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.
this is gonna start sliding into shitposting territory but goddamn there are two strains of yuppie that are infuriating. Those who are contrarian about the latest fad in their city (in this case its a deluge of rock climbing gyms) and those who 'don't want to talk about work'