Mutiny In China: Young Chinese are Threatening CCP's Rule

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China's Youth Crisis: How Young Chinese are Threatening CCP's Rule?
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[@BusinessBasicsYT]

Be sure to scroll up and hit the like button

[@JM_Retired]

I did 😂

[@thisgame2]

Looks about as real as the falling down videos during covid, good try fella

[@andrius505]

996 shift is 66 work hours, not 72

[@hiriasbloodweaver8593]

You have a few common misunderstandings. 1) GDP growth is neither infinitely possible nor necessary. The only reason why GDP growth is "good" is because inflation devalues the currency and a stable GDP actually means getting poorer. The reasons for inflations are that it helps the government paying back debt by stealing from the poor (low wage workers get a deflating currency which means their wages go DOWN every year). Therefore current GDP growth is not "good", it is a sign that we base our economies on a fundamentally broken and exploitative system. Look at history, stable economic systems without any inflations are the best for overall prosperity. In such a system, GDP growth can only be possible by technology increasing efficiency and population growth, which both are finite. With a stable currency and a stable population, GDP growth can only be minimal, because it is only driven by advances in technology. But that is not a bad thing because people can accumulate wealth instead of constantly getting poorer. 2) The reason for lower birth rates is not to a significant degree related to living costs. The strongest driver of declining birthrates are feminism/gynocentric societies (South Korea & Japan are prime examples), female education and women entering the workforce. The longer a woman spends in education or working, the less likely she is to ever have children. It's obvious. At 30, women have used up 90% of their eggs. So if you spend pursuing a masters degree until you're 28, you barely have time left. It's stupid and societal suicide to encourage women's education.

[@nadineb2726]

​@@andrius505he's not very bright

[@ChimbzZ]

It's starting to feel like the entire global economy is a ponzy scheme

It is. It is based on growth, but endeless growth is impossible. Not all the economy is though, if the company is based on revenue instead of growth it will probably be a little better in that quesity.

[@JohnDoe-pd4jo]

Because it is, especially in our country lol. Imagine being taxed and charged penalties for your own money.

[@Leo.Labine]

Pretty much. As someone else stated, its perfectly fine as long as your population grow. But weve been regressing for 2 generation now....... People keep bitching about immigration, but its the only way to keep the level of services they expect 🤷‍♂️

[@averybaumann]

Wealth is more concentrated than any time in history and the average person has lost motivation.

[@mikef2811]

Yep. China is not the only country struggling. In the US we are also struggling big time. Homeless is everywhere, along with everything else. USA looks like a Third World Country.

[@adampagano5361]

The Renaissance thinkers got it right: society exists to serve the individual, not the other way around. If the individual has nothing to gain from participating, they have no reason to do so.

[@Syzygy_Bliss]

They got it even more right than you think, because for society to serve the individual to the best of its abilities, they must earnestly participate in its cultivation, development, and maintenance.

[@user-oo3vz2gt6v]

It does. And it is happening since the begining of time. Yet we think it is bad. Because society exists to serve the individuals with power and money to gain even more power and money. Since the dawn of time. And you know what? It works. It keeps *everything* runing. Easy as that.

[@Ghekko-kw3zz]

​@@Syzygy_BlissWhich includes the ineffable, subtle, trace minerals of living fully, not just making money into the be all & end all, alongside the Party.

[@tobedecided9544]

Society as the Renaissance thinkers does not exist. The modern "society" is a few steps removed from a factory farm. Try telling the factory farmer that the cow needs space to turn in its cage and he will laugh.

[@marjoriecoey3418]

Just remember Tianen Square and be careful.😮

[@DeusExMachina10001]

This is happening with people all over the world, especially with young men. You can't threaten or shame people who, in their despair, have simply given up.

[@Ghekko-kw3zz]

Or just flat out lie, doubling up on lies, making an ever more absurd theatre of politics.

[@TryssemTavern]

@@Ghekko-kw3zz The youth have grown wise that the carrot being dangled in front of them is tied to a stick that is in the hands of greedy individuals who would put them in shackles if they could get away with it.

[@Not_interestEd-]

"You're gonna starve!" And what if I do? I can't afford to live anyway. Edit: I just got the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work harder, we all have problems" argument in the replies. How FOOLISH of you!

[@unknownsample4801]

also that is what happens when you take away their video games lol

[@sankarayavoo7460]

@@Not_interestEd- Not at the countryside. You can live good life by growing your own food. Which is what the CCP doing destroying farmers produce. Only some videos come out despite all the restrictions.

[@sandman4663]

Gen Z in China and Gen Z in the USA have more in common than they realize.....

[@schao2156]

Genz Z Americans and Chinese don't hate one another. Maybe it's because of Tiktok, but there's mutual respect between the two. it's the older generation of Chinese/Americans driving that wedge through the politics and legacy media that they still control.

[@jpsnyder]

we're less divided and different than most news/social media would like us to think

[@r7r273]

I don't know for China but gen z in the west are too lazy to simply read a biology book or a dictionary or basic economic theory. Don't talk that highly (as I am also gen Z)

[@Blankenboom77]

You’re right. US gonna be really surprised when they call on us to “defend Taiwanese democracy” and none of us answer the call. US military has lost every shred of credibility it may have once had.

[@callaco3176]

​@@schao2156Boomers and their strangleholds.

[@cherylbrown4483]

The white collar vs blue collar job is happening in America, too, after decades of shoving a college education down our throats. Now you have very educated fast food workers. But no carpenters.

[@Aiveq]

its not just collars. everyone wants to be special and result is no one special. hence ever expanding rainbow...

[@mr_bunker1944]

And if prices don’t go down we will most likely all be Liveing in parents basements.

[@storage9578]

blue collar simply doesn't pay enough. You get a real risk of work injuries up to risk of dead and it doesn't pay more than office jobs. Only logical people dont want it.

[@ShaneMcGrath.]

@@mr_bunker1944 Some already are, Beats living in a tent in a public park or in their car.

[@rogergeyer9851]

As if no one can go into the trades.

[@edthelazyboy]

I don't think youth giving up is limited to China. I'm hearing about quiet quitting, giving up on life milestones, and not marrying / having kids around the world. The younger generations around the world feel that their dreams are out of reach and there's no hope for the future.

[@davisutton1]

You are correct. In large part the Boomer generation grabbed the best of everything and now, across the world, younger generations are giving up en masse. It is too easy to say China bad, West good or vice versa but the effects described here are far more ubiquitous than many assume. We have become so tribal that "China bad" must entail "USA good" and it simply doesn't. This development involves a deep level of incoherence and ignores the more general social and economic malaise effecting younger generations.

[@infidel202]

​@@davisutton1have you read what you wrote, you are blaming everyone else for your problems, the boomers look everything that was good, just that comment alone is ridiculous, at the start of the boomers generation we had high prices, low wages on everything, polio, whooping cough and quiet a few other diseases to content with, while the cold war loomed over us until glasnost happened to russia, the difference between the generations is we didn't blame the previous generation while bemoaning our fate, we just got on with it

[@cho4d]

@@infidel202 you are taking it personally. it's nothing personal. it's a matter of history. boomers have absolutely gotten the golden ticket. your houses exploded 10x in value at a minimum. you could afford a house and support a family and have a great standard of living on a single income. now, for the first time in history, pensioners have more disposable income than the working age adults (at least in the UK, i don't know about other places). Boomers went through school/college/uni for free, then put their children in to life ruining debt because boomers vote in their own self interest (as do all people). This is just the stuff i can remember off the top of my head. If you care to (i am assuming you don't) do some research you will find a lot of information out there about this phenominon.

