"Let it Rot" - China's Youth are Giving Up on Life
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Reminds me of the quote credited to a Russian worker: "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."
Isn't it more like "They pretend to pay us, so we pretend to work"?
you sure it wasn't the other 1249713490732904572390427349032904 youtube comments quoting this shit that reminded you? good lord. you robots just bleep the same bloop all damn day.
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I believe tat comes from the Soviet Union
Its from late period of USSR
The people in charge keep saying "No one wants to work."
The reality is "No one wants to make you $10K in profit in exchange for a $62 paycheck."
Bingo
It's hard to run a business here in the US if everybody gets $20 an hour to start. The profit margins are just not high enough for those type of beginning wages. The Problem is the PRICE OF PROPERTY and the ENORMOUS COST OF HOUSING and REAL ESTATE ❕❕
$15 an hour is high enough as a starting wage at a restaurant. Look at how much the businesses are bringing in versus paying in rent/labor/supplies/repairs/etc... WE have to LOWER THE RENTS so people can afford housing❕❕ So Business can SURVIVE and make a profit. But real estate is being exploited to such a degree by buy sewage ssewej investors like BlackRock because it's one industry that cannot be outsourced or shipped overseas such as the steel and manufacturing industries. As ssewej companies try to reacha top of the pyramid scheme.
Or risk getting jailed for raising health/safety concern.
@@TrueWalker88they meant what you’ve read. not everywhere the paycheck equals the sum you get in the states, sometimes it’s much much lower, so you often can hear “the county is so cheap, everything is so adorable” from an american viewpoint until you see the local one.
some countries have a minimum salary of 200 bucks per month.. not 200k, just 200.. so yea, they meant 10k and 62 as they stated it.
YESSSS YOU GOT IT RIGHT
This is a global thing. The Chinese may have one name for it, but the underlying attitude, outlook, and approach to life is something I see the youth from countries all around the world doing. They realize the entire game is rigged to exploit them.
Always has been. The lie is over. We must end the endless exploitation of people around the world. Enough.
YES !!!
@@Lucky-sh1dmwhy?
@@Lucky-sh1dmAs someone born in 2003 I feel mixed I wanna work on myself and improve on one hand and on the other I feel completely hopeless like what's the point of living any further when there is nothing to look forward to
Is it so hard to See life as its own purpose? As soon as people were handed the world, they broke having no purpose
We have reached that stage of the monopoly game where one guy owns all the properties and collect rent when other players roll the dice. The only way out if you're on the losing end is to quit the game.
or w0r.
or flip the table ;)
Or flip the board right
@@Kunzler3saw urs after mine. Nice
Quite apt comparison.
Let's be completely honest here - this is also a big problem in the western world.
At least in western countries they can indulge in illusion that with enough hard work they can get it too..
True, and this is why so many companies in the western world can't get people to work for them, as the rewards are not there. It will get much much worse when the "green" brigade fully implement the slogan "You will own nothing and you will be happy", yes the first part is correct but most people will be extremely unhappy as societies will just break just like the communist countries have experienced over and over again.
Yeah i commented this. Most super rich people here in the states didn't actually "work hard" for it. Some exceptions, sure, but definitely not most.
It is definitely not a phenomena only in China, although surely China has its own unique flavor of let it rot.
No. Please don't compare these. There is nepotism in the west too yes, but it is not even in the same universe than in China. Not even remotely close.
The more work you do, the more work you'll be given is a real trend in the U.S. corporate world.
And the worker to CEO pay is so bad it's like 400 to 1 ratio. And they expect us to bust our ass for minimum pay lmaoo
Its everywhere worldwide,maybe not in western parts of Europe,but otherwise its all the same,im in the Balkans,all my life id give 100% effort no matter what i do,only to get more and more work,while my coworkers do 1/3 of what i do and get same salary + more respect,but thats me i cannot work slower or less efficient id aither give 100 or 0 cant give 20/100
Corporate Conquistadors
And about to get even more real with all the quiet quitting going on. Corporations had better start paying better attention to the employees who aren't slacking or they're going to lose everyone.
It's in their training when they start in a corporate job I think. At UPS they tell them. That the more you give them the more they will want to do.
I feel so tired from being drilled by my parents during my elementary, middle, high school and university years to study hard and get a good job, like my life depended on it. I got a good job, and they are working me so hard, they are wringing me out like a sponge until there is nothing left. I can’t continue studying and working like there is a gun to my head.
Sounds like my Joy Luck Club mother. She pushed me so hard I wound up in a mental institution as a teen. Go to college, make money. Go to college, make money.
So fucking don't. Why you keep writing it instead. You need those complaining and empty words like chase your dream, that's what you like. illusions and complacency
I’ll never understand why people live to please other people in the end when you’re on that hospital bed with minutes of life left do you want a feeling of regret or the feeling of content? Chase your dream and if you don’t know what it is I’m sorry.
Give it up, and if you find what you truly want to do and can do it without being played or pushed again. I’d say go for it.
Call me any names but I’d hate being pushed only for my time wasted more than anything. People think they know what’s best but not everyone is a good person and is trying to help us
Exactly! This is what's going on. This is why the youth is giving up. This is the cause of bad mental health.
I worked for 40 years, I got injured at work, , the company I worked for refuses to pay me disability.. even tho I paid fully into the program... I don't blame anyone for just giving up...
you get the behavior you encourage. when you discourage people doing anything by punishing them when they try anything, you get most people doing as little as possible to get by. This is just human nature.
This is happening on the Left Coast of Canada at an ever increasing pace.
USA! USA! I agree, the US corporate overlord does a really good job of stomping on the poor and discouraging them from being able to afford rent and food. I love discouraging workers rights and punishing unionists who try and improve the lives of the minimum wage rats. Great system we have in place that allows me to spend a couple hundred grand on congress and state legislature in vote in my favor. Hey ill give you money if you vote against this bill that will make me lose money, therefore i can give you more money since you helped make me more money!!! Everyone wins!!! wooo what a great system!
congrats ur post will get 500 likes
You can't be a slave if you do the bear minimum. I also cut my work week by 90% or until Biden is out of office. Low work effort, low income = LOW TAXES! REMEMBER JACK MA!!!
When countries do business with one another, they tend to take on some of eachothers' business habits. It's been noticeable, the screws tightening in corporate spheres the past several years. Particularly what Winston brings up here about managers rewarding hard work with even more work (and unpaid OT). It's the business style of immediate returns to satisfy quarterly reports, investors, or whatever institution is first in line as a lender. The company long term or workplace morale seem a distant second.
Over-reliance on debt is probably the shared feature between the two countries.
This feels like it's a common feeling here in America recently. It's like no matter what you do, it doesn't matter, you can't afford to even pay your month to month bills, you feel worthless, it's getting so out of control.
Late stage robber baron colonial capitalism... or many other buzzwords that go along with it... essentially late stage rule by the few, generally a rich set who own the government and have produced massive propaganda that makes nepotism the divine right to rule and propaganda that the few knuckle heads keeping the few in power doing the dirty work of the few who rule to bully the rest with murder and other violence. Some nations more subtle in their control: USA just makes everything a crime and prosecutes people harshly and places most people than any other nation on earth in prison. Making healthcare a complete profitable farce, shit quality with elderly care that is more akin to a eugenics project than actual healthcare.
Developed country like the US 2017 to 2019 3 years in a row life expectancy dropped again in 2020 to 2021... largely from deaths form despair suicide, drug overdose, not being able to afford critical medicine like insulin, or critical utilities... Texas deep freeze in 2020 and 2021 many died not able to pay their outrageous power bill because they "let it be markets" stupidity on an open fire. Death becomes the answer.
And death is how it all ends.
