“What’s the point of limiting traffic by license plate number? [A policy in Beijing where on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, you can only drive your car if your license plate ends in an odd number. And even numbers go out on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.] Why not limit traffic by gender?
Men go out Monday, Wednesday, Friday, women go out Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
1.3 billion people, 600 million get to come out every day, and 600 million get to stay at home.
All traffic will be gone. Our skies will go back to being blue.
Husbands can rest easy when their wife goes out. Wives can rest easy when their husbands go out.
Even the government can rest easy, because even rapists won’t have any targets. And you don’t have to worry about layoffs. And you don’t have to build two sets of bathrooms.”
Comments say, “You’re a goddamn genius. What a great way to work! I don’t have to ever share an office with my male boss. I hope he dies from smoking one day. Gross.”
“Why would husbands rest easy when their wives go out? She can just head over to her other husband’s house, and her own husband and the other side’s wife will never find out.”
“Both men and women make up a society’s labour force. You can’t do without either one. I don’t get why I keep happening upon weibo posts like this that try to set people against each other.”
“The Fat Cat case has spread overseas. He’s appeared on the Time Square big screen. There’s Vietnamese people leaving takeout and flowers for him next to the Xihu Lake.”
“Help! Fat Cat’s case has made it to Indonesia! Just saw my Bali taxi driver post an RIP for him! I’m shocked! The last time I saw a social media post from him not related to work was for the Queen’s passing!”
Comments say, “What the fuck, people.”
“If you’re really bored, you can go join him.”
“Do these people not have anything to do all day? Why are they so obsessed about random bullshit?”
A video of a girl who accidentally kicks herself in the nose with the heel of her foot. “The doctor be like, “Sorry, what did you just say?””
Comments say, “This is even more ridiculous than burning the back of your head with your pancake.”
“What a niche way to get hurt.”
“Doctor: So, you’re telling me that you kicked out your own teeth?”
“A lot of Vietnamese netizens are commemorating Fat Cat. This case is getting way more attention than I ever imagined.
A lot of people seem to see themselves in Fat Cat’s case.
Normal human beings (both men and women) have discovered that a top-level player in a game, an Honour of Kings player with countless fans, who makes 510K in two years, still needs to kiss up to his girlfriend. And he still didn’t get a happy ending. A lot of people have been reminded of their own experience and redoubled their belief that “no one should kiss up to anybody.”
And small town exam takers [a derogatory name for young people with no family background, no money, no connections, and are only good at standardised tests] suddenly discovered that their exam-taking mindset isn’t useful at all. It looks like if you put in work, you’ll get results, but they’ve spent all their time on taking exams. They don’t know how to do anything else, like date, read other people, build connections, etc. And they end up screwed.
And people with money found out that money can’t buy love. The other party might just be using you as an ATM.
How tragic~”
Comments say, “There was a gender swapped version of the same story in Qinghua or Beijing University, a guy PUA’d a girl, and she ended up jumping off a building.”
“You gotta love yourself before you love other people. Relationships involve two people. There’s no point if you’re the only one putting anything in. And there’s no point to a relationship if you can’t get the other person’s love.”
“Vietnamese influencers are just trying to get in on the quick cash. Gold diggers all around the world are gunning for us now that we proved how easy it is to get cash out of us.”
“How much money do you need to lay flat somewhere?
I just saw a report about Bali, how it’s one of the most popular destinations in Asia. It’s also got a rather weird title, “World Renowned Habitat for Electronic Nomads.”
Sounds like a creative, interesting name, right? But in reality, it’s just a paradise for slackers trying to lay flat, because it’s super cheap.
My friend was asking me today how much money his house sold for. He’s invested in some of my projects too, and gets dividends every year. He wanted to know how much money he needed to lay flat in Bali. I said I’ll run some numbers for him.
I can find him a 300 square metre piece of land for about 2 million, and he can build his own house on it. So long as he doesn’t built it too high, he can do whatever he wants with that house. If I build it for him, it would probably cost about 1 million, all furnishings included. I don’t recommend a swimming pool. If you want a bigger house, then we’ll go with a bigger budget of 1.5 million. That’s a total of 3-3.5 million. If you don’t buy and just rent, it’s about 600K for 60 years, or 1.6-2.1 million.
As for living expenses, if you want to live comfortably, you’re looking at about 10K a month. This is a list of my living expenses:
Phone bill: 100.
Water + electricity: 400.
Gas: 500.
Cooking at home: 3000.
Exercise, like skating: 1000 (drinks included).
Internet bill: 300.
Alcohol: 2000.
Plus some other expenses here and there, like yoga classes, private coach, 150 per session. Plus a maid for 1500.
If you’re laying flat, I don’t recommend a maid. You can do everything by yourself.
You can be super comfortable on just 100K a year.
This is why this shithole has such low numbers. For Chinese people, guaranteeing online income isn’t all that easy, but for people from developed countries, they can easily get there.
And my friend told me that his house can sell for 12 million. He can spend 3 million on buying his own house, and lay flat on the interest of 9 million in the bank.”
