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Nils 2022-04-22 07:01:48

2008 GM closed down, 2016 Fuyao opened its factory (still from 2012..

The expectations and excitement of the workers when they were unknown at the beginning, and the gap between reality; the two sets of values ​​​​in China and the United States are not so much two sets, but rather temporarily prevailing concepts at different stages: the rapid and leading development of American technology and management level for a hundred years (? The accumulated status of the division of labor in the global value chain, as well as financial hegemony such as the U.S. dollar seigniorage, support the high welfare (including human rights - cause they can afford it) that contemporary Americans take for granted. Of course, this is not natural without struggle. The evolution and the distribution of profits are not only among the American people, but also include the people of the world, so the cost is partially transferred to the people of developing countries; the Chinese people's business as a family may be inherited from the past. the communal psychology of idyllic poetry and symphony, and the tameness disciplined in decades of very low bargaining power. Both may be naive, naive to uncritically Acquired popular concepts in society without thinking about where these concepts come from and to what extent they are true (this attack is a bit of a meat-eater, but...) Even Cao Dewang may be naive, "people are born to work. , don’t you think?” When people are naive, what they feel and advocate becomes pure will, so the Chinese believe that these foreigners must be educated, and the foreigners believe that the trade union will definitely allow them to get reasonable treatment, so the confrontation between the two It must be a chicken-and-duck talk.

Americans go to China and see that China is like a corporate dinner at weddings, funerals, and weddings. One American actually sheds tears and expresses the feeling of being a family in the world. Another American earnestly agrees with the Chinese supervisor, and even takes the initiative to say "American People are just too lazy." It's amazing. The more extensive management form of the Chinese in the United States; the battle between trade unions and anti-union associations, the speech of the black elder brother is indeed shocking and reasonable, but the reality he fails to see is that the decision-making framework of entrepreneurs is global It is driven by absolute profits, if you can make more profits elsewhere (remember that the teacher in the development economics class talked about the national income statement of commodities, that is, the corporate income statement is applied to the main body of the country) , then capital will give up the United States, instead of "the common example in the past shows that enterprises can make reasonable profits under the condition of treat us right", and the people in other regions cannot be united. Is it a dead end? I do not know.

The memory of the past, the memory of the Chinese is the undeveloped but simple past, the memory of the Americans is the time of the past when no effort was made, this is even more sad, because the past of the United States is not as good as today. Bad place. The future of machines replacing people (help, don't want to see robots anymore.

(I was able to see the performance meeting in the documentary, and I don’t want to watch it again.

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  • Ada 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    At the end, the slogan echoed in my ears: "Proletarians of the world, unite!" Proletarians in a single country and a factory can't do anything (especially in today's globalized world). Of course, "union" has become increasingly unlikely. From this film alone, it can be seen that Chinese workers with the virtue of patience have become enemies of the "working class" from a certain point of view, and American workers have probably never thought of helping to improve the treatment of Chinese workers. The concepts of "worker", "class", "revolution" have been dissolved in the world process of containing democracy. The individual at the bottom has decisively lost the power of resistance in atomized isolation. "Let the proletarians continue to tremble in front of the capitalists! They even know how to repent. The proletarians have lost the whole world." (Of course, as a documentary "film", it is still a bit loose and has no sense of work.)

  • Annette 2022-03-14 14:12:27

    It can be seen that Fuyao is a Chinese company growing in a red environment. The company implements militarized management and its corporate culture claims that Fuyao is a big family. But what I am surprised is that all the employees of Fuyao's China factory are young people. When these young people are old, if they have worked in Fuyao for decades, they are old or just middle-aged (hands and feet are not handy, and efficiency is low). After that, will parents Fuyao take care of it? I don't understand, or kick it out at a certain age? As long as you are young and dedicated, middle-aged and elderly people will live or die. Fuyao thought that there was a secret to building a factory against the trend in the United States. In the end, it just copied the Chinese version. I really laugh at me if I want to rely on worker coolies to make a profit in a developed country.

American Factory quotes

  • Himself - Fuyao Safety Director: Everybody at every level will say that we really, really want to be safe. But safety doesn't pay the bills.