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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
Except there's no such Chinese curse and it was probably some foppish British lord who said that, and his son thought he'd gotten it from the Chinese.

Apparently "Better to be a dog in times of tranquility than a human in times of chaos." is a real expression in Chinese? I don't get the impression it's a super common one though.
gpt
It's just a colloquial expression of irony now, which is how I used it.