While we engage in petty bull****, China has

[rah]

So old people suck, and young people suck. But middle aged people...?

Were young once and will eventually be old. so take your choice.

[Dauphin]

Where young once and will eventually be old. so take your choice.

The Who would disagree.

[The Mad Monk]

They would, but then did the Superbowl and disqualified themselves.

[giblets]

Coupled with the coming collapse of their banking system, I think China will have a hard time getting rich before it gets old.

Financial crises normally have a temporary effect on a country's economy. I don't see how a short term problem is supposed to be coupled with a long term problem.

The Chinese literally worship their ancestors. Westerners can throw old people in the trash, because we rightly despise and abhor the elderly. The Chinese have a serious cultural obligation to take care of their parents and grandparents.

So they will likely work harder if their country has a large number of old people that need support. That doesn't sound like economic stagnation, although it would divert resources away from achieving superpower status.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Elderly in China

On the morning of Sept. 4, in the riverside boomtown of Wuhan, Mr. Li, an 88-year-old man, fell in the street and injured his nose. People passed him by, but no one raised a hand to help as he lay on the ground, suffocating on his own blood.
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The vast majority of Chinese netizens and editorialists interpreted it as a tone-deaf, technocratic response to what many perceive as three decades of decay in traditional Chinese values that began when the county embraced capitalism.

In an editorial on Caixun.com, China’s leading financial news portal, Chi Jingrui wrote:

It is generally believed by the public that if we go back thirty years, it’s no more difficult to help a senior citizen when he falls down than to offer a seat on the bus. But then what has made us lose our "loving heart” and social morality over the last thirty years?

Usually the answer is money. “In China, helping a fallen senior is a risky investment and its overall rate of return is usually negative,” tweeted Time in Words, a user of the Sina Weibo microblog.

Capitalism

[Hauldren Collider]

Um, how could helping an injured man be risky? Sounds more like they simply lack human compassion. ****ers.

[Felch]

Financial crises normally have a temporary effect on a country's economy. I don't see how a short term problem is supposed to be coupled with a long term problem.

Because the short term problem makes the long term problem that much harder to handle.

So they will likely work harder if their country has a large number of old people that need support. That doesn't sound like economic stagnation, although it would divert resources away from achieving superpower status.

Good God, man. Are you hourly?

[notyoueither]

Um, how could helping an injured man be risky? Sounds more like they simply lack human compassion. ****ers.

Negative legal consequences of getting involved, according to something I read recently.

[giblets]

Because the short term problem makes the long term problem that much harder to handle.

I don't see how a financial crisis in the near future is supposed to make China unable to pay for a welfare state in the distant future.

Good God, man. Are you hourly?

What does that mean in English?

[dannubis]

I don't think that is limited to China.

OK. Maybe I am not that young anymore... I meant most of my colleagues my age...

Damn! Time flies.

[Dauphin]

Negative legal consequences of getting involved, according to something I read recently.

Although they may consider introducing Good Samaritan laws (in the Canadian, not French, sense).

[notyoueither]

What is so funny?

[Dauphin]

If you click the link, it mentions the Chinese are being sued for giving assistance to people who are injured. I thought you were saying read it, ironically (dramatic).

[notyoueither]

Ahh, I see. I didn't follow the link, but read it elsewhere. I hate when that happens.

[DaShi]

You assume the Chinese care.

Yeah, seriously. China will corner the glue market.