Including for the few who control the world end up with the same, death.
China USA Japan both S and N Korea... and in the worst new colonial regions South and Central American Countries, eastern European nations, Middle Eastern and Africa have long become a cluster fuck in collapse mode, noted the rampen inflation of Turkey, Argentina, Venezuela, etc. and the basically collapse of Libya, now decade long famine in Sudan, the insanity of Egypt, Syria, etc. The recent creepy fascism spreading in Poland throughout Europe.
Late stage rule of the few... time and time again. And we're there at the collapsing tipping point.
Hope we fucking learn our lessons and don't just mock one nation when it's a problem globally and of humanity since recorded history, over 4,000 years of it.
It not only rhymes, it's really the same old with different labeled buzz words... slavery, feudalism, capitalism, communism, socialism, fascism, colonialism, globalism, fanaticism... take an ism and one may glorify one and condemn another in an endless stupidity that should be realized quickly and condemned for it's uselessness in solving anything... and obvious diversion when trying to come up with the complex solution to ensure ALL people live well and comfortably and to their firstly needs and then to their merits.
But it's so easy to fool people it seems, until the fooled become insanely fooled and then the only fools are those who thought they fooled everyone as they're generally go down by the idiot masses they induced into a frenzy of stupidity.
Let's hope we learn as this and after we let all this shit burn down worldwide... what China's system was and the USA systems and the systems in eastern Europe and the tyrannical religious nuttery systems of the middle east... and the caste eugenics system of southern Asia, etc.
None of them were good, but repeated the same late stage rule of the few collapse, as it becomes so obvious by more and more it cannot deliver the goods.
And we all just stop doing the typical and we all let it collapse.
And new experiments become a thing... but the few who want to rule... the hideous vultures are always there.
We need to prevent an aristocracy from forming... they are a parasitical evil that always... always... has destroyed civilization in all places about the world since recorded history.
Capitalism: work your ass off so that your boss can buy an extra yacht.
@@dameongeppetto Psst: China isn’t capitalist.
If it were merely an economic system, then we’d see differences between them. It’s a problem in all first world societies, and most developing ones, as well.
It’s materialism, nihilism. America was more capitalist 50 years ago, yet people were much happier. They didn’t live as long, they had less material wealth, their work was more dangerous and labor-intensive. As we got rid of that pain in the ass God fellow and adopted secularism - just like China - we are more unhappy, unfulfilled, lonely, and desperate. I still don’t get why the Amish are so damned happy, either. What an awful way to live. Boring clothes, no TVs and video games, and they won’t even have gay sex with teenagers. They have to be miserable, right? Right?
@@dameongeppetto wrong. Capitalism brought the most people out of poverty in history. The USA is not a capitalist economy. It is more a socialist economy. Government connections save companies, choose winners and losers and make it impossible for start ups to succeed. Social media artificially limits undesirable companies, no matter how well run they are or how liked their products are.
No I have to disagree. Americans (me being one of them) are just very narcasistic and a bit lazy. We can exploit the government and not have to work so we do it. If you want something you can do it but most people don't want it bad enough. Too easy to just suck the life out of your government and put the bill on the next generation.... Hell the country owes enough in debt that everyone would owe 85-90,000 dollars and we go on acting like we are in la la land.
We have it here too.
They call it “quiet quitting”.
"Quiet quitting" is doing exactly what your contract says, nothing more. It means that on a 9 to 5 job, you will work exactly 9 to 5: dont come earlier and dont stay later. Its a completely different situation from "no matter how hard you work, you will remain homeless".
@@user-dv5ts3de8e not really. Housing market is whack here too.
People still need to eat, but the return on investment isn’t there to do more.
I came across that situation often, I know if I bust my self, I get nowhere and no thanks, and the boss cannot manage the business worth a damn, but I do not want to outright quit, that is where the term came from.
We call is "quiet quitting" here in the U.S. You maintain your job and continue to show up and do the bare minimum. You basically quit working hard and just pass the day in order to get your paycheck.
“ the hopeless don’t revolt, because revolution is an act of hope”
- Peter kropotkin
Giving up is a form of revolution…
"Our only hope is with the hopeless" a situationist (mis)quote
@@melindagallegan5093 nope, cuz now you're waiting to be stormed.
@Master General So there are many no true scotsmen in America?
There are also many presidents in America. There is not a single true one.
@Master General That's who I think of when the discussion turns to revolting...
As a Chinese child there's only three career paths in life, doctor, lawyer and homeless.
Homeless sounds fun ngl
You seem to be overestimating what lawyers earn. In a Chinese family comedy, an upper-class husband is a high-ranking government employee or CEO.
@@poorharry7966 those are the only choices tho or you can work 80 hour weeks for 40 years to reach the top but it's not as easy as saying "just do it" or else you'd be a top CEO too no?
And now AI may take over parts of doctors' and lawyers' jobs
Do you guys think being homeless in Europe would be fun? I can imagine being twenty something is the only time you can do that.
This is happening across the entire globe. The younger generation got to see the abundant lifestyle that their elders were able to enjoy, then they go out into the workforce to find that things that used to be a given are now practically impossible to obtain. Just 13 years ago, my mother financed a home for $120K. Her payments for her mortgage were $800 a month with PMI and she was making about $55,000 a year at that point in time. That same house today, 13 years later is valued at $315K - the payments would for the mortgage now would be about $2200 after PMI. This is a 2-bed, 1 bath, 1000sqft home. Simultaneously, the average rent in the area for a sub 800sqft, 2-bed 1 bath apartment unit - $1400 a month. Keep in mind - wages across the board have only gone up by around 25% in that same time period and a lot of those higher-paying positions are still being held by the older generation.
This kind of similar situation is happening in the capital area of Finland too. Wages haven't gone up but apartment and house prices have gone up a ridiculous amount. Now when loan interest rates are very high too, no one isn't buying or getting any houses or apartments and the apartment business has collapsed in the capital area. Others report the drop in sold apartments and houses is over 30% compared to last year and others even state the sales have droppped over 60%. I wonder why... I wonder why... Could it be because investors cannot afford to buy anymore houses so no one isn't buying them because no one else except investors have that kind of money to buy houses? And now when the interest rate is so high, even investors have stopped doing business because they are already in trouble with their loans. Now, as a single person with some income and trying to buy your first house or apartment with these kind of prices with this kind of interest rate on a loan, it's not going to happen with the wage you have.
They pulled up the ladder behind them.
Shipping containers and wooden shacks starting to look real cozy now
Abundant? They had to work their asses off we have access to technology never before seen this is a huge step up for humanity yet we still complain and weep? Instead of simply complaining like ur a depressed high schooler with blm and whatever fuckin rights in their bio you should try to make the best outta things thats what ur parents did and everybody before u thats why ur here now and thats why ur bloodline will continue
I got my house for about 120k with ~800 mortgage only 2 years ago. I don't know a thing about your circumstances, but you should definitely look around and try more options before deciding that its a lost cause.
Im glued to my screen 24-7 too i can't judge the Chinese people.
I went above and beyond at my job. All i got was more work and responsibilities. I was often asked can i come in on myday off and was always skipped when the firm is giving away long weekends off(little perk of the job). Came in early, stayed as long as needed. I asked for better pay and was promised a raise but it never came. Same with a promotion. Now i come into work on time and leave on time. Like litteraly on time. They get maybe 20 seconds from me per day. And i do the bare required minimum, not a fucking thing more. I have been called about 20 times for a talk with all the higher ups. They want to know what is wrong. I only asked one question. Am i doing my job? If not then i await a formal termination letter in my mailbox. If i am then there is no problem. Since i started doing this 2 collegueas of mine saw what i was doing and started doing the same thing. I did not encourage them or even told them what i was doing. Now we wait in silence at the front door of the firm untill the exact time work starts. I am going to keep doing this untill i am terminated, but it is for sure going to be a long time since my work always has a shortage of staff and its not easy work. Get bent corporate assholes.
