12/10/23 - As for smaller cities below that, it’s all up to how good the local statistics bureau is.
“Ahhhh how do I choose? Just graduated from Beijing University this year. I’m from Hunan. Right now, I’ve got four job offers.
Huawei, 19,000 a month, 3 months’ salary as yearly bonus every year.
National Power Grid, 7000 a month (plus commission), with a cafeteria and dorms
Alibaba, 22,000 a month, 4 months’ salary as yearly bonus, with stock options
Civil servant, tenured position, 4800 a month, all the benefits, with a cafeteria.”
Comments say, “Power grid for sure. Your diploma isn’t gonna be much of an advantage in Huawei or Ali, but you’ve got a future in the power company. If you make it to federal, you’ll make more money than right now.”
“What’s there to be so torn up about? You can come over to our company, 4K a month. You’ll be the only Beijing University graduate here, so you can probably make it manager real soon and start making 4500 a month [doge] [doge] [doge]”
“Who the fuck am I to offer career advice to Bejing University students?”
“If it’s me, I’d pick the power grid, and lay flat and go into early retirement mode. Put my time towards doing what I like.”
A tiktok video where parents push on a kiddo’s face to help her learn how to eat from skewers, to the point where every time she eats meat now, she does the motion herself:
Comments say, “You’re giving such a small baby barbecue!? I’m not saying that meat is bad, but it’s not healthy for sure! And look at how big that chunk is!”
“Forget whether it’s healthy or not, is it even safe? Can’t you pull it off with chopsticks and feed it to her? >: (“
“Hahahahaha I’m gonna give my kid skewers the same way.”
“Back in the day, a seven-year-old kid can start herding cows on their own. And if you can herd a cow, you’re a part of the workforce for sure. The barrier to entry is super low.
Now, you could be a college graduate and still never find a job. The job market’s barrier to entry is way too high, and honestly, even the barrier to entry to further training is way too high.
Girls might do okay, but if you have a boy, then from the moment he’s born, he’s carrying millions of RMB of debt on him.
It’s pretty uncertain whether he’s gonna have a future at all.
Before, I thought we could copy what Israel did on encouraging birth rate, but after discussion with a friend of mine, I feel like there’s a lot of hidden tarps in there too. Although it can pull birth rate above 3 in a very short period of time, but forcefully splitting society and education and taxes into Haredit and not seems unfair and inhumane. Plus, society will become very right-wing. There’s a lot of downsides.”
Comments say, “Is it possible that people are just living way too nice compared to the 60s and 60s? We’ve got a saying, that, “When one is warm and full, one thinks of sex.” instead of thinking of work. Our fathers made 30-40 bucks a month and took care of 4-5 kids and were still happy every day. Nowadays, people think a couple hundred thousand is just spare chance, and a million RMB house is a shithole, and they complain all day that life is too hard. It’s just because everyone’s got bottomless desire now.”
“Can’t help it, men are all simps these days. They’ll even simp for people they’ve never even met online.”
“Don’t worry about it. Once we have a population collapse severe enough that there’s no coming back, we’ll be putting degenerate amounts of effort into overcorrecting it. China’s always either been extreme left or extreme right.”
“My boyfriend won’t take me to the hospital because of work. I’m at 39.2C. Can people give me some advice? Should I break up?
My boyfriend sells fringes? [not sure what the name for this is, the decorate edges on clothing and stuff] and he wants to pick up a second job doing clothing QA, and this afternoon, he’s supposed to perform QA for a client. He’d just started, and this has nothing to do with his main job. His work is just 2km from our house, and the hospital is also only 2km away, and he won’t take me, and even refused to pick up my calls.
I went by myself in the end, and I didn’t answer him when he asked me if I’d made it to the hospital yet. I’ve been having a fever for three days now, and taking ibuprofen at home isn’t doing anything, and he never suggested I go to the hospital. I thought I’d recover on my own, since a hospital is so expensive, but I couldn’t take it anymore and had to go anyways.
I feel like he doesn’t like me anymore. Doesn’t care about me. Otherwise, why wouldn’t he go to the hospital with me? We’ve been together for three years. And his attitude is horrible.”
OP attaches screenshots of texts with her boyfriend:
OP: “Could you come home now and take me to the hospital? I’m at 39.2. I can’t take it anymore.”
Boyfriend: “But I’m eating.”
OP: “I can’t even walk.”
Boyfriend: “What the hell did you do this morning? Why are you burning up again?”
OP: “I didn’t do anything, just had some porridge. Didn’t even touch water.”
Boyfriend: “Just get a cab or something so you don’t see any wind.”
OP: “I’ll wait ’til you’re done eating. I’m gonna have to get blood draws and stuff, and go up and down the stairs to get medicine. I don’t feel well. I can’t even stand up. Can’t you go with me?”
Boyfriend: “But I’ve got work.”
OP: “So work is more important than me? You can deliver your goods any time. You can show up late and your clients are gonna mind. I’m over 39 degrees, I feel bad, and I need you. Can’t you come back?”
Boyfriend: “No.”
OP: “Why not? Do you not care about me? Are you not worried?”
Boyfriend: “Can you not go to the hospital without me? If you’ve got the energy to argue with me, you should just go straight to the hospital. You’ve just got a fever. You don’t have to do anything other than a blood draw.”
OP: “Why can’t you go with me? What do you have going on in the afternoon? If you’re just seeing clients, can’t you move it to tomorrow? Am I more important or is your work more important? I really don’t feel well. Aren’t you worried that I’ll pass out? I can’t even walk right now.”
Boyfriend: “You seem to be typing just fine.”
OP: “I’m doing speech to text. I’m not typing.”
Boyfriend: “And your thoughts are all in order.”
OP: “Why can’t you go with me this afternoon? What plans do you have? Explain yourself to me.”
