China life! How bad can it get?

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Have just read this Times report on the Curse of 35
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/b…nation-35.html

So! Am wondering! How bad is it for the average worker in China when they are basically forced to retire at 35? Not to mention the extreme working hours! Can a country exist this way?

Or is the Time’s exaggerating?

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No, the times is 100% right that paywalls are a pain.

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Then read it here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news…a035219b&ei=43

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Plees chec yur speling!

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I haven't read the article - but there are several youtube-channels (each with its own agenda for sure) that document the economic decline in China - especially in the South.

A lot of manufacturing has moved to India - and it looks like it ain't comin' back any time soon.

China may very well be finished in a decade or two.

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Any manual work without proper care of worker health and safety is very hard on the human body. No surprise if bodies are broken at 35 YO.

I joke about my broken bones because I work in front of 3 computer screens. If I were a starving manual worker, I would probably being forced back to the job before full recovery and therefore live with lifetime injuries that can break you very young. In industrial settings, repetitive stress can destroy joints within years.

If part of manufacturing one trinket implies some elbows or wrists are stressed, those workers may be "useless" after 5-10 years. Air quality matters too. If you go to history books 35 YO is around the time consumption (tuberculosis) killed people.

If air is not clean, pulmonary disease is a reality, not just scare tactics to push onerous regulations on entrepreneurship.

Decaying eyesight at young age is linked to malnutrition.....well, it's a long list of things that can be bad for manual workers. Considering the manufacturing capacities of China as a whole, no surprise the 35YO barrier could exist.

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All western propoganda.