Yes it's a symptom of the cultural revolution and the lost generation. Best I can explain is it gave society an everyone for themselves mentality with no regard

Yes it's a symptom of the cultural revolution and the lost generation. Best I can explain is it gave society an everyone for themselves mentality with no regard for how it effects others. Which is ironic in a collectivest society. Educated children, forcefully separated from their family, were sent off to work farms and treated like slave labor to teach them some communist values during their formative years but all it taught them was dubious ethics and that no one cares about you so take what's yours and let others deal with it. https://youtu.be/X9Dh2gFX4Mg https://youtu.be/X9Dh2gFX4Mg That generation happens to be the one in power right now. Hopefully in a decade it'll shift. The younger generation has more concern for how their actions effect society as a whole.