• GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    I was going to say, if a minor is disowned by their family (or even an adult is kicked out and has no home anymore), isn't it explicit state policy that they be given some kind of housing? Aren't the homeless in China are mostly people who nominally do have a home but live on the streets elsewhere (especially people from the country seeking an income in cities)?

    I've only read here and there about policies and such, is this consistent with what your people tell you?

    Edit: Some fucker in that thread quoting Friere is so annoying, he was a Marxist! And of course these self-proclaimed anarchists are going to take The Economist's word on China. What wretched fucking morons.

    Edit 2: I need to stop looking at that website. Look at this shit. To the right of Robert Conquest on Soviet history, quoting Orwell, and of course being uncritical about sources when it owns the tankies. When people say that anarchism is extraordinarily vulnerable to Useful Idiocy, this is exactly what they mean. I don't think they are feds (too low-value an operation) but this shit is basically just an ineffective version of what feds would do.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      That is for sure the case in Cuba, and in fact you can disown your parents in Cuba and they still have to help you monetarily on top of the free housing. Unsure about the specifics in China, could ask around

      Yeah there is a real issue with transient homelessness particularly undocumented homelessness, but that's more of an information issue. I've seen interviews where a lot of homeless in this situation are people prone to being tricked and trafficked, so it's a black market issue that needs to be handled.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        I've heard about there being a huge human trafficking problem in China (though I think that extends to many Asian countries both liberal and socialist), and I wonder what the root of it is. There are some niches of obvious specialized demand, like the trafficking of people (even unwillingly in some cases!) from the DPRK, but I don't understand why sex trafficking is such a stubborn issue even at the rather large scale it exists in.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          7 months ago

          Yeah it's something that requires a large study, which I'm sure China is down to tackle, just for whatever reasons there are issues in implementation. It's easy to build a dam, much harder to have perfect information

          I do recall in that interview the person was very obviously senile, it must be hard to help someone when they don't remember how they were wronged, just that they were