China's Brutal Job Market: Most Men Turn Couriers, Women Become Streamers, Even PhDs Remain Jobless
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- etizens shared their frustrations. One person commented, "It's tough for women; at 28, unmarried and childless, finding a job is impossible, and I don't want to become a livestreamer, but I feel like I'm starving
There's a popular joke online that encapsulates the situation well: men deliver food, and women livestream. After women finish streaming and get hungry, they order food, which the men deliver before tuning into the women's streams, creating a closed loop. Sadly, this is not far from the truth.
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Once again, when the government says that we need to increase the birth rate or import third-world workers because of labour shortages, there is no labour shortages. It just means that there are not enough workers who work like slaves.
This is why we're better off with robots.
It's gotten to the point where I am willing to work like a slave. Still no job offers. The job market is like traffic in a metropolitan city.
@@cryorau willing to work like a slave ?!!!!😂
Ironically, it’s the government leeching off everyone keeping the economy poor. Why do we need a tax bureau?
Orwell said in his book 1984, that the three super states really do not practice different types of government. Despite the names, languages, the systems of government are all the same. They are not waging war against each other. They are waging war against their own populations. The people who control everything, the powerful do not wish to lose power. So by pretending to wage war against one another, they prop each other up like three sheaves of corn in the field. What has been described in so-called Communist China is exactly the same situation that poor and working class people find themselves in in the United States and in many nations of Europe. It’s even worse in the global south we’re wages are so low that the people are unofficially slaves.
You're delusional if you think Europe and the USA is anywhere near as bad as China. Go live in China see how you like it, and don't come back to the west.
Rubbish
Ok bot
The truth of this statement is augmented by the slave mentality reaction to it. These people would vote for a life made bearable by Soma from Brave New World.
What a way to sway!
The same thing has happened here in the USA. I remember in the 1990's, San Diego's Biotech industry crashed and burned with 10's of thousands of employees laid off. I remember seeing a respected double Ph.D. in molecular biology/chemistry working at Home Depot for $15 an hour.
The "Big Bang Theory" had Sheldon get a team for a quiz including the janitor, the final question was answered by the janitor but Sheldon refused to accept it and lost to the PMS (Perpetual Motion Squad). The janitor turned out be a scientist from St Petersburg university
Single candidates are rejected due to them taking marriage leave.
Married candidates are rejected due to them taking maternity leave.
So...what kind of candidates would they accept? This is truly disgusting.
Oviparous ones, sounds like.
When even the so-called "iron rice bowls" (civil service jobs) are increasingly becoming "clay rice bowls" because the state's coffers are depleted, you have a very serious problem, indeed.
I don't worry - a PHD in particle physics, 10 years at the LHC (CERN)... I can get every janitor job I want.
The "Big Bang Theory" had Sheldon get a team for a quiz including the janitor, the final question was answered by the janitor but Sheldon refused to accept it and lost to the PMS (Perpetual Motion Squad). The janitor turned out be a scientist from St Petersburg university
In France a janitor is sometimes called a « surface technician » - so it is also a technical job.
Lol is that sarcasm?
@@andyng5321 nah man hes too underqualified for janitor job
@@OCV102 ??
that's just the most bland form of dystopia at this point
Arasaka IRL#sloprosperity #theskydontlie but at the least corpos don't use your organs for no reason
It is! I mean it's a simple cult of personality with a dictator surrounding himself by scared yes men. No deeper concept. It really is boring. If it wasn't the biggest population on earth that is.
@@bliantfivesecond biggest now, India has taken over
I find the mainstream modern world becoming increasingly tiresome and bland in the last decade
A foreign masters degree only to make 10K a month? But the foreign degree costs probably 7M or more.
Less than cleaner in singapore.
Move to Singapore
Try 1.3k
4:00 Chinese app filters are working overtime on this dude.
HA HA old man or young bro
Lol
it's so ridiculous 😂
Lololol dude needs to accept his fate 😅😅
Looks to me like he doesn't want his identity known and tries to filter it but the filter fails for a split second and you see what he looks like
I’m an expat living in Guangzhou. The job situation is really bad. Our company just went through a huge layoff with the survivors taking over the responsibilities and being asked to work six days a week with overtime expected. It’s not looking pretty.
that's workers' right with Chinese characteristic, from 996 to 996.8; 9 am to 9 pm Monday through Saturday, and then 9 to 5 on Sunday.
