Sure. Particularly common in the year after graduating high school or college. Or during recessions, when new hires are in short supply. Any period in which you're just kinda in limbo, because there's no straight line from what you were doing yesterday to what you're expected to be doing tomorrow.
The Chinese economy went into a slowdown in 2015 (about in line with the rest of the world economy), so I suspect you had a bunch of people caught in that limbo that absolutely were checked out. The first wave of COVID in late 2019 / early 2020 was, similarly, a real fuck to live through.
But the headlines love to make a spectacle of the moment when what they're describing is a broad trend.
Yeah, that. Found the name of what I was talking about, "lying flat": https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3153362/what-lying-flat-and-why-are-chinese-officials-standing-it
Do people lie flat in the United States and elsewhere?
At John F. Kennedy’s presidential inauguration in 1961, he inspired Americans to see the importance of civic action and public service.
The JFK Library says his historic words, “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country”, challenged everyone to contribute in some way to the public good.
This call came after the so-called Beat Generation movement prompted people – dubbed beatniks – to rebel against conformity and traditional lifestyles in the 1950s. “Beat” was initially slang for “beaten down”.
Wasnt this a thing in China a few years back?
Yeah I kinda remember reading about it within the past two years.
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Its a thing everywhere, always. Depression real af.
Nah but like, a social movement/trend. Whole lot of young folks just quit everything.
Sure. Particularly common in the year after graduating high school or college. Or during recessions, when new hires are in short supply. Any period in which you're just kinda in limbo, because there's no straight line from what you were doing yesterday to what you're expected to be doing tomorrow.
The Chinese economy went into a slowdown in 2015 (about in line with the rest of the world economy), so I suspect you had a bunch of people caught in that limbo that absolutely were checked out. The first wave of COVID in late 2019 / early 2020 was, similarly, a real fuck to live through.
But the headlines love to make a spectacle of the moment when what they're describing is a broad trend.
Yeah, that. Found the name of what I was talking about, "lying flat": https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3153362/what-lying-flat-and-why-are-chinese-officials-standing-it
Jesus Christ, what kind of liberalism is this?
SCMP gets the wall.