A 13-year-old boy in China has claimed that he is the owner of a tech company and responsible for paying the salaries of six employees working under him, according to a report by South China Morning Post (SCMP).&nbsp;

A video of the incident where the boy is making the claims to his teacher has gone viral on the social media platforms of the country. On Weibo (China's Twitter-like platform), the video has garnered 26 million views and 10 million on Douyin.&nbsp;

In the video, the teacher at a&nbsp;secondary school in&nbsp;southwestern China’s Chongqing municipality assigned a homework exercise to students, asking them to write a summary about a classmate they see as accomplished and successful.&nbsp;

To the teacher's surprise, most students in the class chose a classmate they said already was running a company.&nbsp;“I heard that one of you is a boss who owns a company. Who is that?," the teacher can be heard asking in the video.&nbsp;

After the students pointed&nbsp;out, the teacher turned towards a student named Chen and asks him,&nbsp;“It’s you, Boss Chen.&nbsp;What kind of business is your company engaged in?”

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The kid sheepishly replies,&nbsp;“Internet technology,” adding that his company employed five to six employees. He also replied in the affirmative when asked if he paid his workers.&nbsp;

“How outstanding you are!” replied the teacher.&nbsp;

As soon as the video went viral, Chinese netizens started commenting on the boy's supposed feat. One suggested that Chen could even apply for the Guinness World Record as the world's youngest boss.&nbsp;

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Meanwhile, one joked,&nbsp;“When his customer asks his employees, ‘Where is your boss?’, his employees must reply, ‘He will come after school is over at 5pm’."

“This boss looks kind. I am wondering if his company has any vacancies as I’d like to apply for a job there," quipped another.&nbsp;

<h2>School investigating the claims</h2>

Although Chen is making headlines, some netizens said his claims were contradictory as the legal requirement in China mandated that the head of any business must be at least 18 years of age.&nbsp;

The school administration commented on the situation and said they were&nbsp;currently probing the boy's claims.&nbsp;

“He is definitely not the legal head of a company, and it’s impossible for him to be that. We are still trying to get more details," one of the school spokespersons was quoted as saying by Red Star News.&nbsp;

(With inputs from agencies)

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A 13-year-old boy in China has claimed that he is the owner of a tech company and responsible for paying the salaries of six employees working under him, according to a report by South China Morning Post (SCMP).

A 13-year-old boy in China has claimed that he is the owner of a tech company and responsible for paying the salaries of six employees working under him, according to a report by South China Morning Post (SCMP). A video of the incident where the boy is making the claims to his teacher has gone viral on the social media platforms of the country. On Weibo (China's Twitter-like platform), the video has garnered 26 million views and 10 million on Douyin. In the video, the teacher at a secondary school in southwestern China’s Chongqing municipality assigned a homework exercise to students, asking them to write a summary about a classmate they see as accomplished and successful. To the teacher's surprise, most students in the class chose a classmate they said already was running a company. “I heard that one of you is a boss who owns a company. Who is that?," the teacher can be heard asking in the video. After the students pointed out, the teacher turned towards a student named Chen and asks him, “It’s you, Boss Chen. What kind of business is your company engaged in?” WATCH | China acquires ‘golden shares’ in tech firms Alibaba and Tencent for control on sector × The kid sheepishly replies, “Internet technology,” adding that his company employed five to six employees. He also replied in the affirmative when asked if he paid his workers. “How outstanding you are!” replied the teacher. As soon as the video went viral, Chinese netizens started commenting on the boy's supposed feat. One suggested that Chen could even apply for the Guinness World Record as the world's youngest boss. ALSO READ | Chinese tech giant Baidu to launch ChatGPT-like AI bot in March Meanwhile, one joked, “When his customer asks his employees, ‘Where is your boss?’, his employees must reply, ‘He will come after school is over at 5pm’." “This boss looks kind. I am wondering if his company has any vacancies as I’d like to apply for a job there," quipped another. School investigating the claims Although Chen is making headlines, some netizens said his claims were contradictory as the legal requirement in China mandated that the head of any business must be at least 18 years of age. The school administration commented on the situation and said they were currently probing the boy's claims. “He is definitely not the legal head of a company, and it’s impossible for him to be that. We are still trying to get more details," one of the school spokespersons was quoted as saying by Red Star News. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE:

Wunderkind? 13-yr-old kid in China claims to be tech company boss, paying salaries to six employees

“A toast to the disruptors,” Edward Norton’s tech billionaire says in Rian Johnson’s Oscar-nominated Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

And why not a toast? Sunday’s Academy Awards won’t give a prize for best villain, but if they did, Miles Bron would win it in a walk. (With apologies to the cloud of Nope.) He is an immediately recognisable type we’ve grown well acquainted with: a visionary (or so everyone says), a social media narcissist, a self-styled disrupter who talks a lot about “breaking stuff.”

