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

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• Drewmeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Her university has an unwritten rule that students must sign an employment contract or provide proof of internship within one year of graduation; otherwise, they won’t receive a diploma.

  That’s some bullshit

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  • 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 ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How do you pretend to pay the bills?

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  • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Poorly

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  • mrbhootiya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    like you pay $7 to pretend to work

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• Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Seems like the job market is a sinkhole everywhere in the world.

  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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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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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• Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why aren’t they pretending to be on vacation instead?

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It sounds kinda wholesome tbh. Although it’s a shame they have to pay to be there

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s how things get started.

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• chris@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is actually a pretty good idea

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