Maybe it’s the fact that every Chinese citizen is registered in the province of their birth, and can only draw social services in the province of their birth. All social services are paid for at the province level, and rich provinces do not subsidize poor provinces.

Citizens are legally barred from changing this registration except in cases of extreme wealth. The thing is, there are lots of jobs in the rich provinces and no jobs in the poor ones, so you have a permanent legal underclass who is exploited to make the lives of about 15% of the population seem pretty good.

That 15% is the ones who get free healthcare, unemployment, and generally all of the workers rights. The rest get shit all.

There are cheap and easy ways to waterproof cardboard, but I’m not sure why you would want to attack Seattle.