Monday 6 February 2012
One Pinko's Thoughts
China’s Economy can’t Survive without Iron Rice Bowl
The Iron Rice
Bowl system saved the Chinese economy, made it one of the fastest growing in
the 20th century. It gave lifetime government employment to
countless Chinese, all labouring for the benefit of their countrymen. Now that
it is soon to obsolete, people will be less inclined to work if they have no
job security, and China’s economy will slow down dramatically.
Incentive to
work was the reasoning behind the founding of the Rice Bowl system in the early
50’s when similar strategies were developed in Eastern Europe. Just as people
will not work if they are not paid, they will not work if they are not given a
guarantee of job security and other benefits and the knowledge that what they
are working for will directly improve their country. With the system, no worker
can live in fear of being laid off or fired unless they do something terrible,
which hardly ever happens anyway. The Iron Rice Bowl system was a truly
affective way of massing a large work force and now that it is gone, what will
China do? Labourers are as important to society as are factory owners and
businessmen, and the country needs people to do the dirty work, the heavy
lifting. Our country’s economy might grind to a halt.
Although the
system has come under criticism for compromising personal freedoms, taking a
family trip does not matter when compared to improving the welfare of the
country and working for the good of the people. Many complain about having to
get permits to marry or anything, but these permits are not too difficult to
obtain. The system has fallen due to America’s complaints about Chinese not
being able to marry or have kids without government permission, but this is
vastly exaggerated. Must our economy shrink due to a few extra small security
programmes? Those who sympathise with them are not acting for the benefit of
our country.
The president
has made a grave mistake in giving to American demand and ended the Iron Rice
Bowl. The Chinese market will feel the pain in a few years when the bill takes
action, unless it is repealed right away.
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