@Cecilia Cole my mother worked for the government for 15 years and had perfect reviews for 15 years. She paid into a 401k for 15 years and one day they wrongfully terminated her and yoinked all her insurance, 401k March, ECT ect. My family ran out of money and we had to sell everything and our community crowdfunded us lawyer money to sue and we didn't even ask. We were trying to get the money ourselves but they got the money in 3 days and we gave it to the lawyers and they took us seriously and once they examined the evidence they gave the money back because they were confident enough they were going to win a bunch of money suing our local government that they just wanted a percentage because the lawyers make good money going that route IF they WIN.
Working hard isn't the only way to get what you're owed brothers, remember that. Collect real good evidence, pay the $3500 fee many lawyers take to see your case and if it's good they might even give the money back. There's more than one way to skin a cat and the route to becoming a millionaire isn't nessessarily working hard until retirement. It might just be working hard, getting wrongfully terminated, and then winning a lawsuit for all the money they owe you.
We calculated it out and until my mother retires, accounting for all her benefits, raises, 401k growth and match, they are stealing about 1.4-2 million dollars from my family by wrongfully terminating her. So a $3500 lawyer fee they gave back was well worth it. FREE LAWSUIT ANYONE? yes please! Don't mind if we do!
Only problem, it takes a long time to win suits like this. The government hired the best lawyers they can at local tax payer expense to try to be their coverup artists. The state investigators get involved, there is hearings, it's a mess.
They even right after firing my mother, she went to go apply for unemployment and her boss told them she quit her job so they wouldn't give her unemployment. And it made life for my family financially difficult for several months ontop of how thin the budget was already. She had a hearing to get her unemployment and her boss was shaking in court, incriminating herself ECT. The courts awarded my mother unemployment which is good because that means the courts believe she was wrongfully terminated. Which means the payout could be big, considering they owe over a million dollars before we even start talking what she's owed for being wrongfully terminated, they're going to be screwed.
The only issue is we live in a corrupt world. So if they only award her 200k then my family is taking an enormous loss, hundreds and hundreds of thousands that was supposed to be there over the next few decades, gone. So we're really hoping they award my mother a cool 1.5-2 million. If that was the case, they could hand me and my sibling 200k cash each and they'd still be millionaires retiring early, or not, depends. My mother likes to work with animals but now shes paranoid of employers because the one job she's had for 15 years proved in the long run to be more trouble than it seemed to be worth.
But if my family wins then maybe I'll get a few bucks cash, and I'm going to form an LLC data analytics and capital management company because one day when I hire employees I want them to make way more money than minimum tbh. I won't do 401k Matches or insurance plans, I will just cut these fat massive paychecks so my employees can go buy the hand tailored healthcare they want, they can invest how they want. It'll be a capital management company so hopefully they will be better at investing their money than most of these firms investing people's 401ks are doing. itll be cool. I'm going to need more than 200k to start it, right now I have $850 with $1000 of credit card debt. But once I have my hands on some serious money, I'll be able to make enough with it to at least get close to enough to actually start such a company. That way no one will be able to treat me how they treated my mom, because I will be the boss, and I won't be the kind that wrongfully terminates
You didn't explain why you slowed down?
I would have ,the top can be blind as a bat to this sometimes.
This is why having a union is good because there's repercussions if they try to harass with questions like why are you slowing down and they have to have documentation and follow all the steps to fire you. Most of them don't and they'll just leave you alone even if you do the bare minimum at your job.
@@TheAnnoyingBoss I love it when the "little" guy wins.
@@dingleberryxo7623 I understand your point of view. And i would explain it to them but that time has passed. In the end, why should i? I mean they had their chance to do right by me. They did not do it. Now they get what they get. They get the bare minimum from me, nothing less, nothing more. An indiffirent employee. Now i just come for the money. When they try to touch that i will be through that door faster than the manager when he needs his 20th smoke brake for the day.
Youth everywhere are giving up on life. it doesn't matter where you live.
We live in a time where we have so much, yet at the same time have so little.
It's a form of existential pain that previous generations didn't quite have.
Let’s not be overdramatic. Some youth are giving up on life. Suicide rates are declining in most countries. But luckily, in the western world a degree really can get you quite far.
Good luck getting a degree in the first place without student loans lmao
These days you need an undergraduate degree and a postgraduate degree to really increase your chances of finding good work. If you're in America, this will cost you over a hundred thousand dollars and it increases with interest every year, so you're burdened for life for trying to contribute to your economy and increase your standard of living. That is sad.
@@thedon9247 i have done my MBA in finance but i don't have job due to some reasons but I'm preparing for bank exam to get a job but still i know that chances are very low for me to pass+
I don't know whether i 'll get job I'm 27 yrs old + married women
I agree with your sentiment, but why do we have 'so little' ?
"Let it Rot" This is my attitude now towards the USA. And I live here.
Wow, what a rotten attitude.
@@user-vh7kw4tw5j I guess you don't live in one of the forever Democratic controlled areas, where people leave if they can.
Chase fulfillment, not money.
🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍
Hard to feel fulfilled with no home and no food. You can preach that chasing fulfillment is better then money but this just shows how privileged of a life you’ve lived
When the game is rigged the best move is not to play.
Don't vote either. It's rigged.
Exactly
Or just turn the table over. 😂
Boom
Exactly how I felt when I quit my job last year
We live in a world where there's too much greed ! I can't see a bright future !
When I went into my freshman year in college my parents would stress how important it is to network. “It pays to know people” is something my mom would say. Now that I have graduated, my connections that I have made have given me a lot more opportunities than I would have normally had.
It's sad but true. We don't live in a meritocracy. We live in a social club. The cool people get promoted way past their skill levels.
We live in a world where we suffer through the highest level of psychological manipulation in history. This world sucks
I mean, there were other societies that did that more than ours (some still exist), but I suppose they *are* all part of this world.
@@Noplayster13 ever look at logos? Notice all the bill boards and corporate gaudy street signs? It all look disgusting. Manipulation is subtle, no one is immune to propaganda.
The sad thing is, so many people buy into it.
1984 has become reality
Plasmatic Media...you and Brendan R. have the most accurate sentiment on this subject matter.
I’m 68 and feel sorry for young people today. When I was young there were a lot of manufacturing jobs where I lived in the UK. University wasn’t really an option for me so I went straight into manufacturing from school as an apprentice. Pay was pretty low but after 5 years training I changed jobs and started to earn a better salary. Over time manufacturing went into decline so I went to work for a trading company based in London and started travelling overseas. This then went into decline and I had no option but to move to China (Guangdong Province) in 97 where I worked for 15 years and then moved to Vietnam for another 5. Retired a few years ago and consider myself lucky to have had good opportunities during my life. If I had to start my career again now I have no idea what I’d do. Little to no manufacturing, many jobs have been de-skilled or automated. The few younger people I know are mostly on minimum wage and see no future for themselves. Hard work is no longer rewarded and people are told they are lucky to have a menial job. Hardly surprising people are just giving up….. very sad state of affairs and ultimately it won’t end well.
When you were young people in China were eating bark and leaves because they had no food, and dropping dead in their tens of millions. Many ate their own pets, some their own babies. Then the next generation were dying at 10 000/ year in coal mines. Yup. The good old days.
In the UK the growing industries are old age healthcare, cyber security and there are generally a shortage of tradespeople.
The southeast is generally too expensive for young people to buy homes without a great job or family help. There are affordable places in Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Lancaster, Sheffield and Leeds for cities. Generally the northeast is very cheap.
