This is happening in other countries as well. The younger generation is learning that quality of life is better than trying to work yourself to death for a company that doesn’t care about you at all. Good for them!
I think the fact people are not having children is impacting this as well. Like, why work myself to death? When I only have myself. Having kids makes it hard to do this.
@@agillespie5853 why have kids if you can't afford to fund them OR you're working yourself to death and don't get much time to be happy with your children as they're growing up. Only the government benefits from this: parents work like hell, while their children learn like hell so they could start to work like hell so the economy keeps rising for no other reason than filling dictators' bank accounts.
Imagine being conditioned to think that a 40 hr work week with time for hobbies and relationships is "slacking". Personal happiness is a worthy goal to prioritise.
Imagine doing the minimum to support your lifestyle, perhaps 20-30hr/wk, have a tiny bit of extra € to the side, be happy with your free time, and still being considered a slacker. Slacking from what? Just because some are stressing the f out of themselves doesn't mean everyone has to do the same. No ambition what so ever for the ultra materialistic lifestyle. Not just because it's repelling, but because it's actually close to unattainable.
Where I live the vast majority of people work 37.5 hours per week. And everyone has 5 weeks paid vacation + paid public holidays per year. I guess that means we are all "letting is rot".. ;) I live in Norway.
This isn't called slacking when you're still doing the work you're asked but refuse to go beyond. There is nothing wrong with wanting to have a good work-life balance
I'd agree, but some people go the other way. They omit certain tasks they've got to do to avoid the work, because they can get away with it. An example is that we have to wipe the vending machines down (glass and anywhere the customers touch) daily, but my co-worker hasn't done it in over two years of working the same job I just started working at. Because no one checks. Management is also too busy slacking to care about such minor details. My job is already basically nothing for 5 hours of an 8 hour shift and yet by not doing all the small things like that, it gets even easier. Seriously it's like 1 hour of work for my colleague because he's been slowly whittling away his list of responsibilities to the bare minimum of what the manager pays attention to. I'll probably be like that too in a few months. But right now I'm new. I need to complete every task I get, even if it's not checked- once I'm in the company properly and trained up in everything, I'll be able to do the same thing he did. I'm someone who's been fucked over so much in life by 'doing the right thing' and watching other people get away with stuff that at this point, I'm basically only caring about myself. No point putting in extra work if there's no requirement for it. As for the vending machine, pretty sure SOMEONE is wiping it down, I just don't know who. Cleaning staff is my bet. But it might also be the guy who comes to change the stuff out of the machines once every two weeks.
what is 'beyond' varies. something one considered beyond maybe within the range of normal efforts for another. it also depends on how you measure 'beyond.' do you mean deliverables, time, or less error rates? sometimes you feel you are going beyond may simply because you need more experience or sharper skill. overall the employer should set their standards clear, e.g. measured by efficiency, if the job takes an average person 2 days to complete, and you can do it in 1 day, then you are a high performer, or if you need 3 days, you may need to catch up in some area. In this case, you do whatever you are comfortable with and get paid accordingly, there is nothing beyond. it's actually a red flag if your employer told you they expect you to go beyond, that means they are not sure what needs to be done and what skill set and experience they need, they are basically saying: it's a mess here and we want you to clean the sh|t. You, on the other side of the table, should make sure you have your sh|t figured out and your employer has theirs figured out as well. the problem is, not many people have their sh|t figured out.
@@yuluoxianjun Yeah a country being run by a COMMUNIST party without fair elections sounds like a free democracy lol. Even 'democracies' in the west are becoming less free every year that passes.
My mates are studying 40 hours a week and working 40 hours a week and constantly looking for internships. All of us know we need master degrees to find a job. Competition is sick and the reward isn’t good. However maintaining a good support system (volunteering + religion support) is sufficient to balance it. We need at least have 2 qualifications nowadays to find a job. E.G, software engineer + high school teacher. Lawyer + tax accountant. Orthodontist + mechanical engineer. Some have 3, primary school teacher + structural engineering + graphic designer. Having 3 is difficult, people usually break when they have too much on the table, working 38+38+38 hours hurts mental health a lot.
This is what happens when you realise that working hard and going above and beyond for your employer benefits the employer and not the employee. Kudos to the Chinese millennials for pushing back.
Why don't you get off your lazy butt and start a company, then share all of your profits with the employees. Why should you keep all, or most, of the profits, right? And when you encounter some of these Let It Rot employees like yourself, then increase their salaries even though they contribute nothing. Because you started your business not to improve your lot, but theirs ...
same with americans, young ones are doing same, rebelling against the rich and corporations, as they push their slave wages onto the people. Only older conservatives tend to "obey" the system, as in any country.
From the West unto the East men must realize the revelation in that revolution must premeate itself so that this earth can heal and not be used solely for profit.
they are NOT "unmotivated!". They are educated enough to see that the game is rigged, the numbers don't add up, the promise of working hard and getting ahead is false, and that their govt has screwed them to hold on to power. They are not lazy. They are screwed and their situation looks hopeless--and they see it.
Exactly! And they are choosing to live their live at a slower pace to focus on their own health and needs rather than working themselves to the bone without any real reward. So they're not unmotivated, they simply have no reason to work hard.
This is not unique to China. This generation has the same feeling in every country. It only seems new to China, because it is not consistent with their historical cultural norms. Until now, prior generations did not have the informational power of the cell phone in their hand. Thus, older generations were completely ignorant and situationally unaware of their ability to exercise independent thinking.
yeah... from high we are just not guided well enough to build a career path.. and we just study and hope that things fall in place... there is no legitimate guidance platform or website or app to make informed decisions in our career path based on industry requirements.. education institutions for average people are lagging behind industry requirements and career guidance based on industry situation is not available as mandatory.. so average graduate can only select something after they graduate and not everyone is lucky.. so every industry should have a contribution points system to take exam to reach higher ladder to give motivation to the average person.. because a country may generally have 60-70 percent average people among graduates.
Mostly true. The movers and shakers brainwash the underclass with impossible dreams to keep the economic wheel turning to benefit mostly the one-percenters. Some have said university is a scam. Lol...
Good for them. I’m Japanese in my late 30s and I relate to these kids. Having watched my mother who sacrificed her life on work and being a single mom, with sleepless nights and working herself to exhaustion only to get fired and replaced by younger workers left a bitter taste in my mouth. My father on the other hand made a lot of money helping multimillion dollar companies get even richer.. my upbringing made me see the world for what it is. I’ve been called a slacker questioned why I’m “unmotivated” but you only live once. I don’t want to spend my life in an office all day everyday and become a slave to a toxic society. I moved to the country and working on going totally off the grid, collecting rain water solar for energy growing my own vegetables etc. Everyday I appreciate the beauty of nature spending time with my loved ones (my cats are especially enjoying it) I have time to enjoy my hobbies, and mostly enjoy the non stress life. I’m glad to see younger generations value the quality of life, and hoping that one day when I master my bai lan style living I can teach the youth to do the same :)
That sounds very nice. You should take relevant tech with you. Research and tech arnt inherently evil. For example, you could figure out a way to make hyrdoponic piping pump water using air pressure. Thats a high tech solution that doesn't hurt anyway. Its the BS you need to leave behind. Its not inextricably intertwined with tech.
My cats are enjoying off grid lifestyle too ! - a 27 year old in southern California traveling around in a RV w/ his gf . Japanese country is beautiful ! I would buy a van & travel around if i could .
I became a farmer 2 years ago and I've never been happier. The work could be difficult sure but I'm my own boss and I actually get paid according to how hard I work. Mainly I have been working whenever i want, I smoke weed all day, I sleep in until whenever, I hang out with my friends whenever I want, also after harvest if things go well I could have 6 months of free time. I can NEVER go back to 9-5. Thinking about that makes me want to kill myself.
I think it's just a phenomenon with the younger generations. Your leaders need to get together and figure something out or thier workforce and population will reduce. Maybe introduce more incentives who knows
My parents told me this: “Your generation is not lazy, you guys work as hard if not harder than we did during our time yet you earn just as much. The problem is that, you’re underpaid because salaries have stagnated while the price of housing and basic commodities keep rising. That’s simply the sad reality.”
@@Chillikilli you student loan is not worth paying off. Hell you cannot even write a understandable sentence. You need to go back to grade school and start over. It is amazing that you are that illiterate. That means that you have no education.
I've seen so many Chinese people online joking about "let's work even harder, so our boss can get a bigger house and fancier car!" We work ourselves to the bones just to make our employers and upper management richer and richer, while we can barely feed ourselves and keep a roof over our heads. This is exploitation, plain and simple.
Don't let anyone brainwash you into thinking that doing your job means you're slacking and unmotivated. You're doing the job you're getting paid for. If they want you to give them 120% then maybe they should pay 20% more.
Yup told my boss I only take easy clients. Since I get a cut for every client I see. For my percentage, I will only take easy clients. Want me to take difficult clients? I take 95%. How hard I have to work my brain is commiserate to my compensation. Don't like it? I am happy to leave lol. Still works there.
Welp I couldn't do that as my contract stated no overtime benefits, had no choice but to accept the job or else still desperate looking for another job
I've heard of quiet quitting but "letting it rot" captures it better. I'm with the Chinese youth on this. We only get one life. Spend it wisely. Spend it with the people you love. Spend it doing the things you love.
Society having this attitude towards young people is exactly what started this. The young peoples burden increased and the reward shrunk. Now everyone is going crazy looking for any excuse as to this laziness, but its basic labour/time/money economics, not a new thing at all
@@hnlpharmd wehave to assess why this creates a burden on others in the first place, then you'll see where the youth are coming from when they decide to leave this life behind
As a Gen X who spent the first 25 years of my working life working myself to exhaustion day in day out I encourage younger generations not to make the same mistake.
Big companies (that are not yet overrun with corporate politics) are good places for younger employees to get experience at a “tier 1.” However, at some point you’re not learning a lot anymore and you see a better opportunity where you fly/fry based on YOUR efforts. So if you’re motivated AND actually WELL-SKILLED, you become an entrepreneur where you also get risk/reward AND have control your TIME. Unfortunately, govt systems have failed so gravely and so often that they haven’t “worked” for younger workers, despite their big efforts. So govts promise more and more…take more control… yet don’t deliver prosperity. And in the end, whether you worked hard or not, the results are not wildly different for many. “So why bother?” is a common answer all over the world.
This trend is so relatable and I've embraced it for a number of years now. 42yo career millennial, I went above and beyond only to be passed over for a promotion by someone newer who had a fraction of the responsibility and did poor quality work. After that it was like an epiphany, "why even bother?" Now I do the bare minimum at an acceptable level and don't care what anyone on my team or at my company thinks of my reputation. Rather than focus on trying to climb the ladder I now focus on myself and well-being and the improved quality of life that comes with it.
Let me remind everyone. This "Slacker" or "Laying flat" or "Let it Rot" attitude is basically just doing your job. Thats all nothing more to it. The fact that Bosses/CEOs and Companies push employees to go above and beyond with no guaranteed incentives as a norm but label them otherwise if they don't do so is absolutely disgusting. It has already been proven that climbing the corporate ladder by working hard is a myth. You have absolutely no control of whether u get rewarded for hardwork. Most of the time you don't. So just do what you are paid to do within the working hours and enjoy life as much as possible.
And often people who don’t work hard get promoted while workaholics are overseen or the company needs them to stay on the job😂 maybe they make a more self confidence impression since they deal with fewer stress 😅😅
I agree.. but the fact people don't see its a myth is THEIR OWN FAULT. Our ancesestors worked every single hour they were awake, no matter what. Or they would DIE. How in the world can ANYONE think this is okay? It is lazy, embarrassing, sickening and pathetic. OHH SORRYY!! Want a fing COOKIE for showing up to work today for 8 hours? Want a hug because you got off your a ss and put some sweat and tears into your daily life? Want a golden star sticker? Fing disgraceful! GROW UP LO SERS! REMEMBER: China has a ONE CHILD (preferably a male) policy PER FAMILY! So you goofs were predetermined to have LIFE! That in and of itself is absoutely insane, and your all spitting in the face of "God" or "Your Leader" or whoever let you lazy fools actually be born, so disgusting.
Asian work culture is honestly crazy, not just china but one of the notorious is. Japan also face even harder problem but most people there literal statistics show most people are 40 and above so nothing gonna change for like 20-30 years more i guess. I know it's a meme but imagine your "asian" stereotypical person actually have a country and try to compete with each other. Yeah good luck then.
True. If you just rely on work to climb up the ladder, you will only become a slave forever. You want to climb up, it would be more beneficial if you learn how to suck up to your boss. I saw how people who are good in sucking up climb up fast even if their work is so-so. So you want to climb up, you better learn to throw away your dignity and learn how to sweet talk, how to please your boss in all ways and all degrees. That is a more beneficial skill than all the subjects you've learnt at university. Forget about the quality of your work. It's useless...
As a GenX-er whose health was wrecked by overwork and a toxic work environment, I am glad that younger people have figured out a healthier way at an earlier stage. I've cut my costs and live on a mountain surrounded by beauty now and don't work nearly as much. The compensation was never worth the effort I put into it, and employers don't have any loyalty to employees anymore. I think globally there's been a cultural shift toward a different understanding of what success looks like. Now it's more self-care and family/social time balancing out the labor time. And that's a good thing.
I came into this video wondering about this horrible, catastrophic "let it rot" phenomenon, but they actually seem pretty reasonable. They're not mooching off their parents or the government, they do their job and nothing more, then enjoy their life in their spare time. How is this weird? It's the 996 advocates who seem downright baffling to me. For people with their own business I understand, but for employees?
I can kind of sympathise with the 996. In my job after graduating from my masters when I was around 25, I was doing about 50-65 hrs a week for a start up. I had a bit of the same mindset as that insurance agent. I wanted to develop skills and gain experience as fast as possible, so I did about 5 or 6 roles in the company, given that the company only had 8 employees including the CEO, it was almost a necessity if we wanted to survive. And considering the company ultimately did do quite well, I felt that I did my part in it. But eventually when I had exhausted the possibilities I left. And almost 20 years later, while I wouldn't say I'm a let it rot/lie flat type of person, I definitely wouldn't go way out of my way to go the extra mile, I do enough to justify my fairly decent salary, my annual bonus and that's about it.
@@hongjess5600 after joining the WTO china was supposed to adopt a 40 hour work week with at least 2 days off per week. This is to promote fair competition between the labour markets of different countries within the WTO. However China doesn't like to play fair, and allowed 996 to keep chinese labour more productive. Capitalists didn't mind because it meant higher profits.
I love this - people looking after their mental and physical wellbeing and ignoring societal pressures! I'm in the UK and in a similar boat... I've always been a very hard worker - gifted and talented list, top of my class, full marks in multiple A-level exams etc ...and I have decided to opt out of the ladder climbing culture. Did a few years in customer service jobs before coming to university and eventually realised I was a fool for trying to do my best all the time when most people, especially the ones who got promoted and given the best shifts, did the bare minimum. Now I'm in university for something I've wanted to do for over a decade and the pressure that I put on myself is so great that it has become incredibly difficult to get myself to do any work at all. I've burnt myself out. Frustratingly, I know that the prestigious career that I wanted for so long and the very long hours that accompany it will not allow me to have the work-life balance that is essential for my wellbeing. So I've decided that it is best for me to forget my dream and now finish my degree with my version of 'bare minimum' for the sake of my sanity. My hope now is to run my own small business and live a somewhat modest life, earning as much as possible with as few hours as possible, allowing me to actually live and enjoy my life and raise my future children properly. I would much rather be happy and healthy than be exhausted, with my name in lights.
Honestly, this has been going on for many generations. Anyone over 50 will take the same 'Let it rot' attitude. They're usually in senior managerial positions, do the minimal required that they can't defer to those underneath them, and take all the credit when things go well or find someone to fire when things don't. People are just mad the younger generation is now doing it before their time.
I finally gained the courage to say to my father, "I do not have the desire to outdo the 6 billion other people on this planet". At the age of 10 I started growing white hairs. I am proud of my generation for breaking this ridiculous cycle of soul crushing pressure and despair. Your goal in life should be to feel joy and peace
I've never thought about it like the way you phrased it. I've always been feeling guilt of underachieving and unsatisfied with my life. And you made me realise that I actually have to outdo 6 billion other people if I won't learn to appreciate what I already have.
Proud of you for realizing it's not even feasible. There's too many folks saying they want to be the best *insert career* and not enough folks wanting to the best verison of themselves. There's only one you, thank you for reminding me 💯
True but in medical professions or fire fighters you do need people to want to go above and beyond. We do need some people willing to be unselfish to keep our countries running and safe. I worked as a nurse for 30 years and routinely worked over 55 hours per week, it is not as simple as saying get more staff either as I worked in theater and you cannot just down tools and leave the patient to fend for themselves and if you get several emergencies come in at once then there is simply not enough staff to just take over from you. You are required to go the extra mile and you do not get rewarded for it via wages. You do get a reward from knowing that you are making a difference and helping another person so I hope that there is always people willing to put others before themselves.
I'm afraid we are just slaves in the eyes of government and corporations. They want us to work hard to make them millions and then die early when we are surplus to requirements so they don't have to pay pensions.
I actually support this because it's not about being lazy it's about the promise of getting higher education not matching up with job prospects. There are not enough jobs for these graduates and it's a competitive race. Happiness doesn't come from the job you work it comes from the time spent with family, friends, or living life to be happy. Having a job is to afford basic life needs and any little luxury on the side. It doesn't mean they don't want to participate in society rather that they are not intrested in constantly being in a race and can be satisfied with a job not being your entire life. I am in this category as well but I have my own family..I work to provide and im ok with the rest of my time being dedicated to my family instead of a corporation that replaces me easily.
This video is pure propagnda against these young people, but I'm not a censorship supporter but we can all oppose its message in the COMMENTS. Governments/Companies/Organizations want good slaves who are married/have kids. After about 20 years working, I'll tell young people you should not have any loyalty to any organization, they will turn on you in a second when its convenient and fire/replace you. Also to ensure no slavery, young people dont get married and dont get a girl pregnant, make sure she takes the birth control pill daily in front of you and both wear protection. You will just condemn your new child to increasing poverty and freedomless slavery and these control/money/job trends worsen. Promote this idea in videos and social media to help prevent more young people into this new slavery.
remember that job fairs looking to hire people are looking to hire for 14 to 16 hour days at 10 dollars a day-slave labor jobs and slave labor hours-these places have nets on the roof to keep their workers from jumping off. Better jobs exists but costs in the last year have jumped up 50% or more and even before that there were not enough jobs to justify all the graduates and even survival level wages are hard to find-and most of these people have already seen that working yourself to death doesn't pay and isn't rewarded.
Ditto! The problem is these people that are basically killing them selves Working those extraordinary number of hours are wanting to get rich to impress. Their self worth and value is tied to their net worth. So if and when they have a change in status, economic or otherwise, the shallow relationship they have with their circle becomes exposed and often times you see them jumping off building and bridges. No work-life balance is deadly if you ask me. They accumulate all that $$ and many don't live long enough to enjoy it🤦🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️
there never was though ? just because you would have liked to work the high education position doesnt mean you would get it. any position can get filled. learning a oversaturated trade is a risk any time you do it.
one of the things ive learned working in a company is that no matter what i do i am never good enough even though i always excel compare to my colleagues and make little no to mistakes and they do not see what i have contributed. when burnout got me, my performance declined too and instead of help i was gaslighted. please dont overwork yourselves just to please your company and bosses, no matter what you do, you are just a number to them. so sacrificing your sanity is never worth it. it's sad that we are only making them richer while we employees suffer and no pay raise at all.
It’s not slacking it’s coming to the realization that life is meant to be full and lived, it isn’t just about working for business who don’t care about you / are killing the earth. I hope one day we all commit to this, it would save the earth.
Correct... That too, Chinese 996 model??? I mean who are we kidding? 9-9 pm a day 6 days a week? Is this justified, even if restricted only to manufacturing? PLA is even more idiotic than CCP that they let this injustice happen to their own innocent Chinese citizens.
@D HJ I work on a farm. Every single day we do laborious work that you definitely couldn’t handle. I’m not lazy, I was just saying life is more than office buildings and showing up to work for a business that doesn’t even care about you. I’m sorry you’re so brainwashed, I’m sorry new perspectives aren’t easy for you.
