I genuinely don’t know and would prefer getting perspectives from Lemmy rather than just reading generic facts. (Sorry if this seems lazy!)

I ask because China is communist, and sometimes I am afraid of some policies in China, like lack of free speech or free press. But I also think poverty and homelessness are a great evil and don’t know to what extent China has stopped this.

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Are there homeless in China? Yes

    Is there extreme poverty in China? Yes

    One thing that western people rarely truly understand is that there are also workers putting in 70+ hour weeks living in company forms under conditions so bad it makes American prisons seem reasonable, and not actually getting ahead with money because they are sending it all to their family in the countryside just to keep them fed.

    There are also more than a hundred million Chinese people who don’t even have running water.

    They also have tens of million people living rich in luxury apartments driving luxury cars with servants to do everything.

      • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        11 hours ago

        Funny, and partially accurate.

        The US has fewer people living in the type of poverty that China has, they take some of their poverty to the extreme.

        There are millions living in a tin and brick slums with no running water or access to toilets in the middle of nowhere, Or living 12 people to a single bedroom in literal stacked cages in big cities.

        I’d rather be homeless in the US, by quite a significant margin.