Chapter 555: Cherish
The women dressed up and went out. Mirei Sakai got into the co-pilot of Masayoshi Kishimoto's car, and drove to the port dock with Rie Sakai, Kazuya Takahashi, and Yuki Mizuhara.
"I don't have a car, it's the most down. Sakai Meiling suddenly said unbalanced in her heart.
Masayoshi Kishimoto held the steering wheel with both hands, looked at the road ahead with a pair of eyes, and said: "You have never really suffered hardship, and your two eyes are only focused on the lifestyle of the upper class.
I feel that if I compare myself to them, it will not be a good life. In fact, your current standard of living in Japan is above average.
Really hard and pitiful people, you are completely untouched. Children from poor families have no parents to rely on, and they work on their own in this world.
You won't believe me when I say it. A poor man works overtime until late at night every day, and the overtime pay is no or symbolic, and the income is still small, and the average hourly wage is only 350 yen, which is equivalent to the labor value of four dry batteries.
This is not the saddest part of him. There's simply no time to find a girlfriend. I finally found a girlfriend, but I don't look good.
Even so, he confessed. I already look ordinary, and I have no money, no education, no skills, and it is completely unrealistic to find beautiful women.
The girlfriend he found not only often asked him to buy things for her, but also often asked him to work as a free laborer to carry things. In the end, her girlfriend cheated on her and ran away with another man. ”
Sakai Mirei leaned sideways and listened to his story quietly: "You made up a story to deceive me! Is the poor man you said a fool?"
The hourly wage is so low, and the hourly wage is much higher than this, just quit and change jobs, and find a casual restaurant or izakaya to work!"
"The world of the poor is not as lucky as the male protagonist in the youth idol drama. His job pays a low hourly rate, but it's very stable.
If you work in a restaurant or an izakaya, the hourly wage is high, but there are a lot of cats in it. The boss hires temporary workers and pays them all during the time period when the store has the most customers.
From a certain point of view, you don't have time to rest at all, and the amount of labor you pay is N times that of ordinary workers. If there are fewer customers, do you think the boss will spend more money to hire people?
The answer, definitely not. If the business in the store is not good, the boss will not only not hire more people, but will also fire people.
Unfortunately, when you meet a black-hearted boss, you will be deducted from your salary by him in various tricks.
Their usual method is to attract people by offering an hourly wage that is higher than the market price. When it was time to settle, it deliberately lowered the hourly wage price mentioned above. Eventually, you may be able to earn a little less than the market rate. ”
Masayoshi Kishimoto is not laughing at her naivety for her lack of involvement in the world, but to make her understand that she should cherish everything she has at the moment.
"Even if you say the truth, I'm not a man, I'm a woman. Mirei Sakai said bluntly.
"In Japan, women are even worse off than men. The poverty rate for women is much higher than that for men. One in three single women of working age between the ages of 20 and 64 are trapped in poverty. One of the two single mothers is in poverty.
For women, the age of fifteen or sixteen to twenty-five or sixteen is the most dazzling time in life. They are glamorous and beautiful, and most of them will get married and live a stable life in a few years, and people feel that way.
Based on this feeling, it is generally believed that young women are the least associated with poverty, but in modern society, it has been pointed out that behind young women is invisible poverty. ”
Instead of talking nonsense, Kishimoto quoted a book he once read, "Women's Poverty". This book is a non-fiction work published by NHK.
"What does it have to do with me after all this talking? The reason why they are poor is that they don't have a higher education, and they don't have a good grasp of a technology.
Who is to blame for this bad time? I can only blame myself for not working hard enough. Three days of fishing, two days of drying nets, can that be called hard work?" said Sakai Meiling with the kind of college student.
If it weren't for the fact that he had read the author of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics in his previous life, "The Nature of Poverty", he might have thought that she had a little bit of truth.
After all, in traditional propaganda and education, the poverty of the poor is attributed to laziness and stupidity. In fact, it's not like that at all.
In addition, in his previous life, he had read the book "Poor Busy" written by a Pulitzer Prize winner in the United States, and he could completely overturn that the poor fell into poverty because of laziness and stupidity.
The book "Poor Busy" contains a lot of detailed information and evidence that poor people are poor, and they do not fall into poverty because they are lazy and stupid.
Even the United States, the world's only superpower and rich in various resources, has more than 40 million people, that is, relatively poor people who account for more than 15% of its total population.
"You and Rie are really sisters, why do you like to lift the bar so much?" Masayoshi Kishimoto blurted out.
"I'm not raising the bar, I'm telling the truth. Have you seen how many graduates of prestigious universities have had a bad life and fallen into poverty?
Even if there is, it is a small probability. Otherwise, why would everyone still study hard just to get into a good university?" said Mirei Sakai.
Kishimoto retorted: "In Japan, how many of the students who are able to go to prestigious universities come from poor families, at least they are children from ordinary middle-class families.
It can be said that you won at the starting line at the beginning. If you don't get a good grade in a certain subject, you can still go to a tutorial class for tutoring.
Even if you work on holidays or weekends, it's just to earn pocket money. As for the children of poor families, unless they are gifted and smart, as long as their grades are not good, they cannot be saved, after all, they have no money to go to cram school.
They don't work to earn pocket money, but to earn living expenses. You have a separate room since you were a child, and the surrounding environment will not be noisy in the middle of the night, which is completely suitable for quiet study.
On the contrary, where the children of poor families live, not only the sound insulation of the house is poor, but also everyone has a mixture of fish and dragons. Moreover, human energy and physical strength are limited.
After a tiring day of part-time work, who still has the heart to study hard, just thinking about lying down and resting. One wrong step will lead to the unfortunate situation of one wrong step happening to them, and those who live forever will not be able to jump out of such a cycle of poverty that repeats itself. ”