You’re missing the problem here.

What will happen in the west (and is already happening) is that companies will automate the jobs and fire the employees because they don’t need them anymore.

But with this, bo more jobs will be created, and the liberals in power are hard at the task of deleting any employment. So people who are fired and can’t find a new job will just starve or build an alternate economy cyberpunk style.

The first step to prevent this crisis is to forbid companies to fire employees for this specific reason. This will give time for the society (people, government) to find solutions.

Another problem of letting companies do whatever they want is what is expected to happen : companies fire people now not because ai can replace them, but in order to hire them later in much worse conditions than before, with ai monitoring the job of the workers.

I 100% agree that ai is the future that can free us from work. But you can’t simply let things happen, because it would severely disrupt the whole society.

That is absolutely not the subject of this ruling. The ruling forbid the termination of a work contract for the reason of it being replaced by AI. That is a significant difference : the problem is not to replace workers with AI, it is of who will pay in the society for it. China rules that companies will pay for the transition, not the workers and the state.