Somewhere in Zhejiang province, China, a woman is living my dream. She gets up in the morning and then, almost immediately, goes back to bed. She lies prostrate all day long, scrolling, eating some food, opening some packages, showering at 2am, then snoozing again. As a longtime sleep enthusiast – and the mother of a child who thinks that 5am is a good time to start the day, all systems go – I think this sounds like bliss. The woman in Zhejiang is known as @jiawensishi – and also “rat…
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Ethical alternatives to American goods | Brief letters
Pleased to see I’m far from alone in trying to avoid American products (This un-American life: can you really divest yourself of everything from the US?, 19 April). Mostly there are alternatives. There is no need to make your own cleaning products – for example, there are Bio-D and Faith in Nature. I have a Kobo e-reader and a Doro phone. A good source of alternatives is Ethical Consumer magazine.Ruth ClancyWhaley Bridge, Derbyshire For someone who sees nothing wrong in saying the US wants Greenland, no wonder Donald Trump thinks…
UK employers fighting to keep workers with 5% pay rises in next year – business live
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Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like
How do you become the richest man in the world? In Elon Musk’s case, part of it involves making workers in China put in hours that would be unacceptable according to labor norms elsewhere. On Tuesday, the Tesla boss praised Chinese factory workers for pulling extreme hours while taking a shot at American workers. “There is just a lot of super talented hardworking people in China who strongly believe in manufacturing,” the billionaire said. “They won’t just be burning the midnight oil, they will be burning the 3am oil, they…