To be fair, losing your job in America is a lot scarier than in most countries; especially when your whole industry is affected and your skill set has become obsolete. There’s not much of a social safety net to catch you.

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JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> losing your job in America is a lot scarier than in most countries

Compared with China?

	▲	frm88 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. You can get unemployment insurance payout between 3 and 24 months: https://msadvisory.com/china-social-security-system/ For example, if the local minimum wage in Shanghai is RMB 2,590 per month, the unemployment benefit would range between RMB 1,813 and RMB 2,072. https://fdichina.com/blog/unemployment-insurance-in-china/

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roncesvalles 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The belief that there is no safety net is also part of the paranoia that I'm referring to. America is actually one of the most welfarist states in the world.

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croes 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Only if you include those countries without welfare.

If you look at those with welfare the US are pretty bad.

Lots of money but badly distributed

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roncesvalles 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If your judgment of "badly distributed" comes from all the homeless people that you see, those people have fallen through like a dozen safety nets to get to that point and most of them cannot be helped.

You could literally hire a full-time dedicated team of 10 social workers and mental health professionals to care for 1 crazy SF hobo and it still wouldn't turn around their lives, they're too far gone.

You never see the iceberg of people who are successfully helped by American welfare.

	▲	croes 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I mean the efficiency. How much of the money is for actual help and how much for the companies who exploit the system to enrich themselves.