Bottom line: Pinduoduo Rashomon

As for the living conditions of employees in Domestic Internet enterprises, many previous jokes about the 996 work system have been overwhelming, but I’m afraid none of them will be as sudden as the death of employees at Pinduoduo at the beginning of the New Year.

In the midst of a fierce battle between pinduoduo and Meituan for community services, a 23-year-old girl died on her way home from work at 1:30am on December 29. After this tragedy happened, each side of the argument, the society under the crushing, the underlying logic of gambling life put on the table.

The poor girl, an only child from Urumqi, graduated from Xi ‘an University of Posts and Telecommunications and has been working for Pinduoduo for just over a year. She works in the department of Pinduoduo’s new business, “Buy More Vegetables”, which was launched in August 2020. The last post signed by Knock was’ Guarding our borders for more ‘. “Pinduoduo girls never give up,” she posted on her circle of friends.

Like all lowlifes, her death had not caused a stir. The heart has the unangry friend and on the night of January 3 in the pulse ridicule: really no one dare to speak a word? What the hell is this company? May heaven have no pain, you can be a carefree girl.

Didn’t know at this time of the spell of the official account made a stir responded: “you look at the bottom of the people, which is not YongMing get the money, I didn’t think that is a problem of capital, but the social problem, this is an era of YongMing spell, you can choose to ease a ladder, but you have to choose the consequences of a comfortable, people can control their own efforts, we can.”

This is not a very nice passage. But to tell you the truth, it’s all the truth. It has no scruples about the hypocrisy of the Chinese people who have passed away, but at an inappropriate time, the death of a small person is directly stripped naked for everyone to see. This capital burn money, the bottom bet life logic, we are silently suffering, but not necessarily everyone is willing to say out.

Pinduoduo, of course, didn’t buy the remark after it sparked a furious backlash. The familiar logic of rumor authentication is put forward. According to the explanation, “Li Xx”, an employee of the brand marketing cooperation company, used his mobile phone to log into the official account of Pyeongduo Zhihu and accidentally released it while remaining logged in. “Pinduoduo officials strongly object to the comments.”

Immediately pinduoduo has obviously appeased the family of the dead, with the girl’s father’s circle of friends to “ask everyone not to let the dead involved in public opinion right and wrong…”

But faced with such a situation, Zhihu quit and immediately explained that “Zhihu has a strict identity authentication process and mechanism”. Between the lines, it’s not a rumor you know.

This rashomon has always been a familiar feature. Even if they say different things, you can clearly see the context. In all sides of the position, to be honest, I feel the most or pinduoduo that. The author also admits that “this is a social problem” and “this is a desperate era”, but when he turns around, he tells the world with almost positive energy, “You can choose the comfortable ladder, but you have to choose the consequences of comfort, people can control their own efforts, we can all.

I’m assuming it’s a casual comment from an outsourcer rather than an expostulate. That’s why it’s so sad. Because the so-called “Li Xx”, but also a 27-year-old young man, from the attributes of the pot, in the workplace and the status of girls in Urumqi should be the same class.

This class, which needs to work crazy overtime and sacrifice personal spare time to stay in the society, seems to have agreed with such a bad world and survival logic from the bottom of its heart — agreed with overtime work outside working hours, agreed with the deprivation of legal holidays, and agreed with the possibility of survival at the cost of life. Normal life has become a “ladder of comfort,” and life – threatening work is manageable effort.

Wu Si, a famous historical writer, once put forward a “law of blood reward” : in the lack of resources, the bottom of the society can only use blood to get reward, and use life to complete the exchange of living resources. Online sources claim that “buy more vegetables” is not a “996” in the conventional sense, but a “hardcore struggle mode”. That is to say, the super size week of working 7 days a week and 6 days a week, with a day off after 13 consecutive days of work, no less than 10 hours of work per day, and no less than 300 hours of mandatory working hours per month.

Also belonging to the community group buying track, didi’s orange heart is preferred to be exposed “no Spring Festival holiday”, Meituan’s Meituan preferred also claimed to be an employee of the Internet expose that “two o ‘clock sleep at seven o ‘clock wake up”, work intensity is great.

I don’t know what the bottom wage is, but anyway, it’s just someone else’s broken teeth. Pinduoduo’s shares rose 373.59 per cent last year. It has a market value of $219.647 billion. Boss Huang Zheng is worth $63.1 billion, surpassing Jack Ma… There have been many such wealth feasts in the past few decades, but all of them were the result of low-level people such as girls in Urumqi betting their lives. We do not hate the rich, but such a legend is not to be proud of. Ma Yun once said that “996 is a blessing” and Liu Qiangdong said that “those who muddle along are not my brothers”…

In the Luosheng Gate of Pongduo, beneath the pyramid of wealth, we can see all the bones of worms.