>>82989420
>They do not spend their entire life learning the characters, because they have no other option
Right they just have to spend their school years learning thousands of characters every year. Meanwhile you learn the alphabet in less than a year
>Simplified Chinese is a band-aid solution for a country of over a billion people with unequally distributed wealth
Blaming wealth on an overly complicated script. I guess it's a bad if poor people can learn to use it. Not even mentioning how many chinese linguists and intellectuals was in favour of simplifying or even having an alphabet to modernise.