Dropping trash in the street in parts of China is showing concern that everyone has a job, including street cleaners. The custom's changing in cities where labor costs are higher though.
Have never understood this attitude, I've heard it before where I'm from.
You're littering to make sure people are employed? Really?
Seems like a fairly direct application of the broken windows fallacy.
"I smear feces on the walls in public restrooms. No point in paying city janitors for doing nothing! If nobody committed crimes, we'd lose all our police..."
Yes really. You just don't understand what it's like to live in such a heavily populated country