Miles Bron is just the latest in a long line of Hollywood’s favorite villain: the tech bro. Looking north to Silicon Valley, the movie industry has found perhaps its richest resource of big-screen antagonists since Soviet-era Russia.

Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/hollywood/news-glass-onion-movie-review-knives-out-sequel-is-a-delicious-wickedly-funny-whodunit-546109">Glass Onion movie review: 'Knives Out' sequel is a delicious, wickedly funny whodunit</a>

Great movie villains don’t come along often. The best-picture nominated Top Gun: Maverick, like its predecessor, was content to battle with a faceless enemy of unspecified nationality. Why antagonise international ticket buyers when Tom Cruise vs. Whomever works just fine?

But in recent years, the tech bro has proliferated on movie screens as Hollywood’s go-to bad guy. It’s a rise that has mirrored mounting fears over technology’s expanding reach into our lives and increasing skepticism for the not-always-altruistic motives of the men – and it is mostly men – who control today’s digital empires.

We’ve had the devious Biosyn Genetics CEO (Campbell Scott) in Jurassic World: Dominion, a franchise dedicated to the peril of tech overreach; Chris Hemsworth’s biotech overlord in Spiderhead; and Mark Rylance’s maybe-Earth-destroying tech guru in 2021′s Don’t Look Up. We’ve had Eisenberg, again, as a tech bro-styled Lex Luthor in 2016′s Batman v. Superman; Harry Melling’s pharmaceutical entrepreneur in 2020’s The Old Guard; Taika Waititi’s rule-breaking videogame mogul in 2021′s Free Guy; Oscar Isaac’s search engine CEO in 2014′s Ex Machina; and the critical portrait of the Apple co-founder in 2015′s Steve Jobs.

Also Read:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/hollywood/news-glass-onion-director-rian-johnson-on-parallels-between-elon-musk-and-miles-bron-it%E2%80%99s-very-bizarre-547539">Glass Onion&nbsp;director Rian Johnson on parallels between Elon Musk and Miles Bron: 'It’s very bizarre'</a>

Kids movies, too, regularly channel parental anxieties about technology’s impact on children. In 2021′s The Mitchells vs. the Machines,&nbsp;a newly launched AI brings about a robot apocalypse. Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) also used a robot metaphor for smartphone addiction. And TV series have just as aggressively rushed to dramatise Big Tech blunders. Recent entries include: Uber’s Travis Kalanick in Showtime’s Super Pumped; Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s The Dropout; and WeWork’s Adam and Rebekah Neumann in Apple TV’s We Crashed.

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Some of these portrayals you could chalk up to Hollywood jealousy over the emergence of another California epicenter of innovation. But those worlds merged long ago. Many of the companies that released these movies are disrupters, themselves — none more than Netflix, distributor of Glass Onion. The streamer was cajoled into releasing Johnson’s sequel more widely in theaters than any previous Netflix release. Estimates suggested the film collected some $15 million over opening weekend, the old-fashioned way, but Netflix executives have said they don’t plan to make a habit of such theatrical rollouts.

And the distrust goes deeper than any Hollywood-Silicon Valley rivalry. A recent Quinnipiac poll found that 70% of Americans think social media companies do more harm than good. Tech leaders like Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg have at times been seen favorably by only 1 in 5 Americans.

As characters, tech bros — hoodie-wearing descendants of the mad scientist — have formed an archetype: Masters of the universe whose hubris leads to catastrophe, social media savants who can’t manage their personal relationships. Whether their visions of the future pan out or not, we end up living in their world, either way. They’re villains who see themselves as heroes.

“In my mind, he’s really the most dangerous human being around,” Rylance says of his Peter Isherwell. “He believes that we can dominate our way out of any problem that nature hands us. I think that’s the same kind of thinking that’s got us into the problem we’re in now, trying to dominate each other and dominate all the life we’re intimately connected to and dependent on.”

Glass Onion, nominated for best adapted screenplay, presents a new escalation in tech mogul mockery. Norton’s eminently punchable CEO, with a name so nearly “Bro,” is enormously rich, powerful, and, considering that he’s working on a volatile new energy source, dangerous. But Bron is also, as Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc eventually deduces, an idiot. “A vainglorious buffoon,” Blanc says.

In Johnson’s film, the tech bro/emperor bro truly has no clothes. He’s just skating by with lies, deceit, and a bunch of not-real words like “predefinite” and “inbreathiate.”

