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Billonthehill@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days ago

Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans

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Chinese Factory Worker Can't Believe The Shit He Makes For Americans

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Billonthehill@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days ago
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FENGHUA, CHINA—Chen Hsien, an employee of Fenghua Ningbo Plastic Works Ltd., a plastics factory that manufactures lightweight household items for Western markets, expressed his disbelief Monday over the "sheer amount of shit Americans will buy."
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    Chen, 23, who has worked as an injection-mold operator at the factory since it opened in 1996

    Wait, how is this possible?

    Published: June 15, 2005

    Oh.

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      14yo in factory poor kid

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        14 year olds in factories used to be a punchline. Now it’s just par for the course in some parts of the US

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          Humans lose rights in dictatorships

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    The best Onion article I’ve read so far. I do not care if the article was or not written in 2005, I will asume it was wrote this year because I laughed my ass off when I read that Chen was 23yo and started to work at the factory in 1996.

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    Imagine being the factory worker making fleshlights.

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      I doubt that guy is surprised that people buy them

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        He might judge the brand you buy though

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      deleted by creator

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        Chinese factory working might be having and enjoying real sex

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          I mean they statistically own their own home and have high enough wages for single generation social mobility. Who wouldn’t want to fuck someone like that?

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            All the girls that just do not exist because of selective abortions?

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              The ones from a policy made by previous governments that the current one has explicitly stated was a mistake?

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                Yeah, did the Chinese invent a mechanism for rapid growth of 3D printed ladies?

                Because since the change in policy was 10 years ago, your 23yo chinese factory worker better like his ladies very young.

                But I would also be careful attributing all the selective abortions to the OCP.

                Sex ratio in live births was still something like 110% or 115% in 2020, and looked stable.

                India also has a sizable sex imbalance in live births, and never had a OCP.

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        Fun fact: from another post I just learned that sex toys are a really booming domestic market in China at the moment.

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    I use my taco holders twice a week. It sucks building three perfect crunchy tacos and then they fall over and everything spills out.

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      Soft taco supremacy

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        That’s just a burrito!

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          I see you’ve never had the pleasure of eating street tacos my friend - treat yourself!

          Soft tacos

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            Those look delicious! The lime wedges are keeping them posed for the photo, good idea photoguy.

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      Damn, you just reminded me I need taco holders.

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    That was a great read.

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