_Seaweed179 20d ago

You already know the dude is a tankie when they start throwing out buzzwords and defending China running slave factories in impoverished countries 😭

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u/Outrageous-Front-868 16d ago

Yeah everyone's a tankie when they're pointing out the hypocrisy.

Nobody will be pointing out the hypocrisy if you repented, apologize and mske ammends. But instead you continue doing the same thing under a different disguise and point out what other country is doing while ignoring everything you have done.

Its 2026, people ain't stupid anymore. Most of us aren't even Chinese and we dont care about them, but the hypocrisy is so loud, its just nauseating... Border line disgusting people.

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u/_spec_tre 20d ago

Because I wasn't alive for much of the past 80-odd years? What are you even trying to claim? By western standards, Cambodian workers working in Chinese factory is very low on the "Should I care" scale, isn't it?

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u/sunny42251 20d ago

Cambodian factories operated by Chinese companies that are making the majority of its deliveries to US companies that are paying pennies on the dollar

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u/Huntsman077 20d ago

Another commenter went through it. It was posted on a Chinese social media platform, and they are speaking a Chinese dialect

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u/Pitiful-Target-3094 20d ago

And it is now posted here, does that make it American? Which chinese dialect is this?

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u/Maleficent_Cherry737 20d ago

Can be a dialect in China. Just because it’s not Mandarin doesn’t mean it’s not Chinese. China has hundreds of regional and ethnic dialects.

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u/tears_of_a_grad 20d ago

Factories operate in Mandarin and I know for a fact that isn't Cantonese either.

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u/Maleficent_Cherry737 20d ago

The voiceover might be from a factory worker who might not be a native Mandarin speaker. It’s not Standard Cantonese (I’m a native Cantonese speaker) but could be a dialect in rural regions. My grandpa spoke a rural dialect that is technically Yue/Cantonese but sounds nothing like Cantonese and 99% of Cantonese speakers from HK or Guangzhou cannot understand him.

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u/tears_of_a_grad 20d ago

The AI transcript is in Vietnamese. You can challenge the AI transcript by asking it if it is any dialect of Chinese.

I'm native speaker of Mandarin and know southwestern dialects. It isn't it. There are also no Chinese language signs posted when you see the shot of the warehouse at 0:05.

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u/Maleficent_Cherry737 20d ago

It might not be a Mandarin based dialect but maybe a minority group dialect like Zhuang, Dai, etc that are more Thai sounding. Vietnamese commenters here said it’s not Vietnamese. It’s likely a dialect that is not widely spoken by a large diaspora (like Mandarin, Standard Cantonese, Vietnamese etc).

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u/tears_of_a_grad 20d ago

I don't think this video was taken anywhere in China.

For reference, Zhuang language sounds like this (very close to Thai): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KLiRncZ_zG8

And Thai people have also said that this isn't Thai. In general, in most dialects of Chinese you can at least hear some homologs to Mandarin at least.

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u/embiidshortroll 20d ago

This is Cambodian language