Even though Johnson wrote Glass Onion&nbsp;well before Elon Musk’s shambolic Twitter takeover, the movie’s release seemed almost preternaturally timed to coincide with it. The Tesla and SpaceX chief executive was only one of Johnson’s real-world inspirations, some took Bron as a direct Musk parody. In a widely read Twitter thread, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said Johnson was dramatising Musk as “a bad and stupid man,” which he called “an incredibly stupid theory, since Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in human history.” He added: “How many rockets has Johnson launched lately?”

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Musk, himself, hasn’t publicly commented on Glass Onion, but he has previously had numerous gripes with Hollywood, including its depictions of guys like him. “Hollywood refuses to write even one story about an actual company startup where the CEO isn’t a dweeb and/or evil,” Musk tweeted last year.

Musk will soon enough get his own movie. The Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney on Monday announced his several months into work on Musk, which producers promise will offer a “definitive and unvarnished examination” of the tech entrepreneur.

At the same time as the tech bro’s supervillainy supremacy has emerged, some movies have sought not to lampoon Big Tech but to imbibe some of the digital world’s infinite expanse. Phil Lord, who with Christopher Miller has produced The Mitchells vs the Machines&nbsp;and the multiverse-splitting Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, says the internet has profoundly influenced their approach to film.

“We, legacy media, are responding in maybe subconscious ways to new media,” says Lord. “We’re all just trying to figure out how to live in the new world. It’s changing people’s behavior. It changes the way we find and experience love. It changes the way we live. Of course, the stories we tell and how we tell them are going to change as well and reflect that. Into the Spider-Verse certainly reflects having a lot of content from every era in your brain all at the same time.”

The best-picture favorite Everything Everywhere All at Once, too, is reflective of our multi-screen, media-bombarded lives. Writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, whose film is up for a leading 11 Oscars, say they wanted to channel the confusion and heartache of living in the everything-everywhere existence that tech moguls like Miles Bron helped create.

“The reason why we made the movie is because that’s what modern life feels like,” says Kwan.

So even though Miles Bron won’t go home with an Academy Award on Sunday, he still wins, in a way. It’s his world. We’re all just living in it.

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“A toast to the disruptors,” Edward Norton’s tech billionaire says in Rian Johnson’s Oscar-nominated Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. And why not a toast? Sunday’s Academy Awards won’t give a prize for best villain, but if they did, Miles Bron would win it in a walk.

