China’s 996 - Crazy work hours. Why do Chinese work too much?

I have no idea what 996 is, so I gave up. .

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Working from 9 am to 9 pm six days a week.

Fuck that.

That's f'ing awful. What a nightmare.

These articles are so stupid. 600 million Chinese people live in the countryside. They are excluded from all of this growth and development.

Why are you or anyone comparing us to China? Chinese people are really only a step up from slaves

Id commit suicide due to stress if I had to work that much. Me, working full time now 35 hours a week max. I’d rather spend time with my dog and cat.

Jack Ma, admitted in an article that he and his wife almost "lost" their son at 11 years old, because the kid had essentially raised himself in internet cafes from a very young age. It was at that point MA convinced his wife, herself a professional, to give up her career, to reign ack in their son in a desperate attempt to restablish a family connection: something I might add, she was only able to do because of their wealth. So you have to wonder, what exactly is the impact on Traditional Chinese Society/Family life while all this " growth" is going on? I wonder too- what is their Suicide rate like these days in China? Not like they'll ever tell us.

They take naps at work, seriously - but if they ALL work like this who is going to reproduce and replace the population?

They work that much to make money and get ahead. Ask another stupid obvious question and link an article that completely answers it.

R9 don't be such a flippant idiot. Wages in China are no where NEAR what they are in the United States or the Western World, and while China DOES have it's millionaires and even billionairesi'it's society is far more stratified than ours and upward mobility is still a tricky thing- which is why the Chinese are Immigrating or at least sending their children here in droves if at all possible.

The ones who are sending their children to developed countries are the ones who played the slave hours game and got ahead. I know them. Their parents worked to get rich. Why is it flippant. The question is easy to answer. In a developing country, you must work all the time to get ahead.

I really do admire Asian people’s work ethic. No wonder the Chinese is being able to catch up with the West so quickly.

OP asks "Why do Chinese work too much?" The answer is to get ahead. I didn't say it was a nice experience or that it worked for 1 billion+ people.

OP should work this way.

R14 fuck no. I was born and raised in a rich and developed country. Why would I work that much? Let poor people in developing countries work that way

The trend is that many jobs & professions one thought were 35 or 40 hour work weeks have seen hours go up, salaries erode and benefits reduced. So yeah, why aren't we working 35 hours if our countries are so rich and we are in the educated, skilled, "professional" classes? Downsized workforce, absence of support staff, and profits to the executive and shareholding overlords. What could happen is China's hours slowly sink a bit but our hours keep increasing, to meet in the middle. 50-60 hour work weeks? For some dull professional job?

I’d rather be dead.

The idea that a majority of us American office drones only work 9-5 in this connected age is ridiculous. I used to work for a media tech org and I wasn't still answering emails and building decks well into the evening and instead waiting until 'official' hours started at 8am again, it was too late. The conversation would have moved on without me.

What happens when western countries move ahead with automation and nobody buys their crap anymore because robots will do it cheaper and quicker?

I sometimes work 12/7 and do it gladly because it's my own business. There's no fucking way I'm going to work myself to death just so another asshole can become rich.

Fuck China

R8, it is not necessary to replace China's population. They are already way over populated.

From the link below:

"The current population of China is 1,419,573,030 as of Monday, May 27, 2019, based on the latest United Nations estimates. China population is equivalent to 18.41% of the total world population."

While I was posting this 5 more Chinese babies were born.

When I tested video games in Los Angeles, when it was crunch time, we had to work the Satan shift. 6pm to 6am, 6 days a week.

We did have two 30 min lunch breaks and three 15min breaks. It still was tough though. I only did it because I got a shitload of overtime and a night differential for working the graveyard shift.

Thanks R2.

They’re fucking peasant drones, no matter how much money they make.

They’re totally irrelevant. The death of their intellectual class sealed the fate of the whole country. They will never truly be a developed country.

Jack Ma is the grossest looking "human" being I have ever seen. Gross inside and out.

That much work is not a "life."

So, have a miserable life and die early because of stress. I'll pass.

How much do the 996 workers make?

How much do the upper echelon managers make?

R28, I don't imagine they earn very much and this doesn't look like a happy or healthy lifestyle or anything to strive towards.

Asians are known to be very hard working people. If the trend continues, they soon will overtake the world in no time