All government employees get a pension, being a communist country that covers the majority of the urban population, for the rural population you work till your health fails and then live with the kids. If you have no support the Chinese government has the five guarantees... Shelter, Food, Water, Medical care, and Funeral.
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Chinese law is different from western law, although to secure trade and to protect intellectual property in an international arena they are falling more into line with what we would consider a western system of law.
Basically the Chinese jurisprudence is that social norms and tradition should be held above the law which should be merely a last resort. The law is seen as not meant to interfere with day to day life, which would include social welfare. Tradition upholds how senior citizens should be treated - their own family take care of them and see to their financial needs, not the state. Senior citizens are treated with a lot more respect in China than senior citizens in the western world, (generally,) so this traditional system isn't seen as the elderly being a burden on the younger generations.
Basically the Chinese jurisprudence is that social norms and tradition should be held above the law which should be merely a last resort. The law is seen as not meant to interfere with day to day life, which would include social welfare. Tradition upholds how senior citizens should be treated - their own family take care of them and see to their financial needs, not the state. Senior citizens are treated with a lot more respect in China than senior citizens in the western world, (generally,) so this traditional system isn't seen as the elderly being a burden on the younger generations.
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Some pics of Shanghai from my visit:
In the big cities, the quality of life is like any city in the US. Lot's of cell phones, mp3 players, nice German cars, etc. It's the other billion people that don't live in the cities who are the ones you normally hear about.
In the big cities, the quality of life is like any city in the US. Lot's of cell phones, mp3 players, nice German cars, etc. It's the other billion people that don't live in the cities who are the ones you normally hear about.
White people are not really family oriented. They will ditch their parents when they are 18 and let them rot and go to nursing homes.
Chinese (All Asians actually) are very family oriented. They will live their parents along with wife/children until the end. Inheritance is always a crucial part in Asian culture.
It also explains why old chinese people here (in US and Canada) are always richer than old white people. It's because they inherit from lines of their family while the white people inherit nothing because their parents donate it to charities when they die.
I'm right and you know it. I'm going to ignore this thread from here-on so I don't see your stupid replies and thus owning you.
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Chinese (All Asians actually) are very family oriented. They will live their parents along with wife/children until the end. Inheritance is always a crucial part in Asian culture.
It also explains why old chinese people here (in US and Canada) are always richer than old white people. It's because they inherit from lines of their family while the white people inherit nothing because their parents donate it to charities when they die.
I'm right and you know it. I'm going to ignore this thread from here-on so I don't see your stupid replies and thus owning you.
gg.
Alpha as fuck.
population control.
Where the fuck did you hear that bullshit? China may have cheap labour, but it's like there's no middle class, you're either rich or really poor. The rich are EXTREMELY rich.Hunter/Jumper wrote:
the very elite in china barely approach the life style of the lower class in the U.S.A. The
Actually the 3 Chinese programmers who took my job 4 years ago (took 3 of them to replace me btw), were doing pretty well (all three salaries combined was $35,000 ($10,$12, $13/year), vs the 75k I was making).
With the 10:1 Yuan to Dollar ratio, does that mean they were making $100k, $120k and $130/year equivalent?
With the 10:1 Yuan to Dollar ratio, does that mean they were making $100k, $120k and $130/year equivalent?
No, they aren't, they're a centralised capitalist economy.G3|Genius wrote:
China IS communistic.
I do find it funny that anyone seriously thinks that China has anything right. If China's anything like the parts of Asia I've seen, the old people staff the McDonalds.
which parts of asia have you been to?Bubbalo wrote:
No, they aren't, they're a centralised capitalist economy.G3|Genius wrote:
China IS communistic.
I do find it funny that anyone seriously thinks that China has anything right. If China's anything like the parts of Asia I've seen, the old people staff the McDonalds.
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