How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?

Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by mikeash on Friday July 26, 2019 @05:29PM (#20538499)

No, people search for jobs just like they would anywhere else, and if they don’t find one then they get to be unemployed and broke.

Homelessness is definitely a thing. If you can’t afford a place to live then you’ll just have to make do.

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by tyingq on Friday July 26, 2019 @05:35PM (#20538540)

Ah, yeah. Not sure "Communist" means much then.

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by vkou on Saturday July 27, 2019 @04:39AM (#20541067)

1. In both China, and the Soviet Union, nobody would guarantee you a job. You had to find one for yourself. [1]

2. But because of funny accounting (When your business can operate at a loss, it's easy to overhire), there was no shortage of jobs. There was a shortage of good jobs.

3. Food and housing (At least in the USSR) was very heavily subsidized.

[1] Unless you were a collectivized rural farmer, in which case, you had very few options for leaving the kolhoz. It was shitty, hard work, that paid very little, and most of the people doing it, as well as their children had few alternatives.

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