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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      1 year ago

      I didn’t say she was 15, it was an example because that’s the reality in the US.

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        Nothing wrong with working after school when you’re 15, my friend worked a few hours scooping ice cream

        Not everyone will use every waking hour studying

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          Yes, yes there is something wrong, I’m not saying you need to be every waking hour studying, but forcing young people to work is something would only happen under the current capitalist system and it is done to get cheap labour, not because of X or Y.

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            He wasn’t forced to work, he just wanted some spending money above what good parents have him. What’s wrong with that?

            It’s not like scooping ice cream requires special skills