Jobless Homeless Sweeps China, $1.20/hr jobs?

[JD]

What happened to the great nation of China? There are so many jobless and homeless young people fighting over low-wage jobs.

https://youtu.be/dr-yC7zP7hM?si=ES1RYZ4uWyU8OCBQ

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This has always been true. The good jobs are only in a small area along the coasts. As you go inland, everyone is very poor with no schools. They still sell daughters into virtual slavery to end up in those coastal area factories. Or worse.

[WarHeRo]

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[Enterprofilenamehere]

$1.20 is a lot of money there. You could buy your own mansion after about a week.

[Xautos]

Sweatshops are a common theme in China, always vastly underpaided for extremely long hours in warehouses cobbling cheap items together to sell across the world.

Sometimes it's better to be homeless in rural areas than fighting below the breadline trying to eek out an existence between all the propaganda and smog in central cities.

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cant blame when you have to compete with billions of people locally and outsiders are taking over those jobs soon

[Thadeus]

China has the 2nd biggest economy in the world. So I guess they're failing upwards like a Hollywood director that makes a movie bomb and then is immediately hired by another studio to make another movie.

[ナルゴ]

Stop coming to Guanzhou and Shenzen for work. We're full.

[Hooch]

引用自 Thadeus：

China has the 2nd biggest economy in the world. So I guess they're failing upwards like a Hollywood director that makes a movie bomb and then is immediately hired by another studio to make another movie.

China has the 2nd largest GDP, but it ranks 72nd in GDP per capita. What good is a strong economy if the average citizen doesn't feel the benefits?

To put this into perspective, the PPP-adjusted GDP per capita for China is $20K, while for the US it is $80K. This means that the average American's purchasing power is 4 times greater than that of the average Chinese citizen, reflecting a significantly higher standard of living in the United States.