Articles by Samuel Wade

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Netizen Voices: Backlash Against Supposed Beauty of Golden Week Traffic Jams

我吃猫糧：They keep coming up with tricks for painting suffering as a virtue. 泷居富春：Some people take pride in it, but it’s really a national tragedy, and the safety risks are huge. 如山妈妈淑苹君：Your proposal is excellent, Master Xiang, we really should stagger the peak vacation and travel periods. But given our current national condition and enforcement capacity, staggered vacation would end up meaning no vacation at all 😥 😥 小Lia的梦境：I have a feeling that these nationwide public holidays are the only ones that people—including business owners—see as legally mandated. If we started having businesses arranging vacation times independently, it would all get swallowed up for one reason or another 🤦 🤦 🤦 🙂：It’s really suffocating to describe those who have to live far from home and save money on highway tolls [which were waived for the holiday period] as a "galaxy of glittering stars." I can’t imagine how cushy a life you’d have to lead to make that comparison. Q: Don’t make things harder for managers, LOL 自来卷：They’re service providers, not managers, and it’s our duty to offer suggestions. D: An eight-day holiday that includes two weekend days and two days you’ll have to work some other time is really only a four-day break. They’re just loosening the reins a bit on us livestock to stimulate spending. 李飘飘： +10000!! Take us teachers, for example. Everyone thinks we can just slack off for three months of summer and winter holidays, but the reality is that we hardly dare go out then. It’s either freezing cold or boiling hot, everywhere’s crowded, hotels and flights are wildly expensive, and we can’t afford them on our meager salaries 🤷 We just end up staying home … 说说号码：Let’s start with making forty-hour workweeks a reality—we can talk about the rest later. WadeJ：Everything’s neatly laid out for you from birth to death, why do you need to worry about picking vacation days? dancerinfire：A lot of prefecture-level cities can’t even guarantee two-day weekends. If we switched to flexible vacation days, we’d end up getting none at all. 赵冠楠：This is the same mindset as those "synchronized group calisthenics" radio broadcasts, writ large. 小肉肉：A “galaxy of glittering stars” … whoever said that is really asking for a couple of slaps across the face!! [Chinese]