"There seems to be some truth to your explanation, but in this way, many of the things I used to learn in school were wrong?"

"That's true, but there's something wrong with what they're doing.

They said that the main contradiction in society is the contradiction between the people's ever-growing material and cultural needs and the backward social productive forces.

The material and cultural needs mentioned in this sentence are actually the needs of people.

And in a material society, people's needs are often met through money.

This gives them the illusion that they can meet their needs with as much money as they have. ”

"It doesn't seem like a problem in the real world."

"You think money is the same as wealth, do you think there's nothing wrong with it?"

Wu Guangliang's head was about to burst, and he didn't understand what was wrong with the saying that money is equal to wealth.

Wei Minsheng saw his blank expression and knew that he hadn't figured out the difference yet, so he had to say, "You can assume such a situation, if you walk alone in the desert with a lot of money on your back, can your money meet your needs?" ”

"Demand? Walking in the desert, the first need is water, then food, and then a safe resting place......"

Speaking of this, Wu Guangliang seems to understand a little that in a city, money can meet most of his needs.

Over time, everyone seems to forget that there are still some needs that cannot be met with money.

For example, the beauty you like.

Even if you have money, others have money too.

Just because you are not as handsome as others, or you have not made that beautiful woman look at you, money can't satisfy your need to spend the rest of your life with that beauty.

Especially under such extreme conditions as Wei Minsheng said, no amount of money can meet his needs.

Now Wu Guangliang somewhat understands Wei Minsheng's previous explanation of the nature of wealth.

People's needs are the real wealth, wealth includes money, and money is only one of the wealth.

Seeing Wu Guangliang's thoughtful appearance, Wei Minsheng said: "In the early days of reform and opening up, the country lacked any resources.

As a result, the whole country is engaged in development, mining, and steelmaking.

When everyone's overall needs are not satisfied, coal is wealth, and steel can be exchanged for money.

Everyone thinks that they are creating wealth.

But now you look at the current situation of the coal and steel industries.

The more you produce, the more you lose.

Why is that? Why is it that coal, which has been called 'black gold' for half a lifetime, is suddenly worthless?

The price of steel is even more pitiful, and the purchase price of scrap can be described as 'cabbage price'...... No, the price of cabbage is higher than it, and we should not belittle the value of cabbage in the future, because it is not cheap.

As I said earlier, the upper limit of wealth is related to the living and their needs.

If you agree with this statement, then it is much easier to go back and analyze the causes of these phenomena. ”

"You mean there's more to it than it gets?"

"Oversupply is just a phenomenon, if there is an oversupply phenomenon in a certain industry, it means that the value of the things created by the industry exceeds people's needs.

And people's needs are only related to two factors, the size of the population and their needs.

Since the needs of the population of different ages are different, and the new population can only be increased through the fertility route, what changes is the future demand, and it is a bit far away to quench the thirst.

Therefore, some countries use preferential immigration policies to selectively increase their population, ideally to increase the demand for surplus industries while meeting the needs of other lacking industries. ”

"Our country's population is already the world's first, and according to your meaning, our country's wealth should have been the world's first for a long time."

"Although the population is large, the demand is insufficient."

"Hasn't the country been expanding domestic demand in various ways?"

"How do you think the needs of individuals can be improved?"

Wu Guangliang was silent, if you look at it according to your own situation, except for food and clothing, all your needs are based on home.

And the foundation of home is the house, there is no house of your own, and there is no place to put other things even if you want to buy.

But now the price of a house has far exceeded one's income level, and you have to save money for one or two decades to buy a house.

Therefore, a house is enough to suppress a person's other needs for one or two decades, and how can this expand domestic demand.

Wu Guangliang said: "I think it should be a problem with the house, without my own house, other needs cannot be raised at all." ”

Wei Minsheng said: "The house is indeed the main reason, but the premise of boosting demand is not to have your own house, but to have your own house that you can use with peace of mind."

You see the new city we built, the people only need to pay a small amount of rent to use it with confidence, and they will not renew the rent with you just because the landlord says he wants to use the house.

The houses in the city are all state, and as long as you agree with the rent that everyone accepts, you will not be evicted by the state.

In such an environment, when their productivity level develops to a certain level, demand will skyrocket without worrying about this or that. ”

"That's just because their demand has more room to rise, and if it's a person in the real world, I'm afraid it's not so easy."

"From the essence of wealth, we can know the upper limit of wealth, and in order to concretize wealth, we must meet the needs of others through our own labor.

In reality, this is not the case, and the distribution of money is carried out under the intervention of power.

Some people can get money without having to work.

Some people provide labor that can meet the needs of others, but do not receive the money corresponding to wealth.

There are also those who can provide labor that satisfies the needs of others, but because the money they demand is much greater than the wealth corresponding to their labor, the demand is suppressed.

It is precisely because of the mismatch between money and the corresponding wealth that people who feel that their efforts and gains are not equal choose not to do it or change careers.

People with certain skills and abilities cannot find work because the demand is suppressed.

Those who don't get something for nothing want to stay in this state forever.

People don't want to do things, who will meet everyone's needs?

Even if your population and needs are large, the total amount of wealth will not be much.

In addition, there is another fatal factor, the legitimate rights and interests of individuals are not protected, so that some capable wealth creators choose to leave.

Such examples allow more capable people to consciously compress their needs, accumulate money, and wait for the opportunity to leave. ”