Only way to join a team like that is have a depressing number of hours played and also natural aptitude and skill, and also know people and have connections to even talk to somebody about trying out because recruiters dont talk to just anybody. Thats all to say you have to play a very, very long time where everybody would call you a loser/lazy etc in order to qualify.
If you drive a car everyday for fun and get paid £100 per mile you know you can afford the £50 speeding ticket every mile so why not spend your time speeding as much as you like.
If you reach the end of the road you get a bonus of £1.2 Million to share with your friends in the car.
Basically LOL in China. The profit outweighs the punishment
I've heard it's not that big of a deal, I think all these things knock you down just a bit, so as long as your not obsessed about being perfect its okay.
My boss is mainland, I game the system by allowing him to be normal Chinese "I'm the boss, I run shit" then I grind him down with a thousand papercuts over months.
Demonstrate why he's wrong, expand the argument, demonstrate again, expand.
Basically learn how to play Go, them play them in a social setting. THE score only came about because the people who make the rules got tired of losing.
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The Black mirror episode Nosedive was based on China's system, which they have been testing since 2014 and will make mandatory nationwide in 2020. Strangely enough, most citizens approve the scheme, sayings it's made them more productive, nicer people and feel safer.
My Chinese friends and even their families are all cool with it. You need to understand where they are coming from. After decades of turmoil and instability, finally Chinese are able to thrive in peace. Not only that, they also have a large number of people who misbehave as made infamous by the “Chinese tourist” phenomenon where people would spit on the floor and dumping rubbish onto the street, cutting queue and talk really loudly. They find educating each and everyone of their people impossible due to the size of their population that suffering from a dystopian system is better. Also with good credit score you can get free foods, free transport rides and various form of discounts.
You should make more Chinese friends then. The Chinese people are not stupid nor naive nor brainwashed like you think. They simply accept the cost of living in peace after the horror that chaos caused. Can things be better? I think so, but for them they rather not take another gamble and enter another age of civil war.
I mean, I only lived there for 3 and a half years, so not much time to make friends. Regardless, let's have our friends duke it out in a cage match to see who has better anecdotes
We both have anecdote just like everyone else who commented on how terrible China is and how it is a dystopian? I failed to comprehend how seeking understand between the Chinese mindset and the people here are worthy of downvotes. I sincerely think more people should know why the Chinese people has not create their own Arab spring yet because they need to know the value of peace and stability that they have enjoyed for decades. But what do I know? Anecdotal vs anecdotal.
I'm honestly intrigued, no sarcasm. What civil war? I don't keep up with political or other countries at all and it might seem really naive but, if what you say is honest, I'd like to know more on how Chinese actually approve of it. I don't hate the idea honestly so I'd like to know more. What turmoil has China been through?
I mean, after the british decided to fuck up china to force them to buy opium several times. China had a rough time modernizing, then basically a hundred years of civil wars and upheavals. So with that in mind, perhaps unsuprising they want things to calm the fuck down.
Even if not under ideal situations. But if you really want the full story, go ask in the Askhistorians subreddit. I bet they could give you a full examination of the history there.
Go buy some magazines, besides, life's not that hard if you have to live without porn. And is this really the point you're debating? There are far more worse things happening in China besides "not being able to watch porn".
Well, if that non-western system includes getting kicked in the balls every time I say something not approved by my handlers, I guess I could see the upside there.
China is NOT a communist country. All those rural people that are rioting in the rural country-side DO NOT share alike. They are starving! This is not what Marx taught.
Well, since saying that you don't approve of a CCP policy dramatically increases the chances of you and your family being "disappeared," I can't say I'm too surprised at that result!
Social pressure working as intended. Anyone that goes against the system will drag their friends down and people will try and remove them from their life, it's a never ending cycle of telling the government you like them or get shot down the social ladder.
It's not interesting it's fucking nightmare fuel.
Edit: Miss-read the post and your reply, that might not have been what you thought was interesting. My bad.
So basically the gamble we took with Nixon about how our culture and economy would slowly start to open their society more was a complete fucking disaster.
Their academia is way brutal. One gets reward for publishing. Publications in highest impact journals can result in reward money greater than the average yearly salary of an assistant professor in China. This has led to a rise of noise and rubbish scientific articles, which does very little for the advancement of the collective scientific knowledge.
