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4 years agoITT: People who (quite rightly) hate Bernie Sanders for being a moderate defend a country with a healthcare and welfare system far behind anything Bernie advocated.
And no, it’s not just because China is a poorer country, plenty of poor countries in Latin America give their citizens much more than China does. Might have something to do with the fact that China’s 1% controls 30% of the country’s wealth, and those billionaires are very well connected to CCP leadership. Just spitballing.
You could drive a dumptruck through these loopholes:
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Therein lies the failure of China’s safety net: that it does less for rural residents, and almost nothing for the migrant class that are not “resident” of the place where they are actually living. This proviso applies to almost every public service in China, and it functions to exclude a huge percentage of the (actual, existing) urban population, favoring a middle class whose families have long-established residency in the coastal cities.
Surely you must know this, otherwise you wouldn’t have written it in this way, so why the equivocation?