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Americans are working longer and harder for less pay and disappearing benefits, with a bleak future and risk of financial ruin of you get sick or terminated.

I mean you're right and that's bad; I'm just pointing out that China has had gruesome 996 working weeks (72 hours/week) for decades IIRC and i'm not sure if chinese people work that much voluntarily or involuntarily.