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Antiwork Part 2: Lying Flat and Petting Fish

It Could Happen Here

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Is Involution a Thing That's Unique to China?

There's beensome really funny stuff with involution. We're like, you read accounts of it. It goes from being a very general argument about industrial policy to i s one anthropologist, it the experience of being locked in competition that one ultimately knows is meaningless. Did you ays know about thos i utuber named liche? She's the biggest chinese utuper. She has 16 million followers. And most of her followers are not on dyou too, because, you know, you choose ak block by the fire wall. Yes, that that would concern me too, if they are a thing that we were capable of feeling in our country. But i want to think

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