Posted on 08/01/2023 7:36:00 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
People around the world may fear the gray hairs, crows feet, and stagnation that come with a midlife crisis. But over in China, millennials fear hitting an age milestone now thought to be a death sentence for one's career: 35.
These anxieties have been summed up in the phrase "Curse of 35," a concept and hashtag that's gone viral on China's Twitter-like Weibo. It refers, specifically, to the average Chinese employer's preference for hiring workers who haven't reached the sell-by date of their 35th birthday.
"I am scared that I won't be able to keep my job, and then I will have to go around looking for a job while dealing with the employer's temper. It's just too scary and stressful," read one person's post on Weibo lamenting about the "Curse of 35."
"Life is also tough. I am single and I don't have enough money to buy a house. Where will I stay when I get old? Landlords don't really rent to the elderly. And it's tough trying to earn money when you're old," the post continued. "In this life, one can only wander about with no real place to go."
And it's not just about finding work — Chinese workers being phased out at what was previously viewed as the prime of their careers means their livelihoods could be seriously affected.
The preference for younger workers is in part due to a workplace culture that requires people to clock long hours on the job. Better known as "996," Chinese workers who want to get ahead are expected to observe a punishing schedule, working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.
As such, employers favor those who are young, healthy, and willing to pull long hours for the hustle life.
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Things they do look awful c-c-cold...
Logan’s Run
Life has absolutely no value to the Chinese Communists.
None.
Depending on the source, they murdered between 40-120 million of their own people.
Mao Tse Tung was the greatest Mass Murderer in the history of mankind.
And the ChiComs venerate him. They venerate that green-toothed child molester, who used to have girls as young as nine years old brought to him for sex.
And he murdered his own people at a rate never seen before or since.
I am astonished that there are people who don’t think it is possible the ChiComs would have developed and intentionally released a biowarfare agent.
If they would murder 40-120 million of their own citizens, how much less would they value the lives of non-Chinese people around the world.
And they would think nothing of eliminating people over the age of 35 if they thought it would further the goals of the party.
The Chinese Communists should be treated as international pariahs, cut out of trading partnerships, and isolated.
I recently read an article about age discrimination in the United States. Federal law prohibits age discrimination against anyone 40 or over.
End result? Companies try to avoid hiring anyone over 40. And here’s why. Let’s say you hire someone who is 35. He doesn’t work out. So you fire him. End of story.
Now let’s say you hire someone who is 45, and he doesn’t work out. Fire him, and an age discrimination lawsuit just might come your way. Better to avoid the problem, and only hire folks well under 40.
The ‘Law of Unintended Consequences’ strikes again.
It will speed up their depopulation, because are not going to have children they fear they cannot provide for.
I saw the movie, RoGan’s Lun...
My thoughts exactly.
Biden is only one of two things: so OUT of it he shouldn’t be allowed to do anything more substantial than wiping his filthy buttocks, or...he is completely IN on all the corruption.
Personally, I say it is both.
Does this include Xi?
Chinese people have long lifespans on average, jobs that exclude them may well regret that in the near future
“”Life is also tough. I am single and I don’t have enough money to buy a house. Where will I stay when I get old? Landlords don’t really rent to the elderly. And it’s tough trying to earn money when you’re old,” the post continued. “In this life, one can only wander about with no real place to go.””
1). Sounds like the socialist paradise the DemocRATS are trying to build here.
2) Easy to confuse with SloJo Biden. If SloJo did not have the Secret Service and staff, he may wander as much as Forest Gump ran.
Xi is 70.
Exactly what I’m thinking.
As I’ve been saying a lot lately ... Communism is a young man’s game.
I guess they’ve determined that after 35, you’ve got enough life experience to know communism sucks and can tell other people about it. Commies don’t like that. Combined with human life having no meaning “another brick in the wall” makes this seem very true.
Exactly
[I am single and I don’t have enough money to buy a house. Where will I stay when I get old?]
What? Somebody saw my message? That could have come from me.
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