It seems quite strange when an economy uses plenty of debt inflation becomes a problem particularly on assets. As wages rise to take account of inflation manufacturing gets more uncompetitive and eventually has to close down.
@@kynchan3332 Correct, if I had to start again the only option for me would be tradesperson. A couple of plumbers I know have a great standard of living, always busy too, same can be said for electricians. When I was London based I was always being pushed by my bosses to move there, my excuse was always why should I give up my 5 bed house with a large garden for a much smaller home. Property prices were going crazy at the time and crashed later so I was glad I didn’t make the move.
@@ianashton1593 I went the tradesman route when the degree amounted to little and nothing. The earnings were good (aside from the few who didn't pay and those late payers who wasted plenty of time) but getting repeat business provided security and the bigger bonus was developing my own properties with the banks only too willing to lend. (There was a lot of unwanted commercial property I got very cheap like butcher shops and small retail, killed by the supermarkets, to convert into flats. Keeping some has provided an income.)
The capital appreciation has been a boon for increasing the financing to acquire other property. The capital you don't see can far exceed the work earnings. At times, there were opportunities to really increase the capital set aside when metal prices were very low/corresponding with miner equities being low as well and that was the cue to buy and when metal prices were very high with the miners at a high price time to sell.
Unfortunately, the tradesperson route can be very tough on an old and or injured body so I moved towards obtaining a higher percentage of income from renting/leasing property out rather than doing the building work over the years. The cold and trying to keep up with the youngsters does me in. But being a restless soul I retrained to deal with cyber threats and don't particularly care what I'm paid but it is quite a substantial sum and managed to obtain quite a holding of arable/pasture/forestry land for resources and working out any worries (just in case the world becomes far more unstable)
I'm 63, we came out of uni in the early 80s branded as the only generation in NA that would not be better off than our parents. Not a surprise that punk was the soundtrack in our teens. We had housing inflation during the 80s of 350%, and things looked bad. Stats say that if you start work during a recession your salary never recovers, it may go up, but it will be at a lower level than those who did not start during a recession. I worked in an industry that was counter cyclical, so when times where good in the economy they were bad, so no raises. When times were bad in the economy, they were good in our industry, but they could hold salaries low because the rest of the country was depressed.
But now I am in that gifted tail end of boomers (actually nothing about our lives has been boomerish), and I did well in my career, and things eventually picked up, and technology offered us better things.
I am not too sympathetic with young people who don't seem to want to work, and buy into the depressing scenarios, though I do see a lot of trouble on the horizon. But that is all the more reason to plan and execute on something.
I feel like a lot of this rings true for many countries these days. Young people are exploited, held down and underpaid whilst living in societies rigged with trickle up economics to prevent them advancing in life and saddling them with debt for education, the skills from which just ultimately get exploited by the rich. They’ve literally conned young people into paying the cost of their own exploitation. The UK is a prime example. Putting kids 25k in debt with 6% interest student loans to get jobs that rarely pay enough to pay it off in a timely manner. Decades of debt all for skills that only ever benefit the rich.
There are choices that people make that cause success or failure. All of these kids getting degrees in "the humanities" ... liberal arts and music appreciation deserve to have a ton of debt and a shitty job. They didn't work hard at school just thought that any degree in anything would bring them a good paying job. They should have studied how to weld or be a machinist or even a big rig driver. No, they thought that they would get paid a fortune, sit behind a big desk, and do nothing all day with their framed, "I showed up for class" shit degree on the wall behind them.
you arte the prime example for our failed society. congrats!@@dextermorgan69
To be fair, that's because a lot of boomers got "shit degrees" in liberal arts and still got handed cushy jobs.@@dextermorgan69
It's the same in the USA. When I was in my 20's, the 80's & 90's, there was work to live and play. Now the youth have it much harder. My husband and I always had jobs, paid our rent and had fun. Those jobs were in the newspaper, pages of them. Those jobs are gone.
It’s actually incredible how we live in a time where labour produces the most value in history but pay is ridiculously low
Almost as if someone is pocketing all of it :D
It's because they have outsourced everything to people who will work for pennies on the dollar.
Then they hire someone who will supervise these people and pay them something decent.
@@Pattern_Noticerthat’s the tip of the iceberg. The main this is productivity outpacing compensation. Purchasing power has never been lower. It was easier in America to buy a house during the Great Depression that it is today.
The coalescence of power and money is finite.
@@messysnackshah you are a part of the problem. Yet it's all over anyway. The NWO wants its genetic cleansing and it's already in motion.
This is happening all over the world. Us youngsters are getting completely screwed over. Incredibly high living costs and tax rates. I wrote myself in to a housing corporation at 18 which has a 10 year queue, by the time I am 28 Ill have an option of leaving home. Its insane.
Yup
Yes. It's not just China. The whole system is running to an end
@@hoedemakerbart By intent. NWO, Kal\ergi plan, WEF, etc. They're gonna starve everyone by destroying agriculture before swooping in with "the solution" which will involve you who remain doing what they want.
Please read Tao of Abundance the book.
Boomer capitalism with no end goal beyond material gain. They set up a system that rewards pathology and manipulation, with the end goal of being as big a material degenerate as your wallet can handle. They will keep stealing and killing until someone else stops them
Canada is in the same situation, "let it rot". You cannot work hard like it use to be to get ahead. If you did not have assets or your parents don't transfer the wealth then you have nothing. Just working that might be just enough for rent and food but a lot work and its not enough. Lots of tent cities popping up.
As a Chinese, I have to say that Mr. Serpentza has a very deep understanding of what is going on in China. He know 躺平（lying flat), 摆烂(let it rot) and even 上岸（land a government job）.
Terrifying building built with crap building materials. The floor of a skyscraper can literally collapse from underneath you.
This is the thing if your offspring cannot evolve from their pare TS starting point.
Fico that
hey since you are chinese, can you go into a bit more detail how people are doing it exactly out there, like how does it look for majority of people ?
What do these characters mean? Whats their background?
as a chinese you shouldnt listen to this guy...he is brainwashing people to h4te your ppl and china
As one Japanese, I think almost same kind of mindset or attitude are getting more and more common with young Japanese middle class.
For over 30 years, Japans tax and social security expenses that taken from us are rising but the wage isn't and this also triggered declining birthrate problem.
@@boxing.ascetic quantitative easing?
@@boxing.ascetic Hikikomori?
@@boxing.ascetic Satori generation
@@pauljs75
Japanese hikikomori are basically social shut-ins. They withdraw from society completely, including from work, education, and socializing.
Chinese tang ping are still working, but they just put in bare minimum effort because their dream goals and ambitions are unfeasible.
@Master General Can you get outta here with your pissjugs
Back in the day... *People used to Work to Live, nowadays people Live to Work*
Inflation
we're all employees of Daddy Government and the bureaus.
Not "back in the day" The Japanese been working like that forever. Asians tend to push the limits more than westerners. That is why when Taiwan chip maker TSMC build a chip plant in US , they had more difficulties. American engineers tend to keep banker's hours whereby Taiwan engineers work 996 and maybe come in Sundays too.
I really love your channel because so much of it resonates with me - being a Cuban-American and seeing the propaganda on both sides of the arguments in Cuban politics. You really pull the veil off of people’s perceptions in a refreshingly honest and balanced way. Even if it sounds like you’re taking the piss out of one side of the debate, you still bring up the counterpoints which the other side ignores or lies about for their own purposes
It’s great hearing a Cuban American understand. Many Cubans are brainwashed
I've been lying flat and letting it rot for decades now.
People used to call me a Stoner.. I guess now they'll call me a political activist. 😂😂
Hell yeah lets go 420 blaze it! 😹
bro saaaame
But always a loser.
