• OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    likely means the wage that reaches your bank account, i.e. wage - 401k, insurance etc

    Well ain’t that a shit definition then

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      What statistics will you use? use wage - CPI? No matter what you use, I listed the Beijing median income, and beijing housing price. Unless you think making $10 per hour can somehow buy a 700k apartment, grabbing on the precise definition of one statistics doesn’t seem helpful to this discussion.

      And you cannot deny the situation in the U.S. is not better than needing to buy 700k apartment with $10 wages.

      Honestly, I am quite surprised how low tankies are willing to go to defend China. As a Chinese, it is very disheartening to me that people have never experienced or seen the suffering of living under an authoritarian government, are more willing to blindly defend it, than having a intellectual discussion.