People don't sit around on their bums for too long - it's just not in our nature. If they weren't slaving away in factories they might end up as a society that

People don't sit around on their bums for too long - it's just not in our nature. If they weren't slaving away in factories they might end up as a society that primarily produces cultural capital (huge social stability there) or they might develop a service-based economy. In the wider scheme, Chinese manufacturing is probably more important to the west than China.