The "let it rot" movement (known in Chinese as bǎi làn, 摆烂) is a social and cultural phenomenon among China's youth, particularly Gen Z and millennials. It reflects widespread disillusionment with intense societal pressures, economic challenges, and the relentless "hustle culture."
Origins and Meaning
The term bǎi làn literally translates to "let it rot" or "let it decay." It originated from basketball slang, where it described teams deliberately giving up in a losing game (similar to "tanking" in English). In broader usage, it means voluntarily retreating from or embracing a deteriorating situation rather than fighting to improve it, often out of a sense that effort is futile.
Young people adopting this mindset might:
- Perform the bare minimum at work (or poorly on purpose).
- Avoid ambitious goals like buying property.
- Delay or reject marriage and children.
- Generally disengage from traditional markers of success.
>>2629643>we need it in the west as wellIt's called LDAR and yeah it's based
>>2629643>- Perform the bare minimum at work (or poorly on purpose).>- Avoid ambitious goals like buying property.>- Delay or reject marriage and children.>- Generally disengage from traditional markers of success.All of this is already happening in the west, this is the default position for most young people.
>>2629643I need money to get sex though
sounds like an overcorrection. chynah should probably shorten its work week over the next few years so as to nip this kind of attitude in the bud rather than burning the youth out
>similar to "tanking" in English
that's not what tanking is. tanking is when you decide to absorb damage rather than avoid it, because you can afford to.
>>2629647Yeah this
>>2629724Always sounds so deep too
>>2629736The youth simply don’t have the grindset that their Gen X parents had. Probably has to do with the One Child Policy producing an entire generation of spoiled children. That policy was probably a mistake, but we can’t change the past so we just have to cope with the effects now. You’re probably right, shortening the workweek or the hours without affecting pay, combined with automation to mitigate the effect on product costs, should make things more tolerable.
We already have this, its called NEETing, the fate of people like that is always suicide after their parents pass away.
>>2629736They still gotta deal with 996 shit so I hope they rot even more
>>2630093What was the equivalent of NEETing in the past?
>>2630097Exiled from village for being useless bum
>>2630097Both Lenin and Marx were NEETs but they don't want you to know that
>>2630118Will I become Lenin if I keep NEETing?
>>2630093Depends on how much money they have left after their parents die. Sometimes they cheat the government after their parents death to keep collecting gibs from social security or something. They'll just hide mom or pops body in the freezer. Usually most neets at least work at least a little in their life so they may have some savings.
Anyone attacking based NEETs is a counter-revolutionary moralist, workerist cuck. One single NEET sucking up U$ government dollars and not contributing anything at all to the ecKKKonomy is doing more for revolutionary accelerationism than a billion starbucks workers unionizing. Keep promoting NEETdom. The United Snakes is fucked once the majority of zoomers are NEETs.
>>2630155Lumpens have more revolutionary potential than the modern proletariat, but y'all ain't ready for that convo
>>2630163they are but its hard to radicalize them
>>2630146And using AI slop too, US government is fucked as well as the global economy thanks to them.
>>2630163read marx please
>>2629643NEETing your entire life will just result in early death in your 40's by suicide when you realize you wasted your life playing video games and smoking weed while doing nothing else. Thank god I didnt fall for this trap where its nearly impossible to get yourself out of.
>>2630367>its nearly impossible to get yourself out ofthats where you're wrong.
>>2630370Good luck trying to get a job with an empty resume unless you have family connections.
>>2630372>Good luck trying to get a job with an empty resume unless you have family connections.Janitor and airport guy
>>2630383Why would they hire a person with literally no work experience his entire life in comparison to anyone else?
>the US should have the CIA glowop that China doesn't actually have
I agree. Cannibalize yourself. Turn your own demoralization propaganda against yourself.
100% support this notion
>>2630385There are these things called entry level positions, although i understand your point. You need to have a degree today at minimum to have a semi stable job
>>2630146>workerist we prefer the term 'communist', anarcho-lumpen
>>2630451>40 year old NEET who has not worked his entire life<just be confident broLMAO you dont even understand how over it is for them.
Why do I feel that everytime there is some kind of trend or mentality about some Chinese kids it's blown up in the West as some "social and cultural phenomenon" (mostly a negative habit or something), given a fancy name, so that all the Western "China experts" can drop it all the time and seem like they have some deep cultural insight.
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