@@jiminycricket1593 Losers like Snoop Dogg and Seth Rogen yeah
@@greenstreetmusic4683 snoop dogg has been wildly successful in an absurd range of areas. Not sure what your definition of loser is?
My college professors called out the CCP for their gross pollution today, it was a welcome change of rhetoric
You can see the CCP pollution crossing the Pacific Ocean to the California coast. It is not california created because the wind is blowing from the ocean. So all that brown haze is definitely from China.
What sort of authority do they have on environmental and human rights issues? Did you see the bus incident they had? 27 innocent people died because of these stupid lockdowns
Glad some people still have the 🥚🥚 to criticize the CCP.
An American per capita pollute twice as much. Wiki it. Lazy suburb life style with trucks getting 12 mpg.
@@tonysofla FAKE NEWS!
UK here and it's the same.
i had a stable job for 2 years within a reputable national company and i worked my ass off. I learnt the hard way that hard work got me taken advantage of. Sure i'd get words of approval from managers, but i also started to notice that i was getting double, triple, quadruple the work load of other people around me, while taking home the same pay and never being offered a promotion. i was working 50+ hours on minimum wage doing a REALLY physical job and not stopping even to take my breaks sometimes, yet because i was recognised as a hard worker i was scrutinised for ever slowing down and pushed to work even harder until the clock hit 6am, while the slow lazy members of staff would go for extra smoke breaks and get promotions as managers. So i slowed down. ALOT. why the hell would i work harder to get less reward?
The corruption has become rampant the last 10 years and my grandparents are quite shocked when i tell them how disposable we're treated nowadays. foreign stockholders, inflation and a toxic work-culture has led to capitalism on steroids.
A good example of the crumbling respect for employees is how they trapped me and 30 other people into believing we had stable jobs:
they kept us on rolling trial contracts for almost 2 years, telling us it's normal and that it's simply because it makes our shift patterns more flexible. We worked almost 2 years with no sick pay, no job stability and every 3 months the management would tell us they're not sure if we'd be getting renewed this time. When the legal bindings meant they'd have to put us onto full-protection contracts (after a 2 year period), they sacked us without reason on a weeks notice, many of my coworkers had kids, mortgages, sick parents etc. and were left in complete darkness as to why they lost their jobs.
when are people going to realise that the youth really do want to work, but we also know when it's time to stop being a doormat in exchange for basic minimum wage and manipulative policies?
its in my blood to work hard and i show it when i have pride in what im doing whether its building in the house or stuff around my community, but im sure as hell not going to lift a finger for those parasites
Selfishness & Extremism in doing things have Consequences. We are now experiencing these Consequences! 🙏 Thank You So Much Serpentza for illuminating the World of what is Really Going On around us! 🕯🌏🕊
This is a global response to a shattered dream. People are learning to live with less and do just enough to get by.
I’ve adopted this attitude as well in the US. I desire nothing more than to actually live freely, and enjoy my life each and every day.
NGL that’s about as classically American a philosophy as you can get. Work for what you need and live freely.
@@thedukeofchutney468 exactly
And get out from rat race
@@thedukeofchutney468 That's how old America used to be freedom is everything. Now you can't say what you want without being cancelled or whatever term they use.
@@DarthVader-sp8fe Technically that's not the USA that's large tech platforms, not that that makes things much better.
My ambition is to not be infected by the sin of greed.
Brilliant
Mechanical solidarity, constant surveillance, lack of freedom - no wonder they don't feel motivated.
I'd argue that hard work is becoming equally as unrewarded in America. It's a real problem.
In Australia too. And it's not new.
When I used to work in a warehouse, one of the jobs was unloading containers. I worked with 2 others. After unloading the 3 required containers early, instead of being sent home early (with pay), they made us unload a 4th.
What this does is make you feel like an unappreciated POS and it digs into the next shift, where you'd be sent home early (cutting pay) because there's no more work for you to do.
That place went totally downhill after Americans took over. It went from a full, busy warehouse, to a barren skeleton crew type of setup
And in Europe. And, I assume, mostly everywhere on earth. Hard work does not pay, most of the time. If you're smart, you'll find connections. Not work hard.
Not true as long as you're not lazy and willing to work anything you're make it in the US...yes its harder then 10 years ago but still better then elsewhere right now.
@@blinklost Not totally true. There are many places/careers you can't excel now.
@@blinklost In Australia i worked 18 hours a day. I slept 1-3 per night.
The only reason it was all good is because I invested money from the 2nd job and made a 10-15x return depending on when I sold.
Workers rights have eroded and instead of making a decent wage, you're hired full time as 'labour hire' via a job agency and you can find yourself without work on a day's notice out of the blue. The job agent takes half your pay. I used to work for one of those as well.
There's no career advancement in that environment. In fact, they got rid of me at a other labour hire job after making a fuss about not being paid my overtime and I happened to uncover that they were stealing $5 per day per employee the entire time in the process.
In that role, i used to handle all small parts shipments for all states in the country for a very well known car brand. When I started, there were 3 of us in that section. Then 2, then just myself. And I was way overloaded with work daily. Had to even help out another section lol. After hounding management for a helper, and having them admit that there should at minimum be 2 people there at all times, they eventually got one after about 5 months. But they didn't want to pay the overtime. They'd cut hours manually out of my timesheet. I saw it myself on their PC.
Unless you're ready to lawyer up, you're just another ant.
This sounds like my life, I'm not even in China. It's taken me until I got into my mid thirties to finally see that no matter what I do for my company, they can get rid of me tomorrow. No matter how long I've ben there.
Wow no shit Sherlock took you 30 years huh. At least you're all here now.
@@n_e_y_o 😂
@@n_e_y_o yea man hes been working for this company since he was 6
@@ash_is_cool9705 That's nothing, I'd been working 9 years by the time I was 6
@@doggo6517 And you had to get up before you went to bed, right? 🤣
„Let it rot“ is so hilarious - and also so sad.
As a German (who had personally witnessed the destructive effect of the communist regime on East Germany and it’s people), I am sending out my heartfelt best wishes to THE PEOPLE in China.
May your homeland one day experience true freedom and fair justice. May there once be a social and political atmosphere where individual dignity IS RESPECTED.
And may there once be a thriving society - not to the benefit of a tyrannical political party - but to the benefit of EVERY REGULAR PERSON. ♥️
The work culture is the same in the US. Full of nepotism and financially predatory behavior.
The same thing is happening in my country of Bangladesh. The only difference is that rather than "letting it rot" by "lying flat", anyone outside the elite or the public sector simply leave the country. Most of the current generation in my family are either about to get out or are already gone.
beware, wherever you go , things might not be better in the near future, especialy for migrants.
"Watch it die "
Come to Canada bro
Yeah literally it ain't that much better anywhere else haha
@@-whackd if they can afford that is.
As an American in my thirties I can relate to this on some level. I've had jobs that exhausted me. Some had me working 8:00 to 6:00 with no lunch break because there was so much to do and every time I would bring this up with my superiors they told me I was the problem.
What did you bring up?
Just do the minimum requirement. Also pass your mistakes on to other people and blame them to you boss.
They're legally required to let you have a half an hour lunch and if you work through lunch, they're supposed to pay you for it. Report them to the Dept. of Workforce Services and/ or the Labor Commision. You can also call 211, as most states use this number.
The profits go to the share holders+the executives. People who do 90% of the work be damned.
@@glazedbeachbro3926 That is what evil people do. you should be ashamed of yourself.
Everyone its giving up on life recently. And can't blame them, everything seems so terrible that doesn't worth any move, thought or time.
I'm 61 and completely dropped out of society at 50 years old. I understand how these young people feel.
