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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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'

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even in China that's not fucking sustainable.

Post a source. There are many places in China where you can buy a meal for less than an American quarter

You can even buy breakfast with 40 cents in BEIJING

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/breakfast-40-cents-what-chinas-deflation-looks-like-2023-08-10/

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Over here in the west, we have the freedom to starve. So glad we don't have an authoritarian dictator tyrant forcing us to have food