The Issue of Social Security for Chinese Farmers
If paying agricultural tax counts, then farmers were the earliest contributors to social security. Yet, while the work years of educated youth sent down to the countryside are recognized in the same period, those of farmers are not.
Today's absurdity in social security: farmers' children pay pension insurance, but cannot use it for their own parents; their own children's contributions cannot be used by them either.
According to accidentally leaked public data, the average monthly pension for government and institution employees is the highest, reaching 6,483.8 yuan in 2021, with a fiscal subsidy of 2,211.3 yuan; the average monthly pension for enterprise employees is 3,047 yuan, with a fiscal subsidy of 482.8 yuan; for urban and rural residents (including farmers), the average monthly pension is only 190.9 yuan, with a fiscal subsidy of 163.9 yuan.
Perhaps, if we just drag it out long enough, once they're all dead, the debt will no longer exist?