@D HJ what are you talking about I AM the farm owner. I don’t know why you’re trying to argue with me when my point was life is meant to be enjoyed and lived instead of constant work? This is the last reply I’ll have because there’s no point in talking to someone this stubborn. Also, ratio. 🫶🏼
@D HJ I’m a Native American, we do traditional farming methods. No pesticides no machinery, all done by hand. If you wanna know more, I’m featured on one of the last National Geographic articles. :) nice try and have a nice, POSTIVE rest of your day.
This kind of movement is not unique to Chinese youths - rising in trends like 'I don't dream of labour' and 'Quiet Quitting' also has similar sentiment of basically only doing what is the minimum requirement for the sake of your sanity and happiness. I don't think it should be dismissed as a "few lazy youths", but as a call to examine overall work culture including how we compensate workers for their time.
Well said! We see the corruption.. and it comes from the top down. It starts with the CCP, moves down into businesses with Corruption, undermining EVERYTHING. F them, they don't deserve good people, so we will undermine them and do DAMAGE. Even minor damage takes a large toll as it flows down the chain
@@edyr If you work more than 8 hours a day and make only enough food for a day, what are you gonna do? And if you stop working, you will starve yourself. Yes, you are a slave.
It is a natural consequence of lack of social mobility and the rigged game. They just dont want to burn away their lives for others who dont care about them.
I'm a 21yo college student in Canada and everyone around my age I've spoken to relates with this a lot. I stopped trying at my current job last year after spending my first 5 years in the workforce learning that being the person trying the hardest at your job will actually get you nothing but more work. After giving up and doing the bare minimum at work I not only feel better but I get treated much better since they don't ask me to do extra stuff or pick up other people's slack anymore.
i could relate to the "slackers" in this video. I personally worked hard in my initial years at a company and the reward is very little and, as one girl said in the video, disproportionate to the efforts and contributions I have exerted. Instead, I just got more work because either it may have seemed that i loved work (when in fact what i love is well-rewarded work) or they thought I'm desperate for success that i would slave myself away for a chance to reach the higher rungs of the corporate ladder. i admire people who actually sincerely love their jobs and are driven to reach success that they can sacrifice rest and recreation and could pander to their bosses' power-play. they do deserve the success that they will get (if they get it), but living simply, working just right, and having plenty of time to enjoy one's hobbies is not so bad. we're still working, paying taxes, spending money for circulation, not ruining any one's lives to get ahead of the competition, so it's far from being a worthless scum of the society that they're portraying us to be.
In holland they love giving people temp jobs (max 3 yr) then giving them a premise ''u can get a contract if u do good work'' then make u work ur ass off for 3 years and then not give a contract ... if ur not college educated there are hardly no real contracts available.
I'm a trained game designer and I wish to share some knowledge with you all. When a player starts to realised that he cannot win a game, he rage quit. When a player is winning and knows that he is going to get even stronger as he wins, he kept playing until he can't go on physically or mentally. This is the same for these people in China, humans are humans, virtually or physically, their mindset and basic needs are the same. Once the balance is off, there are consequenses. Example: imagine joining a monopoly game when all the spaces had been bought. That’s the feeling. P.S But not everyone who doesn’t want to work super hard are feeling the dread from this. Some just want to live a life which is fulfilling and be contempt with little things. people who can enjoy the little things live a happy life. 😊
Not to mention pay-to-win frustration which I would assimilate to corruption here... I know some people who had to pay quite a big amount the recruter to get a job or join the PCC to ensure a satisfying career.
@Belcoth Tan Cheng Fai, Yes that is correct to some degree for if we have no purpose. The ones with purpose, don't care and continue to carry out their purpose. To add to it, it is interesting that as you make observations of your friends, everyone is doing what they are good at, and continue to do those things, such as playing their goto video game or going to shopping websites trying to find the best deals. Stopping what they are doing is going to be ultra hard, and they will resent that. What is kept deeply in our main memory vault, is our beliefs and opinions. These are important because they are set of biases, like a config file in a game. As you know, config files are convenient to change, but no one wants to change them. They tell us how to function fundamentally. And also, this config file is imprisoning us at the same time. This could be happen to our career too, so much of our time in life can be spent working on things we don't even believe in. The time we have on this world is short but should be enough, but not if we cannot even access our self control/will. We don't make much decisions, we just keep doing what we are biased to do based on this config file, and continue on like a machine disconnected from reality, like a software that keeps on running. Social media really amplified this 10x by distracting us and lowering the average individual's patience levels. Social media with its distractions in my opinion have effectively, decreased the abilities of many young ones to live out their dreams. All this and more is explained in a book called "Hooked" by Nir Eyal. Which tells you all of the information of what makes a product/app entertaining in an addictive long term way. Basically, it is hacking the human psychology.
I'm a gamedev myself although i'm not sure how it's relevant. But that attitude is just negative. You've only lost until you've lost and the game is over. Those people that resign as soon as things dont go their way just have a negative attitude. The most enjoyable experience in any game is to be in a position that everyone says is lost, but then to continue, turn things around, and eventually draw or even win the game. I've done that many times, and it feels amazing!
Isn’t this just…acting your wage? Just because they won’t go above and beyond for simple tasks doesn’t mean they’re lazy. It’s simply doing their job. I’m glad this is being pushed forward.
They are starting to realize that working hard will only land them more work but not more money or career progression. You don't know if you notices but the first man works for a family business and he says he avoids doing a task if others can do it. The truth is that he's likely not going to be fired because he's family so other employees can do his work since their jobs can be threatened.
It seems like bai lan is sort of a defeatist attitude compared to "lay-down". I'm more on the side of doing the minimum required, but not giving up as easily.
23:32 This guy sums it up nicely. If you're working to improve your own life it makes sense to work as much as you can but the problem today is that working hard at a job is totally unrewarded. Overtime is unpaid and working overtime brings you no closer to a promotion, in fact it proves to the managers you should remain a worker. Working just enough to not get fired is heavily incentivised, as it yields the same rewards as working from dawn till dusk. The people are the roots of the tree, if you let them rot the whole tree falls at the next storm. This is a huge economic issue.
Agreed - he mentions "some people think it's fine to carry on without trying hard", but then, if you aren't really benefitting from doing so, why would you [try hard]? I used to work hard in previous positions where doing so benefitted me, but then when I got grilled for any move I did or didn't do, why would I not do as little as possible?
"Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country" is a good line, but it only works if your country actually IS doing something for you. Otherwise, it's just asking you TO be a victim in an abusive relationship. Leaders in many countries, East and West, have neglected and a used the youth in favor of their own profits for too long.
Bingo. My country needs to do a 180 and treat me with dignity, respect and fair pay in all things . You say society doesn't owe me anything? Fair point, then I'll do nothing for society in return . It's a 2 way street. So good luck doing whatever it is you wanna do, because I surely won't be participating in any meaningful way . Deuces .
My take on that line has always been to continue it with: "... because you, the people, are the country". People with societal status, money, power and titles -the elite- have always been viewed, and viewed themselves as the leaders and driving force of any given country. I'm not saying that's wrong when viewed from the perspective of other -elite's- perspective in other countries. They make deals with each other, trade a countries resources with each other and make legal changes to a countries system to govern its people in a beneficial way. However, to make all of this work the majority of a country must be below -the elite- and follow the elite. A country must have built systems that ensure it's difficult to act outside of desired norms, and that the majority of any given people also view the system as beneficial. This is because, in truth, it's everyone else who are the country. Not -the elite-. A person with power and money only has so because the people let them have so. Either by dropping of money for their merchandise, by receiving votes through elections, by being employed in their corporations, or any other means that allow them the opportunity to become influential. At it's true core, any person with power should be viewed in the tradition of the earliest chieftains of smaller communities, not in the traditions of the noble houses that followed them. A noble house viewed the ordinary people living within it's governance as part of their resources and/or governing responsibility. While an elected chieftain knows their part of the people, but have been deemed fitting to be their voice of common good. The difference being a vertical system, where one group is above the other, so the one below must succumb to those above; and a horizontal system, where everyone is equal but with different responsibilities, and each responsibility is viewed as equally important. Therfore, to me, "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country", is a cautionary sentence ment for -the elite-, the once who hold power, wealth and status. On pair with the alleged Roman “Respice post te. Hominem te esse memento. Memento mori.” "Look behind you. Remember you're human. Remember you're mortal."
A lot of people repeat that line to advocate for rugged individualism but Kennedy also advocated for universal healthcare so I think your interpretation is a good one.
Our youth adopted minimalism and then the older generations saw the benefit in decreased consumerism and increased time enjoying experiences. I think the youth of this era are teaching us a lot!
Coming from Gen X, I wish I had learned this before I experienced burnout a few years ago. Doing too much, thinking I had to do all the work given me, and therefore, more work was given to me. I finally gave up, or my body did. It taught me a lesson, the University where I worked still functioned without me. After I recovered, I set boundaries on keeping to my job discription and going home on time, leaving work at work and going to work on time instead of early. I've never been happier. Now, I am all about No Stress, because tomorrow will still come without me pushing it here. Kudos to these youth
@@Anonymous-qh9gq After collapsing and going to the hospital, the doctor sent me home where I slept for three months straight 🤷 no joke. And honestly, I don't remember much other than I would pull myself out of bed to eat. I still have symptoms, I don't multitask like I use to, something I was very very good at. Now, nope, one task at a time and Ive also noticed that every now and then I am unable to focus. Oh and I get tired faster. But these are all symptoms that make me go.....hmmm 🤔 that's interesting. It's been 5 years 😊 biggest take away, stress is a killer so let it go - things work out eventually anyway.
@@UtahGal 3 months?? That's crazy, but I don't find it hard to believe. You’re absolutely right about stress though, too much of it can really mess with your health in general. Thank you for sharing that with me!!
GEN X here too. I completely understand where you are coming from. I literally broke out in hives and my physician could not figure out what was causing it at first . For that amount of stress to tigger physical symptoms was an eye opener. I've never experienced another episode since.
@@ephTheClone lol, dont u see what social implications "zero covid" has over the people and society they are living in... Im sorry, but maybe sm1 jizzed in your eyes for being so blind.
@@ryanlee2138 I work 24/7 every single day and only get 3 hours of sleep every 24 hours. In fact was about to sleep before I got the notification of this comment. Im not complaining.
I support their attitudes of BAILAN; I am a 38 years old scientific researcher. Since I was young, I studied very hard; I could not date with others when I was < 18 years old because that would exert a negative impact on my study. Then I worked hard to get into a top university, and after that got a full scholarship for Ph.D. in a European country. What do I get? I still work hard every day, writing papers and publishing papers like robots. I like their way of living for themselves and for fun.
We only ever speak of the things employees do wrong in the workplace but never speak of the lengths that companies go to in order to underpay and trick their employees into being loyal to them.
i started living this way after severe burnout and suicide attempt at 26. i got a job in the medical field and did everything i was supposed to do. i realized fast that i was just a cog in the machine making very little compared to the work i was putting in. after the suicide attempt i went on disability and collect social security income. i work with other people in my community who are disabled. it’s much more fulfilling and i am appreciated. people will judge me but i truly don’t care. mental health and inner peace above all…
Wow i have no words ,its shows how much pressure is put to being disciplined and hardworking workholic from society , you had the courage to try to suicide but not had the courage to show middle finger to job ,go to bunk and enjoy outside
When you can’t even buy a house after working for twenty years and getting a master's degree from college, there’s something deeply wrong with our society. People will move out of cities, grow their own food, and do simple things that will make them happy.
@@wshyangify 80 years for jobs like waiter. 40 years for the average office worker. 3-20 years for prostitutes depending on how they sell themselves. If this isn't modern slavery I don't know what is. What's even weirder is how there's a crazy surplus of land, labor and engineers to make housing super cheap. But, well, there's serious money to be made by racking up real estate prices and those who own are winning
Idea is nice, but buying land and a house in rural area is not free either. Also, you need quite a lot of land and live stock to feed yourself. Then you also need some expensive machines unless you want to do everything by hand and work all day long.
My father was a simple mechanic and could pay off the house i grew up in within 5 years. I have a masters degree in IT and am supposedly a top earner, yet it would take me 15 years to pay off the same house now, and people in a lower wage bracket have it even worse. If it requires double the effort and thrice the amount of time for a fraction of the rewards, what's the point? If i can't obtain reasonable monetary compensation through work, then the only thing left i can do is to reward myself with more freetime.
@@cr0wland I'm in Belgium and I agree that the length of the mortgage may be the same. Even the percentage of how much of my parents monthly income went to paying the mortgage may be the same. The difference is that they managed to build a 4 bedroom house with it. If I make the same commitment and investment, I get a rundown one-bedroom flat.
@@cr0wland I don't have the exact numbers in my head right now, but i know i earn about twice as much as my father while house prices are around six times higher. So despite having a better paying job and education i still have to pay three times more in relation to my income, a far cry from the the affordability of the past. But jesus, a 25 year mortgage? Might as well sign a slave contract. Being in debt until you're an old man, how is this even legal?
I was lucky enough to have had my first full-time experience as a consultant with a manager that encouraged us to just work our 40 hrs and not to sacrifice ourselves for work. It's rare but i think it was something i needed. In my college internship, i worked for a big company that didn't bat an eye to working past working hours, my mentor often was there before i came into the office at 9 and was still there when i left at 6. Having had no one who would tell me about working culture in the United States, my mom told me to work as hard as i can but after being promoted only once and my salary increasing about 20k in 5 yrs, I've stopped thinking that the extra hard work isn't worth it. Like many have said, if you show potential, they don't give you rewards, they give you more work instead. I hope more people stopped thinking this sacrificing mindset is a good thing to live for
I already decided this in highschool.. since there was no reward for getting high marks at all i wasnt going to go all out to get them.. a pass was sufficient.. so i did, most books i never even opened. College was mostly the same. I had already worked some part time jobs and noticed companies dont care at all. They even fired my mom from her teacher job for 35 years because 2 schools were merging and the other teammembers were from a younger generation.. thats what u get for showing up and functioning fine for 35+ years.. Even if ur not fired a company can just stop existing or more to another country.. and ur gone also.. I went to look for jobs that i can do on my own (no interfearance) and remote.. that way i dont have to compete and just do the tasks. (but hard to find though). Id rather earn a little less but have no stress and more free time, better then working really hard and burning out fast.
The tutor lady is #goals. Earns enough to live on and spends the rest of the time cultivating her physical fitness, passions, and relationships. World would be better off if more people did the same.
the insurance agent is highly motivated because her compensation are in fact directly correlated with her efforts and hence positively reinforced. but suppose she's working at a desk job in the same insurance company with a fixed salary and realizes there's no hope for her to buy her own flat in Beijing, i'm sure she'll go "Bai Lan" as well.
True. It's why I went into sales. I work HARD. To some of my friends, I work waaay too hard. But I see a direct correlation between that hard work and my paycheck. The same cannot be said for most people.
Not to mention how they're required to meet sales targets but don't necessarily see an extra cent. Used to work for a Korean trading firm and the targets always renew per month but it's not like I'll necessarily get something beyond my fixed salary
@@redfullmoon exactly. It's almost as if people don't have a mind. If I'm constantly being given targets to meet and i'm meeting them or exceeding them and not getting anything substantial as a result, it's only a matter of time before I Bai Lan
I love that the older adults in this video are calling 'kids' lazy - despite the fact that many of these older adults only had the opportunities they did, because of the economic conditions at the time. The guy who worked as a teacher for 10 years and then just decided to work in importing machines? Kinda hard to break into that these days lmao They get it easy, pat themselves on the backs, and then call the youth 'unmotivated' for calling it how it is, and not deigning to work themselves to the bone for peanuts and a promise.
It's so odd to see that everybody critical is just one step before realizing why. It feels like this was left as an exercise to the watcher... I would even argue that this is a result from an emerging middle class. This gives place for people not working just to survive but able to have different priorities in life. These all seem to have a quite sheltered upbringing in stark contrast to the poorer population. China will definitely experience major social restructuring due to the changing living standards for more and more people. These changes will be quite challenging for the state.
@@manveroo1340 Arguably, less a case of an emerging middle class, and more a case of a declining middle class. especially in places like China. China is now reducing the number of college acceptees per year to reduce the number of young adults who would qualify for middle class positions in order to retain their cheap labor costs and reduce market pressures from too many college graduates w/o enough jobs for them. Additionally, nepotism is rampant, and with the stabilization of Chinese society, any social mobility is slowly being phased out in favor of giving jobs to family/friends. This is imo the biggest factor: that people have learned how stratified society is becoming, and that excelling in you position no longer nets you benefits because the management is now looking for more nebulous qualities as exceuses for their unfair affirmative action hiring practices, as opposed to hiring people based on merit.
Younger People like myself would rather go back to the old days of our Ancestors who lived in Tribal Communities, Sing Along, hunt for food, make a fire from scratch and just live in a cabin. The way Modern Society is built is to be a Soulless Slave!! The Matrix. Ironic how Boomers tell Young People why they are always on their phones and glued to technology when older generations created such technology. Now you got a Epidemic of Young Men addicted to jacking off to pixelated Screens. Dam you Al Gore for creating the Internet
Slacking off is often a manifestation of learned helplessness. From the point of view of psychology, you tend to be less motivated when you feel frustration because your efforts are not duly compensated. So you tend to slack off because you resolve in your mind that whatever efforts you put in and the hours you put in would not matter anyway. This is not frustration due to delayed gratification but rather it is frustration at not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. So you stop trying because you think it would not change anything anyway. This is not really laziness but rather a serious lack of motivation and undefined purpose.
This is taking Taoism to whole new level. The art of letting go and living an effortless life is a philosophy that originated in ancient China. I personally find the Philosophy works in my personal life. It’s amazing how little to know effort actually goes a long way compared to trying to succeed in something that is not naturally achievable for myself!
I wondered if anyone in the comments would pick up on that. I think China has become an abomination of all the worst elements imported from the west - aggressive capitalism, materialism, communism and even fascism. This is just their younger generation yearning to reconnect with it's roots and put some meaning back into an empty and hopeless existence.
The spirit of Taoism is letting go of the desire of seeing (rewarding) results, instead of letting go of the efforts to work /study/experience better. For instance, you like a girl/boy, but you think she/he is out of your league. Then you just give up and walk away. This is not Taoism. Taoism means you do the best part you can, and let the result reveal itself (someday).
@@thea-1984 I don't know about that. I recall a passage in Tao Te Ching that talked favorably about being like a gnarled tree that is useless to the world and yet can't be removed. That sounds like simply dropping out of the world. Look at Chuang Tzu as well, it seems like Taoism represents a provincial and contented life as the ideal. IMO when it comes to action, Taoism is about going beyond "doing your best and letting go of the outcome". That idea is popular in many other philosphies, but I don't think it is Taoist. I think Taoism idealizes action with no effort or friction, so there is no notion of "best" or "doing your best". I think it is closer to being thoughtless and effortless and so represents a different idea than mere outcome independence.
Before, i was very determined to climb up the corporate ladder. It was my ultimate goal. But on the process, I forgot to LIVE. I forgot that my job is just a part of my life and NOT my whole life. And I realized that there's more to life than just being a laborer and that my well being is more important than status and power.
As an old Gen-Xer (the original slackers) I fully approve of these dudes in their pursuit of their own happiness (and yes I use the gender neutral "dude"). Why act like a slave to a company? The company does not care for you or appreciate you. Competition brings out the worst in people. Life/work balance is important. My father identified as his job - it was part of who he was. To me that is insane. Work only pays for life, I am not my job and never have been. 😎
This is my motto. Never stress yourself over work you’re only getting 0.001% of what the boss gets. People tell me I’m risking my job but I call it appreciating and prioritizing myself. I can always find another job the world doesn’t revolve around working.
The boss used to make a dollar while you made a dime. Now, he makes a dime and his boss makes a hundred dollars, you get pocket lint. What's the point of working when you can barely scrape by and any attempt to save is destroyed by inflation?
