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Chinese programmers have acknowledged this for a long time, they refer to themselves as 码农, literally code farmer.

> some tech companies

Actually most, programmers have protested a few years ago to no veil. The movement is called 996.icu if you are interested, and they complied lists of companies that run 996 schedule and the normal 955.

> the government is somehow imposing this on every single worker

Of course not, the gov with communism in its name is simply not enforcing their own labor law and cracking down labor movements.

Pretty spot on for most urban ppl, a few comments

- Private insurance is always up to one's own, very few employers provide this.

- If young, your parents or yourself have to pay for coverage until you graduate, otherwise no coverage.

- If elderly, depends on your employment history. To qualify, your employers have to contribute continuously for decades and it's tied with social security. Otherwise you are on your own.

- If working age but no job, similar to being young you have to pay.

Pretty sure OP meant mainland China only, excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Easy or not is hard to argue, but more foreigners live in Taiwan than the whole mainland China.

1896 PNT is basically 1859 Riemann + a trig inequality.

1830 Dirichlet's result is qualitative only, it shows infinitude but not the asymptote in terms of the zeros for it predates Riemann.

To me this is the first substantial step after the 1896 PNT, and we really do not see much progress in the whole 20th century. Personally so far there are only two people worth mentioning,

- Euler, introduces the real zeta function and Euler product, establishes the functional equation at (half?) integers.

- Riemann, introduces complex analysis ideas to the zeta function.

And of course this result if it is true. This is first to penetrate the critical strip, which nobody had any idea how to approach for over a century and a half.

Overworked Chinese workers have been making western consumers better off for more than two decades now. Chinese domestic consumption is very low even among developing countries, negligible compared to its gigantic export.

Upon joining WTO one prerequisite is 5 days-8 hours work week, while presently in China you often find 996 schedule instead, with factory workers even worse with 12 hour shifts and 2 days off a month.

It is simply sweatshop in the 21st century again, a hallmark of Neijuan.

> 5000 meters in Sichuan

Pretty sure you were in Tibetan areas at those altitudes, a large part of Sichuan is actually Tibetan.

Communists have been executing bankers since day one so not just recent decades, if anyone finds that impressive.

They don't have private companies like Equifax collecting those because it is built into the government.

At the minimum, new employee background check involved providing bank statement + social security contribution + income tax history.

Meanwhile ppl freak out over Anthropic using timezone and Unicode for the same purpose, without realizing Chinese are simply ruthless in abusing iOS or Android or Web. Pinduoduo, who owns Temu, is infamous for exploiting an Android 0day vulnerability for such purposes.