• flandish@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      because there’s billions of workers to riot as compared to say a few hundred million in the US.

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      5 hours ago

      They’re walking a thin line between restrictive policies and QoL guarantees.

      It’s hard to explain as a non-native English speaker but they basically guarantee an acceptable way of living with mobility, housing, jobs and other stuff in exchange for control, surveillance and censorship.

      In Western government the equation looks different, at least for now.