Looks like chinese youth got it bad, giving up on being able to get anything for themselves they're doing the bare minimum to get by. Interesting how a country that went through a communist revolution still has the same problems we have in the west. It's almost like there's something inherently terrible about people that ensures these kinds of outcomes are inevitable 🤔
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/06/06/chinas-disenchanted-youth-lie-flat-to-cope-with-modern-life/Ground down by the sapping realities of modern city life, China’s youth are “lying flat”, the latest buzzword for those tapping out of a culture of endless work with little reward.
With growing inequality and rising costs of living nudging traditional markers of success out of reach, some young people are choosing to do the bare minimum at work, dialling back the go-getting aspirations their parents once harboured.
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The average recruitment salary for fresh graduates is around $1,000 a month, yet rent in Beijing can easily exceed half that amount.
The mood of disenchantment is covered by an umbrella term — “Sang culture” — which began as a self-deprecating subculture for post-90s youth expressing a sense of defeatism.
It is has entered the mainstream with millenials increasingly aware of a “glass ceiling obstructing their upward mobility”, according to K Cohen Tan, an academic at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.