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    6 hours ago

    that’s politicians. politicians do get relatively long sentences for corruption in europe. there’s so many ways to abuse workers besides bribery

    and in any case, none of the executions have been for bribery that caused neglect to workers’ rights or safety collapses as you calimed. the most i’ve found for these cases is 15 years and merely expelling for Yang Dongliang—whose neglect caused 173 deaths, 798 injuries, and nearly ¥7B of property damage in the horrific Tianjin explosions—not even anywhere close to a single life expectancy. the medicine Duilio Poggiolini took bribes to approve didn’t even kill anyone and he still served half of Yang’s sentence.

    the only tangential one was Zheng Xiaoyu, who state-approved medicine that in one instance caused “14 patient deaths, hundreds being permanently disabled, and several thousand more falling seriously ill”, which has no comparable case in europe with a similar impact per-capita.

    China at a local level is incredibly directly democratic

    i actually agree with that. but the local governments cannot override the system decided higher-up by democratic centralism.