Why are the city and the life of labor so alienating

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Question: Concerning the book Rickshaw by Lao She: Hsiang Tzu, with no Confucian attachments to begin with and finding none in the city, is a product of a new and alienating society. The individual, represented by Hsiang Tzu, must forage for life on his own, and in the end he fails. Why does Lao She consider individualism a dead-end road? Why are the city and the life of labor so alienating? Does Lao She suggest any way of combating alienation or alternatives to individualism?

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