Posted on 12/27/2021 6:15:21 PM PST by anthropocene_x
Chinese companies have long been toxic places to work. Tech companies have long practiced the presenteeism of ‘996’ – working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for 6 days a week without overtime pay. Famous founders Jack Ma and Richard Liu have lauded 996, mistakenly equating long hours with strong work ethic.
What’s worse, this standard has now seeped into most other sectors in China. In January, a delivery worker of E.le.ma (餓了麼) set himself on fire after the company did not pay him 5000 yuan that they owed him for two weeks. Delivery workers across the country have staged many strikes to protest low wages, payment delays, and work hazards.
China’s growth miracle ended even before the pandemic began, but its effects have been even more pronounced. The first pinch that young Chinese feel is in education.
Take, for example, the college entrance exam or "Gaokao" ("高考"). Though meant to be a meritocratic leveler, urban students enjoy huge advantages due to better resources.
“Everyone in China has the same goals: Earn more money, buy a home of more than 100 square meters, own a car, start a family, and so on,” Xiang told Sixth Tone in an interview. “This route is very well-marked, and everyone is highly integrated. People are all fighting for the same things within this market,” he went on.
A young Chinese person’s lot in life is not enviable. From pre-kindergarten, children start preparing to get into good universities.
Beyond that they fight for good jobs to buy a tiny apartment in a coastal sprawling city. Their parents push them to get married and expect them to take care of them in their old age.
Now the state wants them to have three children. It is simply too much.
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Too much work. Not enough reward. All work and no play. Just not worth it.
Maybe they should just lay down?!
Waking up each day knowing your korporate overlords are desperately cracking the whip in order to gain more wealth to catch up to their globalist peers.
Bump for later.
From 1948 going forward. Better machinery made the work easier and faster. Production increase from automation. Machine tool draftsmen maybe got better wages while factory workers got stagnant wages.
China is far down the path of consumerist debt serfdom and rigid social stratification due to both printed money and massive government power and social-engineering.
But the USA is following the same general policies.
japan has the same issues
Don’t count on a successful Tiannamen Square uprising. How often does it happen? Berlin Wall ‘89. Iran ‘79. Castro ‘59. China is successful-golden goose. Who wants to kill it?
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