Comments say, “Wow! Are private coaches really that cheap? In Nanjing, they’re 360 per session. Even if you haggle, it’s still 320.”
“Plane tickets and hotel costs in China are way too ridiculous. You can go overseas for the same money, and everything’s much higher quality.”
“Lol, how come the maids are only getting paid 1500 a month?”
“Saw someone comment on Zhang Xuefeng [influencer well known for helping high school graduates pick their college majors and giving career advice], saying that the more of Zhang Xuefeng’s content you watch, the more you despair about society, the more you feel social mobility’s completely gone, you don’t have any chances at all. He’s constantly talking about how this field and that field are monopolised by a few families, without connections, you won’t get anywhere.
This comment is right, but it’s also not entirely right.
You don’t need Zhang Xuefeng to point it out. 20-30 years ago, society was already this way. Tobacco and alcohol, energy, government-owned, these are all monopolised by a few families, passing down the people’s mutual resources like their own private family business.
If your family has any ears to the ground at all, you’d know. For example, my sister signed me up for the exam to get into a certain Bureau in our city. I told her that I was going to work hard and make something of myself. And my mom is like, “Well, I’m not gonna rain on your parade. Just try it out first.” And of course, I didn’t get in. Then my mom told me that these spots are already pre-reserved, that my sister was a dumbass for wasting my time and energy. I asked her why she didn’t tell me beforehand, and she said, “You wouldn’t believe me without any proof. I’ve got to let you experience it yourself, feel society’s cruelty. That’s how you gain experience.”
But my best friend easily got into that bureau and makes hundreds of thousands every year now, and he has almost the same grades as me, and isn’t nearly as capable as me. But his dad is in a much better department than my dad, and has a better rank.
So people’s fates are very different.
This is all mainstream knowledge in society for the past couple of decades. It’s just that a lot of people don’t understand if they haven’t entered this system. Even though the internet’s been around since 2005, we only had 300 million netizens. And out of these 300 million netizens, at most, 10% of people would look this kind of information up? We didn’t have Zhang Xuefeng spoonfeeding you all the answers to your questions like now. Now, we have 1.1 billion netizens. That is, before, maybe 30 million people knew, and now 1.1 billion people know.
So really, this information is just getting exposed now. Plus all the hullabaloo about Zhou Jie or Catfish [trust fund brats from government official families who bragged on the internet about how wealthy their family was], even the dumbest of uni students know by how.
But the problem is, even if we had a total reform, this stuff would still have nothing to do with ordinary people.
Even if we completely tore apart the current oligarchic families, and started strictly hiring people based on merit, and everything looks good.
Famous American Ethics professor Michael Sandel has said, “The characteristics of a “just” society is that incompetent people in upper levels of society will automatically slide down, and competent people in lower levels of society will automatically rise up.”
A society is only “just” if it has this mobility.
But the problem is, how do we decide who is “competent” and “incompetent”?
Through diplomas, unquestionably.
But can diplomas really separate the competent from the incompetent?
The top scorer in the college entrance exam in Beijing has said one year that he got the top score to get into Qinghua not because of his talent or his IQ, but because of his family background. He had great role models growing up, his parents led by example, he had the best educational resources, the best teachers, and his attitude was very relaxed and chilled. He wasn’t scared to face the college entrance exam at all.
But if you were born in a small town, with parents who had no concept of nutrition at all, living in a shitty environment, with teachers who’ve never went to Qinghua themselves, how can you get into Qinghua? They’ll only scare you by telling that your life is ruined if you don’t go to university. If you’re scared shitless, how can you get a good score?
Most people are born with the exact same IQ. Whether you make it into university is just a matter of how you were raised. So what can diplomas even tell us?
Top 985 Universities in China have a 0.5% admittance rate. Less than 5 people in a thousand make it in.
Even if we reformed all of these monopolised companies, they’d only be hiring from top universities. They would never look at unknown universities.
If you’re not one of that 5 in 1000, then what?
Or worse, even if you’re that 5 in 1000, you still can’t get in, because there’s just not enough spots for all of you.
What can you do?
Before or after the reform, your life hasn’t really changed. You’re still the same.
In other words to say, working for a government-funded business, having a stable life, that’s not a choice available to the average person.
It’s much more realistic to look to other fields for a way out.”
Comments say, “But the civil servant exam is already plenty fair enough. Even if there are pre-reserved spots, they still need to get through the written exam and the interview. If they fail, there’s nothing anyone can do. Government-funded corporations’ exams have more wiggle room, especially the ones that are hiring out of season.”
“The reason Zhang Xuefeng gets so many trolls is because he slapped the bottom class awake. It’s made a lot of people realise that people aren’t as easy to PUA nowadays. And a lot of people feel like their dreams were crushed. Of course, a lot of people also see the world much more clearly now.”
“It used to be literally written in law that you could pass on your jobs in a government-funded corporation to your children. Now, people from outside can finally make it in through an exam.”
trivial thing, but I think it's "hullabaloo" not "hubbabaloo"?