China trolls Trump with AI clip of overweight Americans
China trolls Trump with AI clip of overweight Americans
Mocking video follows Beijing’s outrage at JD Vance referring to Chinese workers as ‘peasants’
Chinese social media users have mocked Donald Trump with an AI-generated video showing overweight Americans working in factories.
A viral 30-second clip shows a series of miserable-looking rotund Americans slowly sewing garments and building smartphones on crowded shop floors.
The video, which is set to Chinese music, is called “make America great again” and has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
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Another reason moving factory jobs here wouldn’t make any sense is that we don’t have universal healthcare so the employer has to pay the workers insurance costs.
You do realize that employers do pay a share of the healthcare cost in other countries too? They are just not given as many choices about it as in the US.
Lol yeah the choice here is be broke or die
Healthcare IIRC is free in China. I am not sure whether something changed or not but it was free of cost.
I'm sorry, do you genuinely think that free means we don't pay for it? Taxes
In US you have to pay tax as well as pay extra for insurance. The insurance is not a full insurance as well. There is copay and a certain value below which insurance does not even start. Its a scam.
And the insurance can boot you off, or refuse to cover you if you're too expensive.
So if you got cancer, and had to spend a million dollars to treat it, your insurance could just go "okay, your treatment is too expensive, we're not covering that, you'll have to pay for this yourself".
It used to be worse. Many years ago, they could outright decide not to cover some medical conditions of yours, deeming them to be "pre-existing". So if you had diabetes, sorry, that's a pre-existing condition. We don't cover those.
Nail in the coffin is that Americans spend more money on healthcare, per capita, than most other countries, without marked improvement in care/outcomes.
Yup. Majority of US lives in 3rd world conditions so the oligarchy can live like literal Pharaohs.
And do you not realize that the private insurance you pay for also pays for others insurance, if others don't pay their insurance money your premiums go up to compensate for it
“'Right-to-work' means freedom and choice,” a Boston Globe op-ed explains. “As housing costs rise, some people are choosing to live on the road instead,” a Fox Business headline states. “If your insurance company isn’t doing right by you, you should have another, better choice,” reads Joe Biden’s campaign platform. We’re told repeatedly that “freedom of choice” is essential to a robust economy and human happiness. Economists, executives, politicians, and pundits insist that, the same way consumers shop for TVs, workers can choose their healthcare plan, parents can choose their kids' school, and gig-economy workers can choose their own schedules and benefits.
While this language is superficially appealing, it’s also profoundly deceitful. The notion of “choice” as a gateway to freedom and a sign of societal success isn’t a neutral call for people to exercise some abstract civic power; it’s free-market capitalist ideology manufactured by libertarian and neoliberal think tanks and their mercenary economists and media messaging nodes. Its purpose: to convince people that they have a choice while obscuring the economic factors that ensure they really don’t: People can’t “choose” to keep their employer-provided insurance if they’re fired from their jobs or “choose” to enroll their kids in private school if they can’t afford the tuition.
In this episode, we examine the rise of “choice” rhetoric, how it cravenly appeals to our vanity, and how US media has uncritically adopted the framing--helping the right erode social services while atomizing us all into independent, self-interested collections of “choices.”
We are joined by Jessica Stites, executive editor of In These Times.
Yay! We get to choose how to pay a ridiculous price something that's free in other countries! Yay, choice!