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On the bright side, China has surely become a developed country, now that it has "first world problems" instead of "third world problems".
FriedRiceNSpice
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If something could be done to lower the prevalence of 996, that would be great. If you have any potential solutions, please share with us. The reality is as you mention, "everyone is doing it." China shares the same East Asian culture as Korea/Japan, and the same hypercompetitive society. How do you expect China to solve 996 while Korea and Japan have been doing it for a much longer period of time and have yet to find a way to decrease working hours? Korea has tried legislation as well, to no avail. Compared to China, 996 is a little more tolerable in Japan (just not for the liver) since a large portion of it now just consists of drinking yourself into a stupor with your coworkers, but 996 is even worse in Korea. Korea and Japan also happen to be the main competitors of China in a diverse range of different industries and markets, making it even harder for Chinese firms to ease up on 996 while the Koreans/Japanese are still doing it.
Welcome to capitalism. Would you rather China revert back to socialism? There are only two types of countries in the world. In the first type, the only way to be wealthy is to be born wealthy. In the second type, the only way to be wealthy is to be born wealthy, or alternatively work extremely hard. There is no country in the world where you can be born not wealthy and become well off by just working at a moderate pace. This utopia you imagine where people can work 35-40 hours a week and not have to worry about money doesn't exist in the real world (outside exceptions that tend to be tiny nations with extreme amounts of natural resource wealth). The US only seems less competitive when viewed from an Asian perspective. Even in the US, except for an ever shrinking middle stratum of the population, people have to work far more than 40 hours per week. If you want to be able to be a homeowner, not live paycheck to paycheck, and not worry about retirement in the US, you are going to be working much more than 40 hours per week. There are also tens of millions of Americans working much more than 40 hours per week just to barely get by.
You awfully negative for the most part in Chinas prospects in regards to focusing on the negatives all the time. China is a big country and trying to argue for China to become a western democracy when we compare the satisfaction and economy status compared to the rest of the western world speaks volumes is only going to convince me that you simply want China to fail and become a puppet state of Washington.
Why does China need to change what is working to what simply isn’t working is beyond me other then you simply hating China and are just trying to convince others like a broken record that you know better then all of those economic ministers in China that has managed to fend off every single trade move done by the US to damage China. What you preach makes no sense at all and I will wager that if the USA ends up becoming a failed state while China is still rising after 2-3 years in the future, then you simply are no better then Sepentaza from YouTube who’s only value is to pander to the racist without contributing anything to the world.
The CIA can spread nonsense on China but is simply beyond worthless in protecting the USA (which is supposed to be why they are there instead of defending every single whim of the elite that care nothing at all about the people in the US) and is in fact contributing to its down fall when you consider all the nations they are pissing off all over the world. There is no greater stupidity then this and unless you are a professional that can actually demonstrate actually understanding in geopolitical policy, it’s probably better to leave this to the professionals to actually run things because as of now China is rising, and the US sinking, all of which that can be justified by the growth statistics and happiness as shown before. Any further talk on any minor items mean nothing in the grand scheme of things.
I don’t normally like to reply like this but this back and forth that has last multiple pages is getting a like ridiculous don’t you think?
Only after 100 years of domination first.
Hahaha, military global suparpowa Murica 2024. Virtually generated gazillions of GDPs and military budgets are useless if you can't buy anything with it (low supply + oligarchy = high prices).
You can't invest in industries of strategic national interests when you don't control most of the available investing capital as a state.
Unlike in China, the US has to really mostly on private investment, whereas China has extensive public investing mechanisms.
Go on and convince some Wall Street capitalist to invest in something unprofitable initially, or with a lower relative rate of return, or uncertain prospects, but for the sake of national interest, impossible.
That's why they want China to start 'consuming' more, have less SOE activity, etc, so they would have less capital for strategic invt.
You can't invest in industries of strategic national interests when you don't control most of the available investing capital as a state.
Unlike in China, the US has to really mostly on private investment, whereas China has extensive public investing mechanisms.
Go on and convince some Wall Street capitalist to invest in something unprofitable initially, or with a lower relative rate of return, or uncertain prospects, but for the sake of national interest, impossible.
That's why they want China to start 'consuming' more, have less SOE activity, etc, so they would have less capital for strategic invt.
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I must point out that China has a far lower suicide rate than Japan, South Korea and most western countries.
China's is comparable to Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia and Vietnam. On the map there is the "northern depression belt" of Russia, northern Europe, NA, South Korea and Japan. Then there's the green "chill tropical zone". China's in the chill tropical zone.
So if people are sooooo depressed and negative why is it not being reflected in suicide rates?
This data is not very reliable as its online poll and who knows how sample was selected.
I dont think Korea and Japan should be at the bottom with Argentina.
This data regarding Russia seem out dated. and Places like Saint Petersburg are only 5.9.
if Saints Peterburg that low than the real wealthy and higher population growth region will be even lower.