Why do so many people in China like to work overtime?

In China, overtime culture has always been prevalent, and 996 is almost universal and standard.

Compared with developed countries such as Europe and the United States, the phenomenon of overtime in China is indeed quite serious.

In fact, not only has been spat on excessive overtime Internet industry, real estate industry, we remove the state-owned enterprises to see this all over the restaurant, supermarkets, retail, entertainment, private health care education, etc., which line is not 996 rolled?

Overtime, for the Chinese workplace, has been a common occurrence. Even for some people with a high sense of responsibility and a strong sense of initiative, they feel sorry for the company's cultivation and their superiors if they don't work overtime.

There is no upper limit to the number of hours a person can work, and it's very easy to work overtime every day without getting a raise.

In the end, why? Why have we developed such a workplace culture? Why is overtime so prevalent and serious?

The formation of overtime culture has its historical background

Not Europe and the United States and other countries do not work overtime, but the process of industrialization is not the same.

Europe and the United States forefathers 996 sweatshops are still less? Think of the history of child labor in those countries, think of the slave policy in the Americas, and Wall Street's loud "money never sleeps" slogan, as well as Marx's sentence: "Capitalism comes to earth dripping with blood and filth from every pore from head to toe! "

Capitalism is the most important of the world's capitalist countries.

Capitalism, in order to accumulate more raw capital, not only squeezes the labor force, but also keeps plundering the resources of the colonies, snatching their nearly free labor force and raw materials, producing and processing them into industrial products, and then dumping them back, thus making a lot of money.

And at the stage in history when European and American capital was accumulating wealth through looting, China was still a colonized, plundered and dumped.

The whole world was divided up by the great powers in the form of colonies, and two world wars broke out in quick succession because of the unequal division of the spoils and because of the economic crises caused by the recurring overcapacity.

Countries fired on each other to seize colonies, digested domestic overcapacity through the military-industrial chain, and plundered other countries' technology, talent, wealth, and other resources. Some of the population was wiped out, the world's resources have been redistributed, the fight won get more, lost the military, political and economic dominance, can only rely on the original industrial base a little bit from scratch, Germany and Japan are such a typical two countries.