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Jun 2022
39m 41s

Slackers@Work: A Song for the Exhausted

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A video ricochets across Chinese offices, and a scooter thief becomes an icon for brewing discontent. Why is a thief who says he's tired of working viewed by the Chinese state as such a threat?

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