Young people in Greater China are blowing their paychecks every month — even if they don’t have to

Eric Hsu remembers a time when he was 10 days away from payday and had just $32 left. He had no savings.

“I used the remaining money I had to buy loaves of white bread and I ate that for all three meals until my pay came in,” he told

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