No Proof Needed, Beijing Erupts Directly! This Is Exactly Where Dictatorship Shows Its Power — Chinese People May Feel Utterly Desperate After Hearing This! Qiqi Baba TALK Episode 1003 20261018

This episode explores the current grim employment and economic situation in China. It analyzes the underlying logic behind the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security's cross-departmental social security collection policy. Combining numerous reports from netizens regarding extreme overtime in state-owned enterprises, layoffs, the plight of flexible employment, low wages, and people in the 'four provinces of the mountains and rivers' (Shanhe Si Sheng) scavenging for a living, it dissects the extreme involution in Chinese society and the governing characteristics of the authoritarian regime.

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Hello everyone, welcome to Qiqi Baba.

Qiqi, have you noticed? To donate blood, you don't need social security, you don't need household registration (hukou) proof, right, right, right, you don't need a good credit record, you don't need a bachelor's degree, you don't even need to be under 35, and you don't need work experience, nor do you need a clean criminal record. You will find that when they need you, there are no thresholds at all; but when you need them, there are layers upon layers of rules, obstacles, and endless twists and turns.

It is exactly like that. So, actually, as I have said before, if you want to judge what the CCP really wants or what they are trying to do, you must never look at what they say—'I want to do this, I want to do that.' You have to look at what things have extremely low thresholds, and what you are ultimately giving up; that is what they really want. Another key point is that the working hours in various industries inside the Great Firewall, I feel, are about to break the limits of human endurance! They want to challenge our species to see just how much we can be worked to the bone.

I suddenly feel so happy. Having lived to my thirties, I have reached a state of almost completely discarding the dross and keeping the essence. I hardly ever see my husband, yet I have a very cute son. For all this, I must thank the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC). Thank you to all the leaders for filling every moment of your employees' time with work, so that their families never even get to see their faces. I am particularly curious: what exactly is the corporate culture of the Agricultural Bank? Is it the hope that employees will work diligently with nothing but work and no life? Is it the hope that married employees will be separated from their spouses and become strangers to each other? Is it the hope that your employees will work themselves to the bone and then drop dead at their posts? Because I truly cannot understand what kind of corporate culture requires employees to work 336 days out of 365 days a year. I feel like I am not the family member of a state-owned enterprise employee, but the family member of an employee at a foreign company. This is exactly like a Myanmar-based office in Rugao. Actually, I have always felt that the leaders of the Agricultural Bank work very hard; they are always holding meetings and training sessions for employees on Saturdays and Sundays. It is truly exhausting. They always selflessly take their own rest time to encroach upon the employees' rest time, dedicated to making the employees' families chaotic and restless. On workdays, they work overtime until nine or ten o'clock before they can go home, sometimes even eleven or twelve. It is one thing to work overtime and have meetings on Saturdays and Sundays, but they also have to work overtime and have meetings on statutory holidays, which were originally meant to be compensatory leave. It is one thing to work overtime and have meetings on statutory holidays, but why is there not even a single day off during the Spring Festival? Therefore, I hope some teacher can enlighten me: what exactly is the spirit and corporate culture of the Agricultural Bank? Are the core leadership members of the Agricultural Bank members of the Communist Party? The Chinese Communist Party?

The irony is that so many people cannot find work, yet the workload of those who currently have jobs is shockingly high; one person may have to do the work of three or even five people. Right, isn't this very bizarre? Why don't you hire a few more people? Because, since, well, the workload is so heavy and it requires many people to work together, why not do more hiring? It is actually a very simple logic: because they are willing. Because the person currently working also knows that the outside world is full of people like wolves and tigers wanting to snatch their position. So, no matter how much work you assign them, they are willing to do it; they are even afraid that people outside might be willing to do more than them. If we are the client, let's put ourselves in their shoes: why hire more people? We would be incurring more costs, so you just work people to death. For the client, this is profit maximization, but this leads to more and more people in society being unable to find work. It is actually still involution. And the fact that such a society hasn't fallen into chaos is, on one hand, thanks to the fact that Chinese people can truly endure, and on the other hand, because the CCP is truly dictatorial. Otherwise, look at France right now; it is in chaos and completely unmanageable. This is the advantage of dictatorship. Because for a dictatorial government, if I cannot manage the country well, if I cannot make the country prosperous and powerful, well, can't I at least manage these slaves?