[@infidel202]

@@cho4d no we didn't and please don't project, I'm not talking anything personally yet it seems you are, boomers on average started work at 15, what age were you when you started work

[@MegaGird]

​@@infidel202 there's a reason younger people feel that way. It's hard to get a job that pays well nowadays, either low wage one or be in debt to open up a business. Also even if they save up to buy a house in the cities, they will be in more debt (prolly until they die). So what they do? They do quiet quitting. And the older generation will see them as the lazy one. Also, I know some older generation who think the younger one are able to get a lot of money because the world already connected, but the reality is there's a lot of em struggle to pay the monthly rent.

[@annchurchill2638]

As I read online, so many countries are in chaos ,and it's ALWAYS the Govt .and not the millions of people who are not in control. The people are captive, angry and powerless.

[@shernandez1029]

I thought governments were made by the people…

[@Marryjanesbud]

@@shernandez1029made by. Not maintained by. They exist to serve. They’re literally public servants

[@meyrickjoe9498]

@@Marryjanesbud not in China. They'd be the boss lol

[@eric97909]

powerless individually, but as these young Chinese are showing the Chinese government, not so powerless together

[@mvp019]

Chaos always benefits those in power - that's why our press stokes as much division in the USA as it can over almost anything you can think of. If we are divided and squabbling among ourselves, they can do whatever they want.

[@PeterPan-is6ts]

As a Chinese international student studying in Hong Kong, I’d like to clarify the term "Bai lan. 摆烂" While it does suggest a sense of giving up to some extent, on the Chinese internet, it's often used in a more lighthearted or joking manner. Although the trend reflects the pressures that young people are facing, it doesn't carry the strong sense of rebellion that this video seems to suggest. The video portrays it almost as if it's part of an ongoing protest, implying that young people are truly giving up on life. In reality, it's more of a humorous way of saying that life is tough and we're jokingly 'giving up' on small things.

[@PeterPan-is6ts]

but I must admit the work culture here in China is very tough. Much similar to the ones in Tokyo Japan if you want a example.

[@simplisimp]

Western world desperate to make it fit their narrative, have zero regard of nuance as long they can sell their supremacy fantasy

[@ludwigwittgenstein1280]

you sound delusional

[@eno88]

too bad. I thought people finally started pushing for change, but I guess they're still sleeping.

[@monn9239]

it's a bit of both, now im going to make sopme assumption about you, from the way you talk abt china i belive you traveled abroad before the pandemic and before it things weren't nealry as bad as they are now, if you search a bit on the internet you will find thousands if not hundreds fo thousands of people in china trying to find a job, the cuntless layoff didn't help and a lot of graduates restor to be food delivery guys , and even then the chinese police confiscate their scooter like they are all illegal. the job situation i way worse than i think you realize

[@kailani112]

A common conversation among the youth my daughter included is that no matter how hard they work they wont be able to afford a home and being over taxed.

[@tannermuhle9524]

Ya that was in the vid

[@nohopeequalsnofear3242]

That's world wide

[@wildfire9280]

Taxes themselves can be used to lower housing costs, whenever enough people decide to use them better. Edit: There are more than two ways in which this is true, but two in particular are especially strong. A tax collected from the unimproved value of land-essentially “recycling” it-is a direct counterweight to housing prices. When land value is taxed, that taxation itself pressures the landowner to bring in enough revenue to at least make back what gets collected. At its fullest, the tax ensures profitable land can only be made profitable if it is fully tapped into without waste or inefficiency, effectively tying supply with demand. When people take notice of the widespread, expensive, and often fruitless or ridiculous government subsidization of certain companies to entire industries there’s a popular idea that we should be subsidizing _people_ more than corporations. This one isn’t quite what you’d call a tax at all (although it takes after the name of one it is the inverse of), but it does exactly that. The negative income tax, as proposed by Milton Friedman, would have replaced all other social welfare spending using income tax revenue to plug the gap between household incomes and the threshold for eligibility.

[@BoehmTech]

That's Canada...

[@2B_or_not_2B]

@@wildfire9280the government spending is what fuels these crisis. The government will never spend your money as wisely as you will. $25,000 first time buyer credit from the government just means that everyone will now sell homes for $25000 more because they know the government is funding it.

[@michaeltulig6525]

In the USSR a couple generations ago there was a saying: “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us."

[@BarHawa]

I'm going to keep this one lol

[@alfjones6377]

​@@BarHawa hahaha same here

[@linanicolia1363]

cute ! Only Putin got to accumulate billions......from the national resources. Should have gone to the people but it went to one man. He got away with it. For how long, now ?

[@martinstoilov7923]

It was widespread across the countries in the Warsaw Pact. I remember my parents saying something like, "They can’t pay us less than we can manage to work."

[@gingy2828]

This is exactly word by word what they say in Bulgaria

[@Remi_Lin]

As someone from China, now living in the US, I stand with them. We’re all tired of our lives being minimized and sad. They can’t crush those that have already broken.

[@WVgrl59]

I agree.❤

[@muhammadnazerinsaripin1925]

US aren't that good to, see how things in US became to chaotic, glad Malaysia aren't like other country.

[@billbob5701]

@@muhammadnazerinsaripin1925 Ok bot

[@Musick79]

You aren’t voting for Kamala who quotes Mao Tse Tung are you? What do you think of the foreigners China has helped travel up to USA so they could overthrow our government to communism?

[@Musick79]

@@billbob5701 You don’t have to be a bot- it’s obvious to the awake- not woke.

[@BingoGo2Space]

Gov: Damn, young people don't have job Company: 74 hours per week, 1 worker worth 2

[@gamrage]

I've heard of people boycotting products, but I had no clue that you could boycott entire China itself.

[@Mastamote]

people dont boycott china they boycott the entire capitalist global econvmy based on eternal growth wich is a pyeamidal scheme.

[@Vatharian]

Quiet quitting, mgtow, hikikimori... that's all a form of protest. If country needs you, but you don't need the country... well, why you should bother?

[@minilamma4879]

This is what happens when the economy is so strictly influenced by government policies. When the economy goes to shi, you can only blame the government

[@KijCiWOkoSuko]

​@@Vathariansaid the same thing, the whole movement isn't new, just a new name and I guess it's more deserving of an acknowledgement nod since it's happening in china

[@Unknownlng]

@@Vatharian ‘quiet quitting’ 🙄 it’s not a form of protest to only work on what you’re paid to work on and nothing else.

[@sean8514]

What's happening in the USA is similar. "Quite quitting" and the amount of youth that have the "why bother? I'll never be able to afford a house, car, wife/husband and 2.5 kids with how impossible it is anymore." Having a regular job for 10 years won't get you the "American dream" anymore. It will take 3 regular jobs 10 years to afford the dream. It's so stacked against the youth right now, everywhere, apparently. It's sad.

[@panasane]

'never be able to afford a >husband

[@sean8514]

@@panasane 🤣I hear ya!🤣

[@taiganb3463]

@@panasaneidk marriage expensive

[@sladewilson8241]

Well in poland is normal taking loan for 30 years to buy small flat and we all live like that and americans cry because cannot buy in 10 years. And also we dont go holidays because is to expensive to fly somewhere so we going mostly in coutry attractions

[@Rusty_Gold85]

whataboutism

[@keithcook3908]

Imagine working 72 hours a week plus some extra and still not being able to make enough money to make a living

[@Zorobbabel]

It's a nightmare 😫

[@BruhMoment-dt2fh]

soo the uk and us?

