I mean the whole school I went through kept nailing in our heads how much a foreign language would benefit you. I guess this went under the noses of whoever like teaching kids to balance a checkbook.

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    Housing might, in theory, be guaranteed in your home town.

    Idk why you’re trying to couch this as a hypothetical. Imagine trying to talk about Social Security this way - “oh well maybe in theory…” No, brother, the checks are in the mail.

    People really do have family housing that really does exist for real in China.

    But it’s certainly no Soviet Union

    The Chinese Communist system was not organized under the Soviet model. Absolutely true. Maoism-cum-Dengism is not Lenin With Chinese Characteristics.

    Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cuba, and Venezuela also had their own district unique models.

    if you go up to local officials and say “I have no job and I want to work”, they’ll find something for you to do pretty quickly.

    If you go to your local Chinese jobs office, you’ll get a bureaucratic exam that determines your fitness for entry level positions.

    23% of the population works in the public sector. That’s roughly 300M people - China Is Hiring.

    But the private sector is also hiring, often with salary and benefits that outcompete public jobs. The idea that you need to be a trash picker to earn an income is flat out wrong.