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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I have a theory that part of this is due to the dying out of religion as a way to keep the masses in line.
- China is a communist country, they purposefully repressed religion for quite some time, though that has eased up a lot these days. If that was why, it would have happened decades ago when people stopped being religious.

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