I'm a Chinese, i don't give a fuck about the grant number comparisons between China and US and the tariff childish number games right now, good or bad or ugly. None of macro stuff is my business. But a humble human can always easily recognize the very apparent history patterns. Just think it in a thermal dynamics perspective- how many hours do an American work? you know that actual figure for an average Chinese? I can't tell you a real statistical one but let me tell you my subjective experience, every middle class in the major cities are working their shitting ass off like over 70h to keep off the existence anxiety, paying off mortgages or competing in raising their children. Most of them are not enjoying life even in the modern cyberpunk world where you have every fancy technology that you can't even imagine 10 years ago, the job is to exist. If it's already too difficult for you as a free world citizen to comprehensive, here's more that blows your mind- nobody blames the government. nobody is fucking blaming the government. nobody is fucking blaming the fucking government. Again, it's not statistical, it's just observations from me as a Chinese who's parents is still living in one of the poorest rural areas of China. Oh yeah, a Chinese peasant. So what do i wanna say? China is a very low entropy system because of the unimaginable extra energy of Chinese working classes put into it either willingly or unwillingly. What you think??