Does everyone have a job, no homelessness, etc?
Anyone know what the closest remaining country is to actual communist dogma is? Vietnam? Cuba?
Also interested in what the most purely socialist country might be.
I fundamentally reject that filial piety is the reason for this (filial piety causes all sorts of other social problems, too).
People in Confucian cultures hide things they see as shameful to protect their 面子.
If anything, I think this indicates there are far darker unseen truths in Chinese society that we are insulated from through the 'face' system.
Homelessness is definitely a thing. If you can’t afford a place to live then you’ll just have to make do.
2. But because of funny accounting (When your business can operate at a loss, it's easy to overhire), there was no shortage of jobs. There was a shortage of good jobs.
3. Food and housing (At least in the USSR) was very heavily subsidized.
[1] Unless you were a collectivized rural farmer, in which case, you had very few options for leaving the kolhoz. It was shitty, hard work, that paid very little, and most of the people doing it, as well as their children had few alternatives.
Regarding homelessness, it definitely exists, although differently from the US etc. If you go into a 24hr McDonalds or KFC you'll see lots of homeless people slumped over tables sleeping because nobody there will kick them out. It's also very common to see homeless people congregating in the lower levels of major railway stations at night.