Demoralized young Chinese are looking for pathways out of the carefully scripted lives their elders want for them

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

  • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
    1822·
    1 year ago

    So… there’ll be a lot of great Chinese punk music soon?

    • intelshill@lemmy.caEnglish
      1258·
      1 year ago

      Yeah. China’s speed running to true communism at a pace I wasn’t expecting. There’s a legitimate chance for the elimination of scarcity of basic goods in China “soon”, which would lead to a flourishing of the arts.

      • lefaucet@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Got any good examples of this?

        I do know that between 1950 and 2000 poverty and starvation dropped like a stone. I havent been watching closely enough to tell for the past couple decades. I don’t mean to sound cynical, but it can be hard to tell what’s slavery and what’s improvement of living standards through the media and on such short timescales

        I know theyre installing a ton of solar/wind. Superbundance could happen there and that could be great. I got my fingers crossed.

        How’s agriculture doing?

        I think they’re very well positioned with electric cars and are going to take marketshare from everyone else in that industry.

        I hope they quit killing the sea and bossing around their neighbors

        Their effots in Africa are probably going to benefit them greatly. I hope they arent doing to Africa whatthre US did with South America in early/mid 20th century… with the saddling of unpayable debts, extracting resources and installing viscious dictators

        I read recently OPECy folks are openly conspiring to flood Africas market with cheap and shitty fossil fuel power plants and cars to expand the oil market. It’d be rad someone flooded it with cheaper and better electric cars/heatpumps and renewable power. I wish the US/Europe would