Isn’t overtime a good thing?
@@user-iq2hy4ug4y if you get paid for the overtime, otherwise it's just fiefdom
This is what happens, when the government are so incompetent in managing their own nation 😔 .
What nation?
@@twh8418 PRC 😏 .
fake news .
@@Funnydoodoo08
Are the "Century of Humiliation" also fake ? 😏
@@fadzilhashim.0910everything is fake, and you’re a bot. 🤖
Every day again i find more proof we are living in clown world
tigers still eat meat right? so it's just people choose to be clowns
@@danarthur771, it’s China’s leaders who are the clowns starting from Xi.
Did you see the guy in the video @4;02, its a young guy with an old man filter being used, you only see the young guy for a moment with black hair
normally i'd hate propaganda telling you to move to other countries, but singapore? yea it's actually good studying there.
ever read history? it wasn't good back then. it's better now in most ways.
It's also similar what is happening in my country. Most people are going to work as couriers because companies are wanting people to work more with a low salary.
I couldn't survive under those conditions. It just makes people feel worthless and gives them no direction. How can such an advanced country be run so poorly. I really feel bad for these Chinese citizens. Nothing seems to be going their way.
It's called stealing and lying!
When has life provided the overall purpose, please at what point in history? China was a country with majority of the people could not read and was poor like African countries 60 years ago.
Except the advanced part is simply facade that only look good outside but completely tofu inside, kinda like Soviet union that could launch numerous rocket yet their citizen live as serf.
Strong independent women apparently needs 5,000,000 from their husbands before marriage 😂
Incels never take a break. What a sad life you live.
Unhappy leeks, lying flat, to avoid being harvested!
Thank you for another great episode. However, I feel very sad for the people.
fake news .
@@Funnydoodoo08CCP bot
People will eat the rich once they become hungry enough.
Yes,they will!
SOVIET UNION!
Yes please
Tens of millions of chinese people already starved during the great leap. They have proven their mentality.
They won't. They have proven that during the great leap.
Life under the thumb of the CCP is hard.
you live in china ?
Yet the gleaming towers and the expensive degrees keep proliferating.
Whilst China continues to align itself with Russia and turns from Europe and the US, their foreign investment and customers will continue to fall and their economy will continue to contract.
In a world of couriers and streamers, nobody will buy packages, and nobody will watch.
At this point there are more streamers and youtubers than there are viewers. 99% of of these online content creators will fail.
"Stable and improving" is just as much of a lie as "Build Back Better".
or 'Leveling up' or 'Strong and Stable' 🤣🤣
So thats why your dumping your unemployed in my country the Philippines for POGO offshore gaming and scamming and hacking,,,
these mainlanders also began to seek jobs here in Indonesia. i heard about the scuffle they made when there was some joint infrastructure project where the chinese brought their own people to work. a lot of Indonesian workers literally had to fight for their job, last time i heard local government finally split the amount of workers 60-70% Indonesian and the rest can be chinese.
even my cousin who works in gold mine also say the same thing. it's kind of annoying.
@@wienzard36 i dont want to be a raciat or something but,, Chinese are everywhere in this planet everywhere they go they're is chaos,, so much for grab hug mentality thought to them by mao Zedong and famine,,
They did the same in Cambodia. Massive inflation followed by massive crash and utter destruction of the industries that were there before. Enjoy!
I think the Chinese can only now aspire to a Tofu dreg rice bowl.😅
probably better off than the country you're from .
@@Funnydoodoo08 lmao go away wumao
You are delusional@@Funnydoodoo08
Most employment is supposed to come from ourselves farming and hustles.
1 delivery driver for a 100 people - madness.
Then they wonder by more and more people DON'T want to have children
To ve fair. Chinese women and their families want the men to be of better socioeconomical co ditions than her, so it doesn't add up
China is about to experience an extended lost decade.Maybe longer under the ccp.Tough.
I doubt it ,wishful thinking.
So.... what is your prediction then?
The longer and faster the growth period, and china has been through the longest uninterrupted growth period in history, the greater the recession will hit. Too many things basically depends in continued growth, once that growth disappears the house of cards become very unstable (this is an understatement). One big employment problem is the massive over-education. Education no longer provides any guarantee of a good life /income
I don't know if this is an economic law, but it seems to have happened to the United States with the 1929 Depression and to Japan in the 1990s.
