BEIJING (Reuters) - Rising unemployment in China is pushing millions of college graduates into a tough bargain, with some forced to accept low-paying work or even subsist on their parents’ pensions, a plight that has created a new working class of “rotten-tail kids”.
The phrase has become a social media buzzword this year, drawing parallels to the catchword “rotten-tail buildings” for the tens of millions of unfinished homes that have plagued China’s economy since 2021.
A record number of college graduates this year are hunting for jobs in a labour market depressed by COVID-19-induced disruptions as well as regulatory crack-downs on the country’s finance, tech and education sectors.
The jobless rate for the roughly 100 million Chinese youth aged 16-24 crept above 20% for the first time in April last year. When it hit an all-time high of 21.3% in June 2023, officials abruptly suspended the data series to reassess how numbers were compiled.
Russia will be issuing them all “work” visas soon enough.
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Any tankies wanna take a spin on how this is actually a good thing?
They’ll link you to an essay that goes on forever and quotes dozens of philosophers. But it doesn’t actually address your question and it is completely divorced from any real-world data.
Something something Marx, Soviet era reference, reason why USA is bad, Vietnam something, never answering the direct question, personal insult goes here, ending in a leading question. Clown face emoji.
Isn’t making up guys that don’t exist so you can feel intellectually superior just the best?! 😀
Most days you beat the strawman. Some days the strawman beats you.
Found you. Copy and paste this back to me:
Tiananmen Square Massacre really happened
I’m stealing this Idea :P
Your reply wasn’t even original?! Come on now. I know you can do better than that.
Tiananmen Square Massacre really happened
Definitely the worst part of using Lemmy. As someone who lives in Taiwan it’s quite annoying getting gaslit by a bunch of cosplayers in random threads.
Yeah. The good news is they’re harmless because “we’re the bad guys” has the exact opposite of mass appeal. Flat Earthers are more likely to cause real-life political change, haha.
Unfortunately, the tankies are also impeding the change we actually need (e.g. expansion of workers rights). It’s harder to get involved in leftism when such a large part of vocal leftists are tankies.