Posted 1 year ago on May 14, 2012, 3:46 a.m. EST by Misaki This
content is user submitted and not an official statement If
unemployment is such a problem, why don't people volunteer to
work for less than workers in China? The answer is that the
basic necessities of living, such as housing, are more expensive
here in the United States. Even room-sharing arrangements cost
more, at $200~500 per month, than the entire monthly income of
many workers in China. Every town has housing vacancies, and
some communities even deliberately limit the construction of new
buildings that would cause the number of empty housing units or
amount of unused office space to rise. This artificial scarcity
of housing exists because for many people, real estate is an
investment and more construction would drive down prices. Empty
units that do exist can remain unfilled for the simple reason
that it is more profitable to wait for someone who can pay the
market price than to rent a housing unit for whatever a
prospective resident can aff