the promise of real advancement they opt instead for lying flat or teng ping the lying flat movement calls on young workers and professionals including the middle class chinese who are to be the engine of the domestic boom to opt out of the struggle for workplace success and to reject the promise of consumer fulfillment for some lying flat promises release from the crush of life and work in a fast-paced society and technology sector where competition is unrelenting for china's leaders however this movement of passive resistance to the national drive for development is a worrying trend individuals that subscribe to tang ping often have no home or job they play video games watch tv and sleep some will do odd jobs a few days a month or better yet donate blood so as to not have to work at all this generation is openly rebelling against the treadmill mentality that used to be so popular in chinese culture it isn't at all uncommon to see factory owners lined up in the streets holding signs pleading for factory workers without these workers there are fewer people making products this is one factor that is contributing to the shortage of things like plastic fuel paper furniture appliances and microchips but there are more and we'll get into those in a minute on the consumer side largely the western world psychology is also a huge factor economists refer to the phenomenon as the great resignation people of all ages are quitting unfulfilling work even if this means very little income the van life movement is an example of this many people are choosing to reduce their financial burden so much that it is possible to live in their vehicles with few bills or social commitments add to this that during the lockdown many schools were closed this meant that many people were staying home to take care of their children many choosing to spend more time with their families after the lockdown was lifted you may have heard that the situation is so bad that the ships are waiting outside of ports for over a month simply because there aren't enough dock workers to empty the ships and not enough drivers to move the shipping containers off of the docks oh one other aspect that fits into the category of psychology panic buying people are reacting to the spasms in the supply chain by panic buying the lines outside of the petrol stations in the uk and the toilet paper shortages in the us are caused by people afraid that these important commodities may not be in their future this causes the supplies to run down and the manufacturers are left scrambling to restock these items number three logistical bottlenecks the aforementioned scramble in the shipping world has resulted in logistical bottlenecks the majority of the filled shipping containers in the world are currently enroute to the consumer side as we mentioned sitting on ships waiting for slots at a port this means that there are very few empty shipping containers in the world the empty containers need to get returned to the supply side of the equation but how this has resulted in the price of shipping containers skyrocketing like seriously now keep in mind it normally costs around two thousand dollars to ship a container here's a quote from the wall street journal of july NUMBER_TOKEN the average price worldwide to ship a NUMBER_TOKEN-foot container has more than quadrupled from a year ago to NUMBER_TOKEN as of july NUMBER_TOKENst according to a global pricing index by london-based drury shipping consultants limited the measure has surged NUMBER_TOKEN and a half percent since the first week of may listed prices to ship from china to major ports in europe and the us west
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