His parents, a street cleaner and a construction worker in Hunan, have been trying to help him buy an apartment in Beijing. 他的父母在湖南做街道清洁和建筑工人,一直在努力想给他在北京买套房子。
Foreign competitors, Wall Street fat cats and big government are the preferred scapegoats, never mind that technology plays a larger role in stoking worker insecurities. 他们更喜欢用外国竞争者、华尔街肥猫和大政府做替罪羊,而丝毫不在意科技在造成工人失去保障中扮演了更重要的角色。
A recent Wall Street Journal claims that the average Japanese worker only uses 8.6 of their paid vacation days each year. 据《华尔街日报》最近报道,平均一个日本员工每年只使用8.6天带薪假期。
But ask the man in the street if a Chinese worker should be banned from selling the clothes she has stitched together, or an African farmer should face higher taxes on his coffee, and he is likely to recognise that foreigners are people too. 但问问街上的人,是否应该禁止一位中国女工销售她缝制的服装,或者是否应该对一位非洲农民的咖啡课以更高的税收,他可能会意识到,外国人也是人。