• Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Wow what a fucking hack job.

    It states there is, in fact, a guaranteed standard of living. Moreover China has a guaranteed residence for every citizen. If that out of work rural worker wants the minimum income and a roof over his head, all he has to do is go back home (using heavily subsidised transport). Which sucks, but losing a job and having to move back to your hometown isn’t exactly something unheard of in Western nations.

    China has a way to go in terms of healthcare and other benefits, but given it’s providing a better safety net to vastly more people over a larger area with 1/4th of the USA’s GDP and an industrial base that is still largely rural it’s doing an astounding job.

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      1 year ago

      guaranteed standard of living

      For people under the poverty line, which is only $2.30 a day. So their “standard of living” is $840 a year to get by on. Even in China that’s not fucking sustainable.

      China has a way to go in terms of healthcare and other benefits

      So you’re saying you’re cool with Chinese farmers not being able to afford going to the hospital because Supreme Leader Xi forced them to grow the cheapest crops imaginable?

      If that out of work rural worker wants the minimum income and a roof over his head, all he has to do is go back home

      Lol. Lmao even. "Losing your job and abandoning your home because of authoritarian regulations is ok’