Boyfriend: “I’ve gotta go. Bye.”
Comments say, “You guys just aren’t on the same channel. You’re still in an otome mindset, and he wants to have a grown up relationship. At your age, there’s nothing wrong with your mindset, but you’ll understand once you’re older. Another word of advice, stop watching so many shitty TV shows and rest more. Your body is the most important asset you have.”
“This comment section is super scary. Do people not know what love is? What’s wrong with wanting your partner to go with you to the hospital when you have a 39.2C fever? At 39.2C, even your mom would take off of work to go with you, why can’t your boyfriend do the same? If he can’t do it, why can’t you find a better boyfriend? What does it matter what you would’ve done before you got a boyfriend? Now you do have a boyfriend. If it’s the same either way, why bother having a boyfriend?”
“Were you born with a boyfriend? Have you never had a fever while single? If you had a fever while single, did you take yourself to the hospital or did you just give up and accept death in your house? What, did dating turn you into a cripple?”
A tiktok video of a girl going to makeup school in Hollywood, getting foundation put on her by a western classmate. The blogger posting this video says, “White people: trying to paint all Asians as yellow-black-skinned.”
She starts by showing the foundation she picked out for her classmate. Then, shows the classmate squeezing out the second darkest foundation they’ve got, and mixing a round thing of shiny yellow powder into it? And he picked out a barbie pink lipstick that makes her look even darker. She ends by saying, “The only difference between Asian girls and Mulan [from the Disney movie] is a Hollywood makeup artist.”
Comments say, “If you walked into any hospital in China looking like that, they’d think you have jaundice.”
“I’ve been wanting to complain for a while, like, the Asian face in emojis, are they fucking serious with that? It’s two degrees yellower than Minions!”
“Maybe in his (American) mind, all Asians look like this?”
A post by a blogger from a French IP: “I mean, I complain, and I still want to quit all the time, but the best benefits my company has is reimbursing concert/theatre/gym/hotel costs. Every year, I can get 40% of up to 1000 Euros reimbursed. If I’ve got a boyfriend, I can get 40% of an additional 600 Euros reimbursed. That’s a combined 640 Euros.
They even offered to reimburse 100% of another 700 Euros. And I haven’t gotten my Christmas bonus yet. Hahaha, waiting for it to all clear out again in January. Just got some Jay Chou and Fish Leong tickets reimbursed.”
The top comment is a pinned one by OP saying, “Woke up and freaked out at all the traffic this post has gotten. Thanks, everyone. I want to work on New Years day too, but we only get 50 days of leave every year at my company.”
Comments say, “I can’t believe I woke up to see such terrible news.”
“What the fuck company do you work at??”
“French people are still protesting about their taxes.”
“I clicked in here in a panic and now I feel like my heart’s been dunked in a bucket of ice water.”
“I’ve went to the middle east a lot of time. Every time, I’m shocked by how the local women live.
Once, I took a short flight in the middle east, from one middle eastern country to another. Super short flight. Local flights arrange seats by gender, keeping women with women. I had a lady next to me covered in black robes. I couldn’t see her face, and we chatted on and off. When the topic turned to China, she suddenly asked me if Chinese people make 700 USD a month yet. She sounded super smug while asking it too. Without thinking, I was like, “Of course!” But afterwards, when I thought about it, I’m pretty sure most people don’t make that much. Kinda awkward.”
cComments say, “Compared to the size of most countries on Earth, China isn’t really a nation anymore, it’s a continent all to itself.”
“For big cities like state capitals, 700 USD per month is probably doable for most people. As for smaller cities below that, it’s all up to how good the local statistics bureau is.”
“The three states in Dongbei don’t have that. Most jobs are hiring for 3000-3500 RMB a month.”
“A true story of an older out of state auntie looking for in Hangzhou.
The auntie is 55-years-old, coming to Hangzhou from out of state, wanting to earn some money to buy a house for her son in her hometown. She’s got three offers:
Nanny for a one-year-old baby, free room and board, she’ll get her own bedroom in a 200 square metre apartment in downtown Hangzhou, 2 days off every month, 9000 RMB per month.
Maid for a mansion in the suburbs of Hangzhou, free room and board, the owners come to the mansion every weekend and need her to keep it cleaned and to cook two meals every weekend. She just has to do daily upkeep for the mansion from Monday to Friday, 7000 a month.
The recommended part-time jobs by her labour agency: working in prep in the kitchen of a hotel in the mornings, free room and board, 4500 RMB a month, and working as a janitor in a shopping mall in the afternoon, 3200 RMB a month.
The auntie picked the third option, because there was a 2 hour rest between her two jobs that she can use to pick up some hourly work, and easily make five figures a month that way.
I asked her, “But the first two options are a lot comfier, though.” And the auntie said, in the first option, the mother had a resting bitch face, and in the second case, the owners were too highly educated and spoke in a way that made her uncomfortable, and she didn’t want to walk on eggshells.
The auntie got off the train on Saturday and started making money Monday morning. See, everyone. Even if you’re completely uneducated and old, so long as you have all four limbs, you can come to Hangzhou. Not only can you feed yourself, you can even be picky about what you eat. And you’ll probably make more money than a 25-year-old top university graduate. That’s the charm of the big city.”
Comments say, “You can’t take this type of posts too seriously.”
“Both of the first two options is basically being a servant to somebody, but you’re definitely an employee in the third option. There’s organisation and coworkers and stuff. It’s a different mindset.”
“But the second job provides all kinds of free time too.”
“What the hell kind of labour agency gives such reasonable jobs? Please point me in their direction. I was just helping a family member look for work, and found that the local mall expects their janitors to work from 8AM to 10PM, no days off all year unless you want to be fine, and it pays 4300 RMB a month. Also in Hangzhou.”