@@SeattlePioneer China will thrive.
As an outsider I feel like the problem with China isn't its education but rather the culture in terms of expectations and lack of honesty from government to those responsible for bad construction of houses and subpar consumer goods.
That is what is exactly happening in our country and maybe in the other part of the world. Nothing is unusual.
With the shortage of jobs & women in China you'd think Only Fans Streamers, Go-Go & Topless Bars would be much more prevalent & popular.
Porn is banned in china
Prostition is illegal in China
porn only survive in back alleys in mainland china apparently.
Still heaps of prostitution there. Many gals can't find regular work .
You may think some Chinese ppl in china are shameless, willing to con and cheat for money, but the educated young are usually the only child in their family, and the losing face culture is super strong
If middle class parents are already ashamed that u are unemployed or single, what will happen if they find out u do OF? You might be completely disowned! Left with 0 inheritance! Plus, parents would rather support their unemployed adult children as long as they keep trying and not be an embarrassment
I guess their version of OF is marry or date guys older but much richer and get financially supported by them. There are probably ppl who do “sell” intimate activities, like being a sugar baby but that’s no different from dating because most guys will lose face if someone finds out that the person they sleep with is also sleeping with other people
At this point there will just be poor and rich
All those job markets require you to attend some form of education in order, but if youre a dictator from a farm, you dont need degrees you give decrees. Its not the same!
Oh no! Who could have seen this coming!?!
I guess it's time to collect on those loans to African countries...
It's sad that it is that difficult to move up in China, granted that it is getting harder and harder to move up in America too, since the government is trying to be more and more like China's.
DEPRESSION = BOOZ
Could not happen to a nicer bunch of people.
face filter glitch at 4:00 dude went from 55 to 25 y/o.
Lol
True! Just for a second, his hair was all black, then quickly became grey, again!
A lot of American lawyers have suffered the same fate. Not enough high paying jobs to pay off their student loans. Luckily, I paid for my J.D. and received it when I was 35 years old.
Wait, something doesn't add up here. 200 million people in flexible employment, which is 1 in 5 workers. China has barely a billion people, how can they have a billion workers?
China’s population is 1.4 billion people
@@Target-zo7fb and they really have a 1 billion people workforce? So one billion people of working age, excluding housewives/husbands, disabled and other common excludes? And 200 million of them basically do unregulated work "on call" like food delivery, streaming etc ? That's crazy!
They have more door dash drivers than my country has people. Hell they have people working in that manner that is the complete working age population of the continent I'm living in. Talk about serious problems.
This video seems to be slightly wrong.
So apparently China has 800 million workers, meaning 1/4 are in "flexible employment" - not 1/5
@@bliantfiveadd to that, over 800 million Chinese pull in poverty-level income (less than $200/month), Xi just changed the definition of "poverty" so he could celebrate "eradicating" it to great fanfare 😂
China supposedly has a population of 1.4 Billion but remember this a statistic from the CCP, so who knows. About as trustworthy as Hamas and their statistics.
The same thing happening in the US soon enough.
And we people, in North Amercia, complain about finding a job.
Every society is different. LAST DAYS PROPHECIES ISRAELITES (SO-CALLED NEGROES SCATTERED EARTH-WIDE (Deu 28:68) AND GENTILE HEATHENS (NON-ISRAELITES):
2 Esdras 15:16-19
[16] For there shall be sedition among men, and invading one another; they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course of their actions shall stand in their power.
[17] A man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.
[18] For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.
[19] A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.
“I have been deeply influenced by the strong tax atmosphere since childhood.”
That’s some scary dystopian verbiage.
The opening frame is London!
Back in the 70s and into the 80s the USA used its large internal market to grow its tech industries (and all its industries over the last 150 years). Can't China do the same?!
I don't think so. Average Chinese are too poor for that.
Nice information
So nice of you
@@ChinaObserver0same, appreciate the work you do.
I must say that on this one, the job market is very tight EVERYWHERE in the world.... Right now, Wellington NZ, is facing the same situation, there have been so many public employees layoffs, tightening up the market. I'm Head of Hiring at a Supermarket, and I get applications from people with Masters and Ph.D. Degrees, with highly and extensive experience, applying for a Checkout Operator position. It's happening everywhere....
