This is about the Tang Ping movement in China and the effects of motivation in the economy. China, with their tracking of "good citizens" behaviour, is including things like boycotts to certain brands or certain uses of games and technology. The Tang Ping document means literally "lay down", and is a call to reject the massive pressure from the state, low wages and poor conditions.
China may be taking it too far.
Well Ancient Rome had a lot of problems motivating their slaves to work too, after all if someone is a slave what kind of incentive do they have to work hard for? The only one that gets benefits are the slave owners, so slaves had all the incentive to not work as hard and the slave owners needed to use the whip to force them to work hard, the Chinese government is facing now the same issue, they cannot offer incentives because that will be like admitting they were wrong on their policies, so what are they doing? Increasing the pain of the Chinese population and they are responding in a logical way by refusing to work.