1. "Mate, my workload is higher than my hat" exclaimed Richard "I've had it, I'm going to lie flat". What did Richard mean by "lie flat"?
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Reject overwork
Lying flat comes from the translation of the Chinese phrase "tang ping". The phrase reflects a cultural movement in China whereby employees are rejecting the demands/pressures/workloads that are being placed upon them by their employers, generally for inadequate reward. Members of the movement are, primarily, the younger generation of Chinese workers moving away from the pressures of competition and adopting a much more minimalistic lifestyle.
The Chinese government is not impressed and has deemed it a counter-culture and are seeking to repress it as efficiently as possible. The movement is seen as something akin to the anti-work movement that is localized in the United States, however, is not quite the same. Anti-work, which also made the new list of words with Dictionary.com, is a distinguishing of labour. In other words, it separates the labour that is employed to generate the production of goods and services, and the work that merely generates wealth without doing much. The movement rejects artificially incentivized work and gives the thumbs up to work that is essential.
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