333rd middle class

Wu Jingzhong continued: "Golf and table tennis are both competitive sports, and by their very nature, golfers do not necessarily put in more effort than table tennis players, and we are not more beneficial to our body and mind playing golf in our spare time than playing table tennis. However, in the general opinion, people think that golf is taller than table tennis, as if playing golf regularly is a symbol of success. ”

After all, there are brothers and sisters, Wu Jingyi slightly understood Wu Jingzhong's thoughts: "Do you want to say added value?" ”

Wu Jingzhong: "The League Party has other technical terms. As for us, let's call it added value. ”

Wu Jingyi: "Chongqing hot pot and kaiseki cuisine are both satisfying things, but because of external conditions such as culture and bad environment, the middle class always prefers kaiseki cuisine. But what does this have to do with me? Do you want to say that my labor income also has a premium due to external conditions such as times and academic qualifications? Even if there is a premium, it is a natural result. Middle school political textbooks also say that price is the performance of value, and I can get a position in the Spring and Autumn Group in the fierce market competition, which is the embodiment of my ability. ”

Wu Jingzhong took price and value as a breakthrough point to start a deeper discussion: "Kaiseki cuisine is higher than Chongqing hot pot, golf is higher than table tennis, and so on. I do not intend to judge the quality of this phenomenon, but I want to remind you that as a clerk, as a worker, your monthly salary is not a reflection of your own value, but the price of human resources after the distortion of the market economy. Price is not the same as value, and the price of human resources such as monthly salary and annual salary that you show in the market economy environment is not your real value. Therefore, realizing self-worth through personal struggle is a very problematic lie. Most of the time, you achieve the self-price set by the market economy, rather than the real self-worth. ”

Wu Jingyi pouted: "What does it matter?" ”

Wu Jingzhong: "Salary is a price, and the price that fluctuates around the value does not accurately reflect a person's ability. Looking at the other party's low salary, you feel that the other party is inferior to you in all aspects, which is also the value distortion brought about by the market economy price. Although making money in a market economy environment is an ability, it cannot give back all of a person's self-worth. ”

Wu Jingyi: "That's for sure. With the same experience, the same skills, and the same position, there are not too many cases where you can double your monthly salary by changing jobs. Especially in the Internet industry, if you have a good idea, you can quit your job and start a business, and once you succeed in starting a business, your worth can increase by 10,000 times in just a few months. But what do these phenomena have to do with your membership in the Coalition? ”

Wu Jingzhong: "Wait for me to say." ”

"The monthly salary of this position and the monthly salary of that position also reflect the price rather than the value. In our well-ordered world, and the so-called saying that more work gets more, most of the time is about price. In this case, we should understand that prices are not born and cannot be sacrosanct. ”

"Price is not only reflected in the market economy, any social system has its price system."

"Looking back on the history of our country, when King Qin unified Liuhe, Liu Bang was only worthy of being the pavilion chief; When Yuanmeng ravaged the mainland, Zhu Yuanzhang was only worthy of being a beggar. Obviously, Liu Bang's self-worth is not something that the pavilion chief can limit, and Zhu Yuanzhang's self-worth is not something that a beggar can limit. However, in the price system condensed by the Qin State and the Yuan and Meng, Liu Bang could only be a mediocre pavilion chief, and Zhu Yuanzhang could only be displaced as a beggar. It was not until the collapse of the empire, until the collapse of the old price structure, that Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang were able to take advantage of the situation. ”

"Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang are by no means exceptional."

"If the symbol of China suddenly collapses, it will definitely kill a new reckless hero."

"This future reckless hero, at this moment, may be cursing the republic and remembering the previous dynasty, or working as an errand in a local police station, or walking barefoot throughout the country to preach, or selling shoes in a street shop, or observing state affairs in the cabinet as a red third-generation, or smuggling contraband at the customs, or begging from passers-by at the subway gate, or suppressing the empire as a national in the frontier, and so on. If you count the people who follow the dragon, heroes and heroes can be said to be everywhere. ”

"There have always been heroes and heroes, but the world has not given them the historical trend of turning insects into dragons."

