Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 30, 2023, 11:45 PMToday I arrived at work to learn that there had been a burglary in the store warehouse when the store was busy and everyone was in front at noon yesterday.  $6000.00 in merchandise taken by a crew of three.  One walked through the warehouse and opened our garage door and cameras show them walking the warehouse isles taking shit to a beater car in back.

Not to be picky, but these guys aren't loafers.  They're thieves.  Very bad, small time thieves called Burglars.

The owners of the warehouse are also thieves. They steal by charging customers more than they pay for the stuff they keep there and pay their workers less than their labor is worth.  They pocket the difference as profit and loaf all day counting their money.  They are very good, big time thieves called Capitalists.

I'm not sure of the difference between skating by and loafing.  The CCP ideologues feel the young workers aren't trying hard enough.  They don't try harder because they don't get anything for it.  They work just as much as they have to to get what they need to survive.  That is just what I did.

The unemployment rate among young Chinese is 20%.  That's not because they don't want to work, it's because the only jobs available are really low paid crap jobs that are go nowhere.  So they just work enough to get money for food and a dozen of them share a one bedroom apartment.  They are just skating by, not loafing.

RE