“3. When polled, young Chinese are not interested in factory work. They want knowledge based work. The nature of the CCP and hence the education system mitigates against producing people capable of this.”
Are up saying that the CCP has educated it’s public to seek knowledge based work? I would have thought they were focusing on creating worker bees and steering away from knowledge based work. It was your comment ‘the nature of the CCP’ that I might be misinterpreting your intention.
With VERY few exceptions, the CCP does NOT, train people for knowledge based work.
Knowledge based work is characterized by critical thinking with the free and open exchange of ideas. The CCP is only about the exchange of ideas they approve of. People who think for themselves are a clear and present danger to the CCP.
The problem is that when everybody thinks alike, somebody isn't thinking.
When I say the young adults want knowledge based work, it is because they want to be like the young, flashy, internet 'influencers' they see online. If you think people are glued to their phones in the US you would be shocked watch a bunch of urban Chinese 20-somethings with their phones.
What most of these young workers don't see is that the chance of them obtaining that life is vanishingly small. Given the reality of their life and the prospects they see around them the allure and desire is like a shot of high voltage, high octane crack.
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