• zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Turns out a lack of labour protections makes your economy more productive in the short term but less productive in the long term.

    Odd, that.

  • bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.org
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    1 year ago

    Eating bitterness (吃苦) is a phrase that really brings me back to my time growing up in east Asia. However it seems older generations believing their offspring are too weak / spoilt to handle what they themselves have gone through appears to be a pretty universal thing.