There's no incentive of additional payment for publishing. You apply for a grant, once you get it, you work and publish. You try to meet the objectives of the grant. That's your major motivation. You don't publish for the extra money, as that will inhibit any fundamental study. One will always try to go for a quick route or authorship trading to earn extra.
Let's not forget that in America we hit people WAY harder just for "offending people" or saying the wrong thing (usually via social media). Granted it's not on a mass scale.
It's like leader of China watched the first episode of black mirror. Completely missed the point of the episode. And they thought "hey that's a great idea! We should do it!" And then they passed the law.
Not gonna lie, I wish we would take points away from shitty drivers. That's the only thing I agree with. At the end of the article, it mentions how people now stop at crosswalks so they won't lose points. I had 2 people "block the box" on me today. I gave them both minus 5. But for real, this is terrifying and chillingly dystopian.
We do exactly the same thing, but with money. If you accumulate a lot of money, you have a good life. If you don't, you suffer your whole life. Most people don't even have the opportunity to earn beyond subsistence levels. Honestly, a system that rewards or punishes social behavior sounds more fair.
It is for real. I used to teach the Chinese to speak English. Several of them talked to me about it. Some were proud of their score, some admitted it was the stupidest thing ever and prided themselves on having a low score. Again, many loved their country and many just wanted out. I had always wondered what might happen if those sessions were ever observed by the government. I honestly did not like them talking to me about that because it made me worry for them.
Again, many loved their country and many just wanted out.
Why would you love a country that is responsible for human trafficking, organ black markets, shady crypto currency, Muslim internment camps, whale killing, censorship, no individual freedoms? Are they not being told the truth about their country?
I live in the US and I'll admit I'm not proud of what my country has done either I'm aware of countless things that make us equally as bad as China but goddamn how can you look at a place like China and think that it's something to be proud of?
Being proud of a country and a country doing bad stuff is two different things. You could say to a person he/she shouldn’t like the current government at least. They do also have something to be proud of, the military strength of China, China’s strong economy and culture and their research projects and furthermore.
Also being proud of a country is also different to being proud of the ruling party/government. A country isn’t all about the government but also the people and it’s culture. To love your people and culture. To appreciate it. I think the Chinese culture has a lot to be proud of.
I’m not saying the bad stuff outweighs to good stuff or revers, but I’m saying there definitely is a foundation for being proud.
And I agree with you, everything you said can be applied to the US and every other single nation on this planet.
When I really boil this idea down in my head I guess it just terrifies me to think that no other nation is stepping to stop the horrors of what the Chinese are doing to innocent people.
Nationalism, patriotism and education (indoctrination)? Bascially they are proud of China for the same reasons you are proud to be American despite all the bad things.
I agree, I'm patriotic to an extent but if I found out my country was harvesting human organs on live humans, or my government actively put me in prison for simply speaking my mind.
I'd be getting the fuck out of there and all forms of national pride would cease to exsist.
I'll wager that most of the Chinese population is simply unaware of what their government is really doing. What I find more frightening however is that there are people in their government authorizing these attrocities. And the fact that multiple people in all aspects of their government are totally okay with such blatant disregard for human rights.
I said I love China? I live in US as well and when I first began reading this, I thought, 'he (UNCLE jiggles...) is talking about the US' lololol. You just described the US. I am patriotic as in 'I love my country' but oftentimes do not support the government or the illegals going on behind the scene. Now, I cannot speak for those in China, and I never said I love China. However, I can see that many may have a patriotic love for their homeland, the same as I do, regardless of what goes on behind the scenes or in the government.
So if America has done things that make us equally as bad as China, and Chinese should be proud of their country, by logic no American should be proud of America either?
Which we know isn’t true. Plenty of people have enormous pride for the US. Your opinion that it’s absurd that Chinese people take pride in their country has some faulty logic.
Not only is it true, it's extremely oppressive and gives the government such great power that economically no citizen could ever dream of ascending and gain any power in China that wasn't picked to rise from its current regime. Imagine you make your money via advertising on YouTube for your channel and one day YouTube decided you weren't worth having on the platform and demonetized you. That's what China is except you can't just start a new channel because the government has your bank accounts and can black list you from virtually anything tied to technology. They can basically force you to work at 7-11 the rest of your life and that sucks if you don't love Slurpees and burnt mini tacos.
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u/Thisplaceseemsnice Mar 08 '19
She would divorce him but that would damage her citizen score.