As we head into 2026, the U.S. job market is not quite as robust as it was before the Covid-19 lockdowns, but signs are hopeful and private sector jobs are multiplying. In Communist China, the opposite is happening, leaving millions desperate for any chance at making money.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is America's number one enemy, but it also oppresses its own people brutally, committing genocide against ethnic and religious minorities and enforcing a cruel surveillance state and social credit system. Not only that, but — unsurprisingly — the CCP's socialist policies and mass corruption have created economic instability in China. Some young people are so desperate for jobs they are gathering at fake offices and pretending they're employed. It's a much happier new year for American workers than Chinese workers, thanks to the free market.
It is a common — and false — talking point about China that the government there has abolished poverty. That is completely ridiculous. Even the South China Morning Post, which tends to repeat CCP propaganda, admitted in 2021 that numbers on poverty eradication were highly questionable. Furthermore, to be considered out of extreme poverty, a worker simply had to make over U.S.$2.30 a day.
The CCP just ignores some groups altogether, like the tens of millions of Chinese peasants living in caves or hillside huts, and the hundreds of millions who do not have modern plumbing. An excellent source for a much more honest look at the harsh realities of living in Communist China, from rural caves to urban tenements, is The China Show, hosted by two YouTubers who had to escape China after exposing some scandals that the CCP preferred to keep hidden. With contacts still in China and fluency in the language, Matt Tye and Winston Sterzel are able to highlight the tragedies and economic hardships of Chinese citizens every week. They have been warning throughout this year that economic crises are piling up in China and affecting a significant amount of the population.
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But they are not the only ones sounding the alarm, based on a new piece from StoptheCCP.org about a crazy new phenomenon:
Young people [in China] are paying to sit around in the offices of fake companies. There, they pad their resumes, apply for real jobs, play computer games, write emails, or take day-long coffee breaks.
Some landlords require renters to arrive promptly at a set time in the morning and stay until closing time. The landlord provides computers, break rooms, meeting spaces, snacks, and, in some places, lunch. The landlord is a boss who can kick out any “workers.” No office romances allowed.
The site referenced the old Soviet joke, "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work." But in Communist China, that insanity has reached a whole new level — people pay others to allow them to pretend to work.
In America, as a contrast, jobless claims came in lower than expected, as the economy added more jobs than expected in November, per The Epoch Times. GDP went up at an annualized rate of 4.3%, a good sign for the economy. The free market will beat Communism in creating prosperity for more people, every time.
