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.

  • Hexadecimalkink
    42·
    1 year ago

    I’m going to make a glib comment; So they’re 25% capitalist and 30% socialist and 10% communist and the rest something else. It doesn’t mean they’re a primarily capitalist economy.

    • APassenger@lemmy.oneOP
      23·
      1 year ago

      I get that you’re having a bit of fun. On a separate branch here, I make a similar point.

      What people argue about is how much of one makes it “x.” They can seldom say it’s not capitalist, socialist or even communist.

      We quibble over which side of a line it lands. And googling this lead to about a 50/50 split between capitalist and socialist.

      I didn’t pull the idea that they’re capitalist out of my ass.

      And all of the side stuff is people completely missing the article. It’s pedantic and cheap intellectual points and so rarely thoughtful or insightful.

      Is lemmy usually this wannabe edgelord?

      • Hexadecimalkink
        22·
        1 year ago

        Aren’t all the reddit expats intentionally edgy by leaving reddit? You’ve got the cream on top.