your life isn't worth the cost of fixing the scratch on the side mirror of my car.
yells a luxury sedan driver to a sanitation worker, holding the worker by the collar.
he then forces the women to the ground.
this is not a scene in an old novel or movie describing the bourgeois class's cruelty toward the working class in pre-revolutionary old society.
It happened in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, one recent Sunday morning. the driver is the boss of a private enterprise; the woman is a worker who has been cleaning the streets for 26 years