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We see this repeating itself in China. However bad and dreary life is in a factory, working on a subsistence farm is worse with worse outlook than most factory
by mc32 4y ago
We see this repeating itself in China. However bad and dreary life is in a factory, working on a subsistence farm is worse with worse outlook than most factory jobs in the city.
A factory job give you the opportunity to advance. Maybe you sneak in some study time here and there, maybe you meet like minded people, maybe you meet the person you _want_ to spend your life with. In a rural setting with isolation and insularity and lacking transportation, your options are severely curtailed and likely end up like your parents or worse.
- eru 4y agoI'd say mostly we 'saw' this repeating itself in China. China has made most of that transitions already by now.
- mc32 4y agoYeah, but it's still happening and you have dirt poor farmers in the hinterlands --they are hidden from view (not talked about much) and cityfolk are willfully blind to their very existence.
- irrational 4y agoBut, we still have that in the USA in the hinterlands of the Appalachian mountains.
- mc32 4y agoAll I'm saying is were seeing the same movement from farms to terrible factory work that e saw in the West during the ind revolution as we're seeing today in China because despite the awful conditions these conditions are better than working on a farm. We're talking about the desperation that drives these young adults from their farms to work in factories under poor conditions.