Comment on China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs

Drewmeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Seems to be a classic case of Goodhart’s law.

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• wheezy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean the way the article is written it literally sounds like bullshit.

  “Oh they have this unwritten rule”

  Really good journalism.

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  • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is America, everyone above 14 is meat for the grinder.

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    • wheezy@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And 14 and under are targets of the pedophiles running our companies and the country.

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