Everyone, Accelerating the Escape! Job Openings Shrinking Massively, Yet More Graduates Than Ever! Radiation Begins, All Surrounding Countries Affected! Qi Qi Ba Ba TALK "Refreshing 773" 20260919

This episode explores the current severe unemployment wave, the surge in the flexible employment population, and the bleak business conditions across various sectors such as catering, KTV, and hairdressing, drawing on a large number of netizens' life situations and submitted clips. Host Qiqi points out that in addition to the withdrawal of foreign capital, a large number of Chinese local factory owners have moved their factories to neighboring countries like Vietnam, triggering a chain collapse of upstream and downstream industrial chains, leading to a sharp reduction in domestic jobs and sluggish economic recovery.

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Hello everyone, welcome to Qiqi Baba, I am Qiqi. See you at the next stop, Vietnam. Moving to Vietnam. Machinery manufacturing, moved the factory to Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh City.

Brothers, take a look, this is the change in the flexible employment population over the last ten years, from over 100 million to nearly 300 million. What is the concept of 300 million? It is equivalent to the total population of many countries in the world. This is the first point. The second point, who are the people in flexible employment? Didi drivers, food delivery riders, and a large portion of streamers or professional investors, commonly known as stock traders. If this population continues to grow, is it like a volcano? The more lake water there is, if this dam is not strong enough, what problems will occur? I think this is a question everyone should think about. Looking at it from another perspective, our employment situation is indeed very active, and job positions are very diversified. What do you think?

Now I am so poor that I can't even afford to eat, I can only eat rice noodles, two yuan for a meal.

Family, I want to ask, how many people are not working? Let me start with myself, born in 1996, now the whole family is unemployed, the little savings I have left will be gone soon, if I don't go out to earn money, I will have to drink the northwest wind. How about you? Share in the comments section.

The doctor said, with my current physical condition, should I not eat this non-nutritious stuff? Anything with slightly higher sugar content cannot be eaten! Don't eat noodles, don't eat steamed buns, don't drink porridge. Are you kidding me? You have to eat beef, chicken, duck, and seafood. Don't you know my situation? Still want me to eat beef, chicken, and seafood. I can't even afford white steamed buns now, and you're talking about it being bad for my health, too much sugar? What health am I talking about? I'm not even afraid of death, do I still care about whether it's good or not? It's already good enough that I can eat my fill and survive. From last year until now, there has been no income, I wasn't rich to begin with, and not only is there no income, but I have to go to the hospital for follow-ups every other day or every few days. God, just bring it on! Honestly, I'm not afraid of you, I'm not even afraid of death.

Currently, the wage situation for construction work here in Dongguan, for medium-sized factories and smaller factories, is probably only three or four thousand, maybe three thousand something.

I am unemployed again today. I said I graduated a year ago and have already been unemployed twice. I actively fought for it, I fought with my team leader, I fought with my boss, I even suggested that I could work without pay, hoping they could give me another chance to prove my ability, but it was useless. I have already supported myself independently. It was still useless, and I don't know what to do next.

Today is the second day of unemployment, let me show you, a cabinet full of instant noodles, I can't even afford a meal anymore. I originally planned to use this job's salary to pay next month's rent, but now next month's rent has no source, it's so painful, brothers.

I have finally lived the good life my mom talked about. Got married last year, had a baby this year, and I also raised two dogs. Ah, I also became unemployed this month, life really has more and more to look forward to.

My heart is so panicked! If I keep holding on, I will have nothing left. I don't know which way to go, where to go from here? Hum, hehe, what should I do? What should I do? Why am I so useless? They can all make money, but I can't, what should I do?

Ah, brothers, finally I get to eat. In the past, I used to look down upon twelve-yuan fast food, but being able to eat it now is really not easy at all.

Have any of you five ever eaten hamburgers or anything like that?

I don't know what it is.

Hamburger.

I don't know.

None of you know what a hamburger is?

It seems I've seen one, like.

Mm.

The kind that looks like bread on the outside, with this kind of meat patty inside.

The kid next to me is fourteen years old, and the reason he doesn't go to school is to take care of his younger brother and sister, and well, at fourteen he doesn't know what a hamburger is, can you understand that?