Turning 40 and my only thought is to get a law degree and go down fighting the deepstate occult oligarchy.
@@jesuschristislord7754 Come out of Babylon my people.
What is Babylon? It's the modern world beast system.
You can't fight the world by conforming to the world, you can't beat the beast system, its here to stay till the end, the only way for you to win is to seperate yourselves from the world.
Romans 12:2
2. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.
57 and dropped out about 11 years ago. I'm happier but lots of potential lost
@@ritasjourney What does that mean?
@@lissfeld1 I'm curious. What's the daily routine of your life?
If I lived there. I'd feel the same way.
Talk about despair, God have Mercy
Lol, when you said "you want to be ambitious" I realised I literally don't.
I don't care about status that much. I just want to work so I can enjoy life, be happy, make memories etc...
I'd rather be having life experiences like getting a boat licence and getting out on the river with my friends than getting a high end degree at university after 5 painful years and realising that no one wants a newbie in the work force they want 3 years experience.. literally happen to my friends, they still live with their parents because they can't find a good job because they spent all their money on university getting a certificate. Like they'll get there one day but dude. The system is effed.
What a stressful life that is man.
Yeah. Happened to me too.
Absolutely. I was depressed to the point of almost suicide, and what I thought would be my last days I completely let go of any worry, just living the day, and it was like opening my eyes for the first time in years. We need very little to be happy. The right amount of money is when you don't worry about having enough. No need to be chasing clouds.
@@olivier3967 Its a scam bot, report and ignore
How do you afford the boat and the gas?
People are different in levels of conscientiousness which is the driver of ambition. It seems to come down to our culture and our personality. I think the system will reward those people since it's adding value to the economy.
Tbh this is what Corporate America pushes its workers toward, as well. I went into IT because I love computers; I was the quintessential computer geek when I grew up. But 28 years working for large corporations has drained my soul, and I feel the way that you describe these Chinese workers.
Change job.
Not career, just employer. Country, even.
That much experience and you should be able to choose your employer and country.
Linux engineer here.
I was programming since 5th grade loved it. Only worked doing that 5 years. I was day dreaming about manual labor so I changed careers. I felt more satisfied at the end of the day. Tired in my body instead of exhausted in my head. At first coding became a hobby again, then I stopped caring about computers altogether. I enjoyed the wild west internet and how easy to was to hack the software back then. Everything just seems so boring with computers now
@@drowningin you sound like my brother. He was in IT for a few years, then became a labourer, now he's a marine biologist working on the great barrier reef.
I'm absolutely at home being a nerd and am quite happy to do it until retirement, but we're all pretty envious of his path.
@@andr3s306 😂 html close
Take a shot every time he says "lie flat, let it rot"
9:53 this is true for a lot of Canadians as well. Many many people in Canada hope to get a government job (even though they usually never pay as advertised) because the incentive to get a private sector job is decreasing due to hours cuts and other things.
You’ve just described the attitudes of the youth across the western world right now, it’s not only China, places Glasgow in Scotland have a massive drug problem as result.
Glasgow has it right, the rest of the UK have the drug problem because dumb people cant handle the fact that weed is safe and people want to smoke it, in Glasgow i can smoe where and when i want, which is how it should be everywere, i dont expect to smoke in cinemas or whatever, but everywere your allowed to smoke tobbacco you should be allowed to smoke weed.
Common denominator is socalism
This is also happening in the U.S. it has been reported that 7 million men don’t have jobs in the U.S. 7 MILLION
But every single day many inmigrants arrive to us to work
@ cuz they work in less salary. Hence companies replacing Americans as they are getting cheap Labroures from south asia, east asia and Latin America.
The Terrifying Paper Dragon.
The Western Pinatta.
Seems like everything’s just hot air and a ticking time bomb running on fumes.
Based 7 million
NEETs rise up
I really enjoy your videos!! ❤ You are the calm voice in a more and more polarizing internet, especially concerning this topic. I really needed this. Thx
Exaggerated phenomenon. There are slackers - in every single family, in every single country. Pain in the ass.
Social media makes it far more prevalent as its spreads like a virus.
I worked hard at my early career . Worked after hours and weekends, went Interstate . But it didn't get me a promotion. Nepotism fucked that up. Then i had a work back injury which put me on the back foot. A fellow worker who had got injured before , warned me .I was now a liability to them. I got fit again but was still sore and couldn't work long hours.Ten years later they made me redundant. So been there done that. Your just a number
They’ll forget you after you’ve been gone a week. These assholes are cutthroat and seriously do not give a shit about their employees. I had a similar situation but in a much, much smaller timeframe than yours. I can’t imagine how rightfully pissed you were and still must be. Hope things are alright for you now.
As soon as I see a coworker get badly hurt, or get put in a situation where I could be potentially injured, I either quit or bait them into firing me if I’m under contract. Not worth my health and well being. If I am on vacation or on my day off, I ignore any calls or emails from work.
I’ve been called “lazy” and “selfish” by these self righteous Waylon Smithers type of dim coworkers and supervisors who ironically have never been promoted or just got a tiny pin hole of power via a token promotion, but one day hope the bosses notice them and pin a medal on them.
This is so true, I've worked for a Chinese company in China for 12 years and not once have I been promoted nor got a salary raise even my overtime is not compensated. They made me feel I should be thankful I have a job. The new ones without experience nor qualifications and as lazy as f@&k got a much higher salary.
Why not quit and got a new job with higher salary?
@@ronaldinojikri5682 That's why I did quit.
Even in Canada, millenials are aware that you need to change jobs in order to get a raise.
You worked there way too long without quitting. They saw you as their sucker for 12 years of your 1 and only life bruh
Make yourself more valuable then. Life doesn't owe you jack mate
Omg, everything is collapsing, everywhere, not just West. What is going on with this planet
People are finally waking up to the corrupt elites. Let it collaps
You see the same thing here in Texas. All these 20 year olds with 2023 F350's and 1000 acre ranches. They didnt pay for any that. They just inherited/given that by daddy.
Which is why you need to adopt the YUK FU principle.
Are.... Are they working the ranches?
Happened in many countries now. Life is not that long, no need to struggle so hard until stress out to benefit those born rich or from noble family.
yes... tbh i thought im one of the only/fewer ones who realising that.. after try so many years.. it has no point.
because today carreer is dead. everyone seemingly just outsorcing or give short term contract...why bother push hard for company that will sack you in 2 years?
welcome to the club, I did this shit in my early 20's. Once you understand how rigged our society is, it is easy to let go.
Fuck the rich. Don't make them richer
That’s called being a loser 😂
As a Chinese, I’d say that is a surprisingly accurate video about the current china society.
Wow!
This is happening everywhere!!
@@ArtIsDrawingNo it's not. You can't vote out the Chinese Communist Party.
that´s accurate not only in China. I live in Brazil and I live like that too.
basically around the world SEA too
This isn’t just a Chinese issue. This issue is conveyed in America as well. Working for corporations that hire through frats and colleges, and family connections that allow them to be rich while knowing/working for nothing is very much an issue in America as well.
Canada to
Thank you very much for sharing your time , your perspective and your obvious love for China. My father and his second family lived in Repulse Bay during the 1980s.
This kind of phenomenom is not only happening in China, it is happening around the world.
Its especially happening in China because employers in China are often slave drivers. They just throw the work at you and expect you to complete. You don't go back home if you don't. Just do everything thrown at you. And they do not have yearly increments due to 'inflation', its a kind of queer concept to them. To them you accepted the job at this rate, so do the job and shut up. Otherwise, I have another 1 billion candidates to interview for your replacement.
