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'Garbage time': China’s slump spins out new meme of economic despair on the country's social media (www.reuters.com)
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The fatalistic tag “garbage time” began popping up on social media platforms over the past month. It was given a more recent boost when state media and commentators lined up to denounce the phrase and any suggestion that decline would follow downturn for China.

“This is a catchphrase insinuating that there’s no help and no hope, denying and downplaying everything in China,” [state-owned media outlet] Beijing Daily said in a commentary last week.

It follows another buzzword China’s censors have targeted as a threat to stability since it broke into the mainstream three years ago: “lying flat,” a call to a slacker life of limited ambition and quiet protest.

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There are other signs China’s collective confidence has suffered, according to survey data collected by Stanford University professor Scott Rozelle and others published in summary last week by the U.S. think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Rozelle found Chinese respondents to a survey were more pessimistic than they had been two decades ago, more likely to blame structural factors for determining whether a person is rich or poor and far less likely to believe hard work pays off.

In 2004, 62% agreed “in our country, effort is always rewarded." That dropped to 28% in the 2023 survey.

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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

62% acquiesced to the authoritian state propaganda that “in our country, effort is always rewarded."

Ftfy. There is no way to know how they truly feel, only by looking at those brave enough to say so, even on a (presumably) "anonymous" poll.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Due to the superlative "always", that could just be a sign of improving education too. The word always sets a very high bar that cannot actually be logically overcome.

Personally I'd always (literally) have to answer no just because of how the question is worded, there's no system or circumstance I can think of that would let me feel good going "yep, effort is always rewarded ... somehow I guess." I mean, sometimes bad things just happen. Some ideas are just bad ideas too, and effort into them may not prove rewarding.