I've been letting the system rot since 2011. I've let go of all ambitions and never felt better. I wanted to be a engineer for nasa in DC then 2011 I got burned out. Now I'm a bartender in St Thomas and it's the best job I ever have!!
my 5 ambition dont require money. im lucky i can focus bucket list witouot becoming rich some stuff in life are not buyable or sellable. my 5 on 5 item are part of them
When I was in my late 20s, I came upon the same realization that my rewards were not proportionate to my efforts. It is a huge motivation killer. I was sick of making sacrifices, I told myself that my mental health and happiness was most important. If something did not work, I would pivot quickly and try something different. My life became a lot better after I stopped caring about what people thought of me and my accomplishments.
I was like that until I turned 35. Always super effective and motivated at work and I always wanted to be the best in what I was doing. I also was kind of a perfectionist and wanted to get along with the bosses and the colleagues at any time. Unfortunately this also caused a lot of jealousy among my colleagues and they took advantage by overwhelming me with their work while also bullying me at the same time. For 1-2 years I was able to deal with it but then I noticed my body reacting to all the stress and when I came close to a burnout I just didn't show up at work and called in sick. After I returned to work I did choose the offensive solution and complained about the bullying and the insane work load at my company. The result was very disappointing. The bosses didn't want to hear about it and the bullies denied everything. After this their attitude towards me changed completelly and people avoided me. So I also developed a 'I don't give a sh!t'-attitude and only did the minimum that was asked from me. This also improved my life by a lot because I wasn't stressed out because of work all the time. In the end I left the company because I was sick of seeing those people everyday but in my new company I did choose a more relaxed way of working without trying to impress anybody and so I didn't have any conflicts with colleages so far.
There's a friend i had back in university, she used to ignore her hunger and not feeling well all the time until one day on the particular evening, pouring rain. Just to complete her thesis for graduation she's ignoring her hunger and sick body to go to the nearest printing kiosk(many people in Indonesia don't have printer) and print her thesis. She doesn't have an umbrella or raincoat to be used so she braced herself to be drenched by rain. After coming back from the printing kiosk she's straight up going to bed and sleep. Morning came and when one of her dorm friends knocked on her door to wake her up for breakfast(around 6.00 am)she was not answered. She thought to herself "Maybe she's still sleeping" so she's going to knock again before she went to the campus. Unfortunately for her when she came back to knock she's still sleeping, infuriated by this she went to mother superior to borrow the master key. With the master key in hand, she opened the door and found her friend still drenched by yesterday rain died. The cause of death is overworked.
A workmate came to work slightly before 8am. Started sweating, we took him to a hospital 10mins away by 1pm he had died. He had complianed of pains but kept off going to hospital cause of the demanding work schedule. But also we were not given health insurance and given the fact thay he was prepping for his wedding he opted out of going to hospital. He died 10 days away from his wedding.
Opted out to go to hospital for preping wedding is not a good idea. There are responsibilities in a marriage. A good health is one of the thing that helps you to take care of your love one.
I’m from the States and it’s no different here. We’re not meant to work like mindless robots for consumerism. I’m in my 30’s and in the workplace we have the 60-70 yr olds (supervisors) who refuse to retire and they can’t wrap their head around managing us that are in our 20’s-30’s. They try to micromanage us down to the second. We are more educated and efficient than them. We can get 8 hrs of work completed in 3 hrs. Then they call us lazy because we manage our time better. Ah and here we call it “quiet quitting”. Do the bare minimum your job asks of you but enough not to get yourself fired.
Definitely enjoyed this and was surprised to find the "Bai Lan" attitude so close to it's American version we call "quiet quitting". Neither of these attitudes should need any defense, by the way, especially in a Capitalist society. If working hard gets you everything than why look at the people essentially living balanced lives with envy or disdain? Doesn't this open the door to all the workaholics out there who say they believe in hard work? This is where the disingenuous start to sputter because the problem lies in unsustainable systems and just a simple lack of value missing for the system in place...not to mention corrupt leadership. As a Gen Xer I can confirm that here in America that even the 90's were a hard time for upward mobility and there have been multiple economic crashes and constant inflation since those days. Literally, nothing worth mentioning has gotten better for working class folks as far as I've experienced.
In a capitalist society, working hard doesn’t give you any rewards. The rich gets richer while the poor stay poor. The rich need poor people to provide them with labor. My mom is a lawyer and has seen lots of rich people and their nepotism kids. They are made for success because they are born rich. Like one guy could increase his company’s market value because he went to a ultra rich school and have ultra rich friends whose parents are ultra rich. The rich support each other and so he was able to grow his business. It’s not hard work, it’s connections and being in the rich circle. A poor guy can only work for the rich and that’s the truth because workers don’t own the things they work on.
@@buibuiopolismayor7329 You need to understand and differentiate between economic system and intrisinsic human behaviour. Capitalism is just private ownership of property and voluntary market exchange. Do you really think nepotism will dissappear under another economic model, say, communism? People will always be greedy and corruption will always be there, see China or any other historical communist societies. Also, working hard is meaningless if it does not ADD VALUE TO THE MARKET. Under capitalism the value of something is judged by supply and demand as consumers dictate the value. Working hard as a toilet cleaner will not net the same value to a business/society as being a competent CEO whose decisions rake in billions for the company. Which is why they say work hard AND smart
@@yt_nh9347 consumers don’t dictate the market. The companies dictate the market. Consumers are forced to choose between the products they produce and the prices they set. Nepotism isn’t going to disappear, and communism isn’t the end all solution. But the concept is about leveling the ground. Giving millions of dollars in bonuses to the rich circle isn’t going to make the world better. It’s better for the market to have the people become richer so they can spend more. Tax the rich, give to the needy, socialist society is the way it should be.
Slacker isn't the right term; it's burned out. If there's no way of moving up the ladder then why keep trying so hard when you don't have the ability to improve. It's when the ceiling is to high for too many years; and you know no matter what you do you can't reach it. The over achievers are simply lucky. Lucky to have an education, lucky to have family support, lucky that their health hasn't failed, lucky they were chosen for jobs they enjoy. Different MB personality types should also be evaluated in this situation.
What a cop out. "The overachievers are simply lucky." So them doing the work - studying, organizing, prioritizing, etc. to do well, and you write that off as luck? Were those from working class families who are now doctors and lawyers, lucky? These are people who persevered against adversity, and you chalk it off to luck. What a load of bs you're pushing to rationalize your own failure.
I'm not saying that working hard, studying hard, and putting in the time is worthless. I'm saying that if someone does all those things and the day after graduation the person is hit by a car that's bad luck preventing success. All that hard work was basically erased by bad luck. I had a friend hit by a car she had to learn to walk again and years later she still has difficulty with basic math. 2 other people I knew are brilliant but they went through a terrible education system so they were educated wrong. Another friend is from an abusive family, she still hasn't fully escaped them and she is nearing 40. Every time she gets a job her family does something and she loses her new job. Dealing with the problems her family has created takes up most of her time and has had an effect on her health. Another friend was a good student but had health problems early in life so she spent much of her time in hospitals; because of that she wasn't allowed to graduate even though she did all the work. Last time I saw her she was homeless. Another friend has a parent who is likely a psychopath; that friend has major problems from that. When 300 people are competing for 1 job 299 people will not have that job. When there are more jobs than jobs available it doesn't matter how hard they work they can't all be the 1 person who gets the job. People die each year because they can't afford to see a doctor. Other times people pass from malpractice. If someone doesn't have money to buy food then they won't spend their time studying; they'll spend their time trying to find food. These are all situations where bad luck prevents success.
my boyfriend worked so much overtime and did so much for his last job and he was still in university, they repaid him by asking more of him and basically promoted him without paying him more. keep people expectations low, the more you give, the more they will take.
@@techtutorvideos You'd be surprised on how much this occurs as almost every company tries to pay you less than you deserve. The only way to tackle the issue is to advise your superior that you are looking for other roles so it can lead to a proper discussion of your pay.
At least a promotion spruces up the resume a bit, and makes one *feel* recognized. Now imagine not even getting promoted despite producing incredible results. And then watching all other colleagues get promoted. Nobody needs to wonder why this trend is catching on.
Welcome to the real world. It will get better for him though. I did it too, internships. It didn't kill me, it took me to 40 to get a mortgage. I'm proud of my achievements You lot won't stick at anything, want special treatment. The world won't change for you. Get used to it. Success requires effort and stamina
I am a 30 year old Jamaican Millennial. Having experienced working 100+ hours per month in overtime alone just to get by while my country experienced record amounts of brain drain (Jamaica has a very good education system and supplies great nurses and teachers but there's mostly sweet shop- like call centres popping up and little much of anything else so countries like the US, Canada & the UK CONSTANTLY head hunt us) I 1000% support these Chinese young people! I was always Bai Lan, more so after the age of 24. I just want a peaceful life where I can actually survive. I was so over worked and stressed out that I had a full mental breakdown and became heavily suicidal (still am). After nearly 3 years I'm only JUST beginning to come back to normal. Us young people NEED BALANCE! It cannot only be work work work (and now breed breed breed since the higher heads have realised that we are not reproducing more worker ants to support their retirement), worse since the boomers and some gen xers are HOGGING everything known to man. It's practically impossible for young people to compete/grow if the older folks who tend to also be in power are making decisions that mostly benefit THEM.
You are speaking nothing but truth. I'm so glad you're coming to this realization. I hope you are putting your health first. And I hope your suicidal ideation ceases. This system robs people of joy and light.
@@deembbest4553 Thank you so much for your kind words ❤️ They mean alot🙏🏾. I have been trying to rebuild and although it may be very challenging, it's slowly bu5 sure improving. I hope that you're taking care of yourself too, don't let the system work you to death! Edit: Slowly but surely
You are exactly right we young people are not interested in conflicts and work. To sustain we need work but our life would never always work! I don't give a rat's ass about those multi-national companies who by the way are ruled by the previous generation and don't even care about the employee, even if you die during working they will give you a max 10min of silence to mourn and then "back to work" So don't dedicate your life to these companies who would drain every drop of blood out of you! enjoy your time don't know how long we have to see all the global events unfolding, take care.
If only there's a painless method to kill myself just to end the suffering, I won't hesitate! Especially the people around you are narcissists and ignorants. What solution do you have to that kind of people? It's ridiculous. Pathetic. You know it would've been better if I hadn't been born at all.
I'm an adjunct professor and freelance musician. I used to teach public school and was working 60-80 hours a week, thanklessly. Now I work 30 or 40 hours a week and I run, dance, quit smoking, no back pain, learned to paint, and I'm learning magic tricks for my nephew. I hike and camp any weekend I want to and hang out with my girlfriend. I get paid a little over half what I used to make but I'm 1000x happier. My job is fun and I have enough work to pick only my favorite gigs. I don't need to get involved in too much beyond my friends and family and hobbies. I don't need to take responsibility for large social issues I didn't start and don't have any authority or agency to finish, but I'll try not to make them worse insofar as one person can contribute to a large social system. I don't see what the problem is here, unless everyone's doesn't get it because they're jealous that someone can be comfortable not climbing and striving. I think this is a strike for the human soul. And being on the picket line is really fun!
Like how is people doing their job and then going home a bad thing? Just because they aren't working like they own the company doesn't mean that they don't care. Like we need to change this mindset that if you aren't producing (for an employer) you aren't being a good citizen.
That's the real problem with a communist system. When the means of production are owned by the "public" (read the government) then it literally IS your duty as a citizen to be productive.
You cannot judge what happens in other countries comparing it with others who are totally different. The whole Chinese culture and society is built around hard work and strong competition. Not having the desire to engage in this is something that threatens the system itself. In western countries, people working a 9 to 5 and having low aspirations is not a bad thing, but in China it is different. Other countries have other problems that threaten their culture and system.
Employees: How much raise are we getting this year? Company : 1.5% profits were not so good. Also company: Pays executives 20 million performance bonuses
@@Drpermer It's just corporate capitalism, which is global. Some countries have better social programs and labor laws but they're still fundamentally ruled by it.
I really liked how they explained the situation, not taking sides. It' is hard to keep playing a game when you know you already lost it. Chances of becoming millionair (or just economically well positioned) are quite slim in most assalariated positions, so I think that investing in your hobbies, your private life and your mental health is not a bad option. They are still working, no one is taking care of them, so let them have their own lifestyle. Afterall, in Europe we have been doing that for decades.
I once work with a sexist idiot we will call Steve. Let's just say Steve struggles and likes to ask me questions but get paid more than me and is promoted because he is best friends with the manager. I quit and Steve is still there rotting at the company being a nuisance.
As a Chinese, I realize no matter how hard I work my life still sucks. If I keep working 996 I will die and tomorrow there will be a cheaper younger guy come to replace me. So I stop dreaming about a better life and start to 'let it rot'. In that afternoon, I found the sky is so beautiful.
The secret is that you tell and act like you are working hard and overworking at times so that no one will bother your lazy lifestyle. I'm a massage therapist here in the Middle East averaging 2 to 3 clients a day, that's around 4 hours of work. I spend the rest of my day playing mobile games. When asked how hard my job is I always "oh yeah look at my hands its swoolen, im so overworked that i developed insomia"
I couldn't help but laugh when they had the retired guy talking about how young people don't have motivation. If we don't demand better for ourselves, with the current state of things, many of us will never even be able to retire. Just worked to death like they cattle they see us as.
🐂💨 frankly. Do you think your parents didn't strive? People your age died fighting for your freedom to complain .... You self indulgent, entitled victim. Pathetic. You'll fail. Totally
A work life balance is critical to one's well being. Too much work is harmful just as too little work is just as harmful. If you are barely getting by now how will your life be down the road when you hope to start a family or god forbid retire? Say what you want about the older generations but they are able to look back on life through experience, so cut them some slack as sooner or later you will be there as well.
Ohh man. It’s pure CCP propaganda…. The ONLY way to get rich in China was to buy property before massive property bubble. That’s not possible anymore. There is zero social mobility in China. The kids who are going to get good jobs and “succeed” come from already “successful” families who are part of CCP and corrupt government officials. There is no “American dream” in China. It’s propaganda to keep the CCP supplied with diligent and educated drones to keep the country running.
There’s a documentary called “American Factory” on Netflix and it’s about a Chinese company that bought a factory in Detroit, USA. The difference between both countries it’s stark. The Chinese were incredibly shocked that the American workers wouldn’t work like the Chinese do. At one point the supervisor said “why do the Americans want 2 days off a week? In China the workers get 1 or 2 days off a month and they’re happy.” The Bai Lin and Tang Peng philosophies are great but I doubt the young (not college educated) Chinese factory workers have the option of relaxing and enjoy life like their wealthier counterparts. China is a beast and it consumes the weak to make itself grow bigger and stronger.
yeah i’ve seen that movie, however that was happening before pandemic. a lot of things changed afterwards... i see this yt video talking about very recent phenomenons. people are questioning everything now, especially after so many wealthy leaders/corporations got way more rich, beyond imaginable.... someone mentioned greed.
But they will pay the price in the long run. They think they are winning now but it will come back to bite, just like that one-child per family law they implemented. When that law went into effect they did not foresee the problematic outcome. So it will be when these work horse workers are stressed out, burnt out, sick and then drop dead from stress and over work. Guess they will then try to call on the thousands and thousands of unemployed graduates to fill the slots. By then many of those would have given up and would have become Bia Lan..Tang Peng🤷🏿♀️ either way they screwing themselves thinking they are building their society and country but in actuality are destroying. IT ALL LOOKS GOOD NOW, BUT WATCH OUT🤷🏿♀️
"I doubt the young (not college educated) Chinese factory workers have the option of relaxing and enjoy life like their wealthier counterparts." Many of them are doing this. Since years it's been reported that many manufacturers in China suffer from labor shortage. Unlike people 10/20 yrs ago, many younger migrant workers would rather go back to their villages, if the wage is too low or the working conditions are too harsh.
It's not only the non-proportional monetary reward that disappointed workers. There are also colleagues who are good at acting like they do alot, while they only talk, and the boss thinks they are the most hardworking ones and give them the best rewards. Quiet introverted hardworking workers usually suffer, unless the boss takes extra effort to find out who really gets the jobs done (which is rare) 😢
Yup, add to that Chinese can't even leave theirs own country and migrant workers are considered as 2nd class citizen in China. That's why 996 work because there are plenty of replacement, so no need to care about health and well being of workers.
When I was young, I always heard all the parents say they wanted their kids to be happy and live happy life. Now they are living their happy life, and you called them Slackers/ Weak/ Lack of motivation? I’m 34 now. I used to work 18 hrs a day. And still, no matter how hard you try in the end, it doesn’t matter. Just like the Linkin Park song😂 so I’m glad to see that they realize that now.
Thank you from NZ, your doco was very enlightening, we have been aware of corporate pressure on employees for many years, which appears to also effect students under enormous pressure to achieve qualifications, this is a normal condition of any culture, as you are aware, technology has advanced somewhat since the 70s and the youth also, with their dreams will the the next stage of human growth, be not our closed mind give our children a dark forest but a great light
That retired businessman had a whole 9 to 5 job as a teacher that he quit to go into a field he knew nothing about and is now retired with 3 cars in his garage. He had motivation because he had a secure life with savings already, and all his hard work was to benefit himself while his wife did the work of raising his child by herself. He kicked away his responsibility to his students, his employer, and his family, to make his own money and now is retired early and contributing nothing to society or the youth. He can sit at home with his money now for the next 20+ years watching tv with his wife, even though he's clearly still in good health and able to do keep working, giving free tutoring, or volunteering for charity work but instead he spends his time taking interviews so he can self-aggrandize and call other people lazy. How long will he and his wife occupy that property while young people share 5 roommates to a 2 bedroom flat that costs more to rent than his mortgage ever was? What about the people who worked for him in his company? Are they now retired in good health with a big house and 3 cars? Did they get shares in his business and become stockholders? Or did they struggle their whole lives for a pittance just like everyone else? And don't forgot the line where it's stated that the president decided to allow "a few people to get rich first" so tell me, how was he added to that list of people? And what about those people who were already trained in that field who he was competing against? How was he able to overthrow them so easily? Only with hard work learning from scratch what others already knew? Then what about all their hard work? Was it meaningless then? So how will the young people of today be able to succeed? If an untrained person back then could overthrow the educated and succeed in business only through hard work and good circumstances, but a young person now can graduate from college and can't even find a job in their own field, how are they supposed to feel hopeful or motivated? I would be interested to see this report interview an older generation who isn't rich and high status and see what they think about all this. Interview a janitor or factory worker or unemployed elderly and ask them if working hard will get you rich
@P VP Sir, You made a good point that the voice of the other not-so-successful of the older generation should also be heard. However, I would just like to point out that many of the other parts of your comment indicate there was a lack of good understanding of the background and history of China. China was under a more orthodox type of communism before the reforms started in 1978. By orthodox type of communism it means private property is discouraged, and absolute equality is valued - everyone got essentially the same pay regardless of productivity, and being affluent (not even rich) was to be made ashamed of. So when Deng Xiaoping said "allow some people to get rich first", he did not really mean to solely benefit those with good connections, but rather saying people were allowed to make more if they could produce more, which liberated a huge amount of animal spirits among people, which has been the key driver of China's fast growth in the decades followed. With this background, the businessman in the video did not displace or beat the other "more professional" or "established" people. There was essentially no private businesses, let alone establishments. That was the type of opportunities presented at that time. As long as you dared to take the challenges to get into a new field (which means leaving the public sector, which the vast majority of people were in), your chance of success was significant. I think that was actually one of the key points this businessman, as well as the video producer, were trying to convey. It was not exactly a criticism, rather more of looking for an explanation, that the huge opportunities in the past were probably a significant part of the reasons that the last generation was more motivated. Nowadays, competition was so fierce that even if someone works really hard, the chance of success is slimmer. Still, I agree with you that it's not convincing enough to make the point by letting only a successful self-made businessman to speak for the last generation, but a few mediocre young people speak for the current generation. I do agree there are hardworking people, as well as people who are more laid back, as well as slackers, or many other types, in ANY generation. To that point, I find this video on the more balanced side than many of the other videos on the same topic.
I was hoping someone would point this out in the comments!!! Similar to Boomers in the U.S., his generation had plenty of vertical growth opportunity. This guy isn't a "genius" or "exceptionally hardworking" like he probably imagines himself to be. He's just part of a very lucky generation of untapped markets and little competition. If he started over today as an 18yo, he'd probably be another mediocre cog in the machine and eventually do Bai Lan too.
