In the Chinese systemic paradox, attending a university requires no student debt—in fact, you might even draw a state stipend during your tenure. Yet, the moment you graduate, the structural matrix violently recalibrates, reducing you to a gig-economy conscript delivering takeout or grinding behind the wheel of a ride-share vehicle. For those rare lineages endowed with deep institutional nepotism, the ultimate prize is often a slot at the State Grid, where you are graciously permitted to climb power poles for the State Grid Corporation of China.You ended up explaining India. The US has a 70:30 middle class to lower class ratio. India has 20:80. So the middle class is squeezed in India to support the lower class.
In the US, everything you explained is happening in Bolshevik states. In Republican states, everything is as it should be under an advanced economy.
What they have begun squeezing in the US today are young adults. 40% have college debt until their mid-30s. That's the real squeeze.
These identical physical burdens, which a mere generation ago were delegated to vocational high school dropouts, are today routinely monopolized by master's degree elites from top-tier research institutions. This is no longer an anomaly; this is the systemic equilibrium.
Even that trajectory represents a statistical luxury within the current macro-pathology. Consider the historical precedent established just last year: a master's degree graduate from Peking University—the nation’s supreme academic institution—was documented formally campaigning for a tertiary vocational institution position as a cafeteria administrator.
In first-tier cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou), the average housing price across the city is 40000~6,0000 RMB per square meter(Popular streets are above 120,000 RMB per square meter.),
while 600 million(accounting for more than half of China's population) people have an average monthly income below 2,000 RMB.
-------------This baseline metric was, in fact, publicly disclosed by the Premier of the State Council themselves during an official state address
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