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China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’ (www.wsj.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Pretty sure this is happening all over, not just in China.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Its just a generic filler article that gets posted about young people every year or two.

"Quiet Quitting" was the thing in 2022.

"Great Resignation" was the thing in 2021

You can find articles about this in 2019, 2016, omfg all over the place in the wake of 2008, "Jobless Recovery" from 2004 to 2006, in the 90s it was "Slackers" and in the 80s it was "Punks" and in the 70s and 60s it was "Hippies" and then back to Beatniks and Anarchists and of course, the old crowd favorite, Pinko Commies.

This is just a more recent mash up of the "China Bad" and "Nobody Wants To Work Anymore" meme

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yep

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This is just a more recent mash up of the “China Bad” and “Nobody Wants To Work Anymore” meme

LOL, spot on.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Can say I've definitely "stopped striving", don't know if it's from Long Covid, living paycheck to paycheck cause my pay gets min/maxed for the business, personal infighting thanks to Fox News and Republican bullshit tearing apart and killing families over vaccinations, or maybe it's just the weather 🤷‍♂️ lol fuck

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Probably it has happened all over the history as well, not just right now. Wanting not to take the torch from the previous generation is a pretty normal thing to do for people in their 20s.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I mean you'd be pretty reluctant to grab a torch too if it was one that has been held on desperately by a generation 3 above yours that didn't even want to hand it away but are literally decaying around as they grasp tightly onto it and the torch requires feeding babies to it even though they don't burn just so you have an excuse to dump a bunch of oil on to help reduce them to ash a bit further.

I think being handed a torch to carry would be fine. This is not a passing of a torch but a wildfire that people are busy dancing around. And I'm definitely to shy to join the "let it burn" party.