Please click through and read for additional context. Families are helping. Parents age and are not a long-term plan except for the most unusually wealthy.

Please remember: China is nominally communist. Functionally, they are capitalists with an usual side of excess infrastructure spending. A strong central government doesn't make a country communist.

Their land use rules... that makes them communist-ish. But that's a small part of a far larger picture.

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[–] iopq@latte.isnot.coffee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

China doesn't even have a free healthcare system. Everyone still needs to pay, even though there are subsidies. In real life, there's little difference between the US and China

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Socialism doesn't require that. So that does not make it any less socialist. As a socialist however. I would argue that since Karl Marx's time. The concept of health care has become a much more important notion to the welfare of the general populace that should include universal health care. It isn't part of the definition however.