Buy a large thermos bottle, and fill it with either Chinese herbal tea or whiskey, as a desk-side companion. Set a reminder on your phone to drink 8 glasses of water every day, and leave your workstation every 50 minutes to get that water. Start doing 15 minutes of stretches, or planking, in the office pantry. Set the goal of becoming the person who uses the most toilet paper in the company.

These are some of the tips for how to slack off at work provided by Massage Bear. Her philosophy of “touching fish” (mō yú), synonymous with lazing around at work, has resonated with many Chinese, increasingly exhausted by society’s ever more intense rat race.

as China becomes more prosperous, bullshit jobs are growing, just like in other advanced economies. Makes me wonder whether the transition to UBI will happen faster in China if these trends accelerate, as they likely will.

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