[@redridingcape]

​@@BruhMoment-dt2fh Bro in the USA even people in poverty have cell phones, air conditioning, cars, etc. Besides the homeless people addicted to drugs or with mental problems, pretty much everyone in the USA is rich by global standards, and the homeless aren't homeless because of economics the vast majority of the time.

[@meteorknight999]

In nowhere the video said 72 hours week wont get you enough to make a living. They can actually buy house, afford kids but it needs you to be 72 hrs a week.

[@IceSick88]

Me

[@jebbroham1776]

Even with all the incredible groundbreaking technological advances the world has made over the last 20 years, our quality of life has been getting progressively WORSE not better.

[@thomaxtube]

It’s the (rigged) wealth distribution system, only benefiting the richest 1% of population, on others expense, not the technological advancements, that are causing the chaos and suffering, world wide.

[@raven4k998]

this is why I am glad I am not a dictator🤣🤣

[@last-smoke]

😂how do you know that？ are you in china ?

[@jebbroham1776]

@@last-smoke It's a fact world wide, not just in China, unless you live under a rock or in your parents' basement.

[@BearHeadedWerewolf]

The Chinese youth are not alone. The youth around the world stand with them.

[@shernandez1029]

I dunno my man…

[@KitchenFSink]

No we don't

[@BearHeadedWerewolf]

@@shernandez1029 Hold up, why not? 😂

[@東亜病夫]

Not really...

[@MA-nm2tv]

​@@KitchenFSink There will come a time when we will all have to stand up if we want our freedom.

[@sageoldmann5157]

This is happening in the United States too. My coworker said it best. “Minimum wage gets them minimum effort. No one works hard because there’s no incentive. we can’t afford cars houses food what’s the point?

[@lynnelee4390]

Heck I worked minimum age for many years. Hard work. I managed.

[@lynnelee4390]

The key tho is getting a good proper education from the ground up. I didn't have that, so I struggled for many years, even at that most of my problems I brought on myself. I was 45 before I finally settled into a trade and was truly independent

[@MrKinkysloth]

@@lynnelee4390years ago it was manageable… not anymore

[@debbidonosenshi]

​@@lynnelee4390if you're anything above the age of 30 as of now then you are probably gonna be out of touch with how rough it really is now, the exact wording you used is that if someone who doesn't know. You wouldn't be saying that if you did lol

[@lordsysop]

​@@lynnelee4390lol... cheaper rent better pay no inflation. Wake up to yourself.

[@mshamblam]

Been saying gen Z would be the generation to actually do something about all these broken societal systems for a while now. I was always thinking of western countries when I said it, but it turns out it's all of gen Z.

[@Gl0ckb1te]

I couldnt ever stand the trash talk towards gen z. I saw the rat race early on in life and stand shoulder to shoulder with them on economic and beaucatic issues.

[@SuperKendoman]

These systems were designed by the wealthy 1% across the globe to benefit only themselves and will continue to be that way. I don't see anyone being able to rewire this stuff in the next several thousand years. There's a masters dissertation by economist Gary Stevenson who resides currently in Japan that I think you should read. It talks about wealth inequality in the world.

[@persel_hd]

Doing something by doing nothing

[@bankaihampter2802]

Last time a youth started a movement against the Chinese government it didn't turn so well for them. Wish them good luck this time

[@dejangegic]

it's different this time

[@amraceway]

@@dejangegic Donald Trump is leading them

[@spectralstriker]

​@@dejangegichopefully

[@Midge1k]

It’s what the Democrats want here - censor , disarm , price controls , crushing taxes and mandates that are their the policies .

[@Nemesislord001]

Correct if I’m wrong but the last youth movement involved active protests which allowed the government to justify exerting force whereas this movement has resulted in the youth just giving up (not doing something) which means the government are at a crossroads as they can’t really use force this time round.

[@Aaron-gm5tr]

You cant "harvest the leeks" when they have given up and are allowing it to rot... Wonder who will feed the rich when they have no slave labor anymore.

[@d4n93r]

They can eat their money

[@n8zog584]

Ancient Roman citizens had "walkouts" where less wealthy city dwellers would just LEAVE a city to protest the rich and the land owners. They might go to work but if they had their own business they'd bring their wares with them. It would happen for weeks at a time. During that time, it meant that food was hard to come by for the rich, sewers would overflow, soldiers and law enforcement were sparse, e.t.c. I dont think it would work nowadays thanks to how automated everything is. But it's a thought

[@de14jabs]

@@n8zog584one system shut down in any sector besides govment causes massive problems. It's easy to disrupt a bloated system

[@lostdaze1145]

Exactly 💯 The rich feed off the masses.

[@lostdaze1145]

Exactly 💯 The rich feed off the masses

[@jimmyhvy2277]

They don't have enough young people , BUT , they don't have enough jobs for the young people they do have . WTF ?

[@apveening]

There would be enough jobs if they ever started enforcing that maximum of 44 hours per week instead of quietly allowing 72.

[@donnarichardson7214]

They have educated a huge generation of college students but there aren't jobs for that education level. They're trying to pressure them into taking factory jobs and other low-wage, low-skill jobs. And the grads aren't having it.

[@magnusspas7732]

@@apveening good luck with finding blue collars who only want to work 44 hours a week

[@apveening]

@@magnusspas7732 I know several who think 36 is enough.

[@W_Bin]

Machines produce everything now. There are whole cities of empty buildings. There is enough for everyone to be wealthy. But the super-greedy sociopaths must have more people so they can threaten everyone with poverty if they don't so what they are told and keep paying more and more.

[@Aaron-ih3lo]

So nice to here china 🇨🇳 is going through the same issues as us American 🇺🇸 youth

[@DKisOk]

The one child policy has made Chinese parents charish the one child they were allowed to have and these children refuse to be treated badly by their government!!!

[@merisav4171]

This also created thousands of women without any documents

[@Garbagecant24]

Makes you wonder what they were thinking lol

[@ns-rc4na-142]

@@Garbagecant24They thought they could play God and decide who gets to have kids and how many

[@augoosto11]

Yeah, they cherished their one child so much they dumped millions of their female children on the streets, dumpsters, and overburdened orphanages with a mortality rate worse than a 18th century sanatorium. Assuming those children didn't starve, die of exposure, die of lacking medical care, or any of the many other maladies, they could look forward to either being adopted by people from other countries who didn't qualify for adoption in their home countries, OR be sold into sex slavery. Yeah, Chinese parents are famously loving.

[@nothereyetlost]

@@merisav4171how did they create undocumented women?

[@MrAdamArce]

Weird. As an American, I can totally understand that feeling of wanting to give up at times cause everything isn't adding up. Wages aren't matching costs

[@Davido50]

Never give up. Your an American. 👍🏻Be sure to vote smart in Nov!

[@BoleDaPole]

you still think voting matters, how adorably naive

[@winzyl9546]

Trickle down economics, where nothing trickles down and the rich accumulate properties so that you cant afford to buy a home and be forced to rent forever thereby your wealth ends up trickling up.

[@winzyl9546]

​@@BoleDaPolethey wouldnt be wasting billions in lobbying if it didnt.

[@zosochan21]

​@@winzyl9546You can select who wins but you can't select who runs.

[@benwalton7565]

You have to understand, this is everywhere. Out of my 8 friend friend group, only 4 of them are doing college. 1 of these college friends isn't even doing it consistently. We are accepting lower paying jobs that don't support career building, just to accept being normal, unsuccessful people. If this is a problem that the world desires changed, then it needs to make room for us. Because in reality, there isn't.

