China steps in to regulate brutal '996' work culture
"996 work culture" - where people work 9am to 9pm, six days a week.
China's authorities have issued a stern reminder to companies that such punishing work schedules are in fact, illegal.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58381538
"tang ping" movement - literally meaning to "lie flat"
#Involution #LetItRot #996

i knew this reminded me of something, and it was "Let the Crops Rot in the Field" by the Free Alabama Movement from 2016:

https://incarceratedworkers.org/news/let-crops-rot-field

#LetItRot

"WE MUST LET THE CROPS ROT IN THE FIELD IF WE AREN’T RECEIVING BENEFIT OF THE HARVEST

LET THE CROPS ROT IN THE FIELD is a proven strategy that was passed down to us from our Ancestors from the slave plantations that was used to disrupt the economics of the field. The harvest of the planter season was reaped when the crops were picked from the field and sold on the open market. When the slave master had invested all that he owned into his next crop (prison factories), the slaves would wait until just before the harvest and rebel against the slave system by ‘going on strike’ and causing the crops to rot in the field. This tactic would completely ruin the slave master’s investment.

While these crops were rotting in the field, the slave master would come down from the big house, make nice and beg the slaves to go back to work."

@Grantscheam Kein wunder also dass viele [Post-]Millenials von #LieFlat zu #LetItRot umgestiegen sind...

Die Chinesische Jugend gibt aus Protest auf: Bai Lan, Let It Rot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44sPKCF9ycM

Tja, ein guter Teil der Jugend hat auch Hierzulande aus Perspektivlosigkeit aufgegeben, bei uns wird das nur nicht so richtig thematisiert.

#BaiLan #LetItRot #perspektivlosigkeit

#BaiLan #LetItRot
Gooooooooo Chinese yutes, gooooooo
seal of heaven is A LIE

https://youtu.be/44sPKCF9ycM

Reading up on this whole Bai Lan movement in China is pretty interesting. It's basically people giving up on the system because it's so stacked against them that there's no point in trying.

I guess there's people in the West that think similarly, but I don't reckon it's been quite as thoroughly enshrined in thinking as it has been with young people in China.

Maybe the best way to bring a system down is to not participate.

#bailan #letitrot #tangping #lyingflat

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/the-rise-of-bai-lan-why-chinas-frustrated-youth-are-ready-to-let-it-rot

Indeed, Bai Lan may be the world's last real hope for freedom from fascism, authoritarianism, corruption, and government malfeasance.
It is better than voting "none of the above."
#LetItRot #BaiLan
https://youtu.be/wgl-45gmoDE

let's fucking goooooooooooooooo

https://radiichina.com/let-it-rot/

#摆烂 #LetItRot

“‘Lying flat’ equates to spending little effort and adopting a laid-back attitude, whereas ‘let it rot’ means not caring whatsoever, seeing as there is nothing to be done.”