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Young Chinese are getting paid to be 'full-time children' as jobs become harder to find | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
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A thread yesterday had a variety of people asking if the unemployment is lower because the youth are well cared for.

Please click through and read for additional context. Families are helping. Parents age and are not a long-term plan except for the most unusually wealthy.

Please remember: China is nominally communist. Functionally, they are capitalists with an usual side of excess infrastructure spending. A strong central government doesn't make a country communist.

Their land use rules... that makes them communist-ish. But that's a small part of a far larger picture.

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[-] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm going to make a glib comment; So they're 25% capitalist and 30% socialist and 10% communist and the rest something else. It doesn't mean they're a primarily capitalist economy.

[-] APassenger@lemmy.one -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get that you're having a bit of fun. On a separate branch here, I make a similar point.

What people argue about is how much of one makes it "x." They can seldom say it's not capitalist, socialist or even communist.

We quibble over which side of a line it lands. And googling this lead to about a 50/50 split between capitalist and socialist.

I didn't pull the idea that they're capitalist out of my ass.

And all of the side stuff is people completely missing the article. It's pedantic and cheap intellectual points and so rarely thoughtful or insightful.

Is lemmy usually this wannabe edgelord?

[-] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Aren't all the reddit expats intentionally edgy by leaving reddit? You've got the cream on top.

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