[@What11235]

Write your Congress person and Senators and tell them to cancel H2B visas that let foreigners come in, for less money, and take the skilled jobs. Those Jobs could be going to American youth etc. as careers. Tell the party that has opened the borders to close them. Vote for the Presidential Candidate who was bringing American jobs back to the US. His daughter had also worked with industry leaders to get more people training in classic trade schools. Do the research and you will see who that is.

[@ttylerle]

@@What11235what a way to discourage the growth of our economy and power but ok

[@TotalXPvideos]

​@@ttylerleman we've been letting them in for the last 50 years and the economy just got worse, I would rather have a shitty economy but actually slowly get some money build up and not even mention, be happy, than have an even worse economy where only the rich are able to buy stuff on expense of said foreigners.

[@Evil-Rod-Farva]

@@ttylerlelook around you. Does it look like the middle class is shrinking or expanding? The amount of money in our economy is ultimately worthless if >90% of people are poor. I’m a millennial and an engineering grad. Ending H1B and closing worthless programs here at home would ultimately help Americans. There are companies today whom want to do business in America, but outsource their engineering to India to save a buck. These loopholes need closed because it’s un-American.

[@Elias-l1f]

​@What11235 you say this like this wasn't going on 500 years ago, when there weren't migrants flooding in. The problem isn't foreigners, it's greed and selfish thinking to suit agendas (from those in power) then have a huge butterfly effect on every other citizen

[@TrippinCreatives]

Its not a rebellion. Its having more expectations out of life then getting married, having a kid and then dying. And people just give up because that cant break out of that cycle.

[@CharlieApples]

Not even getting married and having a kid, because even that comes second to working for a giant corporation in exchange for nothing. 50+ hour work weeks and you can’t even pay your cost of living, let alone save for the future. How can anyone afford to get married, buy a home, and have children? Not everyone can be a doctor, attorney, or lead engineer. Not everyone even WANTS to be! The very basics for a normal and happy life are rapidly becoming impossible for the average person to achieve, and not just in China.

[@CharlieApples]

Who can afford to date, get married and have children?

[@naemasufi]

Social engineering and the human mind was never going to end well.

[@freedomdude5420]

All governments are try to denial social engineer exists, like California is not taking Chinese Mon.

[@n8zog584]

Maybe, but I'd like to point out that the human mind came up with social engineering.

[@erickrobson60]

?????? Yah and it also came up with a ton of other dog sheet ideas … so what we trying to say ?

[@joshanonline]

@@n8zog584 "And the human mind also fails." That's how you sound lol The so-called shit-posting.

[@paulbillingham6769]

This is an extremely intelligent comment. Thank you.

[@matthewrayborn8557]

Ah so it is the Chinese equivalent of "quiet quiting"

[@jokwonpope1561]

They aren’t getting paid for it lol it’s the Chinese equivalent of homeless people and instead of asking for money it’s a part time job

[@georgesoros4223]

Sort of, but more like straight up quitting

[@squ34ky]

It's the Chinese youth deciding en masse to emulate Peter from "Office Space".

[@Admiral_Bongo]

More serious, I'd say. Matter of a fact, I was surprised when I learnt of "quiet quitting", as it's pretty much a norm in Europe, including here in Russia. "I don't get paid extra, I don't work extra" is a normal approach to things.

[@Kukimuncher]

So much more extreme than that. People are literally choosing to be unemployed and homeless.

[@zacbarrett8875]

Crazy how when less money goes to the normal everyday working people they become economically stressed and have less kids. At least all the fortune 500 companies are making record profits

[@Panmedico404]

Thank god America supports the rights of corporations so we can be free and not cobbumism. ☺️

[@cafelatte1124]

"Give me the control of nations wealth, and I care not who makes its laws"

[@yerfoeg]

Let's not pretend like that's the reason. I know MANY financially well of people that chose to terminate the child for no other real reason then it is the current social norm to do so. It's pathetic and sad that you blame economy for people's personal and ethical decisions. I suppose if the economy is bad enough you would go out and SA people? Disgusting

[@MrJeffHead]

They could invest in and benefit from being a shareholder of those companies.

[@POVShotgun]

@@MrJeffHead nah the stock is weird in china, it doesnt go up, just like in thailand

[@mrjacelightning]

Same happening in the USA. Called "Quiet Quitting" here. Young people aren't searching for jobs.

[@taroman7100]

There are NO jobs. They have been outsourced or robots do the work now. The coming of the silicon chip eliminated not created millions of jobs. Look at what is lost in jobs with the cell phone! All good paying jobs and with the cell phone we have no backup.

[@mytotoro9875]

There is no jobs. Any tech related jobs have 1000+ people fighting over it not even accounting if it was a real job or not. Most of the jobs posted on job platform were ghost jobs.

[@Jamlord2061]

calling it quiet quitting is as dumb as calling this Chinese state of affairs as a protest

[@Olterior]

Thats not what quiet quitting is lol. It's when you stop doing your job but don't quit.

[@the_keen_edge]

Here's a message to China's youth. Keep it up, stay strong, strength is in numbers. There are more of you than them, you have the upper hand.

[@sp-tw8ij]

But the government (CCP) has advance face recognision camera's to track people, ,police, army, secret surveillance and informants everywhere. The people's does not have any of these advantages.

[@benoitlevesque9609]

Also, time is on your side!

[@cordeliadaniels7737]

True !

[@rhekman]

7:38 "In 1949, the time when China gained independence" -- that's a REALLY interesting way of phrasing the CCP defeated the Chinese Nationalist Party in their civil war.

[@VisionClearly]

💯%

[@bmbiz]

"Really interesting", "friggin bizarre". Potayto, puhtahto.

[@merisav4171]

I saw another American KZbin calling forced relocation a migration for a better life.

[@frustrateduser9933]

I was really surprised at how he's framing a lot of these issues.

[@n8zog584]

​@@frustrateduser9933 I think hes using China's own official figures

[@dwux1627]

It's not just China, the younger generation around the world is tired of constantly working and not being able to afford anything. The moment you get paid, the next moment your money goes away and I'm talking about bills, education, rent, food, and clothing, I'm not talking about gadgets, cars or any other luxury items. Why work, if you know that you will not have a future or family anyway?

[@jessicasaenzavila1415]

❤ 💯

[@hatebreeder999]

Same shit happening here in India. For past 15 years wages have stayed stagnant and low pay jobs require huge qualifications and work experiences

[@warren3174]

My kids have watched me work myself to near death and have little to show for it. They see how everything is structured to be a trap. Our credit system in America is basically indentured servitude.

[@hatebreeder999]

@@warren3174 and the world is copying american credit system. Same situation in India. People working but can't even buy a house without 20-30yr mortgages

[@user-fi9zv2ez2z]

The are not free

[@NZ2Tokyo]

Japan might be experiencing its own 'bai lan' with the youth. It seems that young people are slowing down and becoming less interested in nationalism; losing interest in national pride and slowing down their efforts in life seems to be a common trend around the world.

[@warren3174]

There's an Austrian in Switzerland that loves to hear this type of thing.

[@Uta_193]

Because we young people couldn't care less about "national pride", fuck the country, if they are not respecting the population than it means that it's worse than a better country simply put, plus we young people are to connected to each pother around the world to actually care about a single nation, we see global problems, if a country is doing bad we maybe travel to another country. In general "national pride" is stupid, society as a whole in the entire world is supposed to serve the population not the other way around, and ok you suppress protest with violence? Sure, than we will simply do absolutely nothing. Good luck.

