Comments by "gwho" (@gwho) on "Why Chinese Have to Work So Much" video.

  1. the national tax version of this is the Laffer curve. reducing tax rates actually increases tax revenue.
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  2. "When you really start to let it sink in and analyse it, you realise that hard work in and of itself has no intrinsic value." generalized, "increasing inputs is not the goal; it's increasing outputs."
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  3. 5:10 bruh. calling that a capitalist's dream is ridiculous. look beyond the capitalist stereotype perpetuated by marxists/communists and think more broadly about who actually wants to exploit... parents exploit their kids with confucianism. so do political leaders, especially kings and communist. what you described sounds rather soul-crushing and completely socially unfree, which goes far beyond economic exploitation, but personal and social and mental control. Not even capitalists go that far, that's a dictator's dream. With capitalism, you can actually see how giving a better deal to who you work with (shareholders, managers, employees, suppliers, customers,etc) can yield you yourself more benefit too - alignment of interests, aka win-win.
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  4. hard work is only a probabilistic proxy cause for achieving outcomes, not a deterministic, mechanistic cause. Even if it was directly tied to output, it's still the output that's desired, not input. When you add religious moral overtones to hard work, you are truly fkn mindfuck trapped in an erroneous belief.
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  5. this one hong kong company wanted to pay me 80% of my previous salary, but expected me to work 150% of my normal hours. bruh.
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