> The other stark contrast is how much harder people in China seem to work than people here, and how working hard is considered a good thing, not a bad thing.

> The other stark contrast is how much harder people in China seem to work than people here, and how working hard is considered a good thing, not a bad thing. It is a survival thing, not an inherently good thing. Those factory workers or university students aren't working 14 hour days because of the 'virtue of hard work'. They're doing it because they have to in order to stay alive in the continious stampede of progression that is China. See how 'hard' most Chinese people work once they've got money. Most of the hard work of wealthy Chinese to conceal their wealth in western coutries.