Chapter Two Thousand and Thirty-Two
In a sense, among all human ideals......
Freedom is one of the easiest ideals to achieve......
Because for the vast majority of ordinary people, they are actually very free......
For ordinary people, freedom in a relative sense is actually a very good experience......
Any ordinary person, as long as he leaves school, is basically in a relatively free state......
They can go to the job they want to do, choose a person of the opposite sex who loves each other to fall in love, go on a trip as they wish, get married, have children, support their parents, and so on......
In a sense, these choices themselves are relatively free, and each person's choices in life are different because of this freedom......
In fact, the more mature a social system is, the right to free choice is a very important indicator......
That is to say, the more superior the social system, the more mature the social system, then a person living in the society, the greater the space for his choice, and the more free he will be, they can do anything they are interested in, without worrying that they can't support themselves, in any industry, there is enough living space to protect the most basic interests of every new entrant......
In the current modern society, it is natural that it cannot reach such a height, but such a high-level civilization order is also the inevitable direction of the current social development......
There is no doubt about that!
In a sense, in the current society, the basic mainstream view is still stuck in the so-called concept of all inferior products only high reading, and this is also the result of the continuous erosion of this concept for thousands of years, and in fact, it is true, for the vast majority of ordinary people, through a relatively fair and just college entrance examination, to determine their own destiny, compared to those illusory future, is already a very good result......
The reason is very simple, because the threshold for reading is still lower than other things, many industries in this world actually require a lot of talent to do well, and if you can't show enough talent, just have interest, many things are difficult to have results, at least for many families, it is not enough to let their children squander their time on hobbies!
In contrast, the children of wealthy families can be taken care of more, so that they can choose things that they are really interested in and have a certain talent to do without having to go completely mainstream......
In a sense, every human being is born free......
However, the scale of freedom varies from person to person......
Some people have more options, some people have less, and that's it!
In a sense, for the vast majority of ordinary people, freedom itself is not so unattainable, and it can even be said that it is a thing that everyone has......
In a narrow sense, in this world, only a small number of people have really lost their freedom, that is, the prisoners in the prisons, the prisoners are imprisoned, all of them are not free, at least in the perception of the vast majority of people, they are not free......
However, in a broad sense, there are few truly free people in this world......
Freedom is always relative, not absolute!
In the real society, the most direct embodiment of freedom is, in the final analysis, money!
Compared to ordinary people, rich people are always relatively free......
To take a simple example, if an ordinary person is angry with the boss, even if he wants to resign, he will carefully weigh his financial situation and family status......
Although he has subjective freedom to quit his job and not work, the objective conditions make it extremely unlikely that he will make such a choice......
On the contrary, if a rich second generation goes to work, if you are angry and don't want to do it, you can choose to resign without any scruples, because economic factors will not restrict their resignation behavior, and it is impossible to restrain it at all, of course, in the vast majority of cases, most of the rich second generation does not have the opportunity to be idle, and most of the time, it is often them who are angry with others......
There is a saying that the more wealth you have, the more confidence you have to do things, and the weaker your sense of gain and loss will become......
It's like a soy sauce viewer who watches a live broadcast for a lot of people, even if they like a game anchor very much and have been following it for several years, they may not have given a gift of a little money, which is a normal thing, and even they will not be able to understand the rewards of those rich people for the anchor, this part of the people, in fact, many people don't want to support the anchor, but the reason in their hearts is suppressing their choices......
Only the kind of people who are extremely brainless and irrational will reward the rest of their wages to those network anchors when they eat instant noodles, and the vast majority of reasonable viewers will never make such a choice, although they have such freedom, but their own economic and living conditions will also limit their freedom......
In today's society, wealth is the most important criterion for measuring a person's social status, and this is the most fundamental reason!
It is often difficult to compare the success of one person with the success of another, and it is difficult to judge who is more successful among successful people in different fields......
And the only thing that can be judged is who is richer!
Yes, who is richer!
Success can't be compared, but money can......
And through the comparison of wealth, success can naturally be compared......
Excluding wealth earned illegally or in violation of morality, the more wealth a person earns through legitimate means and proper means, the more successful a person can often be said to be......
In modern society, the nature of a job itself will no longer be the standard by which people evaluate a person......
And the standard for evaluating a person is often only measured from the perspective of wealth......
In the past, people had different perceptions of different jobs, and divided different jobs into three religions and nine streams, and there was a clear division of what kind of work people were upper-class people, what kind of people were middle-class people, and which people belonged to the bottom class......
