China’s Slacker Youths: Why They Went From 'Lying Flat' To 'Let It Rot' | Insight | Full Episode

Imagine being conditioned to think that a 40 hr work week with time for hobbies and relationships is "slacking". Personal happiness is a worthy goal to prioritise.

Imagine wanting a normal life and not being consumed by your work and be called a slacker for that.

This isn't called slacking when you're still doing the work you're asked but refuse to go beyond. There is nothing wrong with wanting to have a good work-life balance

they are NOT "unmotivated!". They are educated enough to see that the game is rigged, the numbers don't add up, the promise of working hard and getting ahead is false, and that their govt has screwed them to hold on to power. They are not lazy. They are screwed and their situation looks hopeless--and they see it.

This is happening in other countries as well. The younger generation is learning that quality of life is better than trying to work yourself to death for a company that doesn’t care about you at all. Good for them!

This is what happens when you realise that working hard and going above and beyond for your employer benefits the employer and not the employee. Kudos to the Chinese millennials for pushing back.

I finally gained the courage to say to my father, "I do not have the desire to outdo the 6 billion other people on this planet". At the age of 10 I started growing white hairs. I am proud of my generation for breaking this ridiculous cycle of soul crushing pressure and despair. Your goal in life should be to feel joy and peace

The only way to win is to not play. They're not lazy. They're just not buying the lie and false promises.

This is basically happening everywhere. This generation see's corporate greed for what it is. Things are going to change drastically.

My parents told me this: “Your generation is not lazy, you guys work as hard if not harder than we did during our time yet you earn just as much. The problem is that, you’re underpaid because salaries have stagnated while the price of housing and basic commodities keep rising. That’s simply the sad reality.”

100% full support as a Millennial in the west, this is happening all over the world. We are not slaves.

Don't let anyone brainwash you into thinking that doing your job means you're slacking and unmotivated. You're doing the job you're getting paid for. If they want you to give them 120% then maybe they should pay 20% more.

Good for them. I’m Japanese in my late 30s and I relate to these kids. Having watched my mother who sacrificed her life on work and being a single mom, with sleepless nights and working herself to exhaustion only to get fired and replaced by younger workers left a bitter taste in my mouth. My father on the other hand made a lot of money helping multimillion dollar companies get even richer.. my upbringing made me see the world for what it is. I’ve been called a slacker questioned why I’m “unmotivated” but you only live once. I don’t want to spend my life in an office all day everyday and become a slave to a toxic society. I moved to the country and working on going totally off the grid, collecting rain water solar for energy growing my own vegetables etc. Everyday I appreciate the beauty of nature spending time with my loved ones (my cats are especially enjoying it) I have time to enjoy my hobbies, and mostly enjoy the non stress life. I’m glad to see younger generations value the quality of life, and hoping that one day when I master my bai lan style living I can teach the youth to do the same :)

I came into this video wondering about this horrible, catastrophic "let it rot" phenomenon, but they actually seem pretty reasonable. They're not mooching off their parents or the government, they do their job and nothing more, then enjoy their life in their spare time. How is this weird? It's the 996 advocates who seem downright baffling to me. For people with their own business I understand, but for employees?

Bai Lan is minimalism instead of consumption. It’s annoying people who can’t sell, sell, sell and drive overconsumption. Good job young people.

A workmate came to work slightly before 8am. Started sweating, we took him to a hospital 10mins away by 1pm he had died. He had complianed of pains but kept off going to hospital cause of the demanding work schedule. But also we were not given health insurance and given the fact thay he was prepping for his wedding he opted out of going to hospital. He died 10 days away from his wedding.

Let me remind everyone. This "Slacker" or "Laying flat" or "Let it Rot" attitude is basically just doing your job. Thats all nothing more to it. The fact that Bosses/CEOs and Companies push employees to go above and beyond with no guaranteed incentives as a norm but label them otherwise if they don't do so is absolutely disgusting. It has already been proven that climbing the corporate ladder by working hard is a myth. You have absolutely no control of whether u get rewarded for hardwork. Most of the time you don't. So just do what you are paid to do within the working hours and enjoy life as much as possible.

This is a world wide phenomenon…people all over the world see no benefits to spending outrageous amounts of money to obtain a university degree, with no guarantee you will even find a job, then working a 9-5 with additional overtime while taking care of kids and maintaining a home and still not being able to cover all the bills at the end of each month or afford decent food….this is the reality for many countries including my own (South Africa)…we are working the same amount of time our parents did maybe even slightly more and we cannot afford the basic necessities…something is very wrong with the world

one of the things ive learned working in a company is that no matter what i do i am never good enough even though i always excel compare to my colleagues and make little no to mistakes and they do not see what i have contributed. when burnout got me, my performance declined too and instead of help i was gaslighted. please dont overwork yourselves just to please your company and bosses, no matter what you do, you are just a number to them. so sacrificing your sanity is never worth it. it's sad that we are only making them richer while we employees suffer and no pay raise at all.

As a Gen X who spent the first 25 years of my working life working myself to exhaustion day in day out I encourage younger generations not to make the same mistake.