Once again r/China proving that its full of weird expats who actively despise living in China but can't go back becuase they have even fewer prospects at home.
Like its so funny that OP is complaining about Chinese people having no ambition when most expats have make-work jobs at Chinese companies, like their only purpose is to be a white face at business meetings.
Bullshit Jobs by Graeber covers this. It's a type of nonsense job categorized as the Flunky. It exists only to increase the status of the employer, a way to show power and wealth like having dozens more servants than you needed in Victorian England.
Pretty much, its to make your company or even department seem important becuase you have international connections, as represented by this random white guy. Part of that is also having someone who can speak perfect English, so you just get some loser from the Mid-West whose only skill is having been born speaking English and have him wander around like a mascot.
Also for joint enterprises between Chinese companies and Western companies, Chinese companies liked to have a good fraction of their liason teams be Westerners to help facilitate communication and generally to put the team from the Western company at ease (read to calm down the racist French guy across the table becuase half our team are also French dudes).
Yeah a lot of expats are English teachers, but I think that's been on the decline since there are more and more qualified Chinese people that can teach English. Like the first wave of expats in the 2000s were all there to teach English, and to be fair to them, got pretty exploited since there is basically no room for advancement and it's extremely difficult to get Chinese citizenship.
Once again r/China proving that its full of weird expats who actively despise living in China but can't go back becuase they have even fewer prospects at home.
Like its so funny that OP is complaining about Chinese people having no ambition when most expats have make-work jobs at Chinese companies, like their only purpose is to be a white face at business meetings.
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Capitalism runs on Waaaggh logic
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Bullshit Jobs by Graeber covers this. It's a type of nonsense job categorized as the Flunky. It exists only to increase the status of the employer, a way to show power and wealth like having dozens more servants than you needed in Victorian England.
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Pretty much, its to make your company or even department seem important becuase you have international connections, as represented by this random white guy. Part of that is also having someone who can speak perfect English, so you just get some loser from the Mid-West whose only skill is having been born speaking English and have him wander around like a mascot.
Also for joint enterprises between Chinese companies and Western companies, Chinese companies liked to have a good fraction of their liason teams be Westerners to help facilitate communication and generally to put the team from the Western company at ease (read to calm down the racist French guy across the table becuase half our team are also French dudes).
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Can confirm. To be fair the APAC account managers I've worked with are pretty damned competent.
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the use is on decline and it's that precarity that most drives the reactionary mindset
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Yeah a lot of expats are English teachers, but I think that's been on the decline since there are more and more qualified Chinese people that can teach English. Like the first wave of expats in the 2000s were all there to teach English, and to be fair to them, got pretty exploited since there is basically no room for advancement and it's extremely difficult to get Chinese citizenship.
Ambition is stupid and usually leads to bad stuff. My ambition goes as far as not being in constant financial struggle
My ambition is building communism, so pretty much the same.
in an ideal world, these people would be fertilizing plants
Huh, the deposed monarchs of Russia and China both wound up fertilizing plants if you think about it
my mistake: in an ideal world these guys would be fertilizing plants yesterday