the main issue here is that just as many if not more chinese people don't actually want to fix the problem of competition, they LIKE the competition, the competition is GOOD, the competition is NOT the problem, because if there was no competition, they wouldn't be able to win
the REAL problem is that they're not winning
it's one step up from the american 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires'; chinese strivers are capable of recognizing wishful thinking for what it is, but the sheer need for and capability to execute on dumb striver shit to fulfill dumb striver motives just to be able to lord it over their peer group is quite literally ruining the country rn. the entire educational system (and culture at large tbh) is caught in a negative feedback loop of artificially inflated standards and the government has no fucking idea how to solve it
an abundance of needlessly well made powerpoint presentations is a portent for the end of nations
mfw I am chinawatching
the main issue here is that just as many if not more chinese people don't actually want to fix the problem of competition, they LIKE the competition, the competition is GOOD, the competition is NOT the problem, because if there was no competition, they wouldn't be able to win
the REAL problem is that they're not winning
it's one step up from the american 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires'; chinese strivers are capable of recognizing wishful thinking for what it is, but the sheer need for and capability to execute on dumb striver shit to fulfill dumb striver motives just to be able to lord it over their peer group is quite literally ruining the country rn. the entire educational system (and culture at large tbh) is caught in a negative feedback loop of artificially inflated standards and the government has no fucking idea how to solve it
an abundance of needlessly well made powerpoint presentations is a portent for the end of nations