Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "China’s subway farmers highlight inequality" video.

San Francisco has recently begun kicking out most of their homeless population. I'm not sure where they send them, but there are a lot fewer now.
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Yes, you can see how rich they are by looking at their fashionable clothing, gold watches and fast sports cars.
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@Xidanyu Exactly! In most European countries, it is illegal to sleep on public streets, so nobody does.
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@TFXJac "My grandma a farmer bought 2 houses". Where did they buy those houses, and how did they save up the money? From farming, or from working in factory cities? Or perhaps from selling their land? I would be extremely skeptical if you claimed that they bought two houses in Shanghai from money they made from farming. But two houses in the same village where they live, sure, that's cheap.
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@GeorgeForman-i9t "Haven't seen a poor farmer in china yet." Then you may not have been out in the countryside in Guizhou, Guangxi, or other remote mountainous regions. It's the mountainous regions where the real poverty is. With relatively little arable land, it's hard to make a living out there. Of course it also depends how you define 'poor'. Maybe you think that as long as they have a place to live and food to eat, they're not poor, but if that is your standard, there are almost no poor people in the world, and there never has been. Even in the 1970s, almost all people in China had a place to live and food to eat. But even you would have to agree that China in the 1970s was a poor country.
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@ "makes you feel like the solved the homeless problem over night." Exactly! Well, there may still be some homeless people around, just not anywhere they're being seen. Homeless people prefer to live in the city, close to the city center. Homeless people would rather sleep in a doorway off a city street than in a nice room in the countryside.
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@ "Them homeless folks you talk about is probably migrant workers". I'm talking about homeless people in North America and Europe, not in China.
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@teckmenglee8060 In China, 'extreme poverty' is defined by the state as living on less than CNY 8/day, which is CNY 240/month, or around CNY 2,900/year. It's not starvation, but by most standards it's very, very low income. So this is what has been eliminated. And as for 'personal experience with China', I have also seen this country with my own eyes, as I have lived here for 28 years.
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