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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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Quiet Quitting
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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"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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"So in America, this is called quite quitting. In China, it's called or. Okay? People don't want to work anymore. Lying flat, let it..."
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"...happening in the world today, where in America, there's something called quiet quitting. In China, there's something called lying flat, tongue -ping. Okay? And..."
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"...not dying. So what are young people doing? Tengping, Bailan, right? Quiet quitting. Lying flat. Because you don't see any opportunities. What you want..."
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A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
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