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    • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      37 minutes ago

      Fucken a you can. One of my highschool friends is a world-top-tier mathematician and he’s spent most of his adult life working in China doing work way below his capabilities just because he gets to be left alone and live outside of the western hegemony. Mufucka turned me on to communism when we were like 12. It’s a shame really, in a better world he’d be the sort of mind that could solve serious fucking problems. But I think he’s mostly happy with how things have panned out.

      The only downside is it’s hard for ex-pat workers to have true security in China (or has been, might’ve changed VERY recently) due to restrictive visas and few pathways to full citizenship for westoids.

    • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      I mean, they are still taking pretty much anyone with a bachelor’s degree as an English teacher in China, Vietnam, Thailand, SA, Korea, Japan, etc. Just get a TEFL/TESOL certificate and it shouldn’t be hard to find a job that will get you a work visa in another country.

  • hraegsvelmir@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    3 hours ago

    Surely, this is just a case where the invisible hand of the free market will be trusted to solve this issue without any intervention from Western governments and those aligned with them, no?

  • Goblin [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    26·
    4 hours ago

    I don’t have any marketable skills but you could hire me as a western jester. If you tell me to dance like a monkey I’ll do it. Please China, please 🥺

    • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      26 minutes ago

      If you tell me to dance like a monkey I’ll do it.

      Can you afford to get there on a tourist visa? I forget the name for “white monkey” jobs but there’s an industry (and I think still demand) for sure. Also just about any university qualification can get you an English teaching job in a bunch of actually-existing-communism countries still. I know that’s out of reach for most people but fuck it, if you leave after graduation who’s gonna try and debt collect the loans? lol

    • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      29 minutes ago

      I suspect China will be courting your country too soon enough. Even if it won’t be offshore work they’re investing in infrastructure all over the planet. I love to see it.

      The west, honestly, is shitting BRICS right now. The US dollar is no longer the uhh, idk what the word is, you know “lingua franca of finance” for the whole globe. New systems are emerging to replace everything being pegged to the US dollar and the price of oil. Crypto currency, funnily enough, is likely to have a big part to play in neutering the ability of the failing empire to do any effective sanctions very very soon, but also there’s stuff to do with distributed financial resiliency based on traditional local currencies. I don’t understand it but I think QAnon or Trillbillies or Buntavista did a very recent podcast episode on this.

      World’s changing, comrades. Really fast. It’s going to be a wild couple of decades to come.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    51·
    5 hours ago

    a friend of mine was telling me about some friend of his who went to grad school in China right after college. i dunno if it was even tech, but he had studied mandarin in undergrad.

    his first several years, he would comeback for the holidays and big family stuff. then he got some job there. over the years he would return less and less, until eventually he just stopped coming back to the US.

    can you imagine? it sounds like something out of a fairy tale.

  • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    25·
    5 hours ago

    Staff with access to sensitive Zeiss know-how received LinkedIn messages, emails and calls from Huawei representatives, offering them up to three times their salaries to join the Chinese company, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

    3x? LOL ok if they came to me with that id be willing to degrade myself for the position. xi pls