84h a week with no overtime… thanks fucking god no overtime!
Turns out putting little hats on donkeys and ferrying Barry and Susan from their hotel to a restaurant is big business
Work to live >>> live to work
Yeah no wonder the fertility rate in South Korea is like 0.7
Korea is also wone of the most corrupted traditional democarcy …
A country that becomes “succesful” by drilling its quality of life into the ground, does not have a proper definition of success
Ah yes, let’s pull inspiration from the country who basically overworked itself to near-future extinction, very wise.
I don’t want to live in a cyberpunk distopia without the cool arms and glasses thanks
Yes, I wonder why korea will stop existing in three generations
Ah yes the glorious nation of South Korea, where freetime, philosophy, time with family, dating, generally living a life is an unachievable goal. That’s what I want for my society: to go extinct.
South Korea’s productivity rate is lower than every PIGS country other than Greece. Such an awful work culture.
Literally, this culture of labor exploitation in East Asian countries is causing them serious problems. If they already have extremely low birth rates because of this, the fact that this situation is driving many young people to take their own lives doesn’t help.
This is how you build a society of mentally ill people.
Well yeah, from what I’ve heard, in Korea, Japan and such they work long, but aren’t productive at all.
I’ve heard anecdotes about it being a ‘no-go’ to leave the office before your boss so alot of the time they just sit in a cubical and do nothing.
You can call us lazy however its been proven many times before that our schedules are way more productive which leads to getting more shit done.
Why would anyone want to strive towards a cyberpunk dystopia where nobody fucks each other??
Yes yes yes, be miserable until you die so some cunt you’ll never meet can see the line go up.
Meanwhile that cunt you’ll never meet has got in at the bottom of the latest corporatocratic state funds extraction flimflam, which you yourself will eventually pay to bail out with the meagre salary you earnt for giving away your life.
You continuously chase this “success” that you have arbitrarily placed as your unattainable goal in life. You will forever be stuck running, unable to stop and breathe, incapable of halting and taking in the richness of the world we live in. You claim that i am lazy, that i have no ambition and attempt to belittle me. And yet i have achieved what most believe impossible, i am truly content, i have no real wants or needs, I work a decent low stress job, i own a house with a nice view of the marsh upon which i live, i spend some of my time down the pub with the lads hearing the stories of their past and telling a few of my own. I eat what ever i want, exercise as much as i need, make merry and have no ill will against anyone who doesnt deserve it. I am truly happy, and what are you?
This is how you get your birthrate down to 0,6 guys, as no one working an 80+ hour week has the time or energy to date or fuck, let alone raise a kid.
Beautiful.
Surprising how they forgot to mention that those workers taxes actually funded those companies, corruption made them work and even hid all the practices they accomplished until it was unbearable.
It is a corrupt system financed and supported by the state with a cult to capitalism. Because while I was having a siesta Daewoo went down with billions and billions in debt.
And korean auto manufacturers would be nothing without a german like Peter Schreyer.
And now nobody’s making babies. A whole country burning out.
Very interesting, now let’s see Korea’s suicide and births per capita
What’s the point of growth if your population is miserable and unhappy?
Big Kim just waiting for the complete collapse of South Korean society just because Samsung manipulated the work culture of the country
Also now their population collapsed with less than a child per woman meaning in just 30 years their population will be half 😳
I’ll do the odd 60 hour week (like twice a year, 40hrs normally) and I’ll tell everyone I know looking for sympathy, as though I carried the whole world that week
You may have higher GDP per capita but they have more suicides per capita.
most things here are lies
A country worked into the ground by ruling mafia families.
Or a country that understands work life balance and that the number/line doesn’t have to always go up.
Societies structure everything around money and economy at the expense of its people. We all know where that is heading but the money makers and businesses don’t care.
Results now! Worry later. If I have enough money who cares? Right?
We need big societal change across the world. No more work —> life. No more GDP bullshit. What’s wrong with just existing?
The idea that their success is built on hard work is not completely true.
All the industria in Korea was in the north. The yanks have worked hard to switch that around. They turned the country into a car park then rebuilt it.
I’m a South Korean living in the Netherlands for the past two years to study econometrics and safe to say I’m infinite times happier here than back in that worthless nation
SK is crap for many reasons and the quality of life not great but: SK gdp per capita adjusted to PPP aka Purchasing Power is still higher (65.1k > 56.5k in [2025](https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PPPPC@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD)), only in ”unrefined” gdp per capita it’s not.
The problem with unadjusted GDP data is, it measures economic output and prices, PPP was developed so that economic output becomes the main focus. Spain in recent years has gotten quite expensive, probably in part due to the huge amount of tourism and foreigners buying up property etc., this affects purchasing power adjusted numbers. Suprisingly, the informal economy in SK is also bigger than in Spain, 26% of GDP (formal economy) and in Spain 23% in 2020, data from the world bank. In Japan it’s only 10%, China 12%, i wonder whats going on in SK…
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work smart, not hard.
wait what?
https://i.redd.it/ia3o4bpz3naf1.gif
all that for both countries to go extinct tho
84h a week with no overtime… thanks fucking god no overtime!
