How do you pretend to pay the bills?
China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs
Submitted 1 month ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd3ep76g3go
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Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
fartographer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Poorly
mrbhootiya@lemmy.world 1 month ago
like you pay $7 to pretend to work
Broadfern@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Greg@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Why aren’t they pretending to be on vacation instead?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
This is where people go when they get sick of pretending to be on vacation.
They’re selling escapism from unemployment.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It sounds kinda wholesome tbh. Although it’s a shame they have to pay to be there
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
treadful@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
That’s how things get started.
chris@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
This is actually a pretty good idea
Drewmeister@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s some bullshit
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 month 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.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Seems to be a classic case of Goodhart’s law.
wheezy@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I mean the way the article is written it literally sounds like bullshit.
“Oh they have this unwritten rule”
Really good journalism.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is America, everyone above 14 is meat for the grinder.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 month 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.