Adults who use a standing desk

Between 2010 and 2022, Chinese billionaires and standing desk adoption both grew, correlating at 0.9619 across thirteen data points. The theory that Chinese wealth creation is inspiring American ergonomic furniture purchases requires a causal pathway that no economist has proposed. What the data describes is two aspects of the 2010s growth economy: wealth concentration in China and wellness spending in America, both driven by the same global technology boom that made some people very rich and other people very concerned about their posture.

Chinese billionaires grew from 64 to over 400. Standing desk adoption grew from negligible to roughly 35% of office workers. Both are 2010s growth stories driven by the same broad economic expansion.

Two metrics that grew during the same decade of global prosperity will correlate. The billionaire and the standing desk share an era, not a chiropractor.