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We might as well think about a question: Is involution a good thing?
The answer is no, involution is a bad thing for ordinary people. The essence of involution is that there are many people and few resources, and the resources are not enough, which leads to ordinary people having to fall into vicious competition.
The most typical example is that hundreds or thousands of people compete for a position, and the probability of going ashore is lower than the probability of winning the lottery if you buy a lottery ticket. However, there are always a bunch of people vying to roll in.
The saying of high emotional intelligence is that thousands of troops cross a single-plank bridge. And the argument of low emotional intelligence is that the bottom pinched each other. The elite does not need to roll in, but those who have to viciously compete are the children of ordinary people.
Due to limited resources, ordinary people will not have anything to gain in the end. I believe that the post-80s and post-90s generations are deeply impressed by this.
Because the post-80s and post-90s volume kings were laid off when they reached the age of 35, they were laid off, and all the hard work and dedication in the past became a failure.
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Many people know little about involution, and here, we can talk about it in depth.
Suppose a company needs 100 people to do the work, and the boss needs to pay the labor cost of 100 people.
With the general market, there are more and more graduates, and countless people need jobs. In order to save labor costs, the boss will lay off employees and let 50 people do the work of 100 people.
It stands to reason that 50 people cannot do the work of 100 people. However, the boss came up with a solution, that is, 996, extending the working hours can squeeze the value of employees.
Let 996 employees, 1 person do 2 people's work, the salary can remain unchanged for 10,000 years, the labor cost paid by the boss is reduced, and the efficiency is greatly improved. This is what we are talking about at the moment, "reducing costs and increasing efficiency".
As long as you pay attention to the news, you will find that most companies are laying off employees to "reduce costs and increase efficiency". The most typical example is "the performance is not up to standard, not my brother".
From the boss's point of view, the boss must have benefited. From the perspective of employees, let you 996, do the work of 2 people, and receive the salary of 1 person, so do you do it? 99% of people will choose to stick to it,
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Why do 99% of people choose to do it? Because they don't have a choice.
If you persist in your current position, you can still keep your job and make money. But if you don't stick to it and resign resolutely, you may not even be able to find your next home.
What's more, you don't do it, some people do it. It's like delivering takeaways, when an order is 6 yuan, someone will do it. When an order of 4 yuan, there are also people who do it. When an order of 2 yuan is made, there are more people delivering takeaways.
The unit price has decreased, the income has decreased, why are there more people delivering food? Because all walks of life are laying off employees and "reducing costs and increasing efficiency", there are more people who can't find jobs, so they can only pour into the food delivery industry?
As long as you understand the market, you will understand that when more and more people flock into a certain industry, the industry will become less and less profitable. Because the profits of the industry are limited, and when there are more people, the profits are thinned.
If a group of people flood into the food delivery industry, the income of the delivery workers will decrease; When a group of people flood into the computer industry, the income of programmers will decrease; If a group of people pour into the live broadcast industry, the income of the live broadcast industry will decrease......
If there are too many people, but there are too few industries, or there are not enough channels to make money, it will lead to "scarce things are expensive, and more things are not worth much".
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In the end, involution will only lead to one problem: the class of the poor is gradually solidifying.
I'm sure we've all heard of the "Rule of Twenty-Eight". 20% of the elite own 80% of the resources, while 80% of the ordinary people can only compete in 20% of the resources.
As long as the involution intensifies, it will evolve into the "Rule of 19". 10% of the elite own 90% of the resources, while 90% of the ordinary people can only compete in 10% of the resources.
The poor make up the majority. Even if they want to change their fate, can everyone really change their fate? Not necessarily. The poor who can change their fate are just a handful.
Han Gaozu Liu Bang changed the fate of the bottom, and Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang changed the fate of the bottom. The question is, there is only one Liu Bang and one Zhu Yuanzhang in this world, how can there be so many children of destiny?
If nothing else, just "work". If you are an employee of a private company, can you guarantee that you will never lose your job? No one can guarantee it.
Think about it, even if you are unemployed, you can't guarantee it, so how can you talk about changing your fate? This is the most simple and cruel truth in the involution environment.
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Write to the end
In Guangzhou, every June and July, you will see a large number of fresh graduates coming to Guangzhou to squeeze Metro Line 3, and there is no shortage of 985 and 211 bachelor's and master's degrees.
Working in Guangzhou sounds good, but most of these fresh graduates' salaries are about 7,000, and a small part can exceed 10,000.
The question is, what can you do with a salary of about 7,000 or tens of thousands of dollars in Guangzhou? Can you afford a home in Guangzhou?
To put it mildly, even if they work until they are 30 years old, they can't afford to buy a toilet, let alone a house.
Just one suite can open up the gap of a person's life, so what about other problems? In the end, it only became a dry battery in a big city. So much for.
Text/Shushan has deer