It is said that this is an era of trading lives for money.
Whenever news like the sudden death of an employee appears, it sets off a wave of great discussion about what the current main contradiction in Chinese society is. This is a major and delicate question that I dare not answer hastily, so let’s learn the standard answer first.
The main contradiction of our society has been transformed into the contradiction between people’s growing need for a better life and unbalanced and insufficient development.
To this standard answer, every college student should be incomparably familiar with it, but they feel shallow on paper. Only when they graduate and look for a job, facing HR’s soul torture “we work a lot of overtime, high pressure, can you accept the 996 work system? “
At this time they can deeply understand, what is the good life, unbalanced and insufficient development means, and why there is a contradiction between them.
Young job seekers are torn because they have only two rotten apples in front of them.
Accept 996, take life for money.
Reject 996, take life for good, no money.
You can go to second- and third-tier cities, to small companies, to the sunset industry, to the pension unit, no overtime, no struggle, but the annual salary bonus in hand than to the big factory to enjoy the 996 blessings of the students a big difference, a few years down the road, your consumption level, the total value of wealth gradually appear insurmountable gulf. Are you willing?
996 is very miserable, but not the worst.
After graduation, you can go to the head of the Internet to work in a large factory to young people, usually the lucky ones among their peers. Famous schools, popular majors, and even read a master’s degree or doctorate.
When they are complaining about the big factories 996, they are actually a bit vanilla. Because there are many other people of the same age, want 996 and can not. Or, they go to those companies that have 996 work intensity, but not the price offered by large factories.
The worst than taking life for money is, take life for money.
Jack Ma said “996 is a blessing” when his bottom line is here. You do not do, there are people who do.
There is always a misalignment of the anti-996 sentiment on the network. That is, the accident, the compelling, always the head of the Internet big factory. But the main body of trolling is not the big factory employees.
Big factory employees have generally accepted the fate of taking money for life. For them to complain, voice, often those labor intensity is not low, the workplace environment is equally harsh, but the income is much lower than the big factory workers.
996 does not only belong to large factories. There are also workplace PUAs in second and third-tier cities.
Assume that the workplace cost performance = income / labor intensity (including working hours, work pressure). Then, we have to accept a dismal reality, to go to the big factory 996 has been the current Chinese society can create a cost-effective employment position.
More money, less work and close to home, after all, is only a dream.
Some years ago, when it comes to civil service, the mainstream public opinion posture or “waste of talent” “Waste of life”, to test the people are more or less embarrassed. These years, the wind has changed. Now young people are called “shore” to get into the civil service. The system outside the sea of suffering, into the system in order to do a decent personal.
I recall a paragraph flirting with Ali P7.
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I do not know who wrote it, very mean, very incomplete, but highly summarized the spiritual qualities of this era.
Gao Xiaosong, Xu Wei said: life is more than the meticulousness of the immediate, there is poetry and distant fields.
In the distant fields emerged a Ding Zhen who lives by his face, and the town was immediately outraged. Why? They are not jealous of Ding Zhen live too well, but angry at their own life too bad.
When a generation of young people pulled down Ma from the altar of “Dad” and labeled him as a “cold-blooded capitalist” to the ground, they were not substantially hurt by Ma, but were venting the nameless anger in their chests.
We obviously work so hard, why can only compete for a life for money qualification?
If the “why” is a metaphysical question, then “how” is a practical and urgent issue.
Everyone go to the civil service examination to land? Civil servants are only responsible for the distribution of wealth, not for creating wealth.
Every now and then pull out a Ma Yun to fight a fight? It does not seem to help.
How to make valuable and dignified labor possible is probably the most important problem that Chinese society needs to solve in the next decade. Frankly speaking, I don’t know the right answer yet. But the question has become more and more urgent, and history has long given some obvious wrong answers.
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