the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has announced that it will no longer sit and wait for the masses to come and enroll in social insurance. Instead, it will collaborate with the police, tax authorities, and other departments to cross-reference background data, precisely screen out individuals who should be insured but are not, or those who have interrupted their payments, and then have community workers proactively contact and mobilize them. The goal is to stabilize the basic pension insurance coverage rate at over 95%, with a focus on covering groups such as food delivery riders, ride-hailing drivers, and flexible employment personnel. It would be best to even find those who have no job and no income.

I do not pay social insurance, and I haven't even paid for urban cooperative medical care. You don't need to trouble yourselves to use big data to find me; I am saying it myself. The reason I don't pay social insurance is that I am in my forties, and many companies no longer want me. I am currently unemployed—ah, no, I am in "flexible employment." My blood pressure has come down after a few days of taking medicine and resting, but unfortunately, I was hit by a car two days ago. Once my body recovers, I will see if I can find a job. If I can't find one, can you arrange a job for me? I also want to pay this social insurance. That day, I had sudden hypertension, and the doctor asked if I had social insurance. I said I thought I did. Then I had a CT scan, blood tests, an ultrasound, a whole bunch of things, and it cost over a thousand. I had another accident two days ago, and the doctor said that since I was hit by a car, it couldn't be reimbursed, so I really regret not buying this social insurance now. But how can I buy social insurance without a job? I really don't know what to do now.

What is flexible employment? To put it bluntly, it means you have no job, but you still have to pay your own social insurance and pay your own salary, so you become very "flexible."

Let me share some good news with you: I got my salary today, eight hundred and one yuan and thirty-six cents. I bought a flatbread for four yuan this morning, and since I didn't finish it, now that I'm off work, I'm going to eat it, leaving me with just three yuan and twenty cents.

The last time they searched everywhere for me was five years ago, saying it was for my health, and forcing me to take three shots. This time they are searching everywhere for me saying it's for my social security. If there were really any good things, it would never fall on the heads of us at the bottom.

I am about to retire, but when I saw this pension, I really burst into crying. Crying about what? A personal account totaling 530,000 yuan over 23 years, and the pension I finally got was only 8,269 yuan.

I really fucking look down on you so-called experts, scholars, professors, bigVs, and big shots, holding this meeting and that meeting all day long. In my opinion, you fucking can't do anything at all. What have ordinary people become now? The potatoes thrown away by ordinary people are cleaner than a clean bill. Well, you can't afford to buy a house, you can't afford to buy a car, restaurants are rolling out of bounds, every industry is rolling like crazy, driving bosses out of business, making bosses disappear, and workers have to go up on stage to labor. Well, the entrepreneurship problem can't be solved, how can the employment problem be solved? We have to face reality, we have to seek truth from facts, we can't keep singing praises all the time. Constantly singing praises cannot solve the fundamental problem.

German experts study heavy industry, American experts study military industry, Japanese experts study light industry, and our experts study migrant workers. Anyway, foreign experts are studying how to deal with us, while our experts are still studying how to deal with us. This is their common goal.

Wife, give me ten thousand yuan. Hmm.

What for?

Hey, aren't I going to pay my social security?

You men still pay social security! Oh my god! You won't retire until you are 55 or 65, and you'll be gone by your 70s, just to collect those five years of retirement pay? You still think you can live to your 80s? If you have nothing to do, go for a walk in the park and see how many old men in their 80s there are. Isn't it all old women?

Isn't that what you said?

He said it makes sense too. We can live well without causing you trouble. Damn it, you should thank your lucky stars, fuck! Saying so much is also bullshit. Anyway, you don't care either. We belong to others. Then don't talk about whether you love it or not. Well, loving it like this, not loving it like that.

