Okay, so let me put it this way:
Housing might, in theory, be guaranteed in your home town. This is a strength of China’s system, I grant, and it’s one of the few examples of one of their socialist policies which actually somewhat works. Their national pension scheme is the other thing I can think of that functions decently well.
But it’s certainly no Soviet Union where if you go up to local officials and say “I have no job and I want to work”, they’ll find something for you to do pretty quickly.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Idk why you’re trying to couch this as a hypothetical. Imagine trying to talk about Social Security this way - “oh well maybe in theory…” No, brother, the checks are in the mail.
People really do have family housing that really does exist for real in China.
The Chinese Communist system was not organized under the Soviet model. Absolutely true. Maoism-cum-Dengism is not Lenin With Chinese Characteristics.
Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Cuba, and Venezuela also had their own district unique models.
If you go to your local Chinese jobs office, you’ll get a bureaucratic exam that determines your fitness for entry level positions.
23% of the population works in the public sector. That’s roughly 300M people - China Is Hiring.
But the private sector is also hiring, often with salary and benefits that outcompete public jobs. The idea that you need to be a trash picker to earn an income is flat out wrong.