Notes on AI, labor, and China

ahboyashreads (@ahboyashreads), May 15, 2026, 05:34 UTC

Notes on AI, labor, and China China observations • China already has structural urban youth unemployment, pre-AI, caused by mass college enrollment skewing supply toward knowledge work, weak household consumption, and policy favoring state firms • Coping pathways: tangping (lying flat, niche), care economy + “full-time children” living off boomer savings, brutal gig work (delivery at ~$14/day), and the “iron rice bowl” SOE/government jobs that function as de facto jobs programs (overstaffed parks, subways, etc.) • Despite robotics firms openly pitching human replacement, AI-jobs panic is mute…

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