China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’

Demoralized young Chinese are looking for pathways out of the carefully scripted lives their elders want for them

Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family

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Great phrase, much more impact than quiet quit. I have plenty of sympathy for them, though that dipped substantially when one of the people they profiled became a "certified life coach" oh my god.
- Quiet quit was always the establishment's phrase anyway.
  
  They made it up to spread a manufactured panic about people rationally refusing to do more than their contracts say for no more than their contract pay.

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