• rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Her current priority, after all, is to get a breather from the 16-hour days in her previous job. “I lived like a walking corpse,” she said.

    And I’m sitting here 9 hours a day and get exhausted. Fucking 5 star nightmare.

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    Young Chinese, who had always been told that the hard work they put in studying and chasing degrees would pay off, are now feeling defeated and trapped.

    Crazy how we aren’t so different here in the US.

  • Bakachu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Christ this is depressing. Isn’t China facing some kind of imminent population crisis? This isn’t encouraging for that.