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A dollar a day is a super low bar but at least they are trying to eliminate poverty. The US would never have a goal like this let alone actually achieve it
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-27/Eradicating-extreme-poverty-in-2020-Did-China-set-the-bar-too-low--UMenpZjuF2/index.html
China's poverty aid package goes beyond using daily income as a barometer, it also aims to meet the food and clothing needs of the rural poor population and guarantee they have access to compulsory education, basic medical services, and safe housing, which is referred to as the "Two Assurances and Three Guarantees."
I imagine the guaranteed housing part of the program alone reduces cost of living astronomically.
I can imagine the cost of living in super rural China is way lower than even the cheapest place here.
The people making $1 a day are mostly substinence farmers. This is an enormous achievement and means these people have permanent famine security and enough surplus value to improve their lives consistently.
I haven't checked this specific article but most of the time these things are adjusted to be 1usd/day adjusted for ppp, it's incredibly standard for poverty alleviation so it would be weird if this article didn't do that.
Yeah but this an in international standard that even China follows in order to submit reports to the UN.
If you read in the article it's actually $2.30/day adjusted for ppp. Plus as another commenter said looks to secure food and clothing on top of that.
I'll take an extra 60 bucks a month at this point please.
Basically ends up being a free month of rent a year. God that'd rule
Yeah it's a spectacular achievement. In 2011 (the last time research was done on it) there was still a good deal of people living on under $2/day (including food and housing subsidies into that calculation) and I'm sure it's only gone up since then.
I mean, I'm pretty sure the Communist Party of China claims to be communist. They're not saying they've done a full communism, but they are saying they're communists.
I mean, in 2012, the 3000 member National People's Congress (the PRC's parliament and highest legislative body) had a combined net worth of $85 billion USD.
It's cool that Xi's been doing an anti-corruption campaign but despite that the net worth of the NPC and it's advisory body the CPPCC had more than doubled by 2018 from when Xi came to power in 2012.
I agree that it's not immediately disqualifying for communists to allow private capital to temporarily exist as a transition stage, but when a communist party's highest legislative body is occupied by billionaires and massively multi-millionaires I don't think its unreasonable to doubt their sincerity when they say that the reason they're allowing private capital to exist is to further the cause of communism, liberation and prosperity for all.
Super cool less people are living in absolute poverty though.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the National People's Congress is part of the government, not the Party. The Party holds a majority of seats in the NPC, but it isn't an inherently "communist" body.
I would be interested to see how the net worth breaks down according to each party in the People's Congress though. I imagine a lot of it must be in the Communist Party.
They all call their countries socialist on their way to communism. Common misconception
I once read a calendar wrong and accidentally finished a school project a month before the deadline. China must feel pretty good right now, they can just chill for a month.
I doubt the data for France is still accurate, a lot has happened in the last year, and while the wealth consolidation for the billionaires here is slower than say, in the US, it's still happening. But that's a good post regardless, China isn't the deus ex machina for us socialists.
They have a billionaire class and a poor class. I call BS on this.
Oh wait, I checked the source. Straight propaganda, nevermind.
Socialism doesn't mean no economic classes. It means Socialism. Billionaires happen under Socialism. What did you expect?
