I won't discuss the current situation today, but will briefly talk about the day.
01
Judging from the 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation, no matter how the dynastic system evolves, there is always a bond running through it - blood.
China is a huge kinship society, which has stumbled through more than 5,000 years by relying on kinship politics. Social ties centered on blood ties have become deeply rooted, and people have become accustomed to such a social ecology.
In thousands of years of feudal society, the resources of society were distributed in a stepwise manner according to the level of power, and the size of power was divided according to the kinship of the ruling class.
Why is it always said that feudal society "cannibalism"? A large part of the reason lies in this.
Because the social network built on the basis of kinship is itself a kind of social capital.
The distribution and operation of social capital divides people into three, six, nine and so on, and divides into several social classes, which seize social resources from top to bottom.
First of all, in terms of educational resources.
Although the bureaucratic system of feudal society provided a channel for class jumping, there were very few students who achieved class jumping, and even fewer left their names in history.
"Li Du's poems are passed down by ten thousand mouths". Indeed, the most well-known students in ancient China were Li Bai and Du Fu, who belonged to the two top of romanticism and realism. Although Li Bai has "Yu Zhangxing", and Du Fu has "three officials and three farewells" to feel the suffering of the people, but they are only emotional,
Although he is not the only one who has left his name, counting the "Big and Small Xie", "Three Cao", and "Seven Sons of Jian'an", and looking back at the "Eight Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties" and "The Four Talents of Jiangnan", you will find that they are either born in a "family of eunuchs" or grew up in a "wealthy merchant family", without exception.
Because power and wealth belong to their social capital, they are born with superior educational and cultural capital than most of the people at the bottom, and can hire famous teachers to learn literacy and enjoy cultural edification and irrigation.
Secondly, survival resources.
In a self-sufficient feudal society where trading activities remain at the level of exchanging means of subsistence,
The so-called "thousands of acres of land, a hundred tenants" describes the phenomenon of feudal landlords and officials exchanging social capital with each other, grasping and expanding the social resources they have, causing the people at the bottom to lose their land and become vassals of power.
In the end, social capital will naturally be tilted in the family and clan, and social resources will be extremely concentrated, constituting a top-down cannibalistic society.
Not only that, because of the tilt of social resources, power and wealth have long been grasped in the fixed family clan.
The "right" in "door-to-door matching" refers to the matching of social resources. In ancient societies, there was often a phenomenon of powerful marriages between powerful families to expand social resources, and even the selection and promotion of some imperial concubines was based on the consideration of power and wealth distribution.
For another example, in the Jiangnan region during the Ming and Qing dynasties, some squires established relationships with local officials to obtain policy support and inclination, exchanging wealth for political discourse, and then using power to converge resources.
To summarize briefly: social capital in feudal society was originally a state of uneven distribution, the higher the social class can obtain more social capital, social capital is inclined to the upper strata of society, and the upper class uses social capital to further seize social resources, resulting in the concentration of social resources in the upper strata of society, thus forming a cannibalistic society of layers of exploitation.
Faced with the dilemma brought about by the current economic situation, how should ordinary people make a choice, you can read the article "What is the great change that has not been encountered in a century?" 》
02
In the past, "cannibalism" was built under the feudal blood political system, but fortunately, feudal rule has long been abolished, and the channels for achieving the leap are far more diverse than in the past.
However, social capital will not disappear with the overthrow of the political system, and social capital will always exist as long as there are people, because people are social animals and it is difficult to exist apart from the group.
Although the number of channels for the transition is increasing, only a few people have achieved the so-called "leap", and social resources are still concentrated in the hands of a few.
The top 1% of China's richest people own more than 30% of the wealth in society. Sixty percent of the world's new wealth each year also goes into the pockets of the world's top 1% of the super-rich.
This is exactly what social capital brings to the wealthy.
In the past, the main medium of information transmission was people and paper. Either by word of mouth or by transcribing information on books and paper.
Now, the information network has spread all over the world, and the dissemination of information is no longer limited by time and space.
There are more than 500 million tweets, about 300 billion emails, and more than 700,000 hours of YouTube video every day, but there is very little valid information in it, like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Social capital provides convenience for the wealthy.
For example, some high-end social events and industry conferences provide an effective place for people with high social capital to disseminate and exchange information, such as unpublished market information, industry insiders, management experience, etc., which are effective information that ordinary employees at the bottom cannot know, resulting in limited career development.
At present, science and technology are developing rapidly, an average of 370 science and technology enterprises are born in Shanghai every day, the country is accelerating the layout of high-tech industries, giving birth to new quality productivity, science and technology is the future.
People with high social capital can use their abundant social resources to quickly grasp the latest technology, firmly grasp the dividends of scientific and technological development, and even grasp the direction of scientific and technological development.
Musk is an example of how to do this. His investments in high-tech fields such as Tesla, OpenAI, and SpaceX have had a profound impact on today's society.
People with high social capital can easily access important social resources by using all the social support networks they can have, and the resources are heavily skewed towards this group of people in the process of distribution.
The precipitation of capital and resources interacts with the population of high social capital, the class is further solidified, and the upward channel is once again restricted.
03
Even if social capital can provide convenience for people with high social capital, it is only convenient. Much of the information in society is still fluid and open to ordinary people.
This also means that ordinary people have the ability to sift through and use information, and they can also access social resources.
The so-called "information cocoon" is nothing more than a net woven by some people for themselves because they cannot obtain some social resources, and they are firmly trapped in themselves.
The average person spends nearly 7 hours a day on screens, and electronic devices such as mobile phones and computers are the channels through which most people get information.
In addition to active retrieval, the acquisition of information can only be pushed arbitrarily by the algorithms of major platforms.
These algorithms, designed by countless "elites", make the push mechanisms of major platforms different in details, but they can accurately deliver information to users according to personal preferences, so that everyone can see the same type of information they like.
And this kind of information that is highly consistent with personal concepts makes the brain excited again and again, immersed in the fun at your fingertips, dissolves the dissatisfaction in life, and gradually loses the ability to filter and think information.
I built myself an information hut, and the same type of information flooded into my sight, and then I didn't want to accept other types of information.
My original cognition, concepts and biases are constantly strengthened in the message push, and the information outside of the cognition is also consciously blocked by myself. It is in this process that the "information gap" between different groups of people grows larger and wider, eventually widening the gap between people.
Therefore, you can always see information such as "poor information for postgraduate entrance examinations", "poor information for college entrance examinations", "poor information for **city" and so on. But in fact, most of this information is public information that can be easily searched on the Internet, just to create anxiety and profit from it.
In the information explosion society, information is transformed into interests by some people, and at the same time, it "eats" some people's heads step by step. It's just that now it's different from the "cannibalism" under the feudal system. It used to be passive, now it is active.
Faced with the dilemma brought about by the current economic situation, how should ordinary people make a choice, you can read the article "What is the great change that has not been encountered in a century?" 》
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