[@foreseer4552]

This is how you establsih one world currency and gov. You erase nationislm

[@shernandez1029]

Bro Japan is dying out. It’s the opposite.

[@marksmith3991]

Yep it's globalism

[@deejayf69]

"we live in a society" has never hit so hard

[@Locknies-qt6zu]

Guess the older generation is going to need to "tighten their belts" and start filling in.

[@yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533]

Got high land. Got physical gold. Got physical silver. Got garden. Got orchard. Got God. Got dry powder. Got happiness.

[@LaZyGoKu2]

I got freedom in the USA 😂

[@Blunter1234]

@@LaZyGoKu2 Don't get cocky kid

[@FarmingUnclear]

​@@blankafawkes8881theyll just reverse the immigration law like they reversed all those babies

[@TeeDee-j9u]

It is concerning when organizations exhibit a bias against hiring individuals over the age of 35.

[@lprice5583]

With this growing discontent, China better watch out for a pandemic of drug use. Once drug use gets a foot hold, it could spread like wildfire.

[@Khannea]

Oh they.know...

[@BeazyFaSho]

Could you imagine 500 million Chinese stoners?

[@r.c.8268]

it already happening, China is the primary source of the precursor chemicals synthesized into fentanyl, You think the factories would not sell a little of that in their own streets, easy money

[@iwanagohome326]

Like those zombies in the streets of San Francisco etc 😅

[@FeedMeSalt]

China is the second largest source of opium poppy on earth depending on the study. They know.

[@cimmicacocoa2370]

A lot of people saying they can’t afford to have kids, but even if you can: If you know that your children are going to go through an even worse crisis than you are going through, why would you want to have kids to put them through that?

[@williampeterson2952]

Exactly!

[@thesaltycrone9237]

People have been saying that for as long as I can remember. Every generation has people that come up with reasons the world is going to end. None of it ever happened, but those that married and had kids lived fulfilling lives while those that didn't led depressed Iivrs and died alone. Making a family gives you hope in a future and a reason to make things better.

[@malemmutum5049]

You’re absolutely right. Natural selection and survival of the fittest at play here.

[@SpaceGhost-]

Direct talking point of the globalists. We see you.

[@wbr474]

So, sure for those who are living in thier cars because real estate is astronomically high even with a job, go ahead and pop out five kids oh that's really responsible decision making there 🙄 OH yeah I forgot there's allways welfare food stamps, OH wait a minute weren't we supposed to do welfare reform? Oops UH OH we're back to the same boat we were on!

[@sisilian509]

When's the next video titled "Xi jinping has ended" "Xi jinping is finally over" Xi jinping has finally responded"

[@wunderwerks7826]

This video is like Gordon Chang if he was a youtube influencer

[@Dageka]

People have been forecasting China's downfall since 1947. At this point it's just amusing to me.

[@gordythecreator]

0.3% poverty rate?.... Sounds like BS to me

[@Gimothecat]

For real 😂

[@theirishviking9278]

Thats 4.2 million out of 1.4 billion Also need the percentage who are just about the poverty rate to get a better idea of the economy but barely anyone does that maths

[@TheVenRio]

Take everything from ccp's official data with a grain of salt. Every year they keep decreasing the poverty line. As an example let's say the starting line is if you make 500$ per year, quick jump to the future and now the gov only consider you in poverty if you make 50$ per year. The percentage might be truthful but it's heavily skewed in advance for better show.

[@artaizen1613]

I'm not surprised if by their standard this is true like with inflation and all, people say 30k/year income are the poverty line, while the living cost for a year "normally" is around 45k/year, yes they count as middle class yet still have to live like they are a jobless person cause the wage simply lacks

[@brianng9765]

i think mainland china have a lower standard that is not based on OECD or world bank, average yearly income for them outside of the more wealthy province is like around 14k usd or something, keep in mind they are working their asses off

[@seanlanglois8620]

I don't know but the last five years have just made me feel like the world is f*****

[@BB-848-VAC]

its the same as its ever been, this is humanity baby lol

[@ah5721]

I've felt that way for the last 8

[@GraveUypo]

@@ah5721 i felt a sharp decline 13 years ago.

[@forestryfuelsandfire213]

Ya, its been sliding for a while but covid raised the curtains on how it all works.

[@RaveniaLv10]

Thank the WEF for trying to rule the world behind everyone’s back

[@tech9803]

If you want a society of hustle culture and a strong work ethic, there has to be rewards for it. When prospects are dim for most of the unconnected despite working hard, people will give up into apathy and despair.

[@chadlovato1759]

It’s mind-boggling to think that the government can say you can only have one child, wild

[@planetbob6703]

So not enough young people to replace the aging workforce + of the young people they have a significant chunk is not working

[@platin2148]

Well this sounds very similar to other nations with the exception of young people aren't not working just that there are a lot more people that where added later that are not working.

[@ArariaKAgelessTraveller]

When nation starting putting policy that favors the aging people and none for the youngs

[@apveening]

And not only are the young people not working, they have also given up on starting families so they won't replenish the reservoir of young people while aging out if it themselves.

[@apocain]

China can import immigrants. Just like in Europe and America.

[@MyHandle4455]

The single child policy came back to bite them in the ass… hard.

[@mcorriette1]

A 996 worker works twice as much a week as I do in the UK. I cannot believe that Chinese people put up with that for this long.

[@two-faced-turtle]

In order to live, there is nothing that cannot be tolerated. In China, 996 jobs are everywhere

[@neeyku]

it's disgusting

[@werechicken1969]

2 tier kier will be forcing the native population of the UK down that path soon, given our previous neoliberal governments have done their upmost to crash the birth rate of the natives.

[@user-cq6ks3rg7g]

中国是个零福利甚至负福利的国家，996的工作不愿去做的话是真的会活活饿死的，在这个国家只有八千万人活得像个人，剩下13亿人都是人矿，牛马都不如？

[@Aimless6]

If the CCP enforced 36 hour workweeks, then the youth unemployment would vanish. And people would have time to breed.

[@thatguy2521]

It’s disgusting it had to come down to this. good for the young people for standing up for themselves against a tyrannical government.

[@KeraliteinChina]

It’s easy to throw around words like ‘tyrannical’ without understanding the reality on the ground. But let me ask you this: Has your government lifted 800 million people out of poverty? Has it transformed an entire nation into a global economic powerhouse in just a few decades? It’s fine to criticize, but let’s not ignore the facts. The young people in China are proud of their country’s progress, and they’re shaping its future-not tearing it down. Maybe take a closer look before jumping to conclusions.

[@heyhowsyourday30]

⁠@@KeraliteinChina America’s not perfect, but at least we’re able to talk about how bad the government is without getting silenced by that said government China literally wiped out, billionaires to the poor just because they didn’t like what they were saying they literally can’t criticize the government so yeah china is tyrannical

[@kuzakiv3095]

@@KeraliteinChina found the chinese bot

[@lorencemoore8711]

Sitting down against their government😂

[@Thelastdan]

Our govt is no better, these boomer politicians ruined our economy where young people aren't even bothering to excel

[@elchill684]

Same in Canada. Everything is so expensive, the food was 2x compared to pre-pandemic level, housing is 10x more expensive than annual household income of $200k. Everything is doubled except Salary. LOL

[@Matanumi]

canada sucked long before covid

[@ruihanzeng3645]

1 in 5 youth unemployment is really under counting how bad it is. People who work part time, have passive income, work unstable gig jobs and given up on finding a job arent counted as unemployed even if they don't have enough money to survive. It's probaly closer to 1 in 2 Chinese youth are gainfully employed.