This way of measuring does not change because of income, but simply because of the nature of the work, just like in the past, the older generation of people's perception of actors, in fact, it is the so-called drama, the social status in the society is often very low, most of the time, the drama is the object of exploitation by the boss, belongs to the plaything of the upper class, even if it becomes a star, it is just a bigger cash cow, a drama wants real freedom, wants to really become a celebrity, It is often necessary to work for the boss for ten or twenty years or even longer before it is possible to obtain independent performance qualifications......
Of course, in modern society, the roles played by actors are not much different from those in the past......
The vast majority of actors, in fact, are still the brokerage companies behind them, the cash cow in the hands of the performing arts companies, for those brokerage performing arts companies, those artists who sign contracts with them, in essence, are not people, just a humanoid commodity, they increase the value of the commodity through various means, and then let the commodity continue to participate in various exposures and performances, enhance the value of the commodity in the eyes of people, and then continue to sell these commodities to people who need them one after another. Some people need the faces of these stars, some people need the fame of these stars, some people need the bodies of these stars, these things can be sold for entertainment companies or brokerage companies......
And the vast majority of artists, the vast majority of the income they can earn is handed over to the company, leaving them for themselves, usually only a relatively meager income, and if the actors can't accept such a distribution, or can't accept the potential rules of the entertainment industry, then what awaits them is only refrigeration and blocking......
And if an artist wants to turn over and become a master, he usually has to wait until the initial harsh contract expires before he can jump out of the contract and get a new contract with much better treatment......
In fact, many well-known performing arts agencies have so-called overlord contracts, which can be said to be extremely harsh on the control of new artists......
At this stage, it is almost impossible for artists to refuse any request made by the performing arts company, otherwise they often have to bear the same astronomical liquidated damages, especially in South Korea, there are many rules and regulations that bind artists, and the first thing many artists have to do after becoming famous is to file a lawsuit with their company and seek a way to terminate the contract......
Some vicious scandals are often bred under this system......
And only after completely breaking away from their first overlord contract and accumulating a certain amount of popularity, can the artist be regarded as able to obtain a wealth income that matches his own value in the real sense, of course, this process is actually very complicated, because when the performing arts company realizes that an artist becomes famous, they will try to retain the artist in various ways for the first time, among which there will be a variety of explicit or covert means, and the artist can only withstand this stage, in order to be free in the true sense of the word......
And at this stage, the status between the agent and the artist will also be reversed, for the young artists who have just debuted, the agent can actually determine their fate to a large extent, it can be said that for new artists, the old agent is the guardian nature of the parents, they can largely determine the development direction of an artist, and for the big-name stars, the agent is actually equivalent to the role of a housekeeper and servant......
In fact, the first thing artists do after becoming famous and jumping out of their contracts is to replace their agents, and the reason for this is actually this......
Generally speaking, after an artist gets an excellent contract, he will have a relatively large wealth compared to ordinary people, coupled with the connections accumulated in the entertainment industry, after having wealth, they will often open their own performing arts agency for the first time, and then start to sign new people by themselves, and create and train new people, at this time, the artist will also change from a part-time worker to a boss, and the social status will really change......
Until this time, they can be regarded as turning over in the real sense of the word, and they can be regarded as having a certain confidence to reject some potential rules of the entertainment industry, and even be able to use the power of the media to serve themselves......
In fact, purely from the nature of work, there is no difference between the star artists of modern society and the actors of the past, most of the time, they are the playthings of the superior and the powerful, and for the real superior and the powerful, only one thought is needed to make them fall into a state of no return......
However, the social status of celebrities in the current society is much higher than in the past, and even many young people take becoming a star as their life goal......
The reason for this is nothing more than the wealth that celebrities have is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people......
Even if a star is subject to strict contract constraints, even under the influence of the overlord clause, an artist's income will be much higher than that of many white-collar workers, and after becoming completely famous, the wealth and social resources they have will become even more huge......
And this is precisely one of the reasons why many people are eager for celebrity life!
It's like a blind date show where a female guest has a famous saying that she would rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bicycle......
That's why......
However, celebrities are not so easy to be after all, and the vast majority of people who have star dreams will only lose everything and become a salted fish on the side of the road......
After all, whether an artist can be popular or not depends on luck in many cases, and performing arts agencies are usually very practical, they will not invest too many resources in those artists who do not have much potential, once they determine that there is no room for development, then the artist will definitely be refrigerated and frozen until the end of the contract......