Rural Chinese elderly earn hundreds monthly watching short videos — a form of UBI?
oran_ge · x · 2026-10-03
The author observes that elderly people in rural China can now earn a few hundred yuan a month by watching short videos, and asks whether this amounts to a de facto UBI — a window into how the algorithm economy redistributes income to the bottom.
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