I’ve been working in software engineering in China for few years now. Never worked for 996 company, but I know many who do.
Most of the 996 companies that I’ve seen tend to be ultra shitty sweatshops delivering less than bare minimum and with less security than what a university CS freshman would implement. There are obviously exceptions to this, but in China culturally speaking, it’s often much more important what things look like than what they actually are.
That’s the core essense of 996. As long as you seem to be working hard and long time, everything else is secondary.
I find it ridiculous how random business managers in EU and US say this shit show would be competitive advantage. It’s everything but.
That being said China has several real competitive advantages over western countries, but media rarely speaks about then.
Besides cheap and slave labor, what are other "real competitive advantages over western countries" which China has, but which "media rarely speaks about then" ?
This is not a rhetorical question. Just interested to know.
Domestic production of almost everything in the world. This is also immensely valuable to innovation because it's easy to make new things and test new ways of making things.
Do you expect that "designed and engineered in X, made in China" is a sustainable situation when most of those designers and engineers have never set foot in the factory that makes their product, and never will?
> Somehow, the capital class, and the intellectual class (media) heavily discount it.
For the capital class, IBGYBG by the time the wheels of sustainability of the situation fall off the cart, and in their mind they'll "simply" switch to the new dominant player; I believe they vastly underestimate switching costs and fungibility of their capital in China. For the media, they say what the capital class pays them to say.
Most of the 996 companies that I’ve seen tend to be ultra shitty sweatshops delivering less than bare minimum and with less security than what a university CS freshman would implement. There are obviously exceptions to this, but in China culturally speaking, it’s often much more important what things look like than what they actually are. That’s the core essense of 996. As long as you seem to be working hard and long time, everything else is secondary.
I find it ridiculous how random business managers in EU and US say this shit show would be competitive advantage. It’s everything but.
That being said China has several real competitive advantages over western countries, but media rarely speaks about then.