Interviewing a migrant worker in Guangdong

“Of course, this is not reasonable. Labor creates value. I don’t believe on should earn within one or two days what others have to spend a lifetime to earn, like those star athletes… or a stamp that was sold for a million. Can you tell me what kind of value they create?”

Source: "From the Specter of Mao to the Spirit of the Law: Labor Insurgency in China", by Ching Kwan Lee, 2002.