China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty::Chinese government censors tried to control discussions about the country’s economy this week.
1 billion people in China living in poverty?? I find that almost hard to believe that’s ~66% of their population
If it’s propaganda it’s coming from within
“In his article for the business outlet Yicai, Li cited data from a 2021 research paper by the China Institute of Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University, which placed the number of people living on less than 2,000 yuan a month at 964 million, or nearly 70 percent of the population.”
That’s because it’s being applied to Western standards. China spends a crazy amount of money on social welfare and government assistance. Minimum wage is around or less than 2000 Yuan a month around the country, yes. But, that’s completely ignoring currency exchange rates and cost of living.
Cost of living in Shanghai and Beijing are around 4,500 Yuan. Which means a couple or two roommates can live on minimum wage in the biggest cities. Compare that to minimum wage and cost of living in New York City or LA which is $1,280 a month, costing $4,300 and 1,342 a month, costing $5,576 respectively.
Tldr: how much money you make is only relevant when compared to your cost of living. It’s not hard to live in China on $300 a month.
Most certainly easy to believe. China is not that far off from DPRK anymore. Look at what they did during covid (welding people in their apartments, killing all pets, arresting people for curfew violations, etc). Look at their typical workday (14x6) and wage (a few $/day). How do think we get cheap products like $25 microwaves and $15 coffee makers. CCP wants a slave population, not citizens.
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TIL Chinese people are “brown skinned”.
I was in China during the pandemic. In 2022 everyone got COVID. Literally everyone in every big city.
So they should have opened up after omega became the dominant variant. No point in locking people down when they lost anyway.
It was a good response in the beginning, but they doubled down on it for three years
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They stopped tracking cases in December, so how do you know it’s one third?
They literally told us to stay at home and not go to the hospital even if we have it
Wow, a real, live tankie!
The CPC […] is by no means a good government and the people in it are not good people at any level above the community cadre level […]
They’re vile authoritarians […]
Do you actually fucking READ before reacting you utter fuckwit?!
Talking with Americans is like talking with ADHD-addled toddlers for fuck’s sake!
I mean
A: you’re an asshole, even if you had a point.
B: your whole argument is an appeal to your own authority and a dismissal of anyone who disagrees with you as an idiot.
And C:
You spent the whole comment praising China and dismissing criticisms in specific details. Then tacked a few vague complaints that noone would disagree with on in the end. This is a very common tactic used to make it look like you haven’t “taken sides”.
Wow, a real, live, tankie!
This was my first thought. Seems unlikely. I’d see this just as likely being propaganda.
Mao-like administrations tend to do that. Undoing whatever progress Deng fulfilled
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I feel like Technology community is overused for unrelated topics in Lemmy. This article for example should belong to a community like worldnews news or something in that nature.
the bot posting this isn’t really giving a shit probably
There is no poverty in Ba Sing Se.
Yeah… Avatar was rather spot on with the depiction of China-like Ba Sing Se.
Why the fuck am I now sitting here reading US economic/political propaganda on the technology feed? GTFO
