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.

  • 133arc585English
    1•11 months ago

    Fully sourced means my statements were sourced, not that it was dripping in sources.

    Also, the book I cited is not propaganda. Please don’t resort to calling everything that posits an alternate view propaganda.

    From the Springer page on the book,

    Roland Boer is a professor in the School of Marxism Studies at Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.

    So he has a degree in and is a professor in the exact subject he’s talking about, from a respected University:

    Dalian University of Technology (DUT) […] is a public research university located in Dalian, Liaoning, China, with an additional campus in Panjin, Liaoning. […] Formerly called the Dalian Institute of Technology, DUT is renowned as one of the Big Four Institutes of Technology in China. […] As of 2022, DUT was listed as one of the top 400 global universities in several major international universities’ rankings

    Moreover, it’s not some random publisher or some guy’s PDF on the internet. It’s published by Springer which, if you have done any academic reading in almost any field, you will know that Springer content is high-quality and trustworthy. In fact, at a lot of the university libraries I’ve been in, some subjects (maths, especially) are probably three-quarters Springer publications,

    Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

    • @CanadaPlusEnglish
      0•11 months ago

      Yep, a professor of Marxism in a state-run Chinese university, definitely sounds very neutral. /s

      Springer is an academic publisher, but that doesn’t mean they agree with the viewpoints of every niche humanities publication in their catalogue. It’s sort of like how Penguin offers both Das Kapital and Mein Kampf (with a disclaimer that I’m not calling anyone a Nazi).

      Please don’t resort to calling everything that posits an alternate view propaganda.

      Even when propaganda is true it’s propaganda. Leftists are usually pretty good about acknowledging that, even.