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“It feels like Squid Game”: China’s workers scramble to keep up in the AI race— Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and automation fuel widespread AI anxiety. (restofworld.org)
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[–] 62 points 7 months ago (12 children)

It’s like that here too and it’s shit.

Everyone I know is burning out and asking me to help them find a new job.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Could you help me find a new job too?

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Unfortunately probably not.

    I’ve been doing resume reviews, mock interviews, and making coding tests for friends but I can’t do that anonymously for strangers.

    If you have something you want me to look over I can, I just probably can’t help with the other stuff.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    What about taxes? Can you help me do my taxes? I'm trying to do it myself, but it's asking me to fill in the lines from Schedule II, and I don't know what that is! My numbers add up, and either my refund is 42 billion dollars, or $0. In either event, I fear I've screwed this up.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

    At least China has universal healthcare

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    No they don't. They have state provided health care, supplemented with private options.

    But they are not universal in the sense that (1) not the entire population is covered (although almost everyone is) (2) health care is not close to free for most people.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care_by_country#China

    There is literally a hit movie couple years ago about the difficulty to obtain affordable Imatinib: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_to_Survive

    (Imatinib was later covered by state health care package because of this movie

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Damn I had no idea. My in-laws were considering to move to China (they're originally from HK) and I had assumed it's because the healthcare/elderly care was better there than in Canada, but maybe not?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I should specify I am referring to mainland China. Hong Kong has a different health care systems, and the health care is usually considered reasonably affordable for residents (could be because people in Hong Kong are generally more wealthy than most of mainland China)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Hong_Kong

    I want to add China's healthcare is still reasonably affordable for many people living and working in cities.

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    • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Thank fucking christ I work a job where you have to physically go places to do the work.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Eventually they'll just make you pilot one of those robot dogs around site and swap out modules on big slide-out cassettes because its cheaper to have someone in thailand swap out an AC compressor at some datacenter somewhere.

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    • [–] 32 points 7 months ago

    I'm shocked. With how much astroturfing has been going on I thought China was this utopia of freedom and economic success with no worries.

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    [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    im aware of certain companies as well behind the scenes doubling down on ai workload very recently as well, so China definitely isnt alone on that front.

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