ambivalentmace:

grandpa, what did you do for a living, I helped build the great wall, just like my father and grandfather, from working age to death, what was the wall for, I don't remember, well if you were not providing a service or a product for other people how did the wall make money to pay you, I don't know, not sure if even got paid but I am hungry, you got any bread grandson. I must have ate enough food working all day to eat up the money i made, my pockets are empty.

grandpa, why did people work so hard for so long on something so unproductive without revolting, I don't know grandson but we never revolt, we want harmony even when we are tied to a tree for the firing squad, as long as another chinese is killing us, harmony prevails but we revolt when the damn foreigners try and kill us.