The word “involution” is greatly misunderstood in China

Yesterday, I learned from a well-known large factory employees, now is not the problem of 996, is that many people go to work at 9:00, 12:00 to get off.

Why? Is there really that much to do? Actually no, because of the meeting.

The big thing, originally 10 minutes to figure it out, but pull all the people involved in some relationship, open the damn two hours. That’s it, a day light meeting. That take what Time to work, after the end of the day at 6:00, it is only natural to go Home at midnight.

The employee originally worked very well in foreign companies, but because of the feeling that into a large factory may be better able to achieve personal ideals, the results came in after the baptism of reality. Now the ideal may have to be reduced to “living”.

The word “in-roll” is greatly misunderstood in China. German precision manufacturing of internal rolls that may be internal rolls, in the technical level of excellence, into the absurd stage, and finally make a damn “can cook the fish in the ice and the ice does not melt” such idle microwave oven, but they do not work overtime to 12 o’clock, a month a year holiday never waste. China’s so-called internal volume, in fact, is the absolute desire for power to simmer eagle game.

Why do I say is power lust? Because this can not see the logic of doing things, only from the psychological level to make sense.

From psychology to sociology to management, all evidence proves that in the long run, long-term fatigue tactics in the individual is to reduce efficiency and hinder creativity, but in fact, efficiency and creativity are not the focus, obedience is, and establishing a sense of authority and control is.

From childhood to adulthood, from Family to Education system to society, it is a hostage and pervasive management. Managers need to repeatedly confirm their absolute authority, which, in layman’s terms, means asking ten times a day, “Am I your father? Am I your boss? Am I your grandfather?”

In a place that emphasizes obedience to a hierarchical order, the child/student/subordinate/jurisdictional subject has no negotiating power and they can only answer ten times a day, “You are, you are.”

But as long as they have a little hesitation to answer a little, not to mention the answer “you are not”, the manager will immediately fall into a mental crisis, think the children / students / subordinates / jurisdictional objects to rebel, their own position is not guaranteed, will be more aggressive with a variety of mechanical input (scolding, doing problems, meetings) to make each other tame, in fact, is a fatigue tactic, boiling eagle. In fact, it is fatigue tactics, simmering eagle.

And children / students / subordinates / jurisdictional objects in order to make their lives look less miserable, so that they get a little psychological motivation, they must give this order of survival to find a correct-sounding reason, that is, “legitimization”, so a variety of motivational success, all kinds of despise the wild eagle, and then wait for themselves to boil to a higher position, they The new eagles will start to boil.

Ancestors and generations of endless also.

Of course, compared to the experience of large Internet companies 10 years ago, then although we also work overtime, there are also a few sudden death every year, but not to this point, to this point, probably because some local monopoly of power increased, exacerbating the decline.

Seeing 996 as the key to China’s competitiveness is actually due to too much ignorance of various other important variables such as universal education, improving women’s rights, globalized capital, open market and business order, law, social security, and reasonable gaming of different interest groups. Pakistani laborers also work 12 hours a day, and they don’t even lose money when they die, so what kind of competitiveness do you see in it?

Once the power is not restrained, the desire to control is endless, history is full of various extreme situations, but let the normal years of peace seem valuable, we read more history books, there is nothing new under the sun, there are too many experiences in the past and present.

A large tool, very compact, parts are very cooperative, once started according to a certain logic, running will have a huge inertia, will continue to accelerate, but sometimes may need to parts are slowed down together to think: what are we really doing, we want to go in the direction, according to a method to get there?