“A toast to the disruptors,” Edward Norton’s tech billionaire says in Rian Johnson’s Oscar-nominated Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. And why not a toast? Sunday’s Academy Awards won’t give a prize for best villain, but if they did, Miles Bron would win it in a walk. (With apologies to the cloud of Nope.) He is an immediately recognisable type we’ve grown well acquainted with: a visionary (or so everyone says), a social media narcissist, a self-styled disrupter who talks a lot about “breaking stuff.” Miles Bron is just the latest in a long line of Hollywood’s favorite villain: the tech bro. Looking north to Silicon Valley, the movie industry has found perhaps its richest resource of big-screen antagonists since Soviet-era Russia. Also Read: Glass Onion movie review: 'Knives Out' sequel is a delicious, wickedly funny whodunit Great movie villains don’t come along often. The best-picture nominated Top Gun: Maverick, like its predecessor, was content to battle with a faceless enemy of unspecified nationality. Why antagonise international ticket buyers when Tom Cruise vs. Whomever works just fine? But in recent years, the tech bro has proliferated on movie screens as Hollywood’s go-to bad guy. It’s a rise that has mirrored mounting fears over technology’s expanding reach into our lives and increasing skepticism for the not-always-altruistic motives of the men – and it is mostly men – who control today’s digital empires. We’ve had the devious Biosyn Genetics CEO (Campbell Scott) in Jurassic World: Dominion, a franchise dedicated to the peril of tech overreach; Chris Hemsworth’s biotech overlord in Spiderhead; and Mark Rylance’s maybe-Earth-destroying tech guru in 2021′s Don’t Look Up. We’ve had Eisenberg, again, as a tech bro-styled Lex Luthor in 2016′s Batman v. Superman; Harry Melling’s pharmaceutical entrepreneur in 2020’s The Old Guard; Taika Waititi’s rule-breaking videogame mogul in 2021′s Free Guy; Oscar Isaac’s search engine CEO in 2014′s Ex Machina; and the critical portrait of the Apple co-founder in 2015′s Steve Jobs. Also Read: Glass Onion director Rian Johnson on parallels between Elon Musk and Miles Bron: 'It’s very bizarre' Kids movies, too, regularly channel parental anxieties about technology’s impact on children. In 2021′s The Mitchells vs. the Machines, a newly launched AI brings about a robot apocalypse. Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) also used a robot metaphor for smartphone addiction. And TV series have just as aggressively rushed to dramatise Big Tech blunders. Recent entries include: Uber’s Travis Kalanick in Showtime’s Super Pumped; Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s The Dropout; and WeWork’s Adam and Rebekah Neumann in Apple TV’s We Crashed. Some of these portrayals you could chalk up to Hollywood jealousy over the emergence of another California epicenter of innovation. But those worlds merged long ago. Many of the companies that released these movies are disrupters, themselves — none more than Netflix, distributor of Glass Onion. The streamer was cajoled into releasing Johnson’s sequel more widely in theaters than any previous Netflix release. Estimates suggested the film collected some $15 million over opening weekend, the old-fashioned way, but Netflix executives have said they don’t plan to make a habit of such theatrical rollouts. And the distrust goes deeper than any Hollywood-Silicon Valley rivalry. A recent Quinnipiac poll found that 70% of Americans think social media companies do more harm than good. Tech leaders like Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg have at times been seen favorably by only 1 in 5 Americans. As characters, tech bros — hoodie-wearing descendants of the mad scientist — have formed an archetype: Masters of the universe whose hubris leads to catastrophe, social media savants who can’t manage their personal relationships. Whether their visions of the future pan out or not, we end up living in their world, either way. They’re villains who see themselves as heroes. “In my mind, he’s really the most dangerous human being around,” Rylance says of his Peter Isherwell. “He believes that we can dominate our way out of any problem that nature hands us. I think that’s the same kind of thinking that’s got us into the problem we’re in now, trying to dominate each other and dominate all the life we’re intimately connected to and dependent on.” Glass Onion, nominated for best adapted screenplay, presents a new escalation in tech mogul mockery. Norton’s eminently punchable CEO, with a name so nearly “Bro,” is enormously rich, powerful, and, considering that he’s working on a volatile new energy source, dangerous. But Bron is also, as Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc eventually deduces, an idiot. “A vainglorious buffoon,” Blanc says. In Johnson’s film, the tech bro/emperor bro truly has no clothes. He’s just skating by with lies, deceit, and a bunch of not-real words like “predefinite” and “inbreathiate.” Even though Johnson wrote Glass Onion well before Elon Musk’s shambolic Twitter takeover, the movie’s release seemed almost preternaturally timed to coincide with it. The Tesla and SpaceX chief executive was only one of Johnson’s real-world inspirations, some took Bron as a direct Musk parody. In a widely read Twitter thread, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said Johnson was dramatising Musk as “a bad and stupid man,” which he called “an incredibly stupid theory, since Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in human history.” He added: “How many rockets has Johnson launched lately?” Hollywood refuses to write even one story about an actual company startup where the CEO isn’t a dweeb and/or evil — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 25, 2022 Musk, himself, hasn’t publicly commented on Glass Onion, but he has previously had numerous gripes with Hollywood, including its depictions of guys like him. “Hollywood refuses to write even one story about an actual company startup where the CEO isn’t a dweeb and/or evil,” Musk tweeted last year. Musk will soon enough get his own movie. The Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney on Monday announced his several months into work on Musk, which producers promise will offer a “definitive and unvarnished examination” of the tech entrepreneur. At the same time as the tech bro’s supervillainy supremacy has emerged, some movies have sought not to lampoon Big Tech but to imbibe some of the digital world’s infinite expanse. Phil Lord, who with Christopher Miller has produced The Mitchells vs the Machines and the multiverse-splitting Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, says the internet has profoundly influenced their approach to film. “We, legacy media, are responding in maybe subconscious ways to new media,” says Lord. “We’re all just trying to figure out how to live in the new world. It’s changing people’s behavior. It changes the way we find and experience love. It changes the way we live. Of course, the stories we tell and how we tell them are going to change as well and reflect that. Into the Spider-Verse certainly reflects having a lot of content from every era in your brain all at the same time.” The best-picture favorite Everything Everywhere All at Once, too, is reflective of our multi-screen, media-bombarded lives. Writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, whose film is up for a leading 11 Oscars, say they wanted to channel the confusion and heartache of living in the everything-everywhere existence that tech moguls like Miles Bron helped create. “The reason why we made the movie is because that’s what modern life feels like,” says Kwan. So even though Miles Bron won’t go home with an Academy Award on Sunday, he still wins, in a way. It’s his world. We’re all just living in it. WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

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