It is almost as though some sort of parasite sub human class separate from the rest of humanity that governs the minds of men.
in canada too
BAYDUH male
I think it happens anywhere with social media, but i think the problem with it in china is it is done in rebellion to the government
These ABUSES are common in ALL countries.
I get what you're saying, but your line of thought seems fallacious. Just because something occurs everywhere does not mean that it is equally or comparably bad everywhere. A lot of the world and its citizens are going through a malaise right now brought on in part by the bad incentive structures mentioned in this video. But compared to the developed world where most of this video's viewers presumably live, it is worse in China.
Bro come to Africa u will see this is small
That makes so much sense! I had just seen Elon Musk and the richest man in China (Jack Ma) have a debate on various issues, and the man sounded like a total air head. Musk and us all watching, couldn’t believe how this man had reached so high in the social economic ladder.
literally me, wont catch me with any hope for the future or ambitions
What do youth have to look forward to? What have we given them?
This is a feeling that ive gotten from corporate america. Im 22, and I had a very good job I landed around 2 years ago, but lost it a couple months back due to gross mis-management. I put my heart and soul into that job, but got nothing back for my efforts and was let go at a moments notice. As a young person, it truelly feels like there is no point to work hard if you dont have the connections or the experience to place you somewhere worth trying at.
I had that from a previous company. Go look up labour law and how you can get compensation from them. I managed to get-3.5 years with the company and they demoted me then fired me just because they thought I was overpaid. Not because of any issues, my PA was 96% - I proved I worked on average 2.5 hours of unpaid overtime with no medical leave all those years and got a great settlement in labour court. Representation is free or at a low rate, depending on your income. You can after that keep trying other places. Smaller companies have better values many times. My company was good, then as they got bigger, started to lose their soul. Started to triple my work, no extra pay. So now it’s you getting what you pay for and am on the job hunt again.
Don't put effort into your work. Put effort in networking and making connection since that effort is more rewarding.
Its called life. Life isnt meant to be a sweet siesta all through. Companies come and go, it is the natural order of things. You were just unlucky to be in one that went away.
I am 67 & back in the seventies in my twenties, it was a time of recession & it was one step forward & ten steps back 7-8 years & I had to fight "tooth & nail" & just got a moderate pittance!!
Your 22/3. Be careful which path you go down.. be under no illusions.
My teacher in college told my class about how when he took a summer job at a Robin Hood flour mill, he made enough money in a month to pay the entirety of his schooling. All of it.
A part time summer job payed for his schooling in a week (only the tuition, not the books included, but still) and hearing that made me just want to crawl under a rock somewhere and die.
There's no place for us. There's no want or need for us, aside from how we can be taken advantage of. I just want to make enough money to not have to starve like I have been the past year, but even that is too much to ask for.
The only advice that can be used that actually works (aside from the "work hard, you'll get there!!!" shit) is nepotism. Abuse nepotism where you can, take advantage of people who are already in a comfortable spot in life. Don't be an asshole, but don't feel bad.
If it weren't for my Aunt living near my school, I wouldn't have been able to go. There's no space in my schedule for a proper wage, I'd be homeless on my own.
And going back home? I'm starving all the same.
Basic things. It feels like they're too much to ask for anymore.
Another option is to be skilled. My family was on food stamps when I grew up but my twin sister and I were both smart (tied for valedictorian, got biochem and physics degrees respectively). I graduated with 9k in debt, floundered a few years, and finally got a software job making 80k and moved out. Now I'm up to 150k on merit, have enough to support my parents and their medical issues, and can still sustain myself with enough left over not to be worried. Meritocracy (specifically for talent) works.
Give me 10 years, and I hope to have complete financial security and a healthy family. I'll build myself up, find the right human, give my children a better start than I had, and hopefully watch them conquer the world.
@@doggo6517 you might even call yourself the Top Dog.
@The European Bee If being smart is biological lottery, it's also innate superiority. Or if it's upbringing + environment, then that's another reason for me to propagate my way of being. Hard work is also fine, but it's overshadowed by the "don't make stupid choices" advantage, which covers career choice, criminality, and family planning.
These are all merits that should be rewarded, lest we fall into a dysgenic idiocratic welfare state.
my grandfather worked one season at a fish plant (about 4 months) and was able to buy a small house when he was like 20 years old. like fully paid for.
@The European Bee doing good in school requires good parents regardless of income. you think a kid whos parents don't even care if you show up to school or not are gonna get good grades? especially if you have abusive parents like a lot of people have had. shit my mother couldn't even read when I was in kindergarten and she used to get mad when I brought homework home. she'd rather tell the school i didn't bring it home than tell them she couldn't read so she couldn't help me with it.
Here's a shocking tale. While teaching geometry in Shenzhen to teenagers, I met a young man who wouldn't do any work at all in the lesson. I showed him anger, to motivate him, and he responded with a breakdown of modern global society that was inciteful, incredibly wise and not overly negative. His understanding of where he was in life surpassed my own. I was just staring at him in the classroom, thinking 'How can I learn more from this wise person without ruining my role as class teacher?' LOL!
What worked
@@brandoninhofer6592 nothing. he joined the Chinese 'lie flat, let it rot' teens. His argument for it seemed unassailable.
Same here in Myanmar
I've been watching your content lately every time ❤
Something similar is happening in Japan, but its been going on for some time (I live in Japan so I'm "in the know"). I've met lots of Chinese that have moved to Japan and they always complain about how much worse the work environment is in China, which is a surprise because Japan doesn't have the greatest work culture either.
That is truly messed up when one consider the Japanese work culture relatively better than theirs.
This is very common for chinese people, especially those who live in China. They study really hard there, got their master degree and then move to other country. A lot of my relatives are like that too.
One person’s misfortune is another person’s treasure.
@@emperorfaiz not really, among the East Asian countries Japan has the most lenient work culture among those three. Heck I’m an immigrant from Malaysian and even I think Japan has a better work environment than my own. Japan is no work utopia but it’s better than most and some people fail to realise that.
Its not really a surprise, Japan's work culture wasn't really the best but its no different than the US or most countries. Also the difference was Japan is a free speech country. You can complain if there's a slight inconvenience or even exaggerate how bad a country is with no consequences. But for china, not so much...
I'm lying flat in USA too. No hope of buying a house or living a normal life. In USA it’s called “quiet quitting.”
Me too after realizing that even one of those mail order tesla houses is a pipe dream.
@GhillieGoat Shed in a trailer park bud.
@GhillieGoat You need to look in different counties. I found a county in Virginia that has no zoning. You can put a shed on it & live off grid. They don't care...
@GhillieGoat and of course taxes. Don't forget. Your land(s) aren't really yours because if you don't pay uncle Sam, say bye-bye to your land(s). Hell this goes to any of your properties. Your car, your house and so on. You're actually renting those.
That's dumb and completely irrational lol There's ton of people that buy a house
Crazy how timely this is to me. I'm trying every day to fight off a let it rot mindset. I'm desperate not to feel this way but it's so difficult in this life where where you're faced with either risking it all to try and attempt to live your dream or sell your years away, slaving just to survive, which you try and reason with yourself is the 'normal' approach. And then you come home and everything from the news to the internet to UA-cam just remind you what a terrifying clown world we are living in right now, of funhouse mirrors and insane logic and it makes you wonder if you should even bother trying to aim for more when we live in such a routinely restrictive, spiteful world that can slap you down so easily.
When I feel that way, I know it's time to talk to a friend, take a hike, sit on the porch swing, or go fishing.
@@dodieodie498 Very, very true.
There’s plenty of time to rot. First we must grow.
The world is brutal!😬😬🤦
This exact meaninglessness, "life in vain" is very well explained by King Salamon, in the book of Ecclesiastes.
I encourage you to read it...
