Because mass unemployment is a bad thing, and the costs are lowered so people can actually survive on lower wages. Meanwhile young people in the West cannot even get a minimum wage job at McDonald’s

The publish or perish culture leads to this. The businessmen and politicians should never be allowed to decide academic fundings.

It is almost like the current system favours cheaters spamming fake CVs while most real people do have imperfections (eg gaps in employment)

A lot of fake positions. It is not even from the company, just recruiters recycling old job postings. I know it is fake because I’m in the company and the project is long dead.