Youth unemployment in China ticked up to 17.1% in July, official figures showed, the highest level this year as the world’s second-largest economy faces mounting headwinds.
China is battling soaring joblessness among young people, a heavily indebted property sector and intensifying trade issues with the West.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang, who is responsible for economic policy, called Friday for struggling companies to be “heard” and “their difficulties truly addressed,” according to the state news agency Xinhua.
The unemployment rate among 16- to 24-year-olds released Friday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) was up markedly from June’s 13.2%.
Too many people. Not enough jobs. Too many people not able to retire.
Lol, imagine not being a boomer and thinking you get to retire
Yeah… my retirement plans are a bullet once I get too old to pay for rent.
Wait until you’re 25. Go to college for free and get a degree in something STEM. Get a career. Work your way up to a six figure salary. Contribute heavily to retirement. Retire once you get however much is enough.
25 was long ago.
Well hey good news, college is still free as long as you’re poor and at least 25 years old. That’s how you get a federal PEL grant to break even on college. Your state probably has grants to literally pay you to go to school on top of the PEL grant since you’re poor. That’s how I did it.
I have an education.
But do you have an in-demand skill?
Yes
Never too late to go back and get another degree. I’m pretty sure the federal PEL grant will pay for 2 bachelor degrees so you aren’t disqualified for having already gone to school.
In other news, I don’t know why there are so many haters downvoting me.
They aren’t haters. They’re down voting the boot strap boomer. I don’t need Another degree. I need companies to pay salaries that reflect inflation. I need my government to have Social Security reflect inflation. I need my government to prevent corporations and “ Investors” From purchasing all the single-family homes, driving the price up to a level where what used to be a starter home is now $500,000. And I need little shits like you to wake the fuck up. That’s why they’re down voting you.
Did you even consider that your formula doesn’t even work for 90% of people? 6 figure salaries are a US thing, everywhere else you get taxes to pay for irrelevant shit like health. Part of those taxes are for retirement. Those are not optional and scale with the salary from like 10% if you’re poor to like 70% if you’re rich.
At whatever age retirement is, you get a payout that’s (not linearly) proportional to how much you paid in taxes. That’s the whole of Europe. Probably more complicated or anarchic elsewhere.
Even with a top 5% salary, you’re not going to pile up all that much.
The problem is not this scheme. Is that there are not enough young people to support the elderly.
Also a curiosity about Portugal: A lot of people are starting to lie about not having a degree when they do so that they can get shit jobs more easily. Too many degrees around. (Most people go to college, even if they fail)
I guess I just assumed OP was in America since their retirement plan is a bullet to the head, which is a distinctly American joke since most other countries don’t seem to make retirement such an impossibility.
And also no women for a lot of young men. Only way is to put all those young unemployed men in the army, and start a war somewhere, Taiwan first. Unfortunate…
Women is a touchy topic, it is well understand that there’s surplus of women in urban cities while there’s a shortage in rural areas.
Yep! There’s a surplus of educated women, who are too educated / accomplished in their careers to want to marry uneducated rural men. And many of them also deferred marriage for their education and career and thus became a bit too old to bear children. All of this just exacerbates the male to female ratio problem in China, which is also a huge problem for China’s demographics.
China is going to shrink in population, Japan, Korea, Taiwan also have these problems.
Almost all non-african countries are projected to shrink or plateau in population by 2100, according to UN estimates. (These estimates cannot account for the unexpected, obviously.)
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They’ll probably force women to marry at some point.
Imagine a world where the people rose up against all governments at once.
Stop, you’re getting me excited.