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Terrible documentary, but a warning about China.


One has to wonder why the Obama's had anything to do with this sad, depressing documentary.

The one interesting aspect of this movie is the expectations in life of Americans versus the Chinese. The jealousy and contempt the Chinese had for the Americans, calling them stupid and lazy throughout the movie, and one particular sequence has the most disgusting American behaving like a turncoat insulting Americans to his Chinese boss to curry favor. This is the same thing that happens with many middle managers who sell out their friends and co-workers to rise in the organization. It is sad enough to see it in American corporations, but to see an American degrading his people and his nation for a bunch of foreign investors who want to bring the inhuman conditions of China, where they get one day off in two weeks and work 12 hours a day, and get paid far less than Americans.

Odd that is supposedly communist China where the party is supposed to be for the people that they are so against the American unions, and have no real union for workers in China. It seems to indicate that there is no communism or socialism going on in China, just tyranny.

This documentary was very hard to watch, and it is unclear what the point or the message of it was, but it certainly was not pleasant, not good for Americans or workers anywhere.

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How do produce enough to get everyone a living wage?

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A good start would be to set the incentives right by not allowing billionaires to exist to exploit everyone else .

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makes no sense!

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The fish rots from the head.

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Makes even less sense. How are close to eight billion people gonna get stuff to consume without producing stuff(having to work)? Billionaires own the means of production, they don't consume most of the stuff being produced.

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The documentary was well done. Did you want the filmmakers to sugar coat the story to make it less sad and depressing for you? The point was to show how this false promise of reviving the American Dream with Chinese investors was just an insidious way to further Chinese expansion.

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No surprises for me. They have slave labor in China where certain groups don’t get paid and work in worse conditions. For me, their working conditions are counterproductive because when was last time their products known for quality? Heck, we don’t even see Chinese cars here. Italians get even more days off than us and look at the Ferrari, one of finest brand of cars ever made if you ever lucky to drive one. The Chinese are incapable of making such a thing.

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When I started questioning all the BS I've been told to put my country above other countries I realized it does pay to do a reality check every once in a way for adjustment. Americans have been screwed and told we all live like those folks on TV. Well, we don't, nowhere near. We have a lot of provocations on the news and more and more they turn out to be just made up lies to suit a momentary purpose.

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