
Now, many people are resisting the two-shift system. I was a bit confused about the two-shift system, so I asked my elders: “When you were young, did you work two shifts?” He replied: “Back then, factory workers did three shifts. Now it’s become two shifts. Some older people even say: ‘We can’t handle hardship anymore—we’ve gone from three shifts down to two. Can you really say we can’t endure hardship?’” Aren’t conditions much better now than back then? Hasn’t production capacity increased dramatically? Then why has it shifted from three shifts to two? I really don’t understand.