"Prices after market economy distortion do not reflect a person's ability 100 percent. In the same way, today's social status ranking, even with a good ability to self-regulate, is not unshakable. That is to say, your monthly salary of 30,000 yuan and my monthly salary of 3,000 yuan are not really different in our values, but the price status set for us by the social system or the global international order. Those heroes who have the opportunity to become the founding ancestors must be better than you now. ”

"Social activists who have noticed that prices distort value are trying to build a fairer and more just price system. From slavery to socialism, in the final analysis, it is all about reducing the room for fluctuation, so that a person's price better matches his value. ”

"Back to the original topic, the paradox of equality with whom."

"Most of the poor want to be equal to the rich, because equality means higher prices; The rich are reluctant to be equal to the poor, because equality means price decay. When the rich are in the absolute minority and the poor are in the absolute majority, the anger gathered by the poor can often easily tear apart the quiet and peace of the rich, and such a social perception is difficult to calm and order. But what if the rich become the majority? ”

Wu Jingyi was already drowsy when she heard it, but when she suddenly heard the argument that "the rich become the majority", she couldn't help laughing.

How can the rich be in the majority.

has become a majority, is it still called a rich man?

The comparison between the rich and the poor is not based on the total amount of wealth, but on the proportion of wealth, even if a modern person eats and wears better than the ancient emperor, he is still regarded as poor by everyone.

Wu Jingzhong: "Do you think it's funny?" ”

Wu Jingyi: "I suddenly became interested, can you tell me how the rich become the majority?" ”

Wu Jingzhong: "Rich and poor are relative concepts, and there is a kind of rich that is rich in feeling. ”

"One example is the simplest of methods. Assuming that the total wealth of a group of 10,000 people is 100 million yuan, the per capita wealth should be 10,000 yuan, less than 1,000 yuan is the poor, and more than 10,000 yuan is the rich or relatively rich. At the same time, the 100 richest people took 90 million yuan of wealth, and the remaining 9,900 people could only share 10 million yuan of wealth equally. Even if the other 8,900 people were reduced to slaves with nothing, only 1,000 small people who were neither poor nor rich were created. If exploitation is so brutal and straightforward, if 9,900 people realize that 1% of people have taken 99% of their wealth, if 9,900 people realize that they have won 10,000 yuan of wealth per capita, there is a high probability that the people will unite against 1%. ”

"But these 100 people are smarter."

"100 people decided to calculate the total social wealth in a different way, and used one complex formula after another to tell you that the total social wealth is not 100 million yuan, but only 5 million yuan. Since the wealth is only 5 million yuan, the per capita wealth should be 500 yuan instead of 10,000 yuan. Look, the standard line between the poor and the rich suddenly dropped from 10,000 yuan to 500 yuan. ”

Wu Jingyi laughed and said, "You think too stupid about people. ”

Wu Jingzhong: "It's you who overestimate the wisdom and patience of human beings. ”

Wu Jingyi: "Where the living conditions are, who would think that 500 yuan is rich?" ”

Wu Jingzhong: "Middle class. ”

Wu Jingyi: "? ”

Wu Jingzhong: "The middle class is such a group of fools, they guard their wealth of more than 500 yuan and comfort themselves that they are not bad. ”

Wu Jingyi: "How is it possible! ”

Wu Jingzhong: "Why is it impossible? ”

Wu Jingyi: "Speaking of the middle class, I now have a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan, which is barely a middle class." I don't think I only have $500 in wealth. ”

Wu Jingzhong: "However, it is true that your wealth does not exceed 10,000 yuan. ”

Wu Jingyi retorted: "Although I am only a fourth-level employee of the Spring and Autumn Group who has just graduated for three years, although a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan is a very ordinary thing in Shikang District, Panyang City, I am not poor anyway." In our hometown, a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan is already a good job in everyone's eyes; Even in Wuping District, Panyang City, the general workers and small employees of the electronics factory can only get a pre-tax monthly salary of about 6,000 yuan if they work overtