Feb 19, 2022 • 20M

Companies that eat people (with audio)

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Andrew Methven
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‘Eating people’ (吃人 chī rén) is what some companies in China are accused of doing: they exploit their employees.

It’s from a line in Lǔ Xùn’s (鲁迅), A Madman's Diary (狂人日记 kuángrén rìjì), published in …

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