Exhausted by the pressure to succeed as a photographer, Litsky Li accepted a better offer: quit work to become one of China’s growing legions of children paid by their families to stay home.

A thread yesterday had a variety of people asking if the unemployment is lower because the youth are well cared for.

Please click through and read for additional context. Families are helping. Parents age and are not a long-term plan except for the most unusually wealthy.

Please remember: China is nominally communist. Functionally, they are capitalists with an usual side of excess infrastructure spending. A strong central government doesn’t make a country communist.

Their land use rules… that makes them communist-ish. But that’s a small part of a far larger picture.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I asked for your take on real estate law as you understood it in China.

    You provided a third-party tl;dr layman’s guide to Chinese real estate, indicating you were unable or unwilling to provide the personal take I asked you for. Which is fine, maybe you aren’t in the mood for conversation.

    I pointed out the 70-year individual property leases I had mentioned as a matter of clarification and left it at that.

    As for lemmy, I have had pretty good conversations with people here about music, video games, tech, the communities in general.

    Easy to rile; I’m going to hazard a guess that it is your defensive, nervous and rude attitude that is inviting the edgelords to rub elbows with you.

    Take a beat.

    You don’t see the unnecessarily detrimental and argumentative hypocrisy of lamenting the masses “missing the forest for the trees” and then 1)harping on a subjective and contextually irrelevant parenthetical excerpt and 2)arguing against eminent domain existing in Chinese real estate as if you weren’t the one to bring up eminent domain in Chinese real estate and are not the only person making the case for or against that concept?

    If not, you might be missing the forest for the trees.

    • APassenger@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
      02·
      1 year ago

      One of the themes I’ve seen here is people saying someone said something they didn’t then taking issue with what they heard/inferred.

      I didn’t say they don’t have eminent domain, as an example. I’m saying that the closest thing I’ve seen to their model is eminent domain - and even then, it’s different.

      It’s as if people here are so keen to land a point that they invent one. I’ve been on a variety of fora for decades. The frequency of misrepresentation and zero fucks about making it right is… I’ve never seen it so prevalent. People act like they aren’t talking to people.

      Straight Dope, people cared. Giraffe board (after the switch), people cared. StumbleUpon, Reddit… people cared that they were seen “arguing” in good faith. They curated their reputation by listening and if they fucked up, many (not all) would try to reset and some would apologize.

      I’m not simply describing my experience. I’m describing threads or branches where all I do is read comments.