I like how we have reached a world economic stage where we have way more people than jobs available and the proposed solution of multiple governments is to increase unplanned pregnancies.
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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Yeah, I graduated in 2008 with an honours degree in biochem. Couldn't find a job in my field and eventually not even Taco Bell would hire me.
Ended up selling my body instead.
How is life without a body these days? I hear it can be a little impersonal.
Well, health insurance is no longer a concern.
Same old anti-China shit, the western world is desperate to direct attention away from our own failures
...scrape by on minimal consumption. It’s a dark, sobering self-portrait of a generation...
Consumption != Happiness
The author channels a viewpoint of the government...if people can be happy and fulfilled without contributing to GDP, that's "dark, sobering." It's bad news for government planning but not necessarily bad for the people.
if people can be happy and fulfilled
Except a lot of them aren't happy and fulfilled, they're opting out for the same reasons young people in the US are:
they can’t afford homes, can’t find decent jobs, and don’t see a future worth bringing children into.
That's not "happy and fulfilled outside the rat race", especially since their solution is closer to hikikomoris. They're not out there building self-sufficient communes.
If they need social systems to support them, I am all for that (its good regardless, and I'm not in China so I have very little voice for them/understanding of what is available)
But the article just presents the authors editorialized view, which is from a government planning perspective, not from the perspective of what is good for these young people (or what they think would benefit them). So I take with a grain of salt the authors judgement of their choices, satisfaction, or opinion of what is "right" for them.