Personal Finance
From FIRE To “Tang Ping”
By My 15 Hour Work Week  •  July 14, 2021
躺平 as a movement started in China (obviously) a couple of months ago and caught fire (pun intended) on the internet forums. Apparently, there was this jaded 26 year-old Chinese who decided to quit his mundane factory job even when he did not have much savings. He then likely spent a few months cycling around the country before settling back in his hometown. He now spends most of his time reading philosophy, earning relatively with random part-time odd jobs (like playing the role of a corpse in a show?) but has super low expenses. For example, he only eats two meals a day. It is likely that hundreds of thousands of disillusioned Chinese youths were inspired by this sharing, which obviously worried the Chinese state. The state-controlled media then proceeded to crush the movement and even labelled it as a shameful ideology. This then caught the attention of overseas media and eventually reached the shores of Singapore, with multiple online channels covering it. Just google....
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By My 15 Hour Work Week
Hi, I am Thomas (a.k.a. Mr 15HWW) and I am in my early thirties. Very happily married (very strong emphasis here), I am the co-writer behind this blog. The other permanent writer is my wife Jasmine who has written two blog post so far (good luck searching for it here). But well, her contribution goes far and deep since she thinks she is actually the mastermind behind the rest of the other post ...
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