So that’s how it ends? Everyone sad and miserable? Damn man.
Hey, no murder so that’s a positive right?
Of course not. Because it's the PARTY'S perogative to determine if children are allowed to live or die. The little girl is unregistered because she was born in prison. If a child isn't registered with the local CCP authorities, that child doesn't exist legally. She can't go to school, see a doctor, have legal housing, or get a proper job. This is the consequence of China's now defunct One Child Policy. Now she is an only child, but it costs a lotta RMB to register her ex post facto, because of fines for hiding the child's birth from the authorities, and there's the fact that the parents are paroled criminals which will result in more fines. Plus a few hands may need to be greased as the paperwork makes its way up the chimney, because at any point someone can object to the application. Mom and dad are scum, but they live in a pitiless totalitarian society that treats its chattels like a disposable resource, and being scum is sometimes the only way to survive being thrown out.
Remember there is no mass morality (traditional thought) because the Revolution did away with that. And if there is no mass morality, it follows there is no mass immorality. So the individual members of the proletariat should follow the Party's example and look out only for themselves. Mom and Dad are only doing what the Party has dictated, wallowing in the soulless hedonism emanating from a debauched leadership.
This is Hell on Earth.
you're an idiot if you think life for poor ppl was worth shit pre--Revolution. neither of these women would even be literate much less independent
