looseyesterday

China only copied the model adopted first by Germany to catchup to Britain pre WW1, then by America, followed more recently Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Friedrich List was the first to really come up with a theory of how nations should act for the benefit of their citizens. You go to China, Japan or Korea and you'll find his works translated and common in libraries and second-hand bookstores.

Yeah its very dystopian. I suspect many of the hard core users have some form of generalised anxiety and are in fact the type of people who shouldn't be using this app at all.