Not only that the amount of times i have heard "At your age i worked full time,had a mortage and 2 kids" yea in your era you could afford a house with 1 income because the market was not an overprice piece of sh?#, the prices have raised the income have not.
As someone from outside China, I found it quite surprising that this kind of thought is banned by the government. For me and my peers, it’s very common to not want to give it all to climb the corporate ladder. I mean, a job is just a job. Of course we try to do our best at our jobs, but we don’t exist to serve our jobs. Out jobs exist to serve us, to give us enough money to sustain our lives. I though this was a common idea shared by many people. So I’m a bit surprised that it became a movement and has to be banned.
Yeah I don’t really see the issue. If you want to fight and work and prove to move up the ladder, no problem. It depends on what you value. If you value your family and hobbies then just do your job and go home. Seems pretty simple. It’s always been very clear to bosses which employees they can rely on to put in more work than others, which is fine lol
@@Chow18ggrace that’s too bad. I believe everyone naturally finds where they are best in the hierarchy. I’ve learned over time where I excel best and are able to keep my stress low, enjoy my work, while also enjoying life with family. I used to take on more responsibility become manager of x,y,z at my jobs. I’ve realized that’s not where I do well, managing people. I enjoy having a little bit more responsibility but get too overwhelmed when I am in charge of other people. I enjoy just being a reliable and good employee. That’s it lol
Bai Lan American here. Gotta say kudo's to the people around the world starting to recognize that consuming less makes life a whole lot better because you don't need to work your life away for material things that mean nothing. I've lived a austere life for a long time, and had many friends wonder how I get by, yet they never connect the dots making fun of my car that is a hand me down 20+ year old vehicle... Don't buy everything in the world and you don't have all that debt to work 2-3 meaningless jobs.
Well said. The irony is that a car that was manufactured 20 years ago is probably a better built car. Cars today have all the 'bells and whistles' and sales media tries to convince consumers that they can't be happy or impressive without them. A car is only as good as its ability to move you from where you are to where you want/need to be as safely and efficiently as possible. I've lived long enough to know that owning all the things that are being sold to us may seem nice but those things end up owning you - either through debt or just the upkeep it takes to maintain them. No thanks.
This is a world wide phenomenon…people all over the world see no benefits to spending outrageous amounts of money to obtain a university degree, with no guarantee you will even find a job, then working a 9-5 with additional overtime while taking care of kids and maintaining a home and still not being able to cover all the bills at the end of each month or afford decent food….this is the reality for many countries including my own (South Africa)…we are working the same amount of time our parents did maybe even slightly more and we cannot afford the basic necessities…something is very wrong with the world
because in the time of our parents' generations, there were less people in the world. Less people, less competition, higher salary, less cost of living.
It’s the 1% richest get all the cake. We are all their “chive” to be harvested by them. So the chives now realize it and refuse to play their games no more.
Social media has enabled people with an independent mind to come to the realization that they will not achieve lasting enjoyment or self fulfillment as long as they continue making money for someone else. My advice to them is, to encourage their children to work for themselves… to become entrepreneurs.
I guess more and more people realized that there is more to life than being treated like a slave and expect you to work 12 hours a day and 6 days a week.
I enjoy my work but I hate office politics and workplace bullying. Being a salaried staff feels like a slave to a master. After watching this video and reflecting, it makes me realize how much emphasis I have given to work instead of myself, my friends and family. I work hard and want to make a difference. Dealing with insecure bosses are not funny. I was told I am not politically savvy enough. Well, enough. If I am going for a new job, I would just to go to work on time and leave work on time. I would do what is required. Enough is enough. My larger goal is to go freelance.
I'm a chinese and I do think this is the good choice for us to do. Think about it, perporty price is around 2-3 million, you make 10K per month(10K-15K/Month is already much higher than average income level). In big city like Shanghai or Beijing, you have to pay 4k-5k rent. 2k for eating and daily transport. you able to save around 3k-5k without any entertaiment activites. How to afford 3million perporty? The harder we work, the landlord and boss are getting more rich by doing nothing. why the fk we work? No hope at all~
This is going on everywhere. Just read through the comments. I thought it was just tied to America and a few other European countries but it's everywhere. It's kind of refreshing to know I'm not the only one but extremely sad knowing of no hope on the horizon. Only way I see change coming is the majority of the population of the world says no more! We have had enough because the people in power live in their own little world and we don't matter to them at all.
It’s hard to identify with the older folks in the documentary perhaps cuz I’m considered in the young demographic as well…but I think the main concern with the younger folks in this documentary was that they didn’t feel their effort was commensurate with their compensation and a clear progression career wise wasn’t an option compared to their older folk who grew up in a time where everything was seemingly on the up and up and could clearly see that their investment of time and effort had a clear impact on the future career growth
Then you have to ask yourself the follow up question as to why this were so suddenly NOT on the up and up. This wasn't addressed by the documentary. Within that answer lies the source of future troubles.
Well said, as a young American, it is sad to see sometimes how we are misconstrued as slackers but the reality is kids are growing up brainwashed now with a different set of rules and values under our government and others. Technology has advanced and the use of manipulation from their original intended purposes ends up being hijacked. The youth doesnt know who to trust anymore when propaganda is exposed and as conspiracy theories start turning into fact, the populace starts to lose faith. When faux governments are exploited then people unite as there is a bigger problem at hand, a true sense of realization that they are all alone and need to fend for themselves. We are conditioned by what we are taught growing up and have the right to be angry when the values we grow up with have been nothing more than an abandoned pipe dream sold to us over and over again.
Nah, the younger generation were given an easy time growing up. The older generation were told that it would be difficult. They too faced what the younger generation now faces. They too worked hard for very small gains but they knew it was necessary and they keep working, giving up and lying flat was not an option. The younger generation are facing difficulties that all generations before them faced. To be young is to be frustrated and adrift. The solution is to keep going. This complaint that you can’t get ahead no matter how hard you work is just an excuse to do nothing. You have that option, the older generations did not. They could,not choose to be lazy. You’re not doing yourself any favors by doing less. When you’re twenty yers older you will know what I mean. When you do not do what you know you should you will suffer for it because you know that you are being less than you could be.
@@angelflorence sorry but you are not unique. Everyone before you faced the same problem. You’re just spoiled and soft. All people your age have felt as you do. The answer is to keep going. Otherwise you will be that worthless old person who did nothing their entire life and has to depend on everyone to be supported. That is not a good place to be. So, shut up and get to work. No one cares about your complaining, not even people your age.
As a millennial, I’ve noticed this perspective on work from my younger Gen Z co-workers, and honestly I applaud it. I feel like there is so much to learn and decondition ourselves from this loyalty to work attitude. It doesn’t pay and companies are abusive. Your value shouldn’t be so wrapped up in what you do and how much you make.
As a millennial, I agree with them. Stop wasting your life for billionaires to become richer while they keep paying you peanuts. If their profits aren’t as excessive as they want they’ll lay you off in a blink of an eye. Prioritize yourself & family. Stop having careers but do the bare minimum work and go home.
Look I understand where you're coming from but this is not reality speaking. Someone with responsibility to their family can't work and earn only the bear minimum. What happens if someone gets sick or a crisis happens? Not enough money? So who is gonna help you? Life is harsh but you need to keep moving. Make the right choices so other people won't walk over you.
@@Pyramid789 As a millenial, they don't have family to be responsible for. That's part of the problem. It's too expensive to start a family, so what's the point?
I do agree with the idea of ending billionaires... STOP working for them and work for yourself..... Just remember that while Amazon employees are peeing into a cup or water bottles, Jeff Bozos is out there constructing a $500 million Private Yacht!!!!!!!!!!
I think it’s alarming that non of the academics had pointed out that youths who engage in the bai lan subculture are essentially people who are crying out to society and are at the fringe of losing hope. One of the academic mentioned that during the great industrialisation, people forgot about social issues, so shouldn’t it be time for us to address issues like, psychological needs? It’s also alarming that the documentary did nothing to point out how the economy no longer functions the same during the boomer era and now. The retired businessman was obviously proud of his efforts and saw no issue living away from his wife and kids. But, don’t we need to consider the effect on the wife and kids? Also, even if we assume social mobility is as efficient as it used to be (which is obvs not), how many women are willing to be left behind whilst their husband tries to conquer the world? I think the documentary raises good questions, but it did not address the issues that comes with these questions. It’s truly a pity.
The academics have a bias - they are of the older generation you'll note. Unfortunately, bai lan and tang ping are the ultimate result of lack of ownership. The CCP owns everything. If the people own nothing, why do anything? Better to lie flat and be relaxed than stand straight with anguish.
You talk as if China isnt corrupt and isnt a 3rd world country. Youre looking at all the shiny sky scrappers and forget the thousands of land that are barren desert. The villages struggling to survive. The people being silenced by the government. The ignoring of problems of china. I implore you. If you actually care about this topic then look deeper into china itself. And see for yourself. How the communist party in china is killing its people.
This is 100% about the economy and social mobility. When young people can't see themselves working to better their standing in life, they don't try to work harder and will do the bare minimum to get by. It's not even something special to China, look at every developed economy and they have this problem to lesser or greater extent. It's just the first time China is experiencing it because of it's economic slowdown.
@@disappt Often it all comes down to being better off than your parents. Quite easy when your parents were poor and rural to do better than them. But if your parents were middle income city dwellers, it's getting harder to do better than them. Often now it's harder for children than their parents due to how housing in many places has increased to silly amounts more than the average wage.
They may be experiencing it more because of their work ethic. People who manage to score a good job go way beyond the call and do a job and a half in an age where jobs are becoming scarce due to automation and technology. This robs others from employment opportunities. There are not enough jobs to keep people gainfully employed. That only leaves menial jobs for people with university degrees.
@@djp3637 that is a good way of putting it. In an east asian culture like my own, it is difficult for a parent to see their child have a more difficult life than their own. This is an especially complex dynamic for an immigrant family facing economic realities in a country foreign to them.
Problem? While you are correct this attitude persists worldwide. (Even in America) I see it more as a solution than a problem. Here in the USA this manifests itself as the demand for the $15 minimum wage and other "living wage" movements. People resent me because I don't work and I live on social security disability, well at the same time they create barriers to me finding securing and maintaining gainful employment. One of those barriers is a wage structure that has me living a lower standard of living if I'm working then if I'm simply sitting on my ass. If you don't want me to sit on my ass and collect a check every month then you're going to have to provide me with an income from work that provides me with a better lifestyle than the one I have now. If I work I HAVE to spend more money. More money on gas. More money on personal grooming. More money on clothing. More money on "convenience" food. More money on vehicle maintenance. This can easily add up to over $500 in additional expenses every month. The last time I had a full-time job my monthly income was about $80 less than my social security disability. On the economic face of it alone having a job doesn't make sense for me. Add to that the additional stress of dealing with difficult people, a boss who knows nothing about leadership and treats his/her people like crap, and I'm trying to juggle time management issues regarding scheduling of doctor's appointments and social gatherings and time to do things that make life meaningful and enjoyable and working makes even less sense. To be clear I'M NOT LAZY. But I'm not going to work myself to death, living an abject poverty, so that some CEO can buy a third yacht and throw a $50,000 birthday party for their Chihuahua.
You can work hard, do everything right but still get no where. Why would anyone waste their one life for no reward? Its not laziness its lack of incentive. Dont blame them honestly.
So happy I found this. I feel so unmotivated to continue giving 110% in the corporate career game. I thought I was crazy because I wasn't seeing the advantage of "working hard" which most of the people I work with only sees. Giving your best to your job is not bad but life is so much more than making money.
Better off spending your time at work talking to people and getting to know them so that you can leverage them as connections to get ahead. Working hard at work for the majority of jobs is probably the highest effort and lowest success way to get ahead these days. Really disgusting system.
It's happening around the world. This generation has seen their parents work so long and hard only to have their retirement stolen by the Co. We're tired of working to death to barely survive while the owner has 5 Mansions, a private jet. And YOU can't afford 1 HOME BS. FIGHT BACK. WE DESERVE MORE
true. never trust the narrative from the media, who is always ready to skew it into something else. Who doesnt want to be rich. But if someone is set in an unfair advantage (being a minority, or simply being born in a competitive generation where the select few has already have the upper hand just because they were early) heck no, i dont think they younger gen are just going to rot. they will find alternative ways because survival instinct is the number one human need over anything else.
Not everyone has the luxury of getting a reward for what they have been grinding. I think it’s reasonable when people feel tired when they do not get the result. But it’s not okay to judge people solely on the phenomenon “let it rot” that they are not contributing enough to society. Everyone has their story.
It's a social contract. The contract was you work hard, and society will reward you for your hard work. Except that society has broken that contract, so why should people honor their end of the deal?
Why should we contribute to society anyway? We were never asked to live so why should we be told how to live? Life will take care of itself. We need to stop playing "God".
The young aren't given the same opportunities that us boomers had. I know , I was there then and now and I don't forget how it was . For them I see no incentive. Incentive is the thing that drives a country for advancement. If there's no hope for advancement , why should they do this when there is no impending rewards . I had chances for a job that pays a living wage that can support a family and buy a house with an opportunity to feed ,clothe , nurture a family. Now , the house I bought in the 80s in Canada for 60k is now over 700k and there's less job opportunities at a fractionally higher pay. There's no hope in that. I can't blame the youth today.
I think there is nothing wrong to pursue a simple but balanced lifestyle. Times are different and we are in a different era and so are the income gaps which are known to be widen between the rich and poor. Those who used to make it big are just the times and opportunities at the right time then. These days we are overly populated and highly advanced in technology, hence, opportunities are much more limited than earlier years. This era is about working smart and not hard. Lazy is definitely not the choice but pursue of a more balance lifestyle can be today's choice because people's understanding for life is much more indepth than just bias to over working (and yield less results and satisfaction in life overall).
I think it's still somewhat similar to the old days. They had their share of struggles and we have our own. It's not like modern technology isn't available to us. Put in the work, struggle, fail, and grow. Rinse and repeat until you achieve what you get.
This is happening in other countries as well. The younger generation is learning that quality of life is better than trying to work yourself to death for a company that doesn’t care about you at all. Good for them!
The next generations won't even entertain the idea of working and to be honest, good for them.
quality of life comes from working hard you are a parasite on those who do work hard
I think the fact people are not having children is impacting this as well. Like, why work myself to death? When I only have myself. Having kids makes it hard to do this.
@@agillespie5853 why have kids if you can't afford to fund them OR you're working yourself to death and don't get much time to be happy with your children as they're growing up. Only the government benefits from this: parents work like hell, while their children learn like hell so they could start to work like hell so the economy keeps rising for no other reason than filling dictators' bank accounts.
@@anthonymcrooster3703 Exactly. And with efvferything going to hell, it seems cruel at this point.
Imagine being conditioned to think that a 40 hr work week with time for hobbies and relationships is "slacking". Personal happiness is a worthy goal to prioritise.
Imagine doing the minimum to support your lifestyle, perhaps 20-30hr/wk, have a tiny bit of extra € to the side, be happy with your free time, and still being considered a slacker. Slacking from what? Just because some are stressing the f out of themselves doesn't mean everyone has to do the same.
No ambition what so ever for the ultra materialistic lifestyle. Not just because it's repelling, but because it's actually close to unattainable.
@@Pajune Too right 👍
Where I live the vast majority of people work 37.5 hours per week. And everyone has 5 weeks paid vacation + paid public holidays per year. I guess that means we are all "letting is rot".. ;) I live in Norway.
@@HelenEk7 yes we work 37.5hrs a week here UK, we get 28 days paid holiday a year lol I'm rotting too 😉
The flip side of this is companies will go to great lengths NOT to hire people. Just pile more work on those who are already there.
This isn't called slacking when you're still doing the work you're asked but refuse to go beyond. There is nothing wrong with wanting to have a good work-life balance
I'd agree, but some people go the other way. They omit certain tasks they've got to do to avoid the work, because they can get away with it.
An example is that we have to wipe the vending machines down (glass and anywhere the customers touch) daily, but my co-worker hasn't done it in over two years of working the same job I just started working at. Because no one checks. Management is also too busy slacking to care about such minor details. My job is already basically nothing for 5 hours of an 8 hour shift and yet by not doing all the small things like that, it gets even easier. Seriously it's like 1 hour of work for my colleague because he's been slowly whittling away his list of responsibilities to the bare minimum of what the manager pays attention to.
I'll probably be like that too in a few months. But right now I'm new. I need to complete every task I get, even if it's not checked- once I'm in the company properly and trained up in everything, I'll be able to do the same thing he did. I'm someone who's been fucked over so much in life by 'doing the right thing' and watching other people get away with stuff that at this point, I'm basically only caring about myself. No point putting in extra work if there's no requirement for it.
As for the vending machine, pretty sure SOMEONE is wiping it down, I just don't know who. Cleaning staff is my bet. But it might also be the guy who comes to change the stuff out of the machines once every two weeks.
@@TheK-PopInPublicAuthority well that's natural. Generally most productive workers are given more and more work without additional compensation.
We're talking about Chinese people, that's already slacking to them.
what is 'beyond' varies.
something one considered beyond maybe within the range of normal efforts for another. it also depends on how you measure 'beyond.' do you mean deliverables, time, or less error rates?
sometimes you feel you are going beyond may simply because you need more experience or sharper skill.
overall the employer should set their standards clear, e.g. measured by efficiency, if the job takes an average person 2 days to complete, and you can do it in 1 day, then you are a high performer, or if you need 3 days, you may need to catch up in some area. In this case, you do whatever you are comfortable with and get paid accordingly, there is nothing beyond.
it's actually a red flag if your employer told you they expect you to go beyond, that means they are not sure what needs to be done and what skill set and experience they need, they are basically saying: it's a mess here and we want you to clean the sh|t. You, on the other side of the table, should make sure you have your sh|t figured out and your employer has theirs figured out as well.
the problem is, not many people have their sh|t figured out.
Not a new phenomenon about Minimalist workers…..they’re everywhere 😂clock milkers
100% full support as a Millennial in the west, this is happening all over the world. We are not slaves.
Look up the first line of our Chinese national anthem.
"Arise, those who do not want to be slaves."
How ironic.
@@samuelcheung4799 the gov is no more communism more,at least not that communism society as last century 1960s
Slaves when used for what?
@@yuluoxianjun Yeah a country being run by a COMMUNIST party without fair elections sounds like a free democracy lol. Even 'democracies' in the west are becoming less free every year that passes.
@@samuelcheung4799 now it's "lie down" instead of "arise", way easier
Imagine wanting a normal life and not being consumed by your work and be called a slacker for that.
@Ed Smith I'm 58 and would be considered a "slacker", yes I work and pay my bills, but after that, my time is my time ....
@@Elmaestrodemusica "my time is my time" - As it should be...
They try to shame guilt people to work hard to keep the system running
Capitalism and competitive human nature
My mates are studying 40 hours a week and working 40 hours a week and constantly looking for internships. All of us know we need master degrees to find a job. Competition is sick and the reward isn’t good. However maintaining a good support system (volunteering + religion support) is sufficient to balance it.
We need at least have 2 qualifications nowadays to find a job. E.G, software engineer + high school teacher. Lawyer + tax accountant. Orthodontist + mechanical engineer.
Some have 3, primary school teacher + structural engineering + graphic designer.
Having 3 is difficult, people usually break when they have too much on the table, working 38+38+38 hours hurts mental health a lot.
This is what happens when you realise that working hard and going above and beyond for your employer benefits the employer and not the employee. Kudos to the Chinese millennials for pushing back.
Yeap. Work to benefit the employer pocket and the economy only
Why don't you get off your lazy butt and start a company, then share all of your profits with the employees. Why should you keep all, or most, of the profits, right? And when you encounter some of these Let It Rot employees like yourself, then increase their salaries even though they contribute nothing. Because you started your business not to improve your lot, but theirs ...
same with americans, young ones are doing same, rebelling against the rich and corporations, as they push their slave wages onto the people. Only older conservatives tend to "obey" the system, as in any country.
For thoughtful people, selling insurance is worse than death.
From the West unto the East men must realize the revelation in that revolution must premeate itself so that this earth can heal and not be used solely for profit.
they are NOT "unmotivated!". They are educated enough to see that the game is rigged, the numbers don't add up, the promise of working hard and getting ahead is false, and that their govt has screwed them to hold on to power.
