Tang Ping
Tang Ping
Read an article about a trending movement from China/Hongkong called “Lying flat”.β β Reading the articles makes me think, this is the other extreme of the FIRE π₯ movement. But rather then working really hard and saving almost all of your take-home pay so that you can reach financial independence much earlier and retire early, Lying Flat movement simply adopts a monastic mindset.β β
Don’t get married π€΅π»π°π», don’t have kids, don’t buy a car and don’t buy a flat. Just do the minimal work to get by. Some take it to extremes and don’t even socialize in order to save money.β β The underlying (no pun intended) worldview is one of killing all desires so that you wouldn’t be used as a money-making pawn by the elites.β β This mindset most likely is spawned by the country’s widening gap in income π° between the rich and poor. β β
Hope SG will manage our equality gap so that our young will not get disenchanted and give up on life. πβ β
Ref: β β https://radiichina.com/laying-flat-involution/β β
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/why-china-youth-lying-flat-093936762.html β
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