[@madflower8723]

They do the same unemployment calculations in the US. They are considered not looking for jobs. thus don't count as unemployed.

[@electricspeedkiller8950]

Yes, if you exclude employed people, you'd get a bigger proportion of unemployment.

[@frenchiesottises8193]

From America, keep this up! It's astounding how many stories I hear about younger Asians having impossibly high expectations put upon them. You guys deserve so much better.

[@coomlord5360]

Yet in america instead of the older generation its the younger that are putting pressure on us. Social media has made so many of us compare with others while making ourselves miserable.

[@Car777777777]

while that is true. the quiet quiting / job hunting lifestyle is a result of the older generation. and actually very similar

[@DL_LA_420]

I think the “great awakening” that’s happening now may start in China! We always thought that the increase in self-awareness was most needed the western world but, the Chinese people really have an incredible power at their disposal. They may spark the movement that elevates the whole human collective consciousness.

[@franciscouderq1100]

Certainly the pressure pot lid will bust open at some point.

[@infiniteunity1667]

Chairman Mao Tse Tung? That you Chairman?

[@cryptohornbill9658]

We don't want to be like your chaotic allies 😂😂

[@mr.chiken]

This entire story reminds me of the US's industrial age and the Great Depression, which was when factories became popularized, and then everyone fell into poverty. The story begins with tons of people gaining jobs in the US because of industrialization, thinking it was a good thing until they realized their wages were inadequate, and they couldn't afford anything. Rich people became too rich and wouldn't spend any of it, causing deflation of prices and factories losing money because nobody would buy their stuff. This led to factories laying off workers because they didn't want to lose money. Then, even fewer people bought stuff from the factories, causing more people to get laid off.

[@firetreeman]

That's not how the Great Depression happened. The Great Depression was caused by the stock market thriving that led people to borrow money they couldn't repay. So, when a minor recession occurred, investors started to panic and sold their shares, leading to a crash. This resulted in many people being unable to repay their loans. Subsequently, the banks failed as they didn't receive their loans back, causing people to lose their savings. Overproduction also was a major cause as factories and farms produced more goods than could be consumed, causing deflation and prices to drop.

[@firetreeman]

If anything industrialization created the middle class by providing new jobs and economic opportunities, and by allowing people to save and invest their wages

[@johnreel8728]

As an American, I never thought I’d say it, but I can relate to the Chinese youth.

[@TBUAbuataTBU]

my exact thoughts. a shared hardship.

[@someonerandom704]

too much competition in jobs, too much competition in dating, too much competition writing youtube comments, etc

[@jezusbloodie]

@johnreel8728 we all human without control or influence over our circumstances of birth. Life becomes better once one drops the whole nationalities thought process beyond what's require to not run afoul with the law

[@JimMcNutty]

You’d be surprised how much you can relate. I lived there for a few years and the youth there are just like kids from US in so many ways.

[@rhsking05]

This isn’t just in China. Young people around the world are losing hope. All around the globe, past generations banked on their children’s future and now those children are growing up and realizing the reality, our parents screwed us to save themselves on their way out. How is anyone supposed to be hopeful in a global economy like that?

[@goggle921]

if your parents are boomers but I agree

[@SwannsProposal]

​@@goggle921most parents came from the 1960 to 1990

[@delondadelony462]

What if I never had children, are you still going to blame me, as a baby boomer?....Just some advice, if you really want to make something of yourself / your life., You will find a way.( don't waste your time blaming someone else. I left my parents, age 19. I worked hard, at min.wage job & hustled side job when I could. I paid for by first college degree, and got a better job. Then, I paid for 3 other college degrees and became an RN. I never had credit card debt, or spent my hard earned money on things I couldn't afford. I saved my money and paid cash fir 2 acres of land, & mortgaged a mobile home, and paid it off early in 5yrs. At age 35, and I was late to start this, but I started a oth IRA, best investment ever..... Anyway, just trying to help... Wish you all the best. It's really all up to You, which way your life goes.

[@thuydoan7496]

​@@goggle921Baby Boomers are the worse. They left a terrible legacy behind for their descendants to clean up after them.

[@simplisimp]

Gotta mentioned "China" gotta farm all the view while it last... tbh, at this point I think it has been more than 10 years they keep yapping China-apocalypse

[@ericjohnson6665]

All this data kind of makes the saying: "live simply, so that others may simply live" sound like a sane suggestion.

[@eltudi1775]

The way so much of human society is based on infinite growth is depressing. Mother Earth is Finite.

[@Draighean]

Man, is not the poor chinese youth. Is the poor worldwide youth. I got my degree, started working for tech and as a writer, everything crumbled down. Nowadays i only work for myself making leather stuff to cover my expenses, dodging taxes in every way i can get away with.

[@larryscarr3897]

I bought a cheep forest nobody wanted, I made lumber and a tiny house, I sell eggs and some hard wood. But I don't do a darn thing that's not a direct benefit to me.. I don't want to be somebody's back to get rich off.

[@gdmclean]

No wonder morals have gone out the window with that Onlyfans and wannabe influencers. Normal pathways to financial independence and success have been eroded.

[@infiniteunity1667]

Criminal?

[@Draighean]

@@gdmclean the whole system is set to funnel money up the pyramid and the politicians are in the pockets of corporations. What you see out there are symptoms of despair and hopelessness more than a moral decline.

[@brunosouza3326]

Theres a lot of legal ways of dodging taxes ​@@infiniteunity1667

[@MooreInteresting]

"they get a salary for it" Um no good sir, that's called an allowance. 😂😂

[@kalebdowns-es3lk]

Are we going to pretend like the same thing isnt happening in almost every major economy?

[@feliperivas3814]

This video's focused on China's situation. There are countless other videos that focus on the rest of the world.

[@hortinus]

Butthurt much? 😂

[@Linkario86]

No. It's not like people pretend it's not a problem everywhere else, but things can be observed in different scopes too

[@fernie51296]

Deflation is definitely not a global problem

[@phillynuetron6937]

ikr literally the birthrate is a big clue

[@mickaels.1614]

France : riot? First time ? 😂

[@Vidasinvida]

No one should be treated like cattle. The Chinese gov. needs to face their consequences

[@shuxiaoren8866]

Thinking its just China, is just hella hilarious

[@Vidasinvida]

@@shuxiaoren8866 silly fella ik it’s not just china! This post is only talking about china lolol

[@我的名字-c9l]

@@Vidasinvida所以就搞针对？营销话题是这个时代最大的悲哀，与其提升自己，不如诋毁他人？

[@Z1LT01D]

​​@@我的名字-c9lxi? Is that you

[@GamerChannel-s5v]

@@我的名字-c9l 中国就是这样啊，他说的有什么不对吗？中国上班时长是欧美的1倍。欧美福利待遇好。中国上这么久的班比他们多一倍上班时长就能买的起房子了？

[@timlewis7218]

As an abused child I swore to never bring another soul into this hell, and instead help those that are already here. That was in 1974.

[@haroldliriano5394]

Sad life there bud

[@iamz_mbie]

@@haroldliriano5394 what’s it like being privileged, bud?

[@timlewis7218]

@@haroldliriano5394 how so? I have rescued two kids from CSA and raised two good successful ones as well. Served honorably in the military. Had a pretty good life, definitely not perfect.

[@wedeservetoheal]

I'm sorry that happened to you. You deserved better and I admire you for helping others ❤

[@GayFrogsTho]

​@iamz_mbie The dudes privileged because he called a sad person sad??