They are not lazy. They are screwed and their situation looks hopeless--and they see it.
Exactly! And they are choosing to live their live at a slower pace to focus on their own health and needs rather than working themselves to the bone without any real reward.
So they're not unmotivated, they simply have no reason to work hard.
This is not unique to China. This generation has the same feeling in every country. It only seems new to China, because it is not consistent with their historical cultural norms. Until now, prior generations did not have the informational power of the cell phone in their hand. Thus, older generations were completely ignorant and situationally unaware of their ability to exercise independent thinking.
yeah... from high we are just not guided well enough to build a career path.. and we just study and hope that things fall in place... there is no legitimate guidance platform or website or app to make informed decisions in our career path based on industry requirements.. education institutions for average people are lagging behind industry requirements and career guidance based on industry situation is not available as mandatory.. so average graduate can only select something after they graduate and not everyone is lucky.. so every industry should have a contribution points system to take exam to reach higher ladder to give motivation to the average person.. because a country may generally have 60-70 percent average people among graduates.
Mostly true. The movers and shakers brainwash the underclass with impossible dreams to keep the economic wheel turning to benefit mostly the one-percenters.
Some have said university is a scam. Lol...
u havent heard of Quiet Quitting? its the same thing. Its not entirely a new concept
Bai Lan is minimalism instead of consumption. It’s annoying people who can’t sell, sell, sell and drive overconsumption. Good job young people.
Good for them. I’m Japanese in my late 30s and I relate to these kids. Having watched my mother who sacrificed her life on work and being a single mom, with sleepless nights and working herself to exhaustion only to get fired and replaced by younger workers left a bitter taste in my mouth. My father on the other hand made a lot of money helping multimillion dollar companies get even richer.. my upbringing made me see the world for what it is. I’ve been called a slacker questioned why I’m “unmotivated” but you only live once. I don’t want to spend my life in an office all day everyday and become a slave to a toxic society. I moved to the country and working on going totally off the grid, collecting rain water solar for energy growing my own vegetables etc. Everyday I appreciate the beauty of nature spending time with my loved ones (my cats are especially enjoying it) I have time to enjoy my hobbies, and mostly enjoy the non stress life. I’m glad to see younger generations value the quality of life, and hoping that one day when I master my bai lan style living I can teach the youth to do the same :)
You have very good english. What was the hardest part of moving to the country and going off grid?
That sounds very nice.
You should take relevant tech with you. Research and tech arnt inherently evil. For example, you could figure out a way to make hyrdoponic piping pump water using air pressure. Thats a high tech solution that doesn't hurt anyway.
Its the BS you need to leave behind. Its not inextricably intertwined with tech.
My cats are enjoying off grid lifestyle too !
- a 27 year old in southern California traveling around in a RV w/ his gf .
Japanese country is beautiful ! I would buy a van & travel around if i could .
I became a farmer 2 years ago and I've never been happier. The work could be difficult sure but I'm my own boss and I actually get paid according to how hard I work.
Mainly I have been working whenever i want, I smoke weed all day, I sleep in until whenever, I hang out with my friends whenever I want, also after harvest if things go well I could have 6 months of free time.
I can NEVER go back to 9-5. Thinking about that makes me want to kill myself.
I think it's just a phenomenon with the younger generations. Your leaders need to get together and figure something out or thier workforce and population will reduce. Maybe introduce more incentives who knows
My parents told me this:
“Your generation is not lazy, you guys work as hard if not harder than we did during our time yet you earn just as much.
The problem is that, you’re underpaid because salaries have stagnated while the price of housing and basic commodities keep rising.
That’s simply the sad reality.”
Facts also we don’t gaf about anything. Like effort means nothing if I’m getting paid a BS wage that’s not even help pay off my student debts.
Doesn't have to be this way. ✌️
@@Chillikilli you student loan is not worth paying off. Hell you cannot even write a understandable sentence. You need to go back to grade school and start over. It is amazing that you are that illiterate. That means that you have no education.
More underpaid back then, i think, no insuraces, no worker protection etc
Awesome parents!!!!😊❤
This is basically happening everywhere. This generation see's corporate greed for what it is. Things are going to change drastically.
What are your thoughts on the great reset?
Maybe except Japan & Korea... i state this based on the items i read & watch ...correct me if i’m wrong...
@@terataibiru4997 This is only happening in places other than the West (mostly). It’s just as bad ,or even worse in Korea. Japan is a tiny bit better
I've seen so many Chinese people online joking about "let's work even harder, so our boss can get a bigger house and fancier car!" We work ourselves to the bones just to make our employers and upper management richer and richer, while we can barely feed ourselves and keep a roof over our heads. This is exploitation, plain and simple.
@@sherry2452 wdym it’s not happening in the west? I’m sure it’s worse in America than it is in China.
Don't let anyone brainwash you into thinking that doing your job means you're slacking and unmotivated. You're doing the job you're getting paid for. If they want you to give them 120% then maybe they should pay 20% more.
Yup told my boss I only take easy clients. Since I get a cut for every client I see. For my percentage, I will only take easy clients. Want me to take difficult clients? I take 95%. How hard I have to work my brain is commiserate to my compensation. Don't like it? I am happy to leave lol. Still works there.
I will give my 20%, pay me 20% and I am good to go. 👍🏻
Have you really watched the video? They are definitely NOT doing the job they are paid for.
Welp I couldn't do that as my contract stated no overtime benefits, had no choice but to accept the job or else still desperate looking for another job
@@VirendraBG better give me 200% if u want 120% though.. id rather give 60% and just get normal salary. Need some % to also live.
I've heard of quiet quitting but "letting it rot" captures it better. I'm with the Chinese youth on this. We only get one life. Spend it wisely. Spend it with the people you love. Spend it doing the things you love.
Yeah, and if you burden everyone around you in the process no big deal, right? Because me me me me me.
the chinese youth is not doing this, and they were not lying flat. All this is propaganda.They want YOU to do this. Wake up.
Society having this attitude towards young people is exactly what started this. The young peoples burden increased and the reward shrunk. Now everyone is going crazy looking for any excuse as to this laziness, but its basic labour/time/money economics, not a new thing at all
@@hnlpharmd wehave to assess why this creates a burden on others in the first place, then you'll see where the youth are coming from when they decide to leave this life behind
@@rahma6992 nah. don't bother t changing his mind. let him rot. 😉
As a Gen X who spent the first 25 years of my working life working myself to exhaustion day in day out I encourage younger generations not to make the same mistake.
If you did (and didn't do anything illegal) Enjoy yourself man, at least someone gets to.
lying flat made more sense
Big companies (that are not yet overrun with corporate politics) are good places for younger employees to get experience at a “tier 1.”
However, at some point you’re not learning a lot anymore and you see a better opportunity where you fly/fry based on YOUR efforts. So if you’re motivated AND actually WELL-SKILLED, you become an entrepreneur where you also get risk/reward AND have control your TIME.
Unfortunately, govt systems have failed so gravely and so often that they haven’t “worked” for younger workers, despite their big efforts.
So govts promise more and more…take more control…
yet don’t deliver prosperity. And in the end, whether you worked hard or not, the results are not wildly different for many.
“So why bother?” is a common answer all over the world.
Same. Worked many years for a company, I worked hard and long hours but my employer didn’t appreciate me.
@@punjabiman6951 🤣🤣🤣
This trend is so relatable and I've embraced it for a number of years now. 42yo career millennial, I went above and beyond only to be passed over for a promotion by someone newer who had a fraction of the responsibility and did poor quality work. After that it was like an epiphany, "why even bother?" Now I do the bare minimum at an acceptable level and don't care what anyone on my team or at my company thinks of my reputation. Rather than focus on trying to climb the ladder I now focus on myself and well-being and the improved quality of life that comes with it.
Let me remind everyone. This "Slacker" or "Laying flat" or "Let it Rot" attitude is basically just doing your job. Thats all nothing more to it. The fact that Bosses/CEOs and Companies push employees to go above and beyond with no guaranteed incentives as a norm but label them otherwise if they don't do so is absolutely disgusting.
It has already been proven that climbing the corporate ladder by working hard is a myth. You have absolutely no control of whether u get rewarded for hardwork. Most of the time you don't. So just do what you are paid to do within the working hours and enjoy life as much as possible.
THANK YOU YOU SAID IT
And often people who don’t work hard get promoted while workaholics are overseen or the company needs them to stay on the job😂 maybe they make a more self confidence impression since they deal with fewer stress 😅😅
I agree.. but the fact people don't see its a myth is THEIR OWN FAULT. Our ancesestors worked every single hour they were awake, no matter what. Or they would DIE. How in the world can ANYONE think this is okay? It is lazy, embarrassing, sickening and pathetic. OHH SORRYY!! Want a fing COOKIE for showing up to work today for 8 hours? Want a hug because you got off your a ss and put some sweat and tears into your daily life? Want a golden star sticker? Fing disgraceful! GROW UP LO SERS! REMEMBER: China has a ONE CHILD (preferably a male) policy PER FAMILY! So you goofs were predetermined to have LIFE! That in and of itself is absoutely insane, and your all spitting in the face of "God" or "Your Leader" or whoever let you lazy fools actually be born, so disgusting.
Asian work culture is honestly crazy, not just china but one of the notorious is. Japan also face even harder problem but most people there literal statistics show most people are 40 and above so nothing gonna change for like 20-30 years more i guess.
I know it's a meme but imagine your "asian" stereotypical person actually have a country and try to compete with each other. Yeah good luck then.
True. If you just rely on work to climb up the ladder, you will only become a slave forever. You want to climb up, it would be more beneficial if you learn how to suck up to your boss. I saw how people who are good in sucking up climb up fast even if their work is so-so. So you want to climb up, you better learn to throw away your dignity and learn how to sweet talk, how to please your boss in all ways and all degrees. That is a more beneficial skill than all the subjects you've learnt at university. Forget about the quality of your work. It's useless...
As a GenX-er whose health was wrecked by overwork and a toxic work environment, I am glad that younger people have figured out a healthier way at an earlier stage. I've cut my costs and live on a mountain surrounded by beauty now and don't work nearly as much. The compensation was never worth the effort I put into it, and employers don't have any loyalty to employees anymore.
I think globally there's been a cultural shift toward a different understanding of what success looks like. Now it's more self-care and family/social time balancing out the labor time. And that's a good thing.
so the mountain has internet signal ?
@@hotmintchoco we have here
@@hotmintchoco yes?
@@hotmintchoco are you dumb????
i work but my mindset is, u can fire me anytime you want haha i dont care
I came into this video wondering about this horrible, catastrophic "let it rot" phenomenon, but they actually seem pretty reasonable. They're not mooching off their parents or the government, they do their job and nothing more, then enjoy their life in their spare time. How is this weird? It's the 996 advocates who seem downright baffling to me. For people with their own business I understand, but for employees?
find it crazy the company expect the employee to work 9am - 9pm, 6 days a week
@@hongjess5600 hmmm eat , sleep , work , work , work ............
Exactly, I guess I will try to do the best I can, but everything else I do is the same as them. If anything, I work less then they do…
I can kind of sympathise with the 996. In my job after graduating from my masters when I was around 25, I was doing about 50-65 hrs a week for a start up. I had a bit of the same mindset as that insurance agent. I wanted to develop skills and gain experience as fast as possible, so I did about 5 or 6 roles in the company, given that the company only had 8 employees including the CEO, it was almost a necessity if we wanted to survive. And considering the company ultimately did do quite well, I felt that I did my part in it. But eventually when I had exhausted the possibilities I left. And almost 20 years later, while I wouldn't say I'm a let it rot/lie flat type of person, I definitely wouldn't go way out of my way to go the extra mile, I do enough to justify my fairly decent salary, my annual bonus and that's about it.
@@hongjess5600 after joining the WTO china was supposed to adopt a 40 hour work week with at least 2 days off per week. This is to promote fair competition between the labour markets of different countries within the WTO. However China doesn't like to play fair, and allowed 996 to keep chinese labour more productive. Capitalists didn't mind because it meant higher profits.
I love this - people looking after their mental and physical wellbeing and ignoring societal pressures!
I'm in the UK and in a similar boat... I've always been a very hard worker - gifted and talented list, top of my class, full marks in multiple A-level exams etc ...and I have decided to opt out of the ladder climbing culture.
Did a few years in customer service jobs before coming to university and eventually realised I was a fool for trying to do my best all the time when most people, especially the ones who got promoted and given the best shifts, did the bare minimum.
Now I'm in university for something I've wanted to do for over a decade and the pressure that I put on myself is so great that it has become incredibly difficult to get myself to do any work at all. I've burnt myself out. Frustratingly, I know that the prestigious career that I wanted for so long and the very long hours that accompany it will not allow me to have the work-life balance that is essential for my wellbeing. So I've decided that it is best for me to forget my dream and now finish my degree with my version of 'bare minimum' for the sake of my sanity.
My hope now is to run my own small business and live a somewhat modest life, earning as much as possible with as few hours as possible, allowing me to actually live and enjoy my life and raise my future children properly.
I would much rather be happy and healthy than be exhausted, with my name in lights.
Honestly, this has been going on for many generations. Anyone over 50 will take the same 'Let it rot' attitude. They're usually in senior managerial positions, do the minimal required that they can't defer to those underneath them, and take all the credit when things go well or find someone to fire when things don't. People are just mad the younger generation is now doing it before their time.
Exactly
And for those who argue with this idea, we already have the tech for robots to take over the jobs
We've just become disillusioned at an early age.
Bro the amount of useless middle mgmt bs sales people.
Agree. 1000%
I finally gained the courage to say to my father, "I do not have the desire to outdo the 6 billion other people on this planet".
At the age of 10 I started growing white hairs. I am proud of my generation for breaking this ridiculous cycle of soul crushing pressure and despair. Your goal in life should be to feel joy and peace
I've never thought about it like the way you phrased it. I've always been feeling guilt of underachieving and unsatisfied with my life. And you made me realise that I actually have to outdo 6 billion other people if I won't learn to appreciate what I already have.
Proud of you for realizing it's not even feasible. There's too many folks saying they want to be the best *insert career* and not enough folks wanting to the best verison of themselves.
There's only one you, thank you for reminding me 💯
American propaganda.. you can’t deceive Anyone now unless your same old stupid ignorant Americans
True but in medical professions or fire fighters you do need people to want to go above and beyond. We do need some people willing to be unselfish to keep our countries running and safe. I worked as a nurse for 30 years and routinely worked over 55 hours per week, it is not as simple as saying get more staff either as I worked in theater and you cannot just down tools and leave the patient to fend for themselves and if you get several emergencies come in at once then there is simply not enough staff to just take over from you. You are required to go the extra mile and you do not get rewarded for it via wages. You do get a reward from knowing that you are making a difference and helping another person so I hope that there is always people willing to put others before themselves.
I'm afraid we are just slaves in the eyes of government and corporations. They want us to work hard to make them millions and then die early when we are surplus to requirements so they don't have to pay pensions.
I actually support this because it's not about being lazy it's about the promise of getting higher education not matching up with job prospects. There are not enough jobs for these graduates and it's a competitive race. Happiness doesn't come from the job you work it comes from the time spent with family, friends, or living life to be happy. Having a job is to afford basic life needs and any little luxury on the side. It doesn't mean they don't want to participate in society rather that they are not intrested in constantly being in a race and can be satisfied with a job not being your entire life. I am in this category as well but I have my own family..I work to provide and im ok with the rest of my time being dedicated to my family instead of a corporation that replaces me easily.
This video is pure propagnda against these young people, but I'm not a censorship supporter but we can all oppose its message in the COMMENTS. Governments/Companies/Organizations want good slaves who are married/have kids. After about 20 years working, I'll tell young people you should not have any loyalty to any organization, they will turn on you in a second when its convenient and fire/replace you. Also to ensure no slavery, young people dont get married and dont get a girl pregnant, make sure she takes the birth control pill daily in front of you and both wear protection. You will just condemn your new child to increasing poverty and freedomless slavery and these control/money/job trends worsen. Promote this idea in videos and social media to help prevent more young people into this new slavery.
remember that job fairs looking to hire people are looking to hire for 14 to 16 hour days at 10 dollars a day-slave labor jobs and slave labor hours-these places have nets on the roof to keep their workers from jumping off. Better jobs exists but costs in the last year have jumped up 50% or more and even before that there were not enough jobs to justify all the graduates and even survival level wages are hard to find-and most of these people have already seen that working yourself to death doesn't pay and isn't rewarded.
Ditto! The problem is these people that are basically killing them selves
Working those extraordinary number of hours are wanting to get rich to impress. Their self worth and value is tied to their net worth. So if and when they have a change in status, economic or otherwise, the shallow relationship they have with their circle becomes exposed and often times you see them jumping off building and bridges. No work-life balance is deadly if you ask me. They accumulate all that $$ and many don't live long enough to enjoy it🤦🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️
They want a job, not a career, because that's what the race is all about.
there never was though ? just because you would have liked to work the high education position doesnt mean you would get it. any position can get filled. learning a oversaturated trade is a risk any time you do it.
one of the things ive learned working in a company is that no matter what i do i am never good enough even though i always excel compare to my colleagues and make little no to mistakes and they do not see what i have contributed. when burnout got me, my performance declined too and instead of help i was gaslighted.
please dont overwork yourselves just to please your company and bosses, no matter what you do, you are just a number to them. so sacrificing your sanity is never worth it. it's sad that we are only making them richer while we employees suffer and no pay raise at all.
They dont care if you die or live they care about performance.
@@atulgokuyamaha7
The sin of greed/apathy
It’s not slacking it’s coming to the realization that life is meant to be full and lived, it isn’t just about working for business who don’t care about you / are killing the earth. I hope one day we all commit to this, it would save the earth.
Correct... That too, Chinese 996 model??? I mean who are we kidding? 9-9 pm a day 6 days a week? Is this justified, even if restricted only to manufacturing?
PLA is even more idiotic than CCP that they let this injustice happen to their own innocent Chinese citizens.
The system in China pick winners and losers The deck is stacked against them
@D HJ I work on a farm. Every single day we do laborious work that you definitely couldn’t handle. I’m not lazy, I was just saying life is more than office buildings and showing up to work for a business that doesn’t even care about you. I’m sorry you’re so brainwashed, I’m sorry new perspectives aren’t easy for you.
@D HJ what are you talking about I AM the farm owner. I don’t know why you’re trying to argue with me when my point was life is meant to be enjoyed and lived instead of constant work? This is the last reply I’ll have because there’s no point in talking to someone this stubborn. Also, ratio. 🫶🏼
@D HJ I’m a Native American, we do traditional farming methods. No pesticides no machinery, all done by hand. If you wanna know more, I’m featured on one of the last National Geographic articles. :) nice try and have a nice, POSTIVE rest of your day.
This kind of movement is not unique to Chinese youths - rising in trends like 'I don't dream of labour' and 'Quiet Quitting' also has similar sentiment of basically only doing what is the minimum requirement for the sake of your sanity and happiness. I don't think it should be dismissed as a "few lazy youths", but as a call to examine overall work culture including how we compensate workers for their time.
Well said! We see the corruption.. and it comes from the top down. It starts with the CCP, moves down into businesses with Corruption, undermining EVERYTHING. F them, they don't deserve good people, so we will undermine them and do DAMAGE. Even minor damage takes a large toll as it flows down the chain
? yea I don't understand I want to be leading and working
@@edyr If you work more than 8 hours a day and make only enough food for a day, what are you gonna do? And if you stop working, you will starve yourself. Yes, you are a slave.
It is a natural consequence of lack of social mobility and the rigged game. They just dont want to burn away their lives for others who dont care about them.
doing the minimum is the cause of your mental illness
I'm a 21yo college student in Canada and everyone around my age I've spoken to relates with this a lot. I stopped trying at my current job last year after spending my first 5 years in the workforce learning that being the person trying the hardest at your job will actually get you nothing but more work. After giving up and doing the bare minimum at work I not only feel better but I get treated much better since they don't ask me to do extra stuff or pick up other people's slack anymore.
Bai lan is not the problem it's the CCP rejects that are the problems with communist China.Tell the idiot in peking to go back to Moscow.