I went on Zillow and contacted someone about a $1k 1 bedroom apartment. They call me back and tell me it's $1,500. I think it's time to let the US rot as well.
Late-stage Capitalism & inherent corruption that is present at all levels of government (in the US) will naturally lead to the collapse of US hegemony, the collapse of the US in general, too. But I think about, how can we organize and rebuild or build something better from the ashes post-collapse. What mistakes can we avoid doing again & what will we do better (and how).
LMAO- you think TPTB are just gonna let us rebuild & start anew without them? Please. The ones in charge are responsible for the DELIBERATE collapse & all ready have the next stage of our enslavement planned out. Hagaelian dialectic- problem, reaction *solution* 😃
Hate to tell you this, but the wealthy people in western democracies also for the most part did not earn their money. There's just a little more wiggle room to get ahead very slightly vs the middle class of China.
be safe Serpentza thank you
Feels familiar actually, in college I worked for the major retailer here in the US, you know who, for four years. Many managers would use hard workers to advance themselves and then fire them for getting overtime. I learned that if I just coasted I got ignored but still got the same paycheck.
Wow, that’s heartless of them, but not surprising. Every job seems to be the same. I used to be way more motivated and helpful, but there’s really no point anymore.
@@janedoll3237 Damn I feel the same way too.
Thats what you get when you have females running HR trying to suck up to the boss as well.
@@phoenixrising4995 It has nothing to do with women in those positions. Don’t be an incel
The term 'Quiet quitting' is popular in the West. Quiet quitting means you do the bear minimum, enough work to not get you sacked.
I have what I feel is a good job with good colleagues, so I'm motivated to actually work as much as I can while actually at work. I don't do it for a raise, or a promotion. I just want to do my part.
If I had some soul-crushing, meaningless job in a terrible company and with bad colleagues, I would "lie flat", too.
Yeah, I’ve never actually met anyone who is doing that. I live in a big city in America and everyone working in the corporate world here is hustling. There are incentives for hard work - raises, bonuses, stock options, 401k, financial planning, life insurance. Plus the jobs usually offer medical and dental. Despite the long hours, there’s a lot given back so folks don’t want to do the bare minimum and risk losing their job.
I thought it was a little different. You are doing that, but with the premise you are being hired for a new and better job and you are doing enough work for the current company to cover you until you can start with the new company
*bare
That's not quiet quitting. It's just doing your job, but not wagesl4ving for extra hours for no extra money. I do fantastic work, but only for the agreed upon hours and no more. But HR would consider me a quiet quitter because I have no interest in going above and beyond.
That sponsored spiel you gave had me really cracking up thank you man!
Like literally the best advertising ever
The whole world feels as if it's falling apart!! Economics, politics, dating. Its so sad
Ever since the pandemic lockdowns, it seems like people have become demoralized. They have given up on trying anymore. They are afraid of investing or staring businesses because if the government decides to lockdown again, they could go out of business. It's just not worth it anymore.
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"dating" lol what?
@@supernice_auto superficial people
@@kiri5548 true
In Germany we have the same thing. My last two raises have been for nothing because we now have high gas prices. I have continued my education for many hundreds of hours and now everything has not brought anything. It makes me sick.
from what I hear, it's gonna get worse over there. Especially once Winter hits.
It's the same here in Los Angeles. I work in IT and recently got promoted to the next tier. But it only pays like $50 more per week.
Especially for the young generation, including myself. We rather want to life and apreciate our precious time, because we can't buy time. Spending time with our loved ones is more important than working to yourself to death. 99% are richer than 1% around the planet. Work smart not hard ist mein motto.
Do a strike
Then it's just your fault. "Jeder ist seines Glückes Schmied" it's way more probable that your has no worth to your employer and you just wasted your time because you have no clue what you are doing
Thank you for good the informative videos
This is happening globally. And then people also wonder why the number of people wanting to have babies is drastically dropping? Who wants to give birth to a future homeless person or slave? Cold. But reality.
feels like a entire world problem.
Hard working people. Reminded me of how “no good deed shall go unpunished.” Thank you for sharing this with us. Stay awesome. ❤
'The floggings will continue until morale improves.'
@@terencejay8845 I think it was the Nazi concentration labor/extermination camp Called either Auschwitz or Berkenau where they.hung up big sign that said "work is freedom" or something like that.
Which seems sorta logical even to some people today when it's not posted at the extermination camp, because they see work as freeing. They don't realise it's not freedom if you have to work to get it. Esspecially at an extermination camp more specifically 😂
Thank you 🙏
Kind of sounds like everywhere.
This is true in the West too. Work hard and make someone else rich. It's a fool's game.
Jepp, and it gets even better when the boss mocks you for being poor.
equalism is stupid. stop trying to equalisze everything
Can this be apply to Socialism (equity of outcome pay), to enrich the politicians and their in-line Corporations lobbyists as well?
My experience from working hard and going the extra mile is I get to do other people's work who either aren't good at the job or do the bare minimum.
Yes, preach!!! Taken advantage of.
Like they say, flog a willing horse and it's true in most work environments nowadays.
1st or second thing i learned in corporate job was - do not ever go over bare minimum unless you alredy got raise :D
People have more potential than they dare to imagine. We will overcome
Let not kid ourselves. The nepotistic reasoning used for rich Chinese people also apply to ones from any other country.
Following your content and other youtubers on the subject of China, I've often heard of "Lying flat" and "Let it rot."
I appreciate your personal experience and reasonable, down to earth take on this and the many other subjects you cover. Cheers
You can't be a slave if you do the bear minimum. I also cut my work week by 90% or until Biden is out of office. Low work effort, low income = LOW TAXES! REMEMBER JACK MA!!!
@@johnslugger I stopped contributing to the Federal Government 10 years ago. I was a computer engineer. I got mad that I was giving 40% of my income to the government that doesn't do ANYTHING to deserve it. I don't get to vote on where my money goes. If Joe Biden wants to send billions to the Ukraine, I don't have a choice in the matter. I'm done. I'm demotivated.
@@BrewsterMcBrewster I'm sorry you don't see the bigger picture (helping Ukraine is about stopping dictatorships, not just helping one country). Your tax dollars ARE often wasted by the govt, but helping Ukraine isn't a waste.
All they have to do is copy copy copy copy copy copy copy.................................................from other countries !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@toby-xo6rb You don't have to apologize. Every dollar that the government sends out of this country is unconstitutional. That is the "big picture". There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that gives any member of the Federal Government the power to send U.S. tax dollars to any country for any reason. When Biden gives money to the Ukraine, he is breaking Constitutional law. Look it up.
Most hard work worldwide is unrewarded, while a small section of the population get immense reward for it. For all the social, cultural and political differences all humans are in the same struggle.
It's because they're smart. Smart people don't suffer.
@@sigmachadtrillioniare6372 I disagree, intelligence doesn't always lead to success. Once you're past a certain threshold of intelligence it comes down to luck, nepotism, perseverance, and sacrfice to out compete. This is a game where you can do everything right and still lose.
@@donventura2116 that's what every loser thinks. Intelligence isn't being a book nerd or some uni degree holder. Having an open mind, being able to look at things with proper vision, percipacacity. This all gets you rich. There are tens of people who are self made rich, even if not billionaires. You can easily make 10 million dollars if you're smart enough. Obviously you have to make sacrifices.
@@sigmachadtrillioniare6372 well which is it, "smart people don't suffer" or "of course you need sacrifice"? If you need intelligence and sacrifice, I'd wager you'd need plenty of other traits and fortuitous circumstances. Also am I correct in assuming that you believe there is only a very small selection of "smart" people since only 1% of people in the US have a net worth of 10 million?
@@sigmachadtrillioniare6372 that's the most ridiculous take