[@Suntensatsu21]

Back in 2022 I was working for a tutoring center in California that was owned by a Chinese company. I always wondered why the center suddenly shut down with almost no warning.

[@pipiqiqi4010]

there was a policy from the government that required all the tutoring center closed. even the biggest tutoring company had closed all of their tutoring centers in China and transferred to an online company selling products. the existence of the tutoring center is unfair for the students who can't afford the tutor out of school, and which also will increase the unnecessary pressure to the students

[@cmataira]

@@pipiqiqi4010 it just means that the regular teachers are not doing their job, are not required to do their job, or are unable to do their job maybe due to foreign language students or overcrowded classrooms. When I finished my classical studies in Holland, we were expected to handle the workload and no extra tutors were necessary. I (just) passed the exams, and did a tertiary education. After that I cleaned houses for a living and had 3 kids… yes I also gave up on the system and that was 60 years ago… happily living off grid a lot of the time. I enjoy studying and now we have so many documentaries. Life is meant to be happy, we can love and share with others, do voluntary work, be creative and make living an art form… enjoying a sunset does not cost anything, making your life beautiful is possible, learning to make food cheaply is possible. Setting out on that journey is a decision. Praying to God and doing our best is what’s helpful and necessary. 🙏❤️

[@thegreatestmantoevrwlkthep9986]

Respect! America, learn something

[@ravivaishster]

"Governance can only take place with the consent of the governed" - Machiavelli

[@user-hc4cc1bq4f]

The entire world has become a s**t hole ... Hang on It's going to get worse.

[@shernandez1029]

Is this what we call “doomers”?

[@MA-nm2tv]

That's because Marxist ideas are being pushed by WEF/ UN and captured governments.

[@johncrowley3322]

​​@@shernandez1029 realists or Christians. The bible warns of this. The poor across the world uprising and the antichrist being elected and viewed as a savior only to doom humanity to desruction. In all honesty. Its the most likely outcome. The American people are already begging for president beukele from south America to be their leader. All he had to do was tell the truth about Taxes and open a good prison.

[@dasuberpanda]

@@shernandez1029 i dont think that take is being a doomer. Being a doomer is like giving up on life. These people aren't doing that (most of them anyways)

[@Ultraysss]

Only with that attitude it will. Sometime, things will get better. we’ve gone through economic slumps before, and we have remerged from them

[@EpicLoLs89]

I think this is the 8th "Xi is done" or "China is done" videos so far LOL

[@agayweirdo5404]

yeah besides the hyperbolic thumb nails there's a lot of interesting info here

[@henli-rw5dw]

Why not, it gets views. The China doom industry is supporting a lot of people in the West.

[@guacamolipepperoni3119]

did you ever visit china? did you experience their desert, that threatens the land?

[@phonsoeung7934]

It gets clicks lol 😆

[@akl4709]

Bias reporting gets boring

[@heythereitsRBK2]

"The Chinese youth are doing what even the US cannot do." Correction: The Chinese youth are doing what the US doesn't have the will to do.

[@hugocosta666]

Why you need to do Let it Rot in US? You want what... just more? That's the problem in US? China wants FREEDOM. Don't confuse the two shits

[@Poppa_Capinyoaz]

My purely capitalistic brother moved to China recently. Apparently he couldn't afford to live in Abu Dhabi anymore because of his stock market gambling and cocaine habit. He had the audacity to call me the dumbest person he's ever met. Guess he doesn't have a mirror.

[@cho4d]

he's got a mirror it's just covered in white poweder 🤣

[@DantesGrill]

China is desperate and he sees a market. Don't know if he's going to have a good time with that coke habit though

[@FirstaccountGotcensored]

​@@DantesGrillIf he's willing to go to china, he's either figured that out, or doesnt have a coke habit. Op could be hyperbolizing.

[@gulltw9098]

Well, in fact, foreigners are treated better than Chinese people in China. For example, during the epidemic, Chinese people were locked up at home and their pets were beaten to death by officials with sticks, while foreigners could walk their dogs outside without wearing masks.

[@bingchang553]

你朋友并不愚蠢，他很有魄力，他知道自己需要一个健康的环境来戒毒戒赌。

[@matthewridgeway9250]

Oppressed people uprise together. It is time all governments pull back from authoritarian ways, not only in China, but around the world. People pushback is essential for happy lives to flourich.

[@Zorobbabel]

Agreed 👍

[@andrewharper1609]

That usually doesn't end well.

[@OneMuddyFeller]

@@andrewharper1609tf it dont😂

[@OneMuddyFeller]

@@andrewharper1609USA was a revolutionary, and now they the most powerful in the world

[@warren3174]

Beautifully stated as the world is gearing up to go all in on a one world government lol

[@dr.christopherdiaz4473]

Ive been telling people for years, Gen Z will be the generation who ends work. We call them lazy, but I see realism and reasonable expectations.

[@marksmith3991]

I'm gen Z I come from blue collar parents and strong work ethic. It just seems the middle class has been eviscerated. It used to be companies looked at the population as their biggest asset to produce with. Now it's just a consumer to be sold too. Throw in the obvious scam of the war on terror and some medical billing

[@kharmachaos667]

I hope you're being hyperbolic, because wprk is necessary fpr creating everything we enjoy. The problem is TOO MUCH work and not the right amount of profits for that work.

[@heavilyarmedhippie75]

I pray on the system's downfall every night before bed so that during the rebuilding and beyond I can be a cowboy full-time instead of just helping farmers and ranchers from Facebook marketplace and Craigslist

[@EJ-bq1nu]

Every generation says that but then they hit 25-28 and fold like lawn chairs 😂

[@michaelbradley7621]

​@@heavilyarmedhippie75 LOL. Them childhood dreams just kept festering in your head. A cowboy.

[@blackspiralstorytelling4402]

If they knew what working class youth was like in North America, they wouldn't be rebelling.

[@rhapsody9824]

This is not even news. Chinese youngsters have held that kind of attitude for several or even more years.

[@WhatyourAncestorsknew]

It's news to many people

[@MinosML]

We're first seeing the actual social and economic consequences of the ever increasing youth movement. It has a bit of a lag, but it's finally starting, and the CCP has no option but to respond to it.

[@Kino_Chroma]

The ratio of income to cost of buying a house seems pretty close to that of America. Not good. -From an American

[@nighthawkcof]

It is more like Vancouver than the normal us city. Tier one cities are insanely expensive

[@xaviercopeland2789]

It’s much more expensive, not approaching.

[@nicolaszamudio8699]

As someone who lives in a low income town I disagree, most houses here are 100-150k, still outrageous as prepandemic you could buy a pretty nice house where I live for 60k, you can still buy a house, the dream of a white pickett fence is only reserved for those who elect to be house poor for 30+ years though

[@bearoyay]

@@nicolaszamudio8699 The average price range in my area is 250k, and that gets you a simple little house nothing fancy. Plenty of houses are 500k plus with anything designed for bigger families being 1mil +. This is in kansas lol, not even near the city. The weather here is hostile to warm lovers and cold lovers, there are 3k crimes per 100k residents, theres literally nothing away from the city.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

It's more difficult to define in the US since the American dream is to buy a single family home, not an apartment (unless it's a big city life then maybe). Homes cost a lot more than apartments but one can start quoting apartment prices to skew results. Also most of America's newer cities are massive urban sprawls so the further out, the cheaper it gets usually. Southern california is notorious for this - cheaper homes in the desert but ridiculously crazy anywhere along the coast.

[@johnrambo2876]

The global elite have forgotten why the Middle class was needed.

