Unbelievable: Living on $140 a Month in China

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Recently, on Chinese social media platforms, more and more netizens are complaining in front of their cell phone cameras about their unemployment, declining income, and anxiety about the future. These people include recent graduates, laid-off middle-aged people, and even many programmers and white-collar workers.

Many netizens mentioned in the videos that their monthly salary is only $140. This income level feels like going back thirty years.

Someone calculated that $140 a month averages only $4.80 a day. This amount of money can barely cover basic food expenses, leaving almost no room to cover rent, transportation, medical costs, or other living expenses, let alone save money or plan for the future.

Some netizens lamented: Not finding a job isn't scary; what's scarier is finding a job but still struggling to make ends meet.


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