Chinas young people can’t find jobs. Xi Jinping says to “Eat Bitterness.”

[dbc]

You can easily find groups of jobless young people wandering in streets in US. Which is rarely seen in China's cities.

lol sure buddy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/04/ten-million-job-openings-labor-shortage/

 

[Mista]

Ironically, if every Chinese youth 'eat more bitterness' the youth unemployment will probably worsen.

Many Chinese youths are working long hours, some even follow 996 working hours. They may think overworking and 'eating bitterness' will eventually pay off in their career, which may be true to a certain extent, but if the society at large adopts such a mentality then it is basically a race to the bottom. Or what they themselves call 'involution'.

At the end of the day they are just helping capitalists to save on labor costs and deny another person of a job.

I OT 1 hour, you OT 2 hours, I OT 3 hours, you OT 4 hours and so forth. In no time 2 of us will be doing the workload of 3 workers by OT-ing.

If every Chinese youth has the consensus that they will not OT for more than a certain period of time, then the company will be forced to expand hiring. Otherwise capitalists will tell their unobliging workers: "if you do not want to eat bitterness, there are plenty of others out there willing to".

If their government is serious on alleviating their youth unemployment issue, they should be cracking down on illegal working hours and strictly enforce labor rights. Not crap like "Oh, the youth should eat more bitterness" which will not create more good jobs but instead worsen their toxic working culture and create more social issues.

Look at South Korea and how their overly competitive toxic culture is creating social and demographic problems.

 

[CIA Mole]

Ironically, if every Chinese youth 'eat more bitterness' the youth unemployment will probably worsen.

Many Chinese youths are working long hours, some even follow 996 working hours. They may think overworking and 'eating bitterness' will eventually pay off in their career, which may be true to a certain extent, but if the society at large adopts such a mentality then it is basically a race to the bottom. Or what they themselves call 'involution'.

At the end of the day they are just helping capitalists to save on labor costs and deny another person of a job.

I OT 1 hour, you OT 2 hours, I OT 3 hours, you OT 4 hours and so forth. In no time 2 of us will be doing the workload of 3 workers by OT-ing.

If every Chinese youth has the consensus that they will not OT for more than a certain period of time, then the company will be forced to expand hiring. Otherwise capitalists will tell their unobliging workers: "if you do not want to eat bitterness, there are plenty of others out there willing to".

If their government is serious on alleviating their youth unemployment issue, they should be cracking down on illegal working hours and strictly enforce labor rights. Not crap like "Oh, the youth should eat more bitterness" which will not create more good jobs but instead worsen their toxic working culture and create more social issues.

Look at South Korea and how their overly competitive toxic culture is creating social and demographic problems.

it’s impossible to reduce working hours

bureaucrats live off of those extra hours

everyone has to work extra 1 hr a day just to feed xi’s terrorist ambitions

 

[Han Patriot]

lol sure buddy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/04/ten-million-job-openings-labor-shortage/

America actually still has a manufacturing industry?

 

[beijingwalker]

Ironically, if every Chinese youth 'eat more bitterness' the youth unemployment will probably worsen.

You know nothing about China, many factories can't find workers, now almost every young person is a degree holders and tens of millions new college graduates are added to the labor market every year, the old concept that it's a lose of face for a college graduate to work as a factory worker hasn't been expelled by the changing situation and many of those young graduates are from one child families whose parents are financially well enough to provide them a comfortable and reasonal wealthy life, which makes many of them choose to "lying flat", this is why Xi brings back the old slogan " eat more bitterness", a catchy phrase during Mao and Deng's time.

On the other hand, equipment manufacturing saw the largest increase in demand for workers, but little growth in new graduates, the report showed.

Chinese factories have faced worker shortages as young people choose to pursue other fields. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/23/gol...match-drove-up-chinas-youth-unemployment.html

 

[Han Patriot]

You know nothing about China, many factories can't find workers, now almost every young person is a degree holders and tens of millions new college graduates are added to the labor market every year, the old concept that it's a lose of face for a college graduate to work as a factory worker hasn't been expelled by the changing situation and many of those young graduates are from one child families whose parents are financially well enough to provide them a comfortable and reasonal wealthy life, which makes many of them choose to "lying flat", this is why Xi brings back the old slogan " eat more bitterness", a catchy phrase during Mao and Deng's time.

Same problem with my Yard, 10 positions for welding paying relatively well, these kids are starting to be like the Americans, all wants to be baristas and influencers.

 

[dbc]

America actually still has a manufacturing industry?

It's easy to find out, why don't you take a stroll in one of your Chinese FABS. Take an inventory of the machinery installed and country of origin and report back.

 

[beijingwalker]

It's easy to find out, why don't you take a stroll in one of your Chinese FABS. Take an inventory of the machinery installed and country of origin and report back.

 

[dbc]

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and what does this prove? Sure the US imports toasters from China and you may even see Made in China toasters in US Fabs.

 

[S10]

Ironically, the more "bitterness" young people eat, the more bitter it becomes for them.

If a company can squeeze 1 employee with 996 schedule (9AM to 9PM, 6 days a week) to do the normal workload of 2 employees, why would they hire more? This is directly contributing to unemployment and low birth rate.

China should be moving to a 5 days, 35 hour work week or 4 days, 36 hours work week. To compensate for potential loss in productivity, heavily utilize AI and robotics.

 

[DabbuSardar]

Well this would be even more painful due to chinas too soen population pyramid, they need more younger people to work more hours to support the aged population, whoever is left willing to work will have to make up for the usless chinese youth as well as support them as well on welfare.

Well that is the gift of the one child policy by chinese, karma is just getting back at CCP for the millions of chinese babies they have killed.

 

[beijingwalker]

Well this would be even more painful due to chinas too soen population pyramid, they need more younger people to work more hours to support the aged population, whoever is left willing to work will have to make up for the usless chinese youth as well as support them as well on welfare.

Well that is the gift of the one child policy by chinese, karma is just getting back at CCP for the millions of chinese babies they have killed.

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[DabbuSardar]

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Chinese need to learn their history, why is it you got old before getting rich, need to ask government hard questions why their youth are not happy how they are running the country and asking youth to eat bitter.

 

[beijingwalker]

need to ask government hard questions why their youth are not happy how they are running the country and asking youth to eat bitter.

Who told you that? Chinese young are actually pretty content with their lives, actually this is indeed a problem, they are less motivated by wealth than the generation before them, You Indian young are so happy with Indian government?

 

[REhorror]

20% youth unemployment is too high.
Can any chinese members confirm this?