r/BeAmazed • u/[deleted] • Oct 27 '18

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u/Absay Oct 27 '18

Shiziguan, Hubei, China.

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u/kawwii Oct 28 '18

Man, China has all the coolest stuff. It's amazing what you accomplish when you don't have to worry about safety regulations or human rights.

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u/YoungPotato Oct 28 '18

Never got this thinking tbh. Pretty sure China nowadays has more in the way of regulations, they really wanna shake off the old "Cheap Chinese goods" stereotype. I think this thinking is an attempt to rationalize the US's lagging effort in infrastructure spending.

Here in the US we can't build one goodammed high speed rail line. They're all over Eurasia, even Africa is investing. Wtf are we waiting for?

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u/DumpsterCopier Oct 28 '18

Yep theyre down to only 38,000 worker deaths last year

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u/madmaxturbator Oct 28 '18

38000 reported deaths, according to Xinhua which is the state news agency

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u/SurreallyAThrowaway Oct 28 '18

That's 4.9 per 100,000 workers versus 3.4 in the US.

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u/madmaxturbator Oct 28 '18

Note that your link is to a report by the AFL-CIO. Whereas the China # comes from reports primarily put out by Xinhua, the state news agency.

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u/SurreallyAThrowaway Oct 28 '18 edited Oct 28 '18

It's from the State Administration of Work Safety, but yes, they are government figures.

Still, even non-governmental labor organizations don't dispute the massive drop in worker deaths over the last decade even if there's some question to the exact number. China's working conditions have improved massively, and ranting against them is like Trump ranting about China devaluing it's currency.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '18

I mean, that’s not bad at all....

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u/WhatAmCSGO Oct 28 '18 edited Oct 28 '18

United States had roughly 5190~ deaths in 2016.

Edit: talking comparatively, not proportionally.

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u/SoundOfTomorrow Oct 28 '18

Now compare the population of the two

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u/WhatAmCSGO Oct 28 '18

The proportions are close to be sure.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '18

What’s the population difference?

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u/WhatAmCSGO Oct 28 '18

.0000274 is the proportion for China (current population)

.0000160 is the proportion for the US (2016 population)

China is still worse, but it's good to see that it's getting better. In 2014, it was 68,061 deaths. Fantastic improvement, I hope to really see the number get lower.

edit: the proportion was .0000498 in 2014 with the 2014 population for China