I genuinely don’t know and would prefer getting perspectives from Lemmy rather than just reading generic facts. (Sorry if this seems lazy!)

I ask because China is communist, and sometimes I am afraid of some policies in China, like lack of free speech or free press. But I also think poverty and homelessness are a great evil and don’t know to what extent China has stopped this.

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      Funny, and partially accurate.

      The US has fewer people living in the type of poverty that China has, they take some of their poverty to the extreme.

      There are millions living in a tin and brick slums with no running water or access to toilets in the middle of nowhere, Or living 12 people to a single bedroom in literal stacked cages in big cities.

      I’d rather be homeless in the US, by quite a significant margin.