An optimistic view is that in the future, increasingly powerful automation can make it easier for Chinese to see the overwork as being unnecessary. My inner cy

An optimistic view is that in the future, increasingly powerful automation can make it easier for Chinese to see the overwork as being unnecessary. My inner cynic, however, is telling me that China will not become fat and lazy like America until it gains more geopolitical power and therefore more easily accesses resources and goods in proportion to it's enormous population. Optimistically, in the future, a new type of more sophisticated and sustainable high-tech global monetary and economic system can provide some breathing room and reduce resource conflicts.