I have this friend who is too hard of a die hard capitalist at heart (whatever that means).<p>He reads headlines of UAW workers going on strike to ask a company making $10b/yr in profit to give them a bit more and he sides on the side of the company, you know what I mean?<p>Long story short, he's come to say "America has gone soft". He thinks anybody who works from home is doing blatant time theft, needs to be tracked, etc.<p>He thinks that what we classify as a $20/hr job in America is $2/hr elsewhere.<p>If that's the case culturally and the Chinese value working hard (where as in America if you scroll on Instagram you'll see 5-10 memes recommended to you about 'you are not your job, f<i>ck your job, f</i>ck your meeting'), why is our economy more successful than theirs?