This article looks like a goldmine, but I don't have time to read it all and won't be interested in doing that once I have the time. Here's my favorite paragraph of the part I read:
Today the party’s propaganda machine is spinning stories about young people making a decent living by delivering meals, recycling garbage, setting up food stalls, and fishing and farming. It’s a form of official gaslighting, trying to deflect accountability from the government for its economy-crushing policies like cracking down on the private sector, imposing unnecessarily harsh Covid restrictions and isolating China’s trading partners.
My job is like 70% manual labor and 30% programming, so I interact with a lot of middle manager types and IT people types who absolutely look down on me because I get my hands dirty. I like what I do, but it’s insane the attitudes people get when they realize the person they’re talking to is not a “businessperson” or “white collar,” especially so when I know I make more money than some of them. Had to explain basic networking principles to this one guy and he looked me straight in the eyes and said, “I didn’t think you were smart enough to know that.”
wait what the fuck do you do
Could be robotics
i just laughed. he was a dumbass so i didnt really care
no no I mean what's your job? I'm a programmer and want to do something real that also pays like programming
i'll dm you