Wow 👌 👏 but never stop ✋️ learning things
Fun thing I learned in a management course;
"Never promote the hard workers, they keep the company going."
@@TheK-PopInPublicAuthority Wow that's sad, they said the quiet part out loud lol
@@TheK-PopInPublicAuthority until they quit
i could relate to the "slackers" in this video. I personally worked hard in my initial years at a company and the reward is very little and, as one girl said in the video, disproportionate to the efforts and contributions I have exerted. Instead, I just got more work because either it may have seemed that i loved work (when in fact what i love is well-rewarded work) or they thought I'm desperate for success that i would slave myself away for a chance to reach the higher rungs of the corporate ladder. i admire people who actually sincerely love their jobs and are driven to reach success that they can sacrifice rest and recreation and could pander to their bosses' power-play. they do deserve the success that they will get (if they get it), but living simply, working just right, and having plenty of time to enjoy one's hobbies is not so bad. we're still working, paying taxes, spending money for circulation, not ruining any one's lives to get ahead of the competition, so it's far from being a worthless scum of the society that they're portraying us to be.
In holland they love giving people temp jobs (max 3 yr) then giving them a premise ''u can get a contract if u do good work'' then make u work ur ass off for 3 years and then not give a contract ... if ur not college educated there are hardly no real contracts available.
I'm a trained game designer and I wish to share some knowledge with you all. When a player starts to realised that he cannot win a game, he rage quit. When a player is winning and knows that he is going to get even stronger as he wins, he kept playing until he can't go on physically or mentally. This is the same for these people in China, humans are humans, virtually or physically, their mindset and basic needs are the same. Once the balance is off, there are consequenses.
Example: imagine joining a monopoly game when all the spaces had been bought. That’s the feeling.
P.S
But not everyone who doesn’t want to work super hard are feeling the dread from this. Some just want to live a life which is fulfilling and be contempt with little things. people who can enjoy the little things live a happy life. 😊
Not to mention pay-to-win frustration which I would assimilate to corruption here... I know some people who had to pay quite a big amount the recruter to get a job or join the PCC to ensure a satisfying career.
Profound insight
Corruption is worst in western countries, but they legalized it
@Belcoth Tan Cheng Fai, Yes that is correct to some degree for if we have no purpose. The ones with purpose, don't care and continue to carry out their purpose. To add to it, it is interesting that as you make observations of your friends, everyone is doing what they are good at, and continue to do those things, such as playing their goto video game or going to shopping websites trying to find the best deals. Stopping what they are doing is going to be ultra hard, and they will resent that. What is kept deeply in our main memory vault, is our beliefs and opinions. These are important because they are set of biases, like a config file in a game. As you know, config files are convenient to change, but no one wants to change them. They tell us how to function fundamentally. And also, this config file is imprisoning us at the same time. This could be happen to our career too, so much of our time in life can be spent working on things we don't even believe in. The time we have on this world is short but should be enough, but not if we cannot even access our self control/will. We don't make much decisions, we just keep doing what we are biased to do based on this config file, and continue on like a machine disconnected from reality, like a software that keeps on running. Social media really amplified this 10x by distracting us and lowering the average individual's patience levels. Social media with its distractions in my opinion have effectively, decreased the abilities of many young ones to live out their dreams.
All this and more is explained in a book called "Hooked" by Nir Eyal. Which tells you all of the information of what makes a product/app entertaining in an addictive long term way. Basically, it is hacking the human psychology.
I'm a gamedev myself although i'm not sure how it's relevant. But that attitude is just negative. You've only lost until you've lost and the game is over. Those people that resign as soon as things dont go their way just have a negative attitude. The most enjoyable experience in any game is to be in a position that everyone says is lost, but then to continue, turn things around, and eventually draw or even win the game. I've done that many times, and it feels amazing!
Isn’t this just…acting your wage? Just because they won’t go above and beyond for simple tasks doesn’t mean they’re lazy. It’s simply doing their job. I’m glad this is being pushed forward.
They are starting to realize that working hard will only land them more work but not more money or career progression.
You don't know if you notices but the first man works for a family business and he says he avoids doing a task if others can do it. The truth is that he's likely not going to be fired because he's family so other employees can do his work since their jobs can be threatened.
To OC:
It basically is, yes.
It seems like bai lan is sort of a defeatist attitude compared to "lay-down".
I'm more on the side of doing the minimum required, but not giving up as easily.
23:32 This guy sums it up nicely. If you're working to improve your own life it makes sense to work as much as you can but the problem today is that working hard at a job is totally unrewarded.
Overtime is unpaid and working overtime brings you no closer to a promotion, in fact it proves to the managers you should remain a worker.
Working just enough to not get fired is heavily incentivised, as it yields the same rewards as working from dawn till dusk. The people are the roots of the tree, if you let them rot the whole tree falls at the next storm. This is a huge economic issue.
Agreed - he mentions "some people think it's fine to carry on without trying hard", but then, if you aren't really benefitting from doing so, why would you [try hard]? I used to work hard in previous positions where doing so benefitted me, but then when I got grilled for any move I did or didn't do, why would I not do as little as possible?
@Devon Bueno What is Work to Rule?
"Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country" is a good line, but it only works if your country actually IS doing something for you. Otherwise, it's just asking you TO be a victim in an abusive relationship. Leaders in many countries, East and West, have neglected and a used the youth in favor of their own profits for too long.
Bingo. My country needs to do a 180 and treat me with dignity, respect and fair pay in all things .
You say society doesn't owe me anything? Fair point, then I'll do nothing for society in return .
It's a 2 way street. So good luck doing whatever it is you wanna do, because I surely won't be participating in any meaningful way .
Deuces .
My take on that line has always been to continue it with:
"... because you, the people, are the country".
People with societal status, money, power and titles -the elite- have always been viewed, and viewed themselves as the leaders and driving force of any given country. I'm not saying that's wrong when viewed from the perspective of other -elite's- perspective in other countries. They make deals with each other, trade a countries resources with each other and make legal changes to a countries system to govern its people in a beneficial way.
However, to make all of this work the majority of a country must be below -the elite- and follow the elite. A country must have built systems that ensure it's difficult to act outside of desired norms, and that the majority of any given people also view the system as beneficial.
This is because, in truth, it's everyone else who are the country. Not -the elite-.
A person with power and money only has so because the people let them have so. Either by dropping of money for their merchandise, by receiving votes through elections, by being employed in their corporations, or any other means that allow them the opportunity to become influential.
At it's true core, any person with power should be viewed in the tradition of the earliest chieftains of smaller communities, not in the traditions of the noble houses that followed them. A noble house viewed the ordinary people living within it's governance as part of their resources and/or governing responsibility. While an elected chieftain knows their part of the people, but have been deemed fitting to be their voice of common good.
The difference being a vertical system, where one group is above the other, so the one below must succumb to those above; and a horizontal system, where everyone is equal but with different responsibilities, and each responsibility is viewed as equally important.
Therfore, to me, "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country", is a cautionary sentence ment for -the elite-, the once who hold power, wealth and status. On pair with the alleged Roman “Respice post te. Hominem te esse memento. Memento mori.”
"Look behind you. Remember you're human. Remember you're mortal."
A lot of people repeat that line to advocate for rugged individualism but Kennedy also advocated for universal healthcare so I think your interpretation is a good one.
at the end you become a slave of your master. wake up
@@Tori_TLCR - I had no idea Kennedy was for universal healthcare. Now that’s interesting and something I’d like to read about.
Our youth adopted minimalism and then the older generations saw the benefit in decreased consumerism and increased time enjoying experiences. I think the youth of this era are teaching us a lot!
Coming from Gen X, I wish I had learned this before I experienced burnout a few years ago. Doing too much, thinking I had to do all the work given me, and therefore, more work was given to me. I finally gave up, or my body did. It taught me a lesson, the University where I worked still functioned without me.
After I recovered, I set boundaries on keeping to my job discription and going home on time, leaving work at work and going to work on time instead of early. I've never been happier. Now, I am all about No Stress, because tomorrow will still come without me pushing it here.
Kudos to these youth
How did you recover from burnout? Because it's become a serious struggle
@@Anonymous-qh9gq After collapsing and going to the hospital, the doctor sent me home where I slept for three months straight 🤷 no joke. And honestly, I don't remember much other than I would pull myself out of bed to eat.
I still have symptoms, I don't multitask like I use to, something I was very very good at. Now, nope, one task at a time and Ive also noticed that every now and then I am unable to focus. Oh and I get tired faster. But these are all symptoms that make me go.....hmmm 🤔 that's interesting. It's been 5 years 😊 biggest take away, stress is a killer so let it go - things work out eventually anyway.
@@UtahGal 3 months?? That's crazy, but I don't find it hard to believe. You’re absolutely right about stress though, too much of it can really mess with your health in general. Thank you for sharing that with me!!
I have made a career of not having a career. My work has never came home with me.
GEN X here too. I completely understand where you are coming from. I literally broke out in hives and my physician could not figure out what was causing it at first . For that amount of stress to tigger physical symptoms was an eye opener.
I've never experienced another episode since.
The only way to win is to not play.
They're not lazy. They're just not buying the lie and false promises.
Actually, they’re just lazy. And that’s the problem
@@ephTheClone lol, dont u see what social implications "zero covid" has over the people and society they are living in... Im sorry, but maybe sm1 jizzed in your eyes for being so blind.
@@arjay2519 atleast it didn’t get in my brain like it did yours…🥴
@@ephTheClone yeah they’re lazy to work a 9 to 5 for 6 days a week just to barely survive
@@ryanlee2138 I work 24/7 every single day and only get 3 hours of sleep every 24 hours. In fact was about to sleep before I got the notification of this comment. Im not complaining.
I support their attitudes of BAILAN; I am a 38 years old scientific researcher. Since I was young, I studied very hard; I could not date with others when I was < 18 years old because that would exert a negative impact on my study. Then I worked hard to get into a top university, and after that got a full scholarship for Ph.D. in a European country. What do I get? I still work hard every day, writing papers and publishing papers like robots. I like their way of living for themselves and for fun.
Why are you here in the comment section? Get back to work!
@@seriouscoffeecup6450 XD
The second best moment to do things differently is now.
But you provide something useful to the human race and these bums are just a waste of sperm.
get a life
We only ever speak of the things employees do wrong in the workplace but never speak of the lengths that companies go to in order to underpay and trick their employees into being loyal to them.
Exactly !
There is vertical personal economic mobility anymore. 😑
i started living this way after severe burnout and suicide attempt at 26. i got a job in the medical field and did everything i was supposed to do. i realized fast that i was just a cog in the machine making very little compared to the work i was putting in. after the suicide attempt i went on disability and collect social security income. i work with other people in my community who are disabled. it’s much more fulfilling and i am appreciated. people will judge me but i truly don’t care. mental health and inner peace above all…
stay safe and happy:)
Well, what would you be doing if you weren’t, now, sucking off the government and the other people that didn’t “quit” like you did ?
Find the peace within ourselves, no need for a cure.
Virtue signal received
Wow i have no words ,its shows how much pressure is put to being disciplined and hardworking workholic from society , you had the courage to try to suicide but not had the courage to show middle finger to job ,go to bunk and enjoy outside
When you can’t even buy a house after working for twenty years and getting a master's degree from college, there’s something deeply wrong with our society. People will move out of cities, grow their own food, and do simple things that will make them happy.
It's not even a house it's a leasehold apartment
@@wshyangifyfor real 💀💀
@@wshyangify 80 years for jobs like waiter. 40 years for the average office worker. 3-20 years for prostitutes depending on how they sell themselves. If this isn't modern slavery I don't know what is. What's even weirder is how there's a crazy surplus of land, labor and engineers to make housing super cheap. But, well, there's serious money to be made by racking up real estate prices and those who own are winning
@@thanhvinhnguyento7069 it takes you 80 years to pay for a house you own for 75 years 😢
Idea is nice, but buying land and a house in rural area is not free either. Also, you need quite a lot of land and live stock to feed yourself. Then you also need some expensive machines unless you want to do everything by hand and work all day long.
My father was a simple mechanic and could pay off the house i grew up in within 5 years. I have a masters degree in IT and am supposedly a top earner, yet it would take me 15 years to pay off the same house now, and people in a lower wage bracket have it even worse. If it requires double the effort and thrice the amount of time for a fraction of the rewards, what's the point? If i can't obtain reasonable monetary compensation through work, then the only thing left i can do is to reward myself with more freetime.
Yeah, older gen have it more ez
agreed
@@cr0wland I'm in Belgium and I agree that the length of the mortgage may be the same. Even the percentage of how much of my parents monthly income went to paying the mortgage may be the same. The difference is that they managed to build a 4 bedroom house with it. If I make the same commitment and investment, I get a rundown one-bedroom flat.
@@cr0wland the real issue in the US is higher education. Many go into deep debt just to get an education and they never get out of debt.
@@cr0wland I don't have the exact numbers in my head right now, but i know i earn about twice as much as my father while house prices are around six times higher. So despite having a better paying job and education i still have to pay three times more in relation to my income, a far cry from the the affordability of the past. But jesus, a 25 year mortgage? Might as well sign a slave contract. Being in debt until you're an old man, how is this even legal?
I was lucky enough to have had my first full-time experience as a consultant with a manager that encouraged us to just work our 40 hrs and not to sacrifice ourselves for work. It's rare but i think it was something i needed. In my college internship, i worked for a big company that didn't bat an eye to working past working hours, my mentor often was there before i came into the office at 9 and was still there when i left at 6. Having had no one who would tell me about working culture in the United States, my mom told me to work as hard as i can but after being promoted only once and my salary increasing about 20k in 5 yrs, I've stopped thinking that the extra hard work isn't worth it. Like many have said, if you show potential, they don't give you rewards, they give you more work instead. I hope more people stopped thinking this sacrificing mindset is a good thing to live for
I already decided this in highschool.. since there was no reward for getting high marks at all i wasnt going to go all out to get them.. a pass was sufficient.. so i did, most books i never even opened. College was mostly the same. I had already worked some part time jobs and noticed companies dont care at all. They even fired my mom from her teacher job for 35 years because 2 schools were merging and the other teammembers were from a younger generation.. thats what u get for showing up and functioning fine for 35+ years.. Even if ur not fired a company can just stop existing or more to another country.. and ur gone also.. I went to look for jobs that i can do on my own (no interfearance) and remote.. that way i dont have to compete and just do the tasks. (but hard to find though). Id rather earn a little less but have no stress and more free time, better then working really hard and burning out fast.
The tutor lady is #goals. Earns enough to live on and spends the rest of the time cultivating her physical fitness, passions, and relationships. World would be better off if more people did the same.
What funny is, in another countries in the world that call normal life.
I cried at her words. She is doing what makes her happy and she is living her life so peacefully and happy. She is an inspiration in my books.
#cringe
can you elaborate please?@@arcsta_rr
the insurance agent is highly motivated because her compensation are in fact directly correlated with her efforts and hence positively reinforced. but suppose she's working at a desk job in the same insurance company with a fixed salary and realizes there's no hope for her to buy her own flat in Beijing, i'm sure she'll go "Bai Lan" as well.
True. It's why I went into sales. I work HARD. To some of my friends, I work waaay too hard. But I see a direct correlation between that hard work and my paycheck. The same cannot be said for most people.
Not to mention how they're required to meet sales targets but don't necessarily see an extra cent. Used to work for a Korean trading firm and the targets always renew per month but it's not like I'll necessarily get something beyond my fixed salary
@@redfullmoon agree.
@@redfullmoon exactly. It's almost as if people don't have a mind. If I'm constantly being given targets to meet and i'm meeting them or exceeding them and not getting anything substantial as a result, it's only a matter of time before I Bai Lan
@@redfullmoon selling life insurance is quite different. Here in Canada the best ones make a good living 👌
I love that the older adults in this video are calling 'kids' lazy - despite the fact that many of these older adults only had the opportunities they did, because of the economic conditions at the time. The guy who worked as a teacher for 10 years and then just decided to work in importing machines? Kinda hard to break into that these days lmao
They get it easy, pat themselves on the backs, and then call the youth 'unmotivated' for calling it how it is, and not deigning to work themselves to the bone for peanuts and a promise.
It's so odd to see that everybody critical is just one step before realizing why.
It feels like this was left as an exercise to the watcher...
I would even argue that this is a result from an emerging middle class. This gives place for people not working just to survive but able to have different priorities in life. These all seem to have a quite sheltered upbringing in stark contrast to the poorer population.
China will definitely experience major social restructuring due to the changing living standards for more and more people.
These changes will be quite challenging for the state.
@@manveroo1340 Arguably, less a case of an emerging middle class, and more a case of a declining middle class. especially in places like China. China is now reducing the number of college acceptees per year to reduce the number of young adults who would qualify for middle class positions in order to retain their cheap labor costs and reduce market pressures from too many college graduates w/o enough jobs for them. Additionally, nepotism is rampant, and with the stabilization of Chinese society, any social mobility is slowly being phased out in favor of giving jobs to family/friends. This is imo the biggest factor: that people have learned how stratified society is becoming, and that excelling in you position no longer nets you benefits because the management is now looking for more nebulous qualities as exceuses for their unfair affirmative action hiring practices, as opposed to hiring people based on merit.
Younger People like myself would rather go back to the old days of our Ancestors who lived in Tribal Communities, Sing Along, hunt for food, make a fire from scratch and just live in a cabin. The way Modern Society is built is to be a Soulless Slave!! The Matrix. Ironic how Boomers tell Young People why they are always on their phones and glued to technology when older generations created such technology. Now you got a Epidemic of Young Men addicted to jacking off to pixelated Screens. Dam you Al Gore for creating the Internet
C'mon man, they are lazy, there are not Zuckerbergs in the bunch.
@Space Lizard Sit around and play video games, or make your own game and sell it.
Slacking off is often a manifestation of learned helplessness. From the point of view of psychology, you tend to be less motivated when you feel frustration because your efforts are not duly compensated. So you tend to slack off because you resolve in your mind that whatever efforts you put in and the hours you put in would not matter anyway. This is not frustration due to delayed gratification but rather it is frustration at not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. So you stop trying because you think it would not change anything anyway. This is not really laziness but rather a serious lack of motivation and undefined purpose.
This is taking Taoism to whole new level. The art of letting go and living an effortless life is a philosophy that originated in ancient China. I personally find the Philosophy works in my personal life. It’s amazing how little to know effort actually goes a long way compared to trying to succeed in something that is not naturally achievable for myself!
I wondered if anyone in the comments would pick up on that. I think China has become an abomination of all the worst elements imported from the west - aggressive capitalism, materialism, communism and even fascism. This is just their younger generation yearning to reconnect with it's roots and put some meaning back into an empty and hopeless existence.
Interesting connection to Taoism. It actually makes perfect sense.
The spirit of Taoism is letting go of the desire of seeing (rewarding) results, instead of letting go of the efforts to work /study/experience better. For instance, you like a girl/boy, but you think she/he is out of your league. Then you just give up and walk away. This is not Taoism. Taoism means you do the best part you can, and let the result reveal itself (someday).
@@thea-1984 I don't know about that. I recall a passage in Tao Te Ching that talked favorably about being like a gnarled tree that is useless to the world and yet can't be removed. That sounds like simply dropping out of the world. Look at Chuang Tzu as well, it seems like Taoism represents a provincial and contented life as the ideal.
IMO when it comes to action, Taoism is about going beyond "doing your best and letting go of the outcome". That idea is popular in many other philosphies, but I don't think it is Taoist.
I think Taoism idealizes action with no effort or friction, so there is no notion of "best" or "doing your best". I think it is closer to being thoughtless and effortless and so represents a different idea than mere outcome independence.
Thanks for this comment. I had not thought to connect this phenomenon to Taoism
Before, i was very determined to climb up the corporate ladder. It was my ultimate goal. But on the process, I forgot to LIVE. I forgot that my job is just a part of my life and NOT my whole life. And I realized that there's more to life than just being a laborer and that my well being is more important than status and power.
I wished i could show all these Kids the Workerclass-Struggle Videos
of 'Some More News'.