Turns out putting little hats on donkeys and ferrying Barry and Susan from their hotel to a restaurant is big business
Work to live >>> live to work
Yeah no wonder the fertility rate in South Korea is like 0.7
Korea is also wone of the most corrupted traditional democarcy …
A country that becomes “succesful” by drilling its quality of life into the ground, does not have a proper definition of success
Ah yes, let’s pull inspiration from the country who basically overworked itself to near-future extinction, very wise.
I don’t want to live in a cyberpunk distopia without the cool arms and glasses thanks
Yes, I wonder why korea will stop existing in three generations
Ah yes the glorious nation of South Korea, where freetime, philosophy, time with family, dating, generally living a life is an unachievable goal. That’s what I want for my society: to go extinct.
South Korea’s productivity rate is lower than every PIGS country other than Greece. Such an awful work culture.
Literally, this culture of labor exploitation in East Asian countries is causing them serious problems. If they already have extremely low birth rates because of this, the fact that this situation is driving many young people to take their own lives doesn’t help.
This is how you build a society of mentally ill people.
Well yeah, from what I’ve heard, in Korea, Japan and such they work long, but aren’t productive at all.
I’ve heard anecdotes about it being a ‘no-go’ to leave the office before your boss so alot of the time they just sit in a cubical and do nothing.
You can call us lazy however its been proven many times before that our schedules are way more productive which leads to getting more shit done.
Why would anyone want to strive towards a cyberpunk dystopia where nobody fucks each other??
https://preview.redd.it/vewhhij87naf1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c612b83eae237727d83f1a6c3b9668cd37a6b031
By a country mile.
Guys it is harsh here indeed but it is not that kind of cyberpunk dystopia ruled by three families we are just more of which is American one
Maybe Korea would have a higher GDP if they got paid for overtime…
So all you have to do to create an “over-performing nation” is to treat people like machines and work them twelve hours a day for no overtime?
I think I’ll stick with economic mediocrity.
For your reading pleasure, a list of countries GDP per capita from highest to lowest:
[https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gdp-per-capita-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gdp-per-capita-by-country)
Yes yes yes, be miserable until you die so some cunt you’ll never meet can see the line go up.
Meanwhile that cunt you’ll never meet has got in at the bottom of the latest corporatocratic state funds extraction flimflam, which you yourself will eventually pay to bail out with the meagre salary you earnt for giving away your life.
You continuously chase this “success” that you have arbitrarily placed as your unattainable goal in life. You will forever be stuck running, unable to stop and breathe, incapable of halting and taking in the richness of the world we live in. You claim that i am lazy, that i have no ambition and attempt to belittle me. And yet i have achieved what most believe impossible, i am truly content, i have no real wants or needs, I work a decent low stress job, i own a house with a nice view of the marsh upon which i live, i spend some of my time down the pub with the lads hearing the stories of their past and telling a few of my own. I eat what ever i want, exercise as much as i need, make merry and have no ill will against anyone who doesnt deserve it. I am truly happy, and what are you?
This is how you get your birthrate down to 0,6 guys, as no one working an 80+ hour week has the time or energy to date or fuck, let alone raise a kid.
Beautiful.
Surprising how they forgot to mention that those workers taxes actually funded those companies, corruption made them work and even hid all the practices they accomplished until it was unbearable.
It is a corrupt system financed and supported by the state with a cult to capitalism. Because while I was having a siesta Daewoo went down with billions and billions in debt.
And korean auto manufacturers would be nothing without a german like Peter Schreyer.
And now nobody’s making babies. A whole country burning out.
Very interesting, now let’s see Korea’s suicide and births per capita
What’s the point of growth if your population is miserable and unhappy?
Big Kim just waiting for the complete collapse of South Korean society just because Samsung manipulated the work culture of the country
Also now their population collapsed with less than a child per woman meaning in just 30 years their population will be half 😳
I’ll do the odd 60 hour week (like twice a year, 40hrs normally) and I’ll tell everyone I know looking for sympathy, as though I carried the whole world that week
You may have higher GDP per capita but they have more suicides per capita.
most things here are lies
A country worked into the ground by ruling mafia families.
Or a country that understands work life balance and that the number/line doesn’t have to always go up.
Societies structure everything around money and economy at the expense of its people. We all know where that is heading but the money makers and businesses don’t care.
Results now! Worry later. If I have enough money who cares? Right?
We need big societal change across the world. No more work —> life. No more GDP bullshit. What’s wrong with just existing?
The idea that their success is built on hard work is not completely true.
All the industria in Korea was in the north. The yanks have worked hard to switch that around. They turned the country into a car park then rebuilt it.
I’m a South Korean living in the Netherlands for the past two years to study econometrics and safe to say I’m infinite times happier here than back in that worthless nation
SK is crap for many reasons and the quality of life not great but: SK gdp per capita adjusted to PPP aka Purchasing Power is still higher (65.1k > 56.5k in [2025](https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PPPPC@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD)), only in ”unrefined” gdp per capita it’s not.
The problem with unadjusted GDP data is, it measures economic output and prices, PPP was developed so that economic output becomes the main focus. Spain in recent years has gotten quite expensive, probably in part due to the huge amount of tourism and foreigners buying up property etc., this affects purchasing power adjusted numbers. Suprisingly, the informal economy in SK is also bigger than in Spain, 26% of GDP (formal economy) and in Spain 23% in 2020, data from the world bank. In Japan it’s only 10%, China 12%, i wonder whats going on in SK…
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