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What happened to port workers in China

I heard about a dock workers' strike in USA where port workers complained about automation, but in China, ports are already almost completely automated, but what happened to the dock workers?

davel - 11mon

I think it’s safe to assume that for the most part they got different jobs.

In the US, dock workers have a strong union, and so they have comparatively good pay & benefits. But it also means that they are very anxious about losing their jobs to automation, because they’ll probably never be able to find another with comparable pay & benefits, because jobs protected by strong unions are hard to come by.

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小莱卡 - 11mon

the ccp sent them to reeducation camps 😔

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Commiejones - 11mon

So that's where all those extra STEM grads came from.

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