• 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