How does the Chinese economy work ?

[shanghaikai]

That's only true if you sleep a total of 12 hours per day.

Uh, there's some fuzzy math here. There are 24 hours in a day. So...if Zhang worked the 4:00am-12:00pm shift and then the 8:00pm to 4:00am shift, his off-duty time would be 8 hours and would alternate each day, i.e.

4:00am - 12:00pm : work

12:00pm - 8:00pm : off

8:00pm - 4:00am: work

4:00am - 12:00pm : off

12:00pm - 8:00pm : work

8:00pm - 4:00am: off

He doesn't necessarily have to sleep during his off-time. However, I imagine this being rather harsh on the human biological clock, only slightly mitigated if there was artificial control of light an darkness...which I doubt for this job.

[gougou]

Uh, there's some fuzzy math here.

Actually, that's making things way to complicated. You work eight hours, and you rest eight hours. So you rest exactly as much as you work. So in a 24-hour day, it's 12 hours. Simple as that.

Of course, you can also choose the dirty approach and count the hours in your table

[shanghaikai]

I see what you mean. I guess I was more preoccupied with the idea of always going to bed at a different time of the day.

[Dani_man]

Hey gato,

Thanks for the links to the discussions. Reading it from first hand make it even more horrifying, let alone I've been in the mentioned train station, ZhengZhou, which looked like a developed city. It's really hard for me to imagine me as a parent their holding tight my kid's hand and watch him all the time. It give me the feeling of landlords period. Can't believe there are people that cooperate with it.

I wonder how much the UN is involved in these things, and don't know how much it should be: About the first story of Long Pan, about the hard working guy, it seems to be the reality, and you can do nothing about it, China is a poor country. But about the stories of Shanxi province - I do think international involvement is needed.

[deezy]

Chinese economy is based upon hard labor and production of actual goods. A novel concept, eh?

Whereas the US economy is based more upon "value-added" commercialization and distribution, as well as usury. Note that usury used to be forbidden because it was essentially making money from nothing - in effect, depreciating it. Which eventually causes huge debt like the $9 trillion one the US faces today...