Due to their different lifestyles, the three social classes focus on different life skills. Let's take a look at the life skills of the three social classes.

Grassroots social survival skills.

The grassroots society is very good at surviving, and this is also due to the skills that the grassroots society has developed due to its relatively small income. So when we go to the homes of the grassroots society, we often see a bucket under the faucet in the kitchen of the grassroots society, and then he screws the faucet to the minimum, and the water will drip down drop by drop, so that the water meter will not go out of words, so it is free water. Therefore, the grassroots society controls the cost of living very low, which will ensure that even a very low income can survive.

But if you think that this is the environmental awareness of the grassroots society, or that the grassroots society is saving resources for human beings, then you are wrong. The grassroots society does this for two words: "save money", and it doesn't make any sense beyond that. For example, before the implementation of the system of plugging in cards to collect electricity bills, some unscrupulous people will try their best to steal electricity, for the stolen electricity, they will use it without moderation, even if they are not in use, they will not turn off the computer, and the electric light is the everlasting light of their home, but this does not affect their bargaining with the farmers in the vegetable market for a dime. Therefore, once the grassroots society finds a free lunch, they will ask for it uncontrollably, without considering whether it is a waste of the earth's resources. The starting point of the grassroots society stealing water is not to save water resources for the earth, but to save money, if the water fee is abolished, then the tap of the grassroots society will definitely become a long stream. So even though grassroots societies often do things that conserve resources, it's their survival skills, not how noble their personality is.

Middle-class earning skills.

Relative to grassroots society

, the middle class went further, but not in personality and morality, but in skills. If the grassroots society pays attention to saving money, then the middle society pays more attention to making money, so many people in the middle society will choose to do business and start a business. And the middle class will spend a little money on face, they will buy designer clothes, they will buy cars, they will buy luxury goods, because they understand a truth: "only if you look rich, can you attract more money", they believe in a saying: "success is not made, but pretended." "So they'll find ways to look like successful people in order to attract more business. And some people do succeed, and some people really can't pretend anymore, so they have to stop.

Although the middle class does not pay attention to moral cultivation, they do not lack the spirit of exploration and the persistence of doing things. As long as a person is very persistent in doing something, there will be some achievements, even if he fails, he can sum up experience, and experience itself is a valuable wealth, so there is a saying called "God rewards diligence", a person, whether he is a good person or a bad person, as long as he persistently studies a thing, he will always study something. Good people can do it to the end, bad people can also do it, but the end is different, the gentleman has a time to succeed, and the villain also has a time to be ambitious, but as long as he gets into the eyes of money, he can make some money. So the middle class pays a lot of attention to developing their own money-making skills, because in their values, wealth is everything.

High-level social learning skills.

When it comes to life skills in high-level society, I first think of a poem by Zen Master Hui Kai: "There are a hundred flowers in spring, a moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer and snow in winter." If there is nothing to worry about, it is a good time in the world. "In the hearts of high-level society, life should be colorful, and making money can make people happy, but it is not the only one

Happy. There are too many beautiful things in this world: the eagle strikes the sky, the wax statue of the original chi, the river flows, and the geese pass through the southern sky, have we paid attention to the beauty of these lives? Many beautiful things come from the perception of the heart, so although they are under the same sky, everyone's way of living is different. The high-level society knows that too many things are too much, less money is not enough to spend, and more money must be guarded against thieves, so it is best to use it. If a person is ruthless, life will be very numb, and if a person is amorous, life will be very troublesome, so just follow fate. If a person is unrighteous, he will have no friends, and if a person is too righteous, he will be taken advantage of, so it is good to be casual. If a person doesn't do anything, he loses the value of life, but if he does too many things, he is very blind, and only by doing things according to his own talent can he achieve something, so just go with the flow. If a person doesn't learn anything, it's called "no learning without skill", but if a person learns everything, it becomes a dustbin of knowledge, so as long as you learn at any time.

Therefore, the high-level society pays more attention to the ability to learn and perceive all things in the world, they can realize the shortness of life for history from the flow of the river, they can think of fleeting business opportunities from the wind through the leaves, they can think of the magnificence of the sea to the broadness of integration, and they can see the beauty of relief from the rainbow after the rain. As the saying goes: "Go to the poor place of the water, and sit and watch the clouds rise." "The high-level society's material trade-offs can always be just right, they will not be as short-sighted as the grass-roots society, nor will they be burdened by things like the middle-class society, and the life of the high-level society may not have too much money, but the life of the high-level society will be colorful. Finally, I quote a sentence describing Zeng Guofan as a description of the high-level society: "The temple is high and deep, and the people are relieved by the distance of the rivers and lakes." "Zeng Guofan can be rich if he is in business, and he can be a great minister if he is in politics, but he is indifferent to the fame and fortune of the world, and pays attention to the learning and growth of the soul, which is a kind of cultivation, a pattern, and a realm.

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