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.

  • @rustyfishEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Her parents pay her a salary of 6,000 yuan ($835) a month, which is considered a solid middle-class wage in her area.

    So…they are unemployed?

    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

      It says right there there’s a salary. She’s nepotistically employed as a caregiver.

      If you think that’s not a “real job”, that’s basically a cultural judgement, which I guess you can make, but then there’s dudes that think only steelworkers have a real job.

      • @rustyfishEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Please go read the article and don’t try to get triggered by things I didn’t say. JFC.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          I did skim it. If you’re not saying it’s not a real job that just doesn’t apply to you, sorry for bringing it up.