Recently, I came across a VICE video investigating China’s “996” workers, most of them based in giant tech corporations like Tencent and Baidu. These employees work from 9-9, 6 days a week (sometimes longer) to ensure that their employer becomes or remains China’s number one tech empire.

Lee’ thesis is that at the rate that these tech giants are growing, with the push of the CCP and 996 workers, the Chinese tech market will soon mine enough data to overtake Google, Facebook, and Apple. While U.S. tech culture values breakthroughs in research (Artificial intelligence being the current trendsetter), the Chinese tech market is more adept at applying existing technologies to the lives of common people: app-based payment systems, bike-sharing schemes, online shops, and food-delivery services, these technologies offload the inconveniences that accompany living in crowded cities and are used widely in many Asian countries. So while the U.S. government and Silicon Valley will continue to fuel technological innovation, it is China who’s turning these findings into gold.

Though Lee’s analysis is spot-on (with decades of experience in the field), I found the chapter on his cancer a little cliché: Chinese tech mogul turned venture capitalist is suddenly convinced that technology should be used to love others better… ok. Still, I do appreciate his proposal for a more humane economic policy as the labor market shifts drastically in these next few decades.