While police dispute the story, Chinese netizens express sympathy for “800 Brother” over how workers are treated.

A Chinese factory employee set fire to a textile plant in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in his frustration over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111), according to videos posted on social media and eyewitness accounts shared with Radio Free Asia.

  • @neons@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1•28 days ago

    But that was absolutely the same for peasants? Which then would make it accurate again to call them oppressed peasants?

    • adr1anEnglish
      4•28 days ago

      That’s not the defining characterisric for peasants, you pawn :p