[@YvonneCrean]

Best comment 🇦🇺🇦🇺👍

[@ButUrWrongTho]

So there are a bunch of unemployed people and people are working too long..... Am I just nuts here? Doesn't there seem to be a really simple solution to this?

[@Nerdy_Aomeba]

Government should never have control over the people. Just service and protect! Should be nothing more and nothing less!

[@warzip1581]

That would be called democracy and it's only been used once by their inventors 2000 years ago

[@Benjamin12179]

.Not making up to a million before retirement is unfulfilled retirement.!! I’m 54 and my wife 50 we are both retired with over $7 million in net worth and no debts. Currently living smart and frugal with our money. No longer putting blames on FED for our misfortunes. Saving and investing lifestyle in the stock and forex market made it possible for us this early, even till now we earn weekly.

[@Benjamin12179]

Investment should on every wise individuals bucket list. You will be ecstatic of the decision you made today.

[@EliasNeves-iu5xz]

Crypto investment has really changed my financial status positively. I got my first house the year I started investing and today networth is over £732k

[@samuelpage1694]

I really need a nice investment to venture into I'm thinking of Crypto assets, stock or Real estate

[@Benjamin12179]

all you mention are all good but I’ll advise you venture into fx first because it will help you grow your portfolio very fast and it require not so much to start

[@samuelpage1694]

Will it require up to $50k - $100k for startup ?

[@DS-zr8pw]

In the West, Bai Lan is known as depression.

[@alanaadams7440]

Their college degree does not guarantee an income you can live on. Let alone buy a house or have a family. I don't blame them

[@Dzasta..]

I was pretty shocked when they shut down their online teaching sector. Kept me, many friends and my family going for years. Never considered just how deep the knock on effect went.

[@NotMyWar]

Harder to brainwash with those types of schools.

[@infiniteunity1667]

India too!!

[@adrianoftheuniverse]

I graduated university with flying colors. Couldn’t even land a job as a barista, lol. I went straight to retirement.

[@GamerChannel-s5v]

Where are you from

[@user-bv9is4zc8w]

Why are all leaders not listening to their citizens, their suppose to work for their People ,if not why should they be allowed to so call run their country when they are not there for their People ,

[@obi0914]

communist never "listen to their people", its suppose to be dictator

[@user-ns5hq2li5y]

Welcome to the real world. Glad you could make it

[@malex2200]

The CCP is not for the citizens, it is for the CCP. Communists do not 'listen' to the citizens.

[@outcast4433]

this is cause the people are brain dead. they care more about amazon packages then policy so it makes sense that polticians can do whatever they want

[@ghostrecondelta1741]

Greed.

[@Tie509]

It's the same story in many countries. Inflation over decades has eroded the value of labour, especially when it comes to housing affordability. Youth today have to work 3 times as hard to afford half the house of their parents. No wonder many youth are giving up.

[@georgegonzalez2476]

Your numbers are majorly wrong, as you believed China. Their whole economy and government is grossly fudging the numbers. Yearly income is more like $3500. The poverty rate is over 50%.

[@jc624]

Except you never see any homeless people or drug addicts in any Chinese major cities, but they're all over the US

[@fireradfieritis8953]

@@jc624 China cares about its optics way too much so this seems about right. They're just good at covering it up.

[@ThanhHa-uk9hi]

Even developing country like Vietnam have higher salaries than that. If you want to be delusional, at least try to imagine something that make sense lol 😂😂.

[@merisav4171]

​@@jc624ccp takes them of the streets and move elsewhere

[@fireradfieritis8953]

@@merisav4171 I said this and KZbin deleted my comment. Smh.

[@lanbaode]

Long live the independent, free, democratic, and richer (than China per capita) Republic of Taiwan.

[@TheBorg01]

what a bs !! roflmao... this is some next lvl copium

[@lanbaode]

@@TheBorg01 you’re weird wumao

[@samjubilee6593]

How about the Amish?

[@winstonsmith935]

you got them worried young Chinese, don’t back down, you have strength in numbers

[@WackaMei]

"G-guys, China falls any second now! Just you wait!" -'Economists' for the past 50 years

[@j00bs]

we are fast approaching a breaking point in tensions between the working class and the global elites. a redistribution of wealth is inevitable, one way or another.

[@janfkarel92]

When working 24/7 for 10 years wouldn’t allow you to be debt free with a home and a family. Everybody gave up as jobs don’t pay anymore like they used to

[@warren3174]

Mortgage loans are indentured servitude. In 18 years I've paid $90,000 more than my loan was for and still owe $97,880 LOL

[@mnb456778]

This materialism era it’s gonna fall soon, finally, we are getting closer to our freedom.

[@koilamaoh4238]

I like it tho, has fun things, its manageable if you are smart enough.. I don't want some loser communislam society that the "left" wants to end it with.. I don't want that taliban society that the far right wants either.

[@michael_valoo]

Same thing in the United States with movements like “Quiet Quitting” and “Quiet Vacationing”

[@infj-tguy6275]

Good for them, those ppl deserve to be treated better and have happier lives without the government ruining their lives

[@WarriorsCherub999]

That one child policy was lunacy, and they couldnt see that? Smh crazy

[@khanhnguyen-tt3ff]

people cannot see that but they not brave enough to said something about it to their leader.

[@Ghekko-kw3zz]

The brain drain drained all the brains.

[@Gw17bvp28f]

There were plenty of social scientists sounding warnings in the West, but to no avail because China was in self isolation. During that time, education was massively interrupted, with university students being sent to work in the fields as peasants. There were complete censorship.

[@W_Bin]

The one child policy was necessary. Now the super-greedy "elites" who had control are being exposed because people had time to learn, and ask questions.

[@asimplenobody7797]

When speaking against the party at best results in jail time, people simply learned to keep their mouths shut. Least they get dragged away as well. Alas, reality is a cruel mistress with a firm hand to people like that.

[@ronlombok]

This is also happening to US economy, not only China. This is worldwide recession.

[@jamesgizasson]

But Biden said we've never been stronger!! XD

[@hatebreeder999]

@@ronlombok recession for poor and middleclass. Rich class's incomes keep on soaring

[@Uta_193]

@@jamesgizasson well sure Trump will resolve everything when he will cut taxes for the rich again like he said he will do cousing even more inflation and help only the rich. Both are problematic, problem is now you can vote for another that is not Trump, maybe is not completely right, or maybe you don't apreciate it, but every economist in the world say the same thing, if Trump win and do what he say he want to do the USA will recive a so big hit to the economy it could cause the collpse of the entire country

[@johntaeb99]

All part of the ccp plan. They'll attack once the world weakens itself

[@ZombieGribble-gd9ju]

@@Uta_193 Kamala is current VP. Making hefty promises about securing the border which shes already in charge of, and has been for the past 3.5 years. I don't see her doing anything about anything. But go ahead, elect her into the top seat. I'm sure that'll motivate her to actually do something useful.

[@yamchayaku]

I bet Jinping would rather repeat the Tienanmen Square incident before ever relinquishing power.

[@cyberrasputen1718]

I truly hope these youths are able to break through the dictatorship. It’s just sad what they deal with.

[@aqiang123_]

As someone who's family members almost all worked as high-ranking Chinese politicians, it's almost certain that China will find some way to cover this information from the general public. China is a huge country, yet most people still live in the false belief that China is prospering more than ever.

[@iamz_mbie]

this is a naive take. you can’t hide the truth forever

[@d4n93r]

This endless chase for growth makes everybody unhappy. People are refusing giving up their life for their work.