The problem is not every country being force to become courier and Streamer, even India with larger population than china isn't this bad in living condition.
Here in the uk, over 100 people can apply for each job. Jobs do not pay enough to live on, so many people have to do more than one job. Our government say people must work. They are not seeing the real situation, or they do, but do not care. With coming changes in the law for unemployment people, Britain will have more people, more families, living on the street, with nothing and starving.
Having just come back from Shanghai you would think all is well judging by how everything is working and functioning. Having met some of the youth I genuinely feel bad for them. As in what will happen to this lost youth who through the inadequacy of their government will pay the price.
Same happens in India.
Yes, but the situation in China 🇨🇳 are more worse 😔 .
This video is missing the third profession…Winnie the Poo wants college graduates to go back working in the farms
I guess only in western countries can a mouse become a dragon.
yes in western countries ,where police are the villians and you need to be afraid to leave your house.
I think the next "business" going to get hit and decline is the lucrative and huge student-loans business which will hit the banks even more as well as the education industry. 🤔
Wait, wasn't this the country that limited families to one child?
3 generations of Corruption
Chinese caste system. Sweet.
No wonder the usa border crossings 😢
Nice video, I like the outdoor clips.
Become a boy band with girls.
BTW it should be men deliver food and women deliver babies.
Same as the west.
India needs to learn from China that relying on Export based Economy can become disastrous in Long Term So self Consumption based Economy is much better
Do princelings own delivery companies? What about streaming services? How much worse will it become until the billion plus population fire's the boss?
It's China. So, traditionally, not until at least 100 million starve to death. But then again, look at Mao, didn't harm his position.
China and chinese receive a lot of hostility online, but i hope chinese people can find a decent life
Basically, a list of excuses to avoid saying you just aren’t hiring. Experienced a form of that myself. ‘06, we can’t hire you because your only 17. ‘07, you’re 18 already and have NO work experience yet? Thankfully I did finally get a summer a job and had other work opportunities in the next few years. I sympathize with those struggling. It’s really hard not to think there’s something wrong with you when no one even wants to interview you and you don’t even know where else you could apply.
That’s guy at 4:00 is masking his image. For safety?!
Those who are overseas: stay overseas and work over there!
Those in China: save up to work overseas!
ridiculous comment
@@Funnydoodoo08 if there are no jobs in China, don’t you have to go overseas to work? Think about all those Filipinos that went out of their country to find work!
How about military service in Chinas Army, Navy or Air Force or Intelligence Agencies?
They get paid like North Koreans...
Three generations of three generations of three generations. Belly up to the bar. Drink deep. There is a silver coin at the bottom of the cup.
2:45 huh, they don’t have technical schools or people just out on their own working on things? If you don’t fall in line, someone is going to snitch on you to raise their social score
why the guy at 4:20 use filter?
Because xi d Pooh focus in naval asset not for the people. Ang many investor leave and transfer to another country because they don't trust china thats why many Chinese has no job
I laughed when I watched the video and the comments, so there really are so many ignorant people out there
All the information in these videos may or may not be true. Where are you getting all this information from.?All these stats are coming from where? I can somewhat believe this is happening.
I would leave.
The solution is to be your own boss, start your own business. Although I am sure that China is already rife with dry cleaners and laundromats.
Yeah, market saturation, the customers can’t afford to buy things from you anyway. Xi jinping just wants these excess people in the cities to go back to farming in the countryside. Of course most of these people, having had a taste of modern life, would rather die than going back to the countryside
I think you know the true market value of the phds if you have to say "even phds remain jobless".
Wtf.. who is qualified? 1:50
And the CCP would like to allocate your job and wage and location. And control your facial recognition software.
3:58 why this video is using filter????
The 1st guy... its not i only in china...
Why don’t Chinese join their armies overseas like in Africa and Southeast Asian instead of staying home…
Not to make light of a serious situation... but that one Gentlemans comment starting at 0:45 provided a bit of a new spin on "spilling the tea":) Sorry, but In this tense and worsening world, I happily seek humor wherever I can find it. I very much like and follow and promote this channel whenever possible.
