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Used as an example of people giving up when capital concentration makes advancement feel impossible.
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lying flat
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Glossary
A Chinese term Jiang pairs with quiet quitting: refusal to work hard inside a bureaucracy that makes effort pointless.
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Glossary
Youth opting out of work and ambition because China’s rigged utilitarian system gives them no path to get ahead.
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Jiang distinguishes altruistic creativity from utilitarian money obsession: altruistic people tend to be creative, money-obsessed people work harder, and global capitalism accelerates until many people give up.
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Over-bureaucratization produces quiet quitting and lying flat because workers feel alienated, powerless, overworked, and machine-like inside organizations.
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Status positions require turnover; when people at the top do not fall off the mountaintop, young people become angry, unmotivated, and socially withdrawn.
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He says party elders’ fear of capitalist spiritual pollution proved correct because market reform produced utilitarianism, corruption, inequality, debt, and youth apathy.
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Jiang says Chinese youth can often survive lying flat by relying on retired parents’ pensions, high household savings, and extreme frugality.
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"And you kind of talk about the tank ping movement, right? The line flat, I think they call it, where young kids are kind..."
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"So in the 1980s, China was embarking on economic reform. And there was a real concern among party elders, like people who went through..."
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"If you started, you lose all of your money because it's a rigged game. And that's why people are opting out. And because of..."
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"A very common practice is for young people to go work as nurses or maids for their retired parents. Their parents collect a very..."
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"Massive inequality. So, the only result of capitalism is one, massive inequality, corruption, immorality, okay? And alienation, anger, indifference. And this is the world..."
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"But people who are obsessed with money tend to work harder than other people, okay? That's why globalization happens so fast, because everyone's in..."
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"...China, it's called or. Okay? People don't want to work anymore. Lying flat, let it rot. People don't want to work anymore. Why? Because..."
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"How this game works is people on the mountaintop have to fall off and die in order for other people to climb up. Does..."
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"...So what are young people doing? Tengping, Bailan, right? Quiet quitting. Lying flat. Because you don't see any opportunities. What you want is not..."
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"...America, there's something called quiet quitting. In China, there's something called lying flat, tongue -ping. Okay? And the third is the idea of financialization,..."
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