Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality?

• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, China has the Hukou bullshit. They deny kids of migrant parents from going to public school in the cities where the parents work, and cities are where you really find income, so since the kids follow the parent’s Hukou status, I was born in Guangzhou (a city), and I don’t get the city’s Hukou, I get my parent’s status from rural Taishan.

  So parents had to:

  1. either lets the kids be left behind in their village so they can go to school there, and to be cared for by relatives, like grandparents, meaning they rarely see their parents

  or

  2. pay for a privately-run school out of pocket (which is worse than public school)

  also for option 2, you’d need to be able to afford to rent (there are a lot of people hoarding apartments and then profit from this btw, you see a lot of “for rent” posters everywhete) or “buy” (70 year “permission to use” or something) an apartment big enough for your kids to even live with you comfortably, cuz housing isn’t free, you have your ancestral home in your village and that’s all you got, also you probably need someone to take care of the kids like after school hours, like the kids grandparents or someone like that. Also crowded, polluted, hard to find income.

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