It’s rather demoralizing for some of these people who probably spend loads of money and time getting a fancy degree from a top university. And expecting a certain expectation of success and quality of life. Because their parents probably had it as well during the boom times. But to be told by the fearless leader that yeah there might not be enough jobs and we need you to go back and be a farmer. There is no way they are going to do that. Especially if they are used to having some luxuries.
“Singles are avoided because they might take marriage leave, and married are avoided because they might take maternity leave”
So basically the labor market is fucked but they still need a way to make it seem like it’s the workers fault for not being hired
I am baffled as to where they can find an employee like that: not single but not married, not young but not old, not a fresh undergraduate but not a PHD holder, and not experienced but not very experienced..
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 it’s called hire their friend and relative.
Sadly this os the case in most of the world though. Just maybe not as bad due tonot as many people. It’s always hard to find a job of you are unskilled and certain industries are always hard to get into. Then you have the issue of generational wealth and nepotism as well.
10k yuan is 1400 usd....
Wow I mean talk about being obsurdly selective for a job, absolutely ridiculous.
Xi was a farmer that became president. He can relate to today’s struggles…. even though he is the one that created these struggles.
The only thing that he cares about is staying in power
Actually that might be the reason that he cannot relate to this, because he had luck to become emperor. He could think that they can try harder
That’s what I always found somewhat odd and hilarious with countries with communist systems. Is the leaders. For instance Venezuela leader maduro, was originally a bus driver. Who basically inherited the country’s el presidente position because Chavez kicked the bucket. Madurro literally has no idea how to run a country but doesn’t have to worry about being replaced because the previous guy changed the their constitution to make him a dictator for life.
It’s almost the same case in theses commie countries where the leader is always some sort person who has no real experience to run a country and comes from the most regular jobs. The leader of Venezuela is like that Maduro was a bus driver. That inherited the job of el presidente. When chavez passed away. But no he changed the rules of term limits and how many times he could run. Now maduro is in charge and has no idea how to handle the country.
Funny, he is a princeling from the CCP.
I see lotsa couriers in the "West"...
Yeah, covid spurred it with people staying home. Technically it spurred globally. But the shit pay for couriers in the west only had illegal immigrants taking the jobs
What the hell are they talking about?
Are they looking job on indonesia since lack of job in China 😅?
Who knows what the reality in CCP China right now.
Gut says it's bad, but not as bad as these videos. BABA eeked out small positive revenue growth. Tencent had a decent quarter although domestic gaming was down.
Small businesses likely taking a harder hit.
ahh Finally people begin to understand the fallacy of meritocracy. Unless some unholy mechanism is created whereby all the children are taken from their families and pitted against each other, the reality is that the offspring of each family will have very different chances of success which are entirely based on their lineage.
GOD will make a way for everyone.
wow, so these toxic CDrama shorts are actually accurate?
How can a country have GDP growth when unemployment rate is so high?
Cuz there are also a lotta rich millionaires and billionaires and businesses that contribute to it. Not to mention the exports. Good economy doesn't actually mean that people are doing well, just shows enough capital with the select few. Same for India, both countries are among top 5 economies, but majority of the population don't get to see the benefits.
Because the GDP calculation is a “state secret” and Chinese data is very low fidelity. They drastically over report to meet goals set by the CCP. You can’t trust any data coming from China.
They cheat the numbers by inflating them with bogus construction projects.
Because Chinese companies are very good at finding ways to reduce headcount through automation and/or other means and still achieve revenue growth.
Just a PhD or degree is not diligant enough. If you pick a STEM or IT subject for your (under/post)-graduate degrees, and are reasonably intelligent, you will have work. Someone picks a BA rather than a BSc, like History or Fine Art, then they can expect little need for their skills. It's a shame that some people don't see the way the world really is.
Internships and networks get you a job. Just because you have a degree doesn't mean that you are entitled to a job.
Culturally, it's really a status symbol in China. It even has implications in your dating life over there too.
@@Joser167 No I hear you but I went to prison as a juvenile after dropping out of school. I came out 9 months later and went to on to get a BSc in Computers. Best thing I ever did. My life is really good now. I feel for people who have bad luck but some people set themselves up to fail.
Also I think you mean "guarantee you a a job" - we are all technically entitled to a job if we want one.
Become rice farmers 🇨🇳
Shocking 😪😪
what's China current population today in 2024?
it can't be still 1B+.