People in China are becoming less valuable

Direct Translation

Things in China are getting cheaper but people are becoming less valuable

Editor : Zhong Kang / Source : Xiong Guan'er / https://www.aboluowang.com/2026/0609/2393779.html / Image : Illustrative image

Some people are complacent, boasting that our express delivery and food delivery are cheap, and that we practically give away small industrial goods for free, completely outperforming Western countries. They conclude that China is highly efficient, provides excellent service, and has an advanced system. In their eyes, delivery drivers, couriers, and assembly line workers are not even human.

There is a saying in economics: "There is no free lunch."

Anything cheap simply shifts costs elsewhere. A production-driven society has no future.

A production-driven society and a consumer-driven society are not necessarily opposed.

The real question is: Does a society treat production as a means to improve people's living standards, or as the ultimate goal?

If production becomes increasingly powerful, but ordinary people's income, welfare, and purchasing power do not improve in tandem, then production capacity will ultimately be constrained by insufficient demand.

Currently, too many people in China have lost their capacity for empathy; the divisions between groups are severe.

Paying a few dollars to have a recent college graduate deliver your food several kilometers is inhumane; in fact, this business model from beginning to end is extremely unethical and should never exist. Consumer welfare and worker welfare are often not the same concept. A mature society evaluates a service not only by what consumers receive, but also by what the service provider receives.

Which is more dignified, and which has a brighter future: a prosperity where goods are cheap or a prosperity where labor is highly valued?

Why is labour so cheap?