Let me tell you something, buying KFC and eating while walking, why eating while walking? I went to spend money, and there was no place to sit. Ah, why was there no place to sit? Because the whole place was filled with fifteen or sixteen homeless people, taking up all the places that could be sat on, so you had no place to sit, walking into the place. Ah, and also ate a free-range chicken. This Shanghai has turned into Los Angeles, looking at so many homeless people, are they crazy? Fucking the same age as my mom, fucking from time to time it's also fucking twenty-something young guys acting as homeless people. Then KFC's bench is so narrow, that fucking two centimeters! That bench just lying there sleeping.

Came to eat free KFC again, brothers, the target has been chosen! The family set meal at the table in front is a must-win, and there is also a girls' set meal that is also a must-win, all must-wins. Next, what we are going to do is.

This is patiently waiting, ten to ten.

Fifteen minutes, now starting to search the battlefield. Opportunity always favors those who are prepared. My gloves, is there too much left of this? Oh, um, spicy juice, really fragrant. Keep going, leave the gloves, take the whole tray away.

Just sitting here eating baked buns, right at that place, and then seeing hot baked buns, ordered two, while eating, eating to the last bite, an aunt came over, and then said to me, "Young man, do you have any more food? Brother, can you give me a little?" I was eating the very last bite at the time, and I didn't react, and then I called her over and said, "I'll buy you some." She said she didn't want that thin one, she said that thick one, that that Xinjiang white dog, ah, thick one. She said that thick one looked a bit thicker. She said she hadn't eaten for several days, and then I bought her two baked buns, gave one to her brother, and then. And then I watched her, watched her walk that way, and then I saw there was still an old partner, and then and then kept eating. After taking it, and then I came over again and sat on this little stool, and there were two aunts from Shanghai who asked, "Young man, is she asking you for money?" And I said no, she said she hadn't eaten for several days, and asked if I had any food, so I bought her a naan. And then the two women aunts asked, "How can there still be people who can't afford to eat nowadays?" And I said I asked, she said she just came to Xinjiang and hadn't found anything for several days. I haven't eaten for several days.

Hua.

Oh, empty, out of stock.

In. I play, I play should be.

Who is our greatest enemy now? Is it the United States? Is it Japan? In fact, it is those corrupt officials, those who boycott foreign-invested companies and raise wages for domestic employees. Just like Musk apologizing to the employees of the Shanghai factory, he tried every means to improve the welfare and treatment of the workers, but what happened? Certain companies jumped out to boycott, with the excuse of disrupting market balance. To put it bluntly, they just can't stand ordinary people getting higher wages. Remember, no matter how strong foreign enemies are, they cannot shake our foundation. But these internal worms can really drag us down to collapse?

I spent over two million to open this store, everyone take a look, how much money did we make this Saturday? Two thousand and sixty-six, a complete loss. Doing two thousand plus yuan of business on a big Saturday, with such a big store, what do you all say I should do?

At forty-two, I cannot give my parents dignity, nor can I give my children abundance.

I can do whatever.

In.

Give me some time.

How afraid I am that the speed at which I make money cannot catch up with the speed at which you age.

Now more and more people are dying! It used to be older people dying more, now younger people are also dying relatively fast, what myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, ah, or some cardiogenic sudden something, anyway, there is a lot of pressure, everyone should cherish it.

Well, out to set up a stall again, making good money! This machine gun can't even deliver ten people, just do it~

In recent years, it has really become more and more obvious, money is harder and harder to make, the industry is also very involutionary, and layoffs have become normalized. The future is truly full of various variables, and there is no sense of security at all.

Trouble the state to let those of us over forty retire! Recruitment doesn't want us anymore, we simply cannot find a job. Now I am in my forties, unemployed for over three months, and haven't been able to find a job. I have now been reduced to doing daily wage work. Look at this, hurry up and arrange retirement, stop working.

Now delivering takeout is easy to starve to death. I went online for four hours, delivered eight orders, and earned thirty-nine yuan. I feel like nobody is ordering takeout anymore right now, and there are way too many people delivering takeout, hum, hard to handle, really hard to handle.

Eleven fifty, this order is delivered and I'm not doing anymore, tired and sleepy. Look at this eye, suddenly running sixteen orders, which is five point five.