I've used it up, I really can't finish using it. I go to the bank to withdraw 10,000 yuan every two or three months, and another 10,000 yuan in two or three months. Wow, another 10,000 so fast!

Then you should be retired now, with...

Retired. This.

This is old-age life, very active. Mosquitoes don't make a sound when they suck blood, and only buzz when they can't suck anything. People are actually the same: not saying a word when taking advantage of you, and talking bad about you all over the world when they can't take advantage of you.

Stop looking, it's this person, it's this person, he hasn't paid social security for several years. May I ask why you don't pay social security? Is it to respond to the country's call? Is it because you're poor? Is it because you have no money?

Hm-hm.

Mm-mm-mm-mm, you poor loser, you can't even afford social security.

A 35-year-old programmer in Hangzhou was laid off, all buffs stacked. He also has a house in Hangzhou with a monthly mortgage of 7,000 yuan. Some time ago, his wife was six months pregnant with a child, but she lost it again and couldn't go to work. What should we do now? A little confused, feeling that the prospects are very pessimistic.

My company laid off four people in one day. There were only a dozen people to begin with, and now there are not even double digits left, just a few people. Anyway, because I do cross-border business, today they laid off the development, procurement, and HR positions, a total of four people. Originally we were a small company, and now only operations are struggling bitterly, plus logistics, and that's it. It feels like, oh god, the bosses aren't having an easy time now either, and this business is quite difficult.

Who on earth is working a job that pays 2,000 yuan a month? It is already 2026, and I really can't believe there are still jobs paying 2,000 yuan. Averaged out to a day, it's only about 60 yuan, which isn't even enough to buy groceries for a day. Although my salary is not high either, only 3,500 yuan, I will definitely not go do a 2,000-yuan job. I don't know what everyone thinks.

No way, Xi'an salaries are already at 2,200 now, not even 2,800, and even master's degree holders are finding jobs that pay just over 2,000. Damn, it is so exaggerated. Originally, I was planning to go to work this morning, and I thought, if all else fails, I'll just be a waiter. But after having a phone call with my mom yesterday, damn, my mom said, you're going to be a waiter? Ah, we paid for your university education, and in the end you find a job as a waiter? Is there no work left in Xi'an? There is seriously no work left. Actually, many people who sent me private messages in recent years—many of them haven't found a job after three months at home—they really have no work at all. What does this have to do with personal ability? Right? I said I was going to be a waiter, and my mom wouldn't even let me, ah! So in the end, all that's left is deception, saying I'm going to be an operations specialist, when in reality I'm going to be a waiter. Do things really have to be this way? Oh man, it's so hard.

Did you all hear about it, brothers? In the trash cans of the provinces of Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, and Hebei, not a single mineral water bottle or piece of cardboard makes it to the recycling station.

Now, picking up trash every day, picking up cardboard boxes, hey, I spent a whole day on it, what I picked up just in the morning should be able to sell for seventy or eighty yuan, not bad.

Congratulations to myself, I've been unemployed for ten months now, and I've been looking for a job for about seven months, ah, and I still haven't found one. Hey, compared to before, my current state is, how should I put it, I mean, hey, it's just that I can't find anything, I just can't find anything, and we don't even know why. Now I basically can't even refresh any new job openings; they're all ones I've already seen, refreshed, applied for, or interviewed for, and there are basically no new positions at all.

Ah, actually what I want to say is that if you still have a salary now, you should probably be secretly happy, because whether you'll even have a salary in the future, whether they'll actually pay you inside the Wall, I honestly think it's hard to say, really hard to say, everyone better prepare themselves. Alright, the above is all the content for this episode. If you want to support me, you can join the membership channel. If you have other questions you want to ask me, you are also very welcome to join, and then during the member live streams, you can chat with me in real time, uh, and there might also be some other small interactions. Um, after that, I will also update more content in this member community, ah, to enrich it. Well, that's all for this episode, see you next time.