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 lph on Friday July 26, 2019 @07:38PM (#20539265)

You don't see visible homelessness nearly as much as in US big cities. Chinese friends I've discussed this with attribute it to familial piety acting as a much stronger safety net; people will make big sacrifices to save their relatives from total failure. It's expected, and a stark contrast to the American notion of extreme individualism. There's also no opiod epidemic.

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by Apfel on Saturday July 27, 2019 @05:45AM (#20541218)

Homelessness in China is visible and universal, but you have to know where to look. There's a lot of shame associated with it, just like disability (I'm sure you've probably noticed you don't see many disabled people in China either). https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-life-like-for-disabled-people...

I fundamentally reject that filial piety is the reason for this (filial piety causes all sorts of other social problems, too).

People in Confucian cultures hide things they see as shameful to protect their 面子.

If anything, I think this indicates there are far darker unseen truths in Chinese society that we are insulated from through the 'face' system.

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by tyingq on Friday July 26, 2019 @08:42PM (#20539615)

That's interesting...so more societal than government structure.

Anyone know what the closest remaining country is to actual communist dogma is? Vietnam? Cuba?

Also interested in what the most purely socialist country might be.

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Re:How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B ... by Erlich_Bachman on Saturday July 27, 2019 @04:01AM (#20540958)

Venezuela?

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