Do you all know how bad the situation is right now, and how hard it is to make money? I saw it today, because we work in the hair salon industry, and in the hair salon groups we are in, there are always two or three of them, especially for those who are bosses, they will definitely pay close attention to these groups. It's just that because I opened this hair salon group, I saw too many of these messages, especially during this period, really a lot. Uh, let me, let me flip the camera and take a look, in my hair salon group, look, there are tons of experts, tons of experts. I also said, it's really hard to transfer shops these days! If you want to transfer, in the hair salon group, this is one of the groups, and this hair salon group, look at how many hair salon groups are looking for transfers. How terrifying! Ah, let me look for Xianyu again, look, hair salon transfers. Then I'll press the nearest one, I'll choose one nearby. Look, hair salon transfers, transfers, ah, transfers nearby, transfers, how many, how many? Look at how exaggerated this data is! So sometimes, I sometimes chat with other bosses who are not in the same industry, saying that business is very hard to do this year. Sometimes, customers or friends in the same industry say: 'Oh, you guys in the hair salon industry, isn't hair cutting a rigid demand? Hair salon business should be okay, it won't be affected by the internet or anything, right? You have to cut your hair, it's always a rigid demand.' Sigh, so sometimes when I hear these words, I just smile bitterly. If it were really as you imagined, so many people wouldn't be transferring their shops directly.

Once, when I was in high spirits, I had twenty or thirty workers, but now it has become only one, and I lose money every month.

Friends, if you want to make money, you have to go where the rich people are. The environment itself is wealth. No matter how hard you try among the poor, it's useless, because there are no fish in the river.

The general environment this year is really too bad, and I feel it will be even worse next year. Actually, last year, I would still have afternoon tea with friends, and friends I didn't see often would call to exchange greetings, and then we would have a meal together when we were free. But this year is completely different, unnecessary social engagements are basically all cancelled. Anyway, I feel it will be worse next year, I don't know what your situation is?

Let me show you how bad the business is now? Hmm, such good fish, and they can't be sold. I've been setting up a stall for a whole morning, a whole morning, such good shrimp, not even an ounce was sold.

To prevent students from dozing off, an electric shock gadget was invented.

If you stay still for thirty seconds, the LED screen can display your heart rate, low pressure, high pressure, and sleep time. It will judge you as being in a sleep state, and it will vibrate, and then regardless of whether it's from weak to strong electric shock, to remind you not to fall into a doze, then.

To find students.

No, this is too ridiculous, right? Even Northern Myanmar doesn't do this, right? High technology is meant to make life better and people freer, why are some people thinking every day about how to make people more exhausted?

I moved again, this is my new home, just moved in. And then, it's convenient to dry clothes here, uh, convenient to get water, and also convenient to go to the restroom. Ah, let's settle down here, settle down. It's also convenient to deliver food, the clothes are dried, and I'll start delivering food tonight. Now everyone is holding their pockets tightly.

It's really hard to spend money. Look at the street, there are more stall owners than customers, and there is no one anywhere.

Oh ho, oh ho again! This year is even more 'oh ho' than last year, more than half a year has passed, and the wallet is still an empty shell. Every day I work from dawn to dusk, earning little, but spending quite a lot.

It's almost 8:30, usually at this time, it's either booking a private room or making arrangements, if not making arrangements, it's looking here and there. Now there is no one, the whole place, except for the management, is just me. Such a big KTV, not a single customer, it's over, it's finished! Where will the nightlife staff go? How did this society become like this? It's a mess!

Yes, it told us all right from the start: it's about running away. But in reality, everyone needs to know that the most serious issue isn't just that foreign capital is fleeing. The most serious problem now is that many local factory owners in China have also fled; they are no longer operating factories in China and have all moved to surrounding countries like India and Vietnam. These surrounding countries are truly delighted. Honestly, everyone can take a look at Vietnam's economic growth; it is terrifying, even more exaggerated than when China first started its reform and opening up, and then you will understand. When a buyer chooses another supplier, who exactly reaps the benefits? And what is the fate of the original supplier after losing this client? So why is there so-called 'flexible employment' now? To put it bluntly, it's just unemployment. Because if you look at the income, you'll know they have no income. Yes, just look at the income ratio and you'll know. Therefore, when factories move away and the economy is ruined, it creates a chain reaction that leads to fewer and fewer job positions. Because, for example, while it may seem like this person is just producing rice, they actually have upstream and downstream partners; it is a whole chain of production. So when this one business is gone, or this link is... removed, in fact, its upstream and downstream will also collapse over time. Thus, the loss of just one link can cause the entire chain to collapse. This is also the fundamental reason why the economy is so difficult to save no matter what, and why job positions are so difficult to increase. Alright, that is all for this episode. If you would like to support me, please join the membership channel. If you have any other questions you would like to discuss with me in real-time, you are also very welcome to join. That's all for this episode, see you next time.