Exhausted by the pressure to succeed as a photographer, Litsky Li accepted a better offer: quit work to become one of China’s growing legions of children paid by their families to stay home.

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.

  • @iopq@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    13•11 months ago

    China doesn’t even have a free healthcare system. Everyone still needs to pay, even though there are subsidies. In real life, there’s little difference between the US and China

    • @Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•11 months ago

      Socialism doesn’t require that. So that does not make it any less socialist. As a socialist however. I would argue that since Karl Marx’s time. The concept of health care has become a much more important notion to the welfare of the general populace that should include universal health care. It isn’t part of the definition however.