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

  • Dinsmore@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Wait, the problem in your mind with China is that it’s not as safe for multinational companies to exploit their populace?

    • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      China’s own megaconglomerates aren’t doing any better. They openly steal from their populace, and exploit their workers in inhumane ways. Just look at the mass embezzlement of peoples life savings in the housing market by ultra mega sized publicly traded corporations. China is basically a hyper capitalist corporatocracy, with extra authoritarianism sprinkled in with no upside.

      • Dinsmore@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Agreed that the problem is capitalism, but I don’t know about “no upside.” The poverty rate in China has continually decreased. While we in the west might argue that living under authoritarian rule might not be worth the tradeoff, that certainly is an upside.