It is said that this is a time to trade life for money.
Whenever news of an employee’s sudden death appears, it sets off a big debate about what is the main contradiction in Chinese society today. This is a big, subtle question that I’m afraid to answer, so let’s take a look at the standard answer.
The principal contradiction facing Chinese society has been transformed into one between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people’s ever-growing needs for a better life.
The standard answer should be familiar to every college student, but it’s not on paper. When they graduate and find a job, they face the soul questioning of HR: “We work too much overtime and are under great pressure. Can you accept the 996 job?”
It is then that they gain a profound understanding of what the good life is, what unbalanced and inadequate development means, and why there is conflict between them.
Young job seekers struggle because there are only two rotten apples in front of them.
Take 996 for your life.
Reject 996. Take it for life. No money.
You can go to the second or third-tier cities, small companies, sunset industries, pension units, do not have to work overtime, do not have to struggle, but the annual salary bonus than to go to a large factory to enjoy the 996 fortune of the students, a few years down, your consumption level, the total wealth of the gulf gradually appears insurmountable. Will you?
996 is bad, but it’s not the worst.
After graduation, young people, usually the lucky ones among their peers, are able to go to work in a big Internet company. Famous school, hot major, read master, doctor even.
While they are complaining about Dachang 996, they are actually a bit Versailles. Because there are a lot of people my age who want 996 and can’t. Or they go to companies that have 996 hours of work but don’t have the prices that the big companies are offering.
The worst thing is that you can’t get money for your life.
When Ma yun says “996 is a blessing in disguise”, his confidence is also here. If you don’t, there are others.
The anti-996 sentiment on the Internet always has a dislocation. That’s what goes wrong, that’s what goes wrong, that’s what goes wrong, that’s what goes wrong. But the main object of ridicule is not the employees of the big factories.
Employees at dachang have generally accepted their fate in exchange for money. Their voices are often those who work hard and have equally harsh workplace environments, but earn far less than workers in large factories.
996 is not just for big Factories. Second – and third-tier cities also have workplace PUA.
Assume that price/performance at work = income/labor intensity (including working hours, working pressure). Then, we have to accept the bleak reality that dachang 996 is the most cost-effective job that Chinese society can create today.
Money and little things close to home, after all, just a dream.
A few years ago, when it came to taking the civil service exam, the attitude of the mainstream public opinion was still “waste of talent” and “waste of life”, and people who took the exam were somewhat embarrassed. Over the years, the wind has changed. Nowadays, young people call it “going ashore” to become a civil servant. Outside the system of the sea of bitterness boundless, into the system to do personal aspects.
I think of a joke about Ali P7:
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I don’t know who wrote it, it’s mean, it’s not comprehensive, but it captures the spirit of the time.
Gao Xiaosong and Xu Wei said: life is not only the immediate meager living, but also poetry and distant fields.
A distant field out of a face to eat ding Zhen, the town to do the topic immediately angry. Why is that? They are not jealous of Ding’s good life, but angry at their own bad life.
When a generation of young people pulled Jack Ma down from the altar of “dad” and labeled him as a cold-blooded capitalist, they were not hurt by him in substance, but vented their nameless anger in their chest.
We obviously work so hard, why can only fight for a life for money qualification?
If say “why” it is the problem that can metaphysics, so “how to do” it is a real and urgent problem.
Everyone to take the civil servant ashore? Civil servants are only responsible for distributing wealth, not creating it.
Every three or five years, we find a horse and a cloud to fight? It doesn’t seem to help.
How valuable and dignified labor becomes possible is probably the most pressing question for Chinese society in the coming decade. Frankly, I don’t know the right answer yet. But the question is getting more urgent, and history has long given some obviously wrong answers.
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