My steak is too juicy and lobster too buttery 
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The Economist is the most desperate China obsessed Westoid publication there is. They have unhinged articles like this every other week. Lenin was all too right about these clowns.
NGL, it’s kinda funny seeing them twist themselves on how good things are bad things.
China could be a utopia and the anglosphere can collectively run itself back into the stone age, and the Economist will be bragging about how decadent utopia China is, and how the stone age toughens them up.
Mr Ruan, a former construction engineer, estimates that a third of homes built in recent years are empty. There was no more work for him in his chosen profession, so he moved to a textile firm. He is stung by the fall in property prices—about 25% in his area. “You feel poorer, you don’t want to spend,” he says. His expectations for the future are more modest. “We just want stability,” he says.
Oh no, we made a surplus of housing to fulfill the needs of everyone and then some and the housing "market" now favors the proletariat! Won't somebody think of the poor real estate "industry"?
I spent all this money on the biggest TV I could afford, because it was supposed to be a good investment, but since then TVs have only gotten cheaper! What the hell?! Now all I'm left with is this useless TV I bought at market rate, used for many years, and intend to keep using!
All those years I spent at the TV factory, where I personally made the TVs cheaper and better, and for a good income, and this is what I have to show for it?!
shit that tv is probably better than the new ones with all the dogshit "smart" features
“You don’t understand, I FEEL poorer!”
Absolute babies.
I volunteer to do a science. Set me up with this scenario, and I will regularly report on how miserable I am.
Same. After all, can’t have too small of a sample size!
most livable? that's digusting, where?
Chongqing or Chengdu I'm guessing
Edit: it's Shaoxing, apparently
Wine sipping while lying flat.
Leisure? More like Lie-sure, amiright?! OK, now go earn the rent you owe me while I tweet for the next 11 hrs.
They're 100% correct though; a low income, high pressure life is where it's at baybeeeee
Living life like we're a few years away from a mad max future
When in reality it's much closer?
Surely they can't build those environment destroying data centers THAT fast, right?
Do they even read the things that they write? Does anyone? How long can they sustain this?
They write fan fiction for 
. The copium must flow lest they admit their model failed.
What are we, a bunch of Asians?!
Brb gotta give away all my shit and get stressed out so I don't become Chinese
If you're too comfortable, you turn Chinese. If you're too lovesick, you turn Japanese [cw bizarre orientalist racism]. Are there any other ethnic metamorphosis requirements that I should know about?
Forgive me for my redditism but…happy cake day!
You are forgiven, and thank you 
We gotta change that cake to a bear or something
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I mean, I'd probably be raging at this sort of thing if this was posted about a bunch of rich fuckers in the west. Though I'm guessing this isn't an article that actually talks about how hard it is to be a parasite, but rather an article that talks about how "oppressed" people are in China because...they aren't allowed to complain about how good everything is, or how the government "forces" them to not be a rich dipshit showing off their wealth or something.
Here's an archive link to the article: https://archive.is/nw44O
Incomes in Shaoxing are up there with nearby Hangzhou and Shanghai, but cost of housing is very low because the city has expanded a lot. Economic opportunity is high but it also makes it easy for "domestic migrants" from other workers to settle there and send their kids to school in Shaoxing (ie. less stringent hukou).
It has many historic neighbourhoods but is also improving the urban design of its new ones, there are canals everywhere.
Chen Niuqun, a Fujianese salesman, has lived in Germany, so has some basis for comparison when he declares his preference for Shaoxing. “In Europe at 6pm the streets are empty. Here it is just the beginning,” he says. And business culture is more relaxed than in many Chinese cities: he works an eight-hour day and takes his daughter to school in the mornings.
"But at what cost?" They say that it isn't insulated from nationwide issues around housing oversupply (according to them) and academic/economic competition stressing people out. But they also call shaoxing boring and micromanaged, using phrases like "careful pruning of daily existence" and "the controlled narrowness of urban China" that's "dictated by ageing cadres who leave little to chance". Of course it also mentions "mass surveillance". Reminds me a lot of certain perceptions of Singapore.
“It’s just boring,” mutters a young woman with a pierced lip.
That scene from Monty Python with the Spanish Inquisition 'torturing' people with comfy chairs and cushions
