And not educational content creation either. Most of these kids want to be paid for hot-takes and video game streaming.
Dont worry, they will all be increasing shareholder value
They’d better, the fiduciary responsibility of the corporate entity has the one, and only one requirement.
The cancer, deaths, depression, poverty, oppression, etc. is just for fun!
On the upside, maybe western youngsters value having a personal life they enjoy more.
You can see a mix of escapism and “how do I fast track as much money as possible?”
Thwn I’d expect higher figures for musicians, swayed by the top .01% that suck up all the fame and royalties.
I think they realize it’s quite unlikely to “make it” as a musician.
It’s also obvious just how much work being a musician is. Even a child understands that you can’t just pick up an instrument and play your favorite song without training. Whereas the work in being a Youtuber/Twitch streamer is hidden from the audience.
Born too late to explore the oceans.
Born too early to explore the stars.
Born just in time to remind you to hit that like button, share with your friends, and subscribe so you don’t miss a thing.
The West is lost.
We know more about our solar system than our oceans. We might have mapped a bit of the floor, but we don’t know what is between the surface and the ocean floor.
Why don’t scientists just point a telescope at the ocean: are they stupid?
We should send our billionaires down there… for research purposes of course.
We are both actively exploring the stars and the ocean. There’s still a lot we don’t know and there’s still plenty of species being discovered in rainforest all the time.
Bacterias and viruses are also something that you can never finish exploring and there are for sure weird creatures like tardigrades that are still undiscovered.
You’re just in time to discover genetics, epigenetics, biomechanics of nutrition, chemistry, biochemistry, how to make custom creatures from DNA building blocks, protein folding applications, mysteries of how the brain works and even math as mature as it is also has tons of undiscovered parts.
Sure you might be too late and to early for a couple of specific things but science discovery is absolutely exploding and random average Joe types are discovering things all the time. I think on the contrary now is one of the most likely things where you can just flat out discover something about the world that nobody has discovered before.
“The West”
Sibling what.
Would you prefer “the global capitalist oligarchy whose imperial core is centered in Washington; whose children are filled with nihilistic despair as they watch the empire consume its own working class as it previously consumed the victims of its colonial conquests; whose children, as a result, aspire to nothing greater than hedonism and decadence, reflecting the fundamental moral rot at the heart of the tottering edifice”?
Cause I didn’t have the patience to write all that but I can if need be.
I actually don’t think they would prefer that.
that place where the sun sets homie
China has a space station that makes the ISS looks like a 1950 station wagon.
They need to run this survey again now that the Chinese space station has an air fryer.
I wanted to be free. Maybe next life.
It’s funny when you just read the numbers and it’s like the top pick for a US child is to be 29
Country that teaches the west is evil want to become the west genocide army.
How convenient.
That’s pure projection
What?
I wanted to be an inventory that makes crazy gadgets or as wealthy as Scrooge McDuck.
I think this may have to do with the fact that China regulates social media with regard to its effect on society, whereas it’s the wild west in English-speaking countries. I don’t agree with all of their criteria for regulating media, but I feel like there’s probably a good middle-ground to be reached. It’s well-documented how harmful social media has been to people of all ages.
This might be a hot take, but I think it started with tying internet identities to real identities.
Careful, that’s dangerously close to a Dessalines ban talk right there
Unless I misunderstand, in China it’s illegal to distribute VPNs, but simply using one and accessing the wider net is fine. That implementation isn’t great, but it could also be a lot worse. Effectively it means anyone who’s tech savvy enough can leave the walled garden whenever they like with practically no consequence. Though, it still requires some group of people assume the legal risk of setting up and hosting the VPN infrastructure.
I feel like there must be some means of achieving the same effect without criminalizing people just for providing a service. Like, defaulting to a garden of public and private webpages that meat the standard, but still with some means of leaving that garden provided you pass a minor techincal barrier to entry.
Also forcing every social media site and glorified-website-app to default to chronological sort every time you close the browser tab or leave the app. It’s a simple change, but it would do a lot.
China actually has a viable space program, so being an astronaut actually seems attainable. And do teachers in China actually make a fair living wage?
For teachers, I guess they’re the biggest figure for students as they grow up. Confucian culture emphasizes enormous respect, and tbf, conformity to teachers.
I grew up wanting to be YouTuber, and now work as a professor in East Asia with deep Confucian influence. The teacher-student dynamics here is truly shit.
Some children geniuenly respect landlords more than teachers because it’s in line with teachings of “the modern philosopher Andrew Tate.”
Not China but in my country teachers would often get benefits like how US soldiers do.
So for example some apartments had reduced rent and most private schools would accept your children for free and pay off lunch, clubs, school trip fees, etc.
So even tho teachers weren’t rich they weren’t completely on their own either. Maybe a similar thing happens over there?
For sure, their space program feats and plans are incredibly exciting, and things we might see in our lifetime. There’s a hopeful star-trek-esque optimism about space rn.
I’m not sure about teachers salaries, I’d have to look it up, but I do know teachers are well respected societally.
I felt that when I went to the Chengdu science and technology museum. Everyone was in awesome of the space program and the kids really wanted to get involved.
Contrast that to the Melbourne or Canberra science museums and space technology isn’t really at the front.
China just won the reversed opium wars. [Insert based Xi meme]
There is quite literal Opium War going right now (and for few decades in the past) but China has nothing to do with it, it’s waged by the US government against people of US and some other countries mostly in Central and South America.
A few other related ones:
- The confirmed cia program to start the crack epidemic and use it to profit off of and impoverish black communities in the US. Read gary webb - dark alliance for more on that.
- The historical and still ongoing spread of alcohol to native communities in the US.
- The CIA pretty much took over the majority of international drug trade after ww2 via the helliwell plan(modelled on Chiang kai-sheks program) , and used it to fund their covert ops. A lot more on that in williams - operation gladio.
No war but class war.
Pre-COVID. I wonder what it’s like now. Anecdotes from people who work in education seem to say it was pretty devastating for child development, but it’s hard to tell if it’s above and beyond the perennial “this new generation is totally fucked” sentiment.
