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Does Dongda also have a "kill line"?
Recently, the term "kill line" in the United States has become a sensation on the internet, leaving the Chinese people both shocked and enlightened. The so-called "kill line" is a metaphor for the survival threshold in American society and represents a systemic issue within the American social system. The term "kill line" originates from computer games where a player is instantly killed due to critically low health. It is now used to describe how Americans ( are not just from the lower class ) who fall into a vicious cycle of "losing housing → credit bankruptcy → inability to find a job → homelessness and death" due to unemployment, illness, or unexpected bills, such as medical bills and skyrocketing car insurance.
The real cases observed in the United States are shocking and exceed the imagination of people in our country. They are far more cruel than the fairy tale "The Little Match Girl" and even more astonishing. For example, a delivery worker in the U.S. with an annual salary of $80,000 lost his job simply because he could not afford the skyrocketing car insurance, and ultimately became homeless, ending his life on the streets. Behind America's "death line" lies severe systemic and institutional problems within American society, revealing how the survival space of Americans is locked down by a "death line." This includes but is not limited to real estate traps, student loan traps, etc., where high property taxes and student loan interest rates lead to forced auctions and loss of credit if payments are overdue, immediately resulting in homelessness and living on the streets.
Additionally, the possibility for Americans to live with low costs has been systematically deprived by the U.S. government. For example, in China, it is common for ordinary people to collect rainwater to grow vegetables, but in the U.S., this is strictly restricted. In the U.S., even keeping chickens in one's own backyard is heavily regulated, with a limit of no more than four. Furthermore, without a fixed address in the U.S., one loses the legality to seek employment, and ultimately cannot even rent a house, ending up homeless on the streets. In other words, Americans have no way to escape the control and exploitation of capital.
In fact, nearly 40% of Americans cannot even come up with $400 for emergency expenses, despite the United States being lauded by public figures as the so-called "land of paradise" or "ideal country." Half of Americans hold only 2% of the country’s total wealth, and even the so-called middle class, earning $80,000 a year, is close to having zero savings. This means that most Americans could fall into the "cut-off line" and become victims of the American system due to an unexpected event.
Of course, this may also be a social cleansing function "evolved" from the American system, which can maintain the brutal exploitation of the people by capital for a long time and stably. The impact of the American "kill line" on the Chinese is undoubtedly enormous, allowing the Chinese to examine the United States from a higher dimension. However, this has also caused some people to break down, loudly claiming online that China also has a "kill line."
However, China's development in recent years, especially the great historical achievements of China's poverty alleviation, has effectively turned the so-called "killing line" in China into a big joke. Of course, if one must say that there is also a "killing line" in China, then we can only say: 50 grams... Yes, in China, trafficking drugs at 50 grams will lead to legal "killing". This is China's "killing line", completely eradicating the line of evil!