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To be fair, losing your job in America is a lot scarier than in most countries; especially when your whole industry is affected and your skill set has become ob
by wrren 6mo ago
To be fair, losing your job in America is a lot scarier than in most countries; especially when your whole industry is affected and your skill set has become obsolete. There’s not much of a social safety net to catch you.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> losing your job in America is a lot scarier than in most countries Compared with China?
- frm88 6mo agoYes. You can get unemployment insurance payout between 3 and 24 months: https://msadvisory.com/china-social-security-system/ https://msadvisory.com/china-social-security-system/ For example, if the local minimum wage in Shanghai is RMB 2,590 per month, the unemployment benefit would range between RMB 1,813 and RMB 2,072. https://fdichina.com/blog/unemployment-insurance-in-china/ https://fdichina.com/blog/unemployment-insurance-in-china/
- roncesvalles 6mo agoThe belief that there is no safety net is also part of the paranoia that I'm referring to. America is actually one of the most welfarist states in the world.
- croes 6mo agoOnly if you include those countries without welfare. If you look at those with welfare the US are pretty bad. Lots of money but badly distributed
- roncesvalles 6mo agoIf your judgment of "badly distributed" comes from all the homeless people that you see, those people have fallen through like a dozen safety nets to get to that point and most of them cannot be helped. You could literally hire a full-time dedicated team of 10 social workers and mental health professionals to care for 1 crazy SF hobo and it still wouldn't turn around their lives, they're too far gone. You never see the iceberg of people who are successfully helped by American welfare.
- croes 6mo agoI mean the efficiency. How much of the money is for actual help and how much for the companies who exploit the system to enrich themselves.