Tang Ping / Lying Flat
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CORE DEFINITION
A life attitude in which young people, under intense competition and social pressure, choose to withdraw from involution, maintain only the minimum standard of living, and refuse to be cogs in the capital money-making machine.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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Nonviolent non-cooperation. This is not merely laziness but a defensive strike against over-alienated labor. As a social observation scaffold, it signals the failure of incentive mechanisms—when the marginal benefit of effort is lower than the marginal cost, the system automatically generates 'crashed' units.
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A passive resistance by young people to excessive competition and high-pressure 'involution', actively lowering desires and efforts, choosing a low-energy lifestyle. The mechanism is a rational exit from a high-input, low-return game when the upward channel narrows and marginal returns diminish.
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- zh.wikipedia.orghttps://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BA%BA%E5%B9%B3verified
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