China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs
China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs
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China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs
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How do you pretend to pay the bills?
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like you pay $7 to pretend to work
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Poorly
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Seems like the job market is a sinkhole everywhere in the world currently.
I feel for them, but it’s nice to have a communal space to freelance and apply for jobs instead of slogging through it endlessly in isolation.
Would be a nice idea in the US but it would get enshittified and price hiked before I finish typing this sentence.
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It's really simple. Capitalists are being too greedy and that's slowing everything the fuck down.
We've gained insanely more productivity in the last 50-100 years, but in the last 5-10 years the megawealthy have been getting greedier and greedier.
Don't they fucking realise their money will worthless when societies crumble and the world is on fire? Oh right, they don't.
There honestly worse than crackheads and smackheads.
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Why aren't they pretending to be on vacation instead?
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This is where people go when they get sick of pretending to be on vacation.
They’re selling escapism from unemployment.
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It sounds kinda wholesome tbh. Although it's a shame they have to pay to be there
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I can see the logic, going somewhere with minimal distractions to get shit done, with other people in a similar position around, makes a lot of sense.
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That's how things get started.
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This is actually a pretty good idea
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How odd. If it’s the right solution for people, though…
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That's some bullshit
I suspect it’s a case of “shit rolls downhill”.
The central government wants to prevent scam schools that don’t produce employable graduates. As a result, they penalize colleges whose graduates don’t find employment.
Instead of helping their graduates, colleges find it easier to punish them.
Seems to be a classic case of Goodhart's law turned bad.
I mean the way the article is written it literally sounds like bullshit.
"Oh they have this unwritten rule"
Really good journalism. The 14% unemployment is for ages 16-24. For comparison it's 10% in the US.
Neither of which is very meaningful considering how most people are still going to school during that age. This isn't the unemployment for people out of college and graduated. Which would be what the article is talking about. Bad to imply the statistic they used has anything to do with it.
Additionally, I wonder how much of that 4% difference is the 16-17 year olds in high school in America that have to work to support their family.
16-17 year olds being calculated in an unemployment statistic? Really? Am I old as fuck now or are these not children?
I know a lot of us normalized starting a below minimum wage job at 13 like I did. But I would hope others grow up and realize how fucked up that type of exploitation is.
Don't know how they did the calculations here, but in Norway we have statistics for unemployment that goes down to 16 year olds.
However in those statistics, a person is only considered unemployed if they are not attending school. Our equivalent of high school is not mandatory, so a few people (very few) decide to quit school and begin working at 16. Some further people are high school dropouts that get jobs at 16-19.
So basically: You're counted as unemployed if you're not in a job or education.
This is America, everyone above 14 is meat for the grinder.