After reading "American Factory", in fact, this kind of rift already exists in China, and Beijing and Shanghai are the biggest difference.
A friend of mine in Shanghai wants to plant a happy tree in the yard. When the workers pulled the tree over, it was already time for get off work. Then, they put the tree in the yard and planned to continue working tomorrow. Friends say that Shanghai people are impersonal. Of course, based on her status as a capitalist with a head and face, it is not that she cannot understand her thoughts.
There is also a friend who is an advertising director, and he took the team from Beijing to Shanghai to work. The Shanghai team voluntarily went home when it was time to get off work, leaving the Beijing team to work until the early hours of the morning.
These two ways of working have different interests from different positions. "American Factory" wants to set up a labor union in the factory to protect the rights and interests of workers, and the salary paid by the factory has also dropped from $26 to $12, not to mention that workers from China cannot go home for two years, and there are almost no weekends. Work. So what does capitalist society look like, and what does socialism look like?
If you ask Chinese people are diligent? Unpretentious? of course. Because from ancient times to the present, most people have done this, and only a few people have the right to speak. An uncle in my hometown, an honest farmer, is in the farmland almost every morning to evening. You ask him how much income he has throughout the year? About ten thousand dollars.
When people are used to this state of life, it is difficult to change things. This is not just the difference between Sino-US relations and culture, but the solidification of ideas and the contradiction of the superstructure.
Capitalists have always been smart, and they know how to use the so-called "militarized management" to break their self-esteem, and use a "pyramid sales" style of feelings and dreams to brainwash. So in the story, when the Chinese hold their own meetings, the group discusses consciously working overtime and Americans not working overtime, "I don't care if you want to work overtime or not, I want you to come to work for me on the weekends." I feel a kind of ridiculous and sad. .
At the end of the documentary, the leadership is still transmitting national power, turning around and about to introduce automatic machinery, and at the moment when they plan to lay off workers unconditionally, who created such an environment? Is the slogan "Unity is Strength" worth mentioning in the factory?
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