As an old Gen-Xer (the original slackers) I fully approve of these dudes in their pursuit of their own happiness (and yes I use the gender neutral "dude"). Why act like a slave to a company? The company does not care for you or appreciate you. Competition brings out the worst in people. Life/work balance is important. My father identified as his job - it was part of who he was. To me that is insane. Work only pays for life, I am not my job and never have been. 😎
What is your job now loser? Are you depending on others to live or are you supporting others?
"Work to live, don't live to work," right?
The slackers are older than our generation labels. Some were beggars because they earned better than a labourer and beggars had a higher taxation.
@@shaou-linwright2797 [insert word here] to live, don't live to [insert word here]
@Mark Park Many people, particularly older generations, absolutely identify as their job
This is my motto. Never stress yourself over work you’re only getting 0.001% of what the boss gets.
People tell me I’m risking my job but I call it appreciating and prioritizing myself. I can always find another job the world doesn’t revolve around working.
The boss used to make a dollar while you made a dime. Now, he makes a dime and his boss makes a hundred dollars, you get pocket lint. What's the point of working when you can barely scrape by and any attempt to save is destroyed by inflation?
Yeah you might as well take back the only thing you have left, which is time
such is the lot of the proletariat. the new "slavery "
Very soon, workers will be paying their companies for the privilege of working- wait, what do you mean "that already happens"?
I've been letting the system rot since 2011.
I've let go of all ambitions and never felt better. I wanted to be a engineer for nasa in DC then 2011 I got burned out.
Now I'm a bartender in St Thomas and it's the best job I ever have!!
my 5 ambition dont require money. im lucky i can focus bucket list witouot becoming rich
some stuff in life are not buyable or sellable.
my 5 on 5 item are part of them
When I was in my late 20s, I came upon the same realization that my rewards were not proportionate to my efforts. It is a huge motivation killer. I was sick of making sacrifices, I told myself that my mental health and happiness was most important. If something did not work, I would pivot quickly and try something different. My life became a lot better after I stopped caring about what people thought of me and my accomplishments.
I was like that until I turned 35. Always super effective and motivated at work and I always wanted to be the best in what I was doing.
I also was kind of a perfectionist and wanted to get along with the bosses and the colleagues at any time.
Unfortunately this also caused a lot of jealousy among my colleagues and they took advantage by overwhelming me with their work while also bullying me at the same time.
For 1-2 years I was able to deal with it but then I noticed my body reacting to all the stress and when I came close to a burnout I just didn't show up at work and called in sick.
After I returned to work I did choose the offensive solution and complained about the bullying and the insane work load at my company.
The result was very disappointing. The bosses didn't want to hear about it and the bullies denied everything. After this their attitude towards me changed completelly and people avoided me. So I also developed a 'I don't give a sh!t'-attitude and only did the minimum that was asked from me.
This also improved my life by a lot because I wasn't stressed out because of work all the time. In the end I left the company because I was sick of seeing those people everyday but in my new company I did choose a more relaxed way of working without trying to impress anybody and so I didn't have any conflicts with colleages so far.
There's a friend i had back in university, she used to ignore her hunger and not feeling well all the time until one day on the particular evening, pouring rain. Just to complete her thesis for graduation she's ignoring her hunger and sick body to go to the nearest printing kiosk(many people in Indonesia don't have printer) and print her thesis. She doesn't have an umbrella or raincoat to be used so she braced herself to be drenched by rain. After coming back from the printing kiosk she's straight up going to bed and sleep. Morning came and when one of her dorm friends knocked on her door to wake her up for breakfast(around 6.00 am)she was not answered. She thought to herself "Maybe she's still sleeping" so she's going to knock again before she went to the campus. Unfortunately for her when she came back to knock she's still sleeping, infuriated by this she went to mother superior to borrow the master key. With the master key in hand, she opened the door and found her friend still drenched by yesterday rain died. The cause of death is overworked.
That’s so sad :(
Wow
A workmate came to work slightly before 8am. Started sweating, we took him to a hospital 10mins away by 1pm he had died.
He had complianed of pains but kept off going to hospital cause of the demanding work schedule. But also we were not given health insurance and given the fact thay he was prepping for his wedding he opted out of going to hospital. He died 10 days away from his wedding.
im so sorry for your loss
That's sad. My condolences.
At least he escaped marriage !! 👍👍👍
Opted out to go to hospital for preping wedding is not a good idea. There are responsibilities in a marriage. A good health is one of the thing that helps you to take care of your love one.
This has really inspired me to go for my medical check up tomorrow
I’m from the States and it’s no different here. We’re not meant to work like mindless robots for consumerism. I’m in my 30’s and in the workplace we have the 60-70 yr olds (supervisors) who refuse to retire and they can’t wrap their head around managing us that are in our 20’s-30’s. They try to micromanage us down to the second. We are more educated and efficient than them. We can get 8 hrs of work completed in 3 hrs. Then they call us lazy because we manage our time better. Ah and here we call it “quiet quitting”. Do the bare minimum your job asks of you but enough not to get yourself fired.
Exactly. I finish my work very quickly and have nothing to do. We are alot more efficient with technology
Be careful with your paintbrush
A lot of what you describe sounds like typical corporate culture.
Definitely enjoyed this and was surprised to find the "Bai Lan" attitude so close to it's American version we call "quiet quitting". Neither of these attitudes should need any defense, by the way, especially in a Capitalist society. If working hard gets you everything than why look at the people essentially living balanced lives with envy or disdain? Doesn't this open the door to all the workaholics out there who say they believe in hard work? This is where the disingenuous start to sputter because the problem lies in unsustainable systems and just a simple lack of value missing for the system in place...not to mention corrupt leadership. As a Gen Xer I can confirm that here in America that even the 90's were a hard time for upward mobility and there have been multiple economic crashes and constant inflation since those days. Literally, nothing worth mentioning has gotten better for working class folks as far as I've experienced.
Definitely no signs of it getting better or plans to make it better
In a capitalist society, working hard doesn’t give you any rewards. The rich gets richer while the poor stay poor. The rich need poor people to provide them with labor. My mom is a lawyer and has seen lots of rich people and their nepotism kids. They are made for success because they are born rich. Like one guy could increase his company’s market value because he went to a ultra rich school and have ultra rich friends whose parents are ultra rich. The rich support each other and so he was able to grow his business. It’s not hard work, it’s connections and being in the rich circle. A poor guy can only work for the rich and that’s the truth because workers don’t own the things they work on.
@@buibuiopolismayor7329 Ditto! Well said
@@buibuiopolismayor7329 You need to understand and differentiate between economic system and intrisinsic human behaviour. Capitalism is just private ownership of property and voluntary market exchange. Do you really think nepotism will dissappear under another economic model, say, communism? People will always be greedy and corruption will always be there, see China or any other historical communist societies.
Also, working hard is meaningless if it does not ADD VALUE TO THE MARKET. Under capitalism the value of something is judged by supply and demand as consumers dictate the value. Working hard as a toilet cleaner will not net the same value to a business/society as being a competent CEO whose decisions rake in billions for the company. Which is why they say work hard AND smart
@@yt_nh9347 consumers don’t dictate the market. The companies dictate the market. Consumers are forced to choose between the products they produce and the prices they set.
Nepotism isn’t going to disappear, and communism isn’t the end all solution. But the concept is about leveling the ground. Giving millions of dollars in bonuses to the rich circle isn’t going to make the world better. It’s better for the market to have the people become richer so they can spend more. Tax the rich, give to the needy, socialist society is the way it should be.
Very fair and balance coverage of the topic, from many different angles. Much better journalism resulting in a high quality documentary.
Slacker isn't the right term; it's burned out. If there's no way of moving up the ladder then why keep trying so hard when you don't have the ability to improve. It's when the ceiling is to high for too many years; and you know no matter what you do you can't reach it. The over achievers are simply lucky. Lucky to have an education, lucky to have family support, lucky that their health hasn't failed, lucky they were chosen for jobs they enjoy. Different MB personality types should also be evaluated in this situation.
Many of the people getting the best jobs are going to be people with family connections anyway.
Burnt out people are the stupid ones.
Slackers are the smart ones.
What a cop out. "The overachievers are simply lucky." So them doing the work - studying, organizing, prioritizing, etc. to do well, and you write that off as luck? Were those from working class families who are now doctors and lawyers, lucky? These are people who persevered against adversity, and you chalk it off to luck. What a load of bs you're pushing to rationalize your own failure.
I'm not saying that working hard, studying hard, and putting in the time is worthless. I'm saying that if someone does all those things and the day after graduation the person is hit by a car that's bad luck preventing success. All that hard work was basically erased by bad luck. I had a friend hit by a car she had to learn to walk again and years later she still has difficulty with basic math. 2 other people I knew are brilliant but they went through a terrible education system so they were educated wrong. Another friend is from an abusive family, she still hasn't fully escaped them and she is nearing 40. Every time she gets a job her family does something and she loses her new job. Dealing with the problems her family has created takes up most of her time and has had an effect on her health. Another friend was a good student but had health problems early in life so she spent much of her time in hospitals; because of that she wasn't allowed to graduate even though she did all the work. Last time I saw her she was homeless. Another friend has a parent who is likely a psychopath; that friend has major problems from that. When 300 people are competing for 1 job 299 people will not have that job. When there are more jobs than jobs available it doesn't matter how hard they work they can't all be the 1 person who gets the job. People die each year because they can't afford to see a doctor. Other times people pass from malpractice. If someone doesn't have money to buy food then they won't spend their time studying; they'll spend their time trying to find food. These are all situations where bad luck prevents success.
my boyfriend worked so much overtime and did so much for his last job and he was still in university, they repaid him by asking more of him and basically promoted him without paying him more. keep people expectations low, the more you give, the more they will take.
@@techtutorvideos You'd be surprised on how much this occurs as almost every company tries to pay you less than you deserve. The only way to tackle the issue is to advise your superior that you are looking for other roles so it can lead to a proper discussion of your pay.
At least a promotion spruces up the resume a bit, and makes one *feel* recognized. Now imagine not even getting promoted despite producing incredible results. And then watching all other colleagues get promoted. Nobody needs to wonder why this trend is catching on.
Welcome to the real world. It will get better for him though. I did it too, internships.
It didn't kill me, it took me to 40 to get a mortgage. I'm proud of my achievements
You lot won't stick at anything, want special treatment. The world won't change for you. Get used to it.
Success requires effort and stamina
@@marvinstorm9153 ok boomer
Why do thou practice fornication, fornication is an abomination unto The Lord.
I am a 30 year old Jamaican Millennial. Having experienced working 100+ hours per month in overtime alone just to get by while my country experienced record amounts of brain drain (Jamaica has a very good education system and supplies great nurses and teachers but there's mostly sweet shop- like call centres popping up and little much of anything else so countries like the US, Canada & the UK CONSTANTLY head hunt us) I 1000% support these Chinese young people! I was always Bai Lan, more so after the age of 24. I just want a peaceful life where I can actually survive.
I was so over worked and stressed out that I had a full mental breakdown and became heavily suicidal (still am). After nearly 3 years I'm only JUST beginning to come back to normal. Us young people NEED BALANCE! It cannot only be work work work (and now breed breed breed since the higher heads have realised that we are not reproducing more worker ants to support their retirement), worse since the boomers and some gen xers are HOGGING everything known to man. It's practically impossible for young people to compete/grow if the older folks who tend to also be in power are making decisions that mostly benefit THEM.
You are speaking nothing but truth. I'm so glad you're coming to this realization. I hope you are putting your health first. And I hope your suicidal ideation ceases. This system robs people of joy and light.
@@deembbest4553 Thank you so much for your kind words ❤️ They mean alot🙏🏾. I have been trying to rebuild and although it may be very challenging, it's slowly bu5 sure improving.
I hope that you're taking care of yourself too, don't let the system work you to death!
Edit: Slowly but surely
You are exactly right we young people are not interested in conflicts and work. To sustain we need work but our life would never always work! I don't give a rat's ass about those multi-national companies who by the way are ruled by the previous generation and don't even care about the employee, even if you die during working they will give you a max 10min of silence to mourn and then "back to work" So don't dedicate your life to these companies who would drain every drop of blood out of you! enjoy your time don't know how long we have to see all the global events unfolding, take care.
If only there's a painless method to kill myself just to end the suffering, I won't hesitate! Especially the people around you are narcissists and ignorants. What solution do you have to that kind of people? It's ridiculous. Pathetic. You know it would've been better if I hadn't been born at all.
Thank you for sharing. I completely agree with you. I hope you’re feeling better and finding peace in your life ❤️❤️
I'm an adjunct professor and freelance musician. I used to teach public school and was working 60-80 hours a week, thanklessly. Now I work 30 or 40 hours a week and I run, dance, quit smoking, no back pain, learned to paint, and I'm learning magic tricks for my nephew. I hike and camp any weekend I want to and hang out with my girlfriend. I get paid a little over half what I used to make but I'm 1000x happier. My job is fun and I have enough work to pick only my favorite gigs. I don't need to get involved in too much beyond my friends and family and hobbies. I don't need to take responsibility for large social issues I didn't start and don't have any authority or agency to finish, but I'll try not to make them worse insofar as one person can contribute to a large social system. I don't see what the problem is here, unless everyone's doesn't get it because they're jealous that someone can be comfortable not climbing and striving. I think this is a strike for the human soul. And being on the picket line is really fun!
Like how is people doing their job and then going home a bad thing? Just because they aren't working like they own the company doesn't mean that they don't care. Like we need to change this mindset that if you aren't producing (for an employer) you aren't being a good citizen.
Exactly, don't like that the video calls them slackers.
That's the real problem with a communist system. When the means of production are owned by the "public" (read the government) then it literally IS your duty as a citizen to be productive.
@@isaaclopez-cordell243 the US has this problem as well...
You cannot judge what happens in other countries comparing it with others who are totally different.
The whole Chinese culture and society is built around hard work and strong competition.
Not having the desire to engage in this is something that threatens the system itself.
In western countries, people working a 9 to 5 and having low aspirations is not a bad thing, but in China it is different.
Other countries have other problems that threaten their culture and system.
@@matzof I've been here in China for twenty years. You're wrong on so many levels.
Employer: “Last year we had record profits!”
Employee: “Can I get a raise?”
Employer: “No!” *drives to their home in a new car*
Sounds like America
@@Drpermer America 2.0
New features added:
Communism
@@Drpermer naah man that sounds like everywhere my country your country everybody same here
Employees: How much raise are we getting this year?
Company : 1.5% profits were not so good.
Also company: Pays executives 20 million performance bonuses
@@Drpermer
It's just corporate capitalism, which is global. Some countries have better social programs and labor laws but they're still fundamentally ruled by it.
I really liked how they explained the situation, not taking sides. It' is hard to keep playing a game when you know you already lost it. Chances of becoming millionair (or just economically well positioned) are quite slim in most assalariated positions, so I think that investing in your hobbies, your private life and your mental health is not a bad option. They are still working, no one is taking care of them, so let them have their own lifestyle. Afterall, in Europe we have been doing that for decades.
I completely understand them. I’m tired of working hard to just get nowhere and be passed up someone who has the connections
I once work with a sexist idiot we will call Steve. Let's just say Steve struggles and likes to ask me questions but get paid more than me and is promoted because he is best friends with the manager. I quit and Steve is still there rotting at the company being a nuisance.
Sometimes the feeling of freedom is better then money
As a Chinese, I realize no matter how hard I work my life still sucks. If I keep working 996 I will die and tomorrow there will be a cheaper younger guy come to replace me. So I stop dreaming about a better life and start to 'let it rot'. In that afternoon, I found the sky is so beautiful.
Same here. I will introduce it here in the Philippines. It will spread worldwide
As a Professional Slacker, I am very happy to see this idea spreading worldwide.
I second that!
nice to meet you professor, i'm a slacker from china
@@李名博-h5q Always remember that Company Time is Toilet Time
Same
i'm learning to be a slacker
The secret is that you tell and act like you are working hard and overworking at times so that no one will bother your lazy lifestyle.
I'm a massage therapist here in the Middle East averaging 2 to 3 clients a day, that's around 4 hours of work. I spend the rest of my day playing mobile games. When asked how hard my job is I always "oh yeah look at my hands its swoolen, im so overworked that i developed insomia"
I couldn't help but laugh when they had the retired guy talking about how young people don't have motivation. If we don't demand better for ourselves, with the current state of things, many of us will never even be able to retire. Just worked to death like they cattle they see us as.
🐂💨 frankly. Do you think your parents didn't strive? People your age died fighting for your freedom to complain .... You self indulgent, entitled victim.
Pathetic. You'll fail. Totally
Very well said 😊
@@marvinstorm9153 exactly they died so we can do better. Improvement comes from what others may call complaining.
A work life balance is critical to one's well being. Too much work is harmful just as too little work is just as harmful. If you are barely getting by now how will your life be down the road when you hope to start a family or god forbid retire? Say what you want about the older generations but they are able to look back on life through experience, so cut them some slack as sooner or later you will be there as well.
This actually felt like a documentary to explore something, vs feeling like pushing an agenda. Love the way it discussed multiple sides of the story.
Ohh man. It’s pure CCP propaganda…. The ONLY way to get rich in China was to buy property before massive property bubble. That’s not possible anymore. There is zero social mobility in China. The kids who are going to get good jobs and “succeed” come from already “successful” families who are part of CCP and corrupt government officials. There is no “American dream” in China. It’s propaganda to keep the CCP supplied with diligent and educated drones to keep the country running.
There’s a documentary called “American Factory” on Netflix and it’s about a Chinese company that bought a factory in Detroit, USA. The difference between both countries it’s stark. The Chinese were incredibly shocked that the American workers wouldn’t work like the Chinese do. At one point the supervisor said “why do the Americans want 2 days off a week? In China the workers get 1 or 2 days off a month and they’re happy.” The Bai Lin and Tang Peng philosophies are great but I doubt the young (not college educated) Chinese factory workers have the option of relaxing and enjoy life like their wealthier counterparts. China is a beast and it consumes the weak to make itself grow bigger and stronger.
thanks i gonna watch it :)
when i have day off .... in 3 weeks from now
But im working hard now so i can chill in winter time :P
yeah i’ve seen that movie, however that was happening before pandemic. a lot of things changed afterwards... i see this yt video talking about very recent phenomenons. people are questioning everything now, especially after so many wealthy leaders/corporations got way more rich, beyond imaginable.... someone mentioned greed.
But they will pay the price in the long run. They think they are winning now but it will come back to bite, just like that one-child per family law they implemented. When that law went into effect they did not foresee the problematic outcome. So it will be when these work horse workers are stressed out, burnt out, sick and then drop dead from stress and over work. Guess they will then try to call on the thousands and thousands of unemployed graduates to fill the slots. By then many of those would have given up and would have become Bia Lan..Tang Peng🤷🏿♀️ either way they screwing themselves thinking they are building their society and country but in actuality are destroying. IT ALL LOOKS GOOD NOW, BUT WATCH OUT🤷🏿♀️
and someone tell me on reddit that american work too hard like over 70 hours a week and someone else here claim american only works for 40 ? wtf
"I doubt the young (not college educated) Chinese factory workers have the option of relaxing and enjoy life like their wealthier counterparts." Many of them are doing this. Since years it's been reported that many manufacturers in China suffer from labor shortage. Unlike people 10/20 yrs ago, many younger migrant workers would rather go back to their villages, if the wage is too low or the working conditions are too harsh.
It's not only the non-proportional monetary reward that disappointed workers. There are also colleagues who are good at acting like they do alot, while they only talk, and the boss thinks they are the most hardworking ones and give them the best rewards. Quiet introverted hardworking workers usually suffer, unless the boss takes extra effort to find out who really gets the jobs done (which is rare) 😢
It’s funny that the government is like “oh crap. They finally realized we’ve been tricking them to work their ass off”
The irony of policies designed to make sure no citizen gets left behind, creating a society with the highest anxiety of being left behind. 😅😢
If your work place has to install
anti-suicide measures, It kind of makes the problem clear.
The real reverberations come when suicide nets are changed to armoured cars for the executives.
Yup, add to that Chinese can't even leave theirs own country and migrant workers are considered as 2nd class citizen in China.
That's why 996 work because there are plenty of replacement, so no need to care about health and well being of workers.
When I was young, I always heard all the parents say they wanted their kids to be happy and live happy life. Now they are living their happy life, and you called them Slackers/ Weak/ Lack of motivation? I’m 34 now. I used to work 18 hrs a day. And still, no matter how hard you try in the end, it doesn’t matter. Just like the Linkin Park song😂 so I’m glad to see that they realize that now.
What a loser
Thank you from NZ, your doco was very enlightening, we have been aware of corporate pressure on employees for many years, which appears to also effect students under enormous pressure to achieve qualifications, this is a normal condition of any culture, as you are aware, technology has advanced somewhat since the 70s and the youth also, with their dreams will the the next stage of human growth, be not our closed mind give our children a dark forest but a great light
Feels like an entire generation of burnout. Of getting to that breaking point of "what's the point?" and realizing that nobody else had an answer.
That retired businessman had a whole 9 to 5 job as a teacher that he quit to go into a field he knew nothing about and is now retired with 3 cars in his garage.
He had motivation because he had a secure life with savings already, and all his hard work was to benefit himself while his wife did the work of raising his child by herself.
He kicked away his responsibility to his students, his employer, and his family, to make his own money and now is retired early and contributing nothing to society or the youth.
He can sit at home with his money now for the next 20+ years watching tv with his wife, even though he's clearly still in good health and able to do keep working, giving free tutoring, or volunteering for charity work but instead he spends his time taking interviews so he can self-aggrandize and call other people lazy.
How long will he and his wife occupy that property while young people share 5 roommates to a 2 bedroom flat that costs more to rent than his mortgage ever was?
What about the people who worked for him in his company? Are they now retired in good health with a big house and 3 cars? Did they get shares in his business and become stockholders? Or did they struggle their whole lives for a pittance just like everyone else?
And don't forgot the line where it's stated that the president decided to allow "a few people to get rich first" so tell me, how was he added to that list of people? And what about those people who were already trained in that field who he was competing against? How was he able to overthrow them so easily? Only with hard work learning from scratch what others already knew? Then what about all their hard work? Was it meaningless then? So how will the young people of today be able to succeed?
If an untrained person back then could overthrow the educated and succeed in business only through hard work and good circumstances, but a young person now can graduate from college and can't even find a job in their own field, how are they supposed to feel hopeful or motivated?
I would be interested to see this report interview an older generation who isn't rich and high status and see what they think about all this. Interview a janitor or factory worker or unemployed elderly and ask them if working hard will get you rich
You make a great point. What happened to the other old people?!! I get a short video can’t explore many stories, but that’s a huge hole
@P VP Sir, You made a good point that the voice of the other not-so-successful of the older generation should also be heard. However, I would just like to point out that many of the other parts of your comment indicate there was a lack of good understanding of the background and history of China.
China was under a more orthodox type of communism before the reforms started in 1978. By orthodox type of communism it means private property is discouraged, and absolute equality is valued - everyone got essentially the same pay regardless of productivity, and being affluent (not even rich) was to be made ashamed of. So when Deng Xiaoping said "allow some people to get rich first", he did not really mean to solely benefit those with good connections, but rather saying people were allowed to make more if they could produce more, which liberated a huge amount of animal spirits among people, which has been the key driver of China's fast growth in the decades followed.
With this background, the businessman in the video did not displace or beat the other "more professional" or "established" people. There was essentially no private businesses, let alone establishments. That was the type of opportunities presented at that time. As long as you dared to take the challenges to get into a new field (which means leaving the public sector, which the vast majority of people were in), your chance of success was significant. I think that was actually one of the key points this businessman, as well as the video producer, were trying to convey. It was not exactly a criticism, rather more of looking for an explanation, that the huge opportunities in the past were probably a significant part of the reasons that the last generation was more motivated. Nowadays, competition was so fierce that even if someone works really hard, the chance of success is slimmer.
Still, I agree with you that it's not convincing enough to make the point by letting only a successful self-made businessman to speak for the last generation, but a few mediocre young people speak for the current generation. I do agree there are hardworking people, as well as people who are more laid back, as well as slackers, or many other types, in ANY generation. To that point, I find this video on the more balanced side than many of the other videos on the same topic.
I was hoping someone would point this out in the comments!!! Similar to Boomers in the U.S., his generation had plenty of vertical growth opportunity. This guy isn't a "genius" or "exceptionally hardworking" like he probably imagines himself to be. He's just part of a very lucky generation of untapped markets and little competition. If he started over today as an 18yo, he'd probably be another mediocre cog in the machine and eventually do Bai Lan too.
Not only that the amount of times i have heard "At your age i worked full time,had a mortage and 2 kids" yea in your era you could afford a house with 1 income because the market was not an overprice piece of sh?#, the prices have raised the income have not.
Wisely said! 👍
As someone from outside China, I found it quite surprising that this kind of thought is banned by the government. For me and my peers, it’s very common to not want to give it all to climb the corporate ladder. I mean, a job is just a job. Of course we try to do our best at our jobs, but we don’t exist to serve our jobs. Out jobs exist to serve us, to give us enough money to sustain our lives. I though this was a common idea shared by many people. So I’m a bit surprised that it became a movement and has to be banned.
Yeah I don’t really see the issue. If you want to fight and work and prove to move up the ladder, no problem. It depends on what you value. If you value your family and hobbies then just do your job and go home. Seems pretty simple. It’s always been very clear to bosses which employees they can rely on to put in more work than others, which is fine lol
I was just in an interview and I basically told them I have no motivation to climb the corporate ladder and they laugh.
@@Chow18ggrace that’s too bad. I believe everyone naturally finds where they are best in the hierarchy. I’ve learned over time where I excel best and are able to keep my stress low, enjoy my work, while also enjoying life with family. I used to take on more responsibility become manager of x,y,z at my jobs. I’ve realized that’s not where I do well, managing people. I enjoy having a little bit more responsibility but get too overwhelmed when I am in charge of other people. I enjoy just being a reliable and good employee. That’s it lol
Hikiomori (Jp), NEET(Eng), Bai lan (Chines) and many others
The "three mountains" are definitely hard for most of us to climb in this day and age. What a great turn of phrase.
Bai Lan American here. Gotta say kudo's to the people around the world starting to recognize that consuming less makes life a whole lot better because you don't need to work your life away for material things that mean nothing. I've lived a austere life for a long time, and had many friends wonder how I get by, yet they never connect the dots making fun of my car that is a hand me down 20+ year old vehicle... Don't buy everything in the world and you don't have all that debt to work 2-3 meaningless jobs.
Well said. The irony is that a car that was manufactured 20 years ago is probably a better built car. Cars today have all the 'bells and whistles' and sales media tries to convince consumers that they can't be happy or impressive without them.
A car is only as good as its ability to move you from where you are to where you want/need to be as safely and efficiently as possible.
I've lived long enough to know that owning all the things that are being sold to us may seem nice but those things end up owning you - either through debt or just the upkeep it takes to maintain them. No thanks.
Yeah, and then some unexpected calamity comes up and you're fucked anyway. Nice job.
@@hnlpharmd the same goes for you. You could just get hit by a car and die, no matter how much money you have.
This is a world wide phenomenon…people all over the world see no benefits to spending outrageous amounts of money to obtain a university degree, with no guarantee you will even find a job, then working a 9-5 with additional overtime while taking care of kids and maintaining a home and still not being able to cover all the bills at the end of each month or afford decent food….this is the reality for many countries including my own (South Africa)…we are working the same amount of time our parents did maybe even slightly more and we cannot afford the basic necessities…something is very wrong with the world
Hello fellow Saffa :)
because in the time of our parents' generations, there were less people in the world. Less people, less competition, higher salary, less cost of living.
It’s the 1% richest get all the cake. We are all their “chive” to be harvested by them. So the chives now realize it and refuse to play their games no more.
This is so true .
Social media has enabled people with an independent mind to come to the realization that they will not achieve lasting enjoyment or self fulfillment as long as they continue making money for someone else. My advice to them is, to encourage their children to work for themselves… to become entrepreneurs.
I guess more and more people realized that there is more to life than being treated like a slave and expect you to work 12 hours a day and 6 days a week.
I support and respect these people.
Honestly, the fact they can see a point with even minimum work is more than i can muster.
As someone who was already disillusioned by the pressures of work, to see this trend in a place like China is actually hopeful to me
I enjoy my work but I hate office politics and workplace bullying. Being a salaried staff feels like a slave to a master. After watching this video and reflecting, it makes me realize how much emphasis I have given to work instead of myself, my friends and family. I work hard and want to make a difference. Dealing with insecure bosses are not funny. I was told I am not politically savvy enough. Well, enough. If I am going for a new job, I would just to go to work on time and leave work on time. I would do what is required. Enough is enough. My larger goal is to go freelance.
yes i just freaking slack at work thats how u do it. haha
Used to be 'Work hard, get rich' , now it's 'Work hard, get harder work and your boss gets rich'.
I'm a chinese and I do think this is the good choice for us to do. Think about it, perporty price is around 2-3 million, you make 10K per month(10K-15K/Month is already much higher than average income level). In big city like Shanghai or Beijing, you have to pay 4k-5k rent. 2k for eating and daily transport. you able to save around 3k-5k without any entertaiment activites. How to afford 3million perporty?
The harder we work, the landlord and boss are getting more rich by doing nothing. why the fk we work?
No hope at all~
This is going on everywhere. Just read through the comments. I thought it was just tied to America and a few other European countries but it's everywhere. It's kind of refreshing to know I'm not the only one but extremely sad knowing of no hope on the horizon. Only way I see change coming is the majority of the population of the world says no more! We have had enough because the people in power live in their own little world and we don't matter to them at all.
It’s hard to identify with the older folks in the documentary perhaps cuz I’m considered in the young demographic as well…but I think the main concern with the younger folks in this documentary was that they didn’t feel their effort was commensurate with their compensation and a clear progression career wise wasn’t an option compared to their older folk who grew up in a time where everything was seemingly on the up and up and could clearly see that their investment of time and effort had a clear impact on the future career growth
Then you have to ask yourself the follow up question as to why this were so suddenly NOT on the up and up. This wasn't addressed by the documentary. Within that answer lies the source of future troubles.
The boomer generation took everything, let it rot
Well said, as a young American, it is sad to see sometimes how we are misconstrued as slackers but the reality is kids are growing up brainwashed now with a different set of rules and values under our government and others. Technology has advanced and the use of manipulation from their original intended purposes ends up being hijacked. The youth doesnt know who to trust anymore when propaganda is exposed and as conspiracy theories start turning into fact, the populace starts to lose faith. When faux governments are exploited then people unite as there is a bigger problem at hand, a true sense of realization that they are all alone and need to fend for themselves. We are conditioned by what we are taught growing up and have the right to be angry when the values we grow up with have been nothing more than an abandoned pipe dream sold to us over and over again.
Nah, the younger generation were given an easy time growing up. The older generation were told that it would be difficult. They too faced what the younger generation now faces. They too worked hard for very small gains but they knew it was necessary and they keep working, giving up and lying flat was not an option. The younger generation are facing difficulties that all generations before them faced. To be young is to be frustrated and adrift. The solution is to keep going. This complaint that you can’t get ahead no matter how hard you work is just an excuse to do nothing. You have that option, the older generations did not. They could,not choose to be lazy. You’re not doing yourself any favors by doing less. When you’re twenty yers older you will know what I mean.
When you do not do what you know you should you will suffer for it because you know that you are being less than you could be.
@@angelflorence sorry but you are not unique. Everyone before you faced the same problem. You’re just spoiled and soft. All people your age have felt as you do. The answer is to keep going. Otherwise you will be that worthless old person who did nothing their entire life and has to depend on everyone to be supported. That is not a good place to be. So, shut up and get to work. No one cares about your complaining, not even people your age.
As a millennial, I’ve noticed this perspective on work from my younger Gen Z co-workers, and honestly I applaud it. I feel like there is so much to learn and decondition ourselves from this loyalty to work attitude. It doesn’t pay and companies are abusive. Your value shouldn’t be so wrapped up in what you do and how much you make.
100 percent true.
Say it louder !!!!!!!!
Leaving farming at our own villege and come to cities to find some job. This is the Worst mistake everyone is making.
As a millennial, I agree with them. Stop wasting your life for billionaires to become richer while they keep paying you peanuts.
If their profits aren’t as excessive as they want they’ll lay you off in a blink of an eye. Prioritize yourself & family. Stop having careers but do the bare minimum work and go home.
That's easy to say when you are living at home with your parents.
Look I understand where you're coming from but this is not reality speaking. Someone with responsibility to their family can't work and earn only the bear minimum. What happens if someone gets sick or a crisis happens? Not enough money? So who is gonna help you? Life is harsh but you need to keep moving. Make the right choices so other people won't walk over you.
@@Pyramid789 As a millenial, they don't have family to be responsible for. That's part of the problem. It's too expensive to start a family, so what's the point?
I do agree with the idea of ending billionaires...
STOP working for them and work for yourself.....
Just remember that while Amazon employees are peeing into a cup or water bottles, Jeff Bozos is out there constructing a $500 million Private Yacht!!!!!!!!!!
@@mruncletheredge Look up what happened to Japan when they ate the rich.
I think it’s alarming that non of the academics had pointed out that youths who engage in the bai lan subculture are essentially people who are crying out to society and are at the fringe of losing hope.
One of the academic mentioned that during the great industrialisation, people forgot about social issues, so shouldn’t it be time for us to address issues like, psychological needs? It’s also alarming that the documentary did nothing to point out how the economy no longer functions the same during the boomer era and now. The retired businessman was obviously proud of his efforts and saw no issue living away from his wife and kids. But, don’t we need to consider the effect on the wife and kids? Also, even if we assume social mobility is as efficient as it used to be (which is obvs not), how many women are willing to be left behind whilst their husband tries to conquer the world? I think the documentary raises good questions, but it did not address the issues that comes with these questions. It’s truly a pity.
The academics have a bias - they are of the older generation you'll note. Unfortunately, bai lan and tang ping are the ultimate result of lack of ownership. The CCP owns everything. If the people own nothing, why do anything? Better to lie flat and be relaxed than stand straight with anguish.
Yeah, it's missing the "deaths of despair" angle. What comes after rot? Death.
Oh they see it... but they don't like that "narrative"... it's always about pushing their agenda or the "status quo"
You talk as if China isnt corrupt and isnt a 3rd world country. Youre looking at all the shiny sky scrappers and forget the thousands of land that are barren desert. The villages struggling to survive. The people being silenced by the government. The ignoring of problems of china. I implore you. If you actually care about this topic then look deeper into china itself. And see for yourself. How the communist party in china is killing its people.
So true
This is 100% about the economy and social mobility.
When young people can't see themselves working to better their standing in life, they don't try to work harder and will do the bare minimum to get by.
It's not even something special to China, look at every developed economy and they have this problem to lesser or greater extent. It's just the first time China is experiencing it because of it's economic slowdown.
I’m curious how the vision for a better standing in life differs from person to person, society to society.
@@disappt Often it all comes down to being better off than your parents.
Quite easy when your parents were poor and rural to do better than them.
But if your parents were middle income city dwellers, it's getting harder to do better than them. Often now it's harder for children than their parents due to how housing in many places has increased to silly amounts more than the average wage.
They may be experiencing it more because of their work ethic. People who manage to score a good job go way beyond the call and do a job and a half in an age where jobs are becoming scarce due to automation and technology. This robs others from employment opportunities. There are not enough jobs to keep people gainfully employed. That only leaves menial jobs for people with university degrees.
@@djp3637 that is a good way of putting it. In an east asian culture like my own, it is difficult for a parent to see their child have a more difficult life than their own. This is an especially complex dynamic for an immigrant family facing economic realities in a country foreign to them.
Problem?
While you are correct this attitude persists worldwide. (Even in America) I see it more as a solution than a problem.
Here in the USA this manifests itself as the demand for the $15 minimum wage and other "living wage" movements.
People resent me because I don't work and I live on social security disability, well at the same time they create barriers to me finding securing and maintaining gainful employment.
One of those barriers is a wage structure that has me living a lower standard of living if I'm working then if I'm simply sitting on my ass.
If you don't want me to sit on my ass and collect a check every month then you're going to have to provide me with an income from work that provides me with a better lifestyle than the one I have now.
If I work I HAVE to spend more money.
More money on gas.
More money on personal grooming.
More money on clothing.
More money on "convenience" food.
More money on vehicle maintenance.
This can easily add up to over $500 in additional expenses every month.
The last time I had a full-time job my monthly income was about $80 less than my social security disability.
On the economic face of it alone having a job doesn't make sense for me.
Add to that the additional stress of dealing with difficult people, a boss who knows nothing about leadership and treats his/her people like crap, and I'm trying to juggle time management issues regarding scheduling of doctor's appointments and social gatherings and time to do things that make life meaningful and enjoyable and working makes even less sense.
To be clear I'M NOT LAZY.
But I'm not going to work myself to death, living an abject poverty, so that some CEO can buy a third yacht and throw a $50,000 birthday party for their Chihuahua.
You can work hard, do everything right but still get no where. Why would anyone waste their one life for no reward? Its not laziness its lack of incentive. Dont blame them honestly.
So happy I found this. I feel so unmotivated to continue giving 110% in the corporate career game. I thought I was crazy because I wasn't seeing the advantage of "working hard" which most of the people I work with only sees. Giving your best to your job is not bad but life is so much more than making money.
Better off spending your time at work talking to people and getting to know them so that you can leverage them as connections to get ahead. Working hard at work for the majority of jobs is probably the highest effort and lowest success way to get ahead these days. Really disgusting system.
Same. It really piss me off that being efficient is the worst thing you can be in a company.
It's happening around the world. This generation has seen their parents work so long and hard only to have their retirement stolen by the Co. We're tired of working to death to barely survive while the owner has 5 Mansions, a private jet. And YOU can't afford 1 HOME BS. FIGHT BACK. WE DESERVE MORE
But if you don't kill yourself working then how will the billionaires afford their 5th yacht?
Don't forget the government, they only need their 80%
true. never trust the narrative from the media, who is always ready to skew it into something else. Who doesnt want to be rich. But if someone is set in an unfair advantage (being a minority, or simply being born in a competitive generation where the select few has already have the upper hand just because they were early) heck no, i dont think they younger gen are just going to rot. they will find alternative ways because survival instinct is the number one human need over anything else.
@@rubyrose49exactly , some people are really so selfish bro . Everyone knows the 5th yacht is the most important
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Not everyone has the luxury of getting a reward for what they have been grinding. I think it’s reasonable when people feel tired when they do not get the result. But it’s not okay to judge people solely on the phenomenon “let it rot” that they are not contributing enough to society. Everyone has their story.
It's a social contract. The contract was you work hard, and society will reward you for your hard work.
Except that society has broken that contract, so why should people honor their end of the deal?
Why should we contribute to society anyway? We were never asked to live so why should we be told how to live? Life will take care of itself. We need to stop playing "God".
The young aren't given the same opportunities that us boomers had. I know , I was there then and now and I don't forget how it was . For them I see no incentive. Incentive is the thing that drives a country for advancement. If there's no hope for advancement , why should they do this when there is no impending rewards . I had chances for a job that pays a living wage that can support a family and buy a house with an opportunity to feed ,clothe , nurture a family. Now , the house I bought in the 80s in Canada for 60k is now over 700k and there's less job opportunities at a fractionally higher pay. There's no hope in that. I can't blame the youth today.
Very true.
I think there is nothing wrong to pursue a simple but balanced lifestyle. Times are different and we are in a different era and so are the income gaps which are known to be widen between the rich and poor. Those who used to make it big are just the times and opportunities at the right time then. These days we are overly populated and highly advanced in technology, hence, opportunities are much more limited than earlier years. This era is about working smart and not hard. Lazy is definitely not the choice but pursue of a more balance lifestyle can be today's choice because people's understanding for life is much more indepth than just bias to over working (and yield less results and satisfaction in life overall).
I thought we were headed towards population collapse. Birth rates are declining as having children becomes very expensive
As a species, we’re severely underpopulated and on a course to extinction without global warming but your message stands
We aren't with less opportunities because the world is more advanced. What kind of dumb idea is that? Makes no sense.
Boomers are stupid and got lots of opportunities.
I think it's still somewhat similar to the old days. They had their share of struggles and we have our own. It's not like modern technology isn't available to us. Put in the work, struggle, fail, and grow. Rinse and repeat until you achieve what you get.