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China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 months ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] Drewmeister@lemmy.world 77 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Her university has an unwritten rule that students must sign an employment contract or provide proof of internship within one year of graduation; otherwise, they won't receive a diploma.

That's some bullshit

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suspect it’s a case of “shit rolls downhill”.

The central government wants to prevent scam schools that don’t produce employable graduates. As a result, they penalize colleges whose graduates don’t find employment.

Instead of helping their graduates, colleges find it easier to punish them.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Seems to be a classic case of Goodhart's law turned bad.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I mean the way the article is written it literally sounds like bullshit.

"Oh they have this unwritten rule"

Really good journalism. The 14% unemployment is for ages 16-24. For comparison it's 10% in the US.

Neither of which is very meaningful considering how most people are still going to school during that age. This isn't the unemployment for people out of college and graduated. Which would be what the article is talking about. Bad to imply the statistic they used has anything to do with it.

Additionally, I wonder how much of that 4% difference is the 16-17 year olds in high school in America that have to work to support their family.

16-17 year olds being calculated in an unemployment statistic? Really? Am I old as fuck now or are these not children?

I know a lot of us normalized starting a below minimum wage job at 13 like I did. But I would hope others grow up and realize how fucked up that type of exploitation is.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is America, everyone above 14 is meat for the grinder.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

And 14 and under are targets of the pedophiles running our companies and the country.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Don't know how they did the calculations here, but in Norway we have statistics for unemployment that goes down to 16 year olds.

However in those statistics, a person is only considered unemployed if they are not attending school. Our equivalent of high school is not mandatory, so a few people (very few) decide to quit school and begin working at 16. Some further people are high school dropouts that get jobs at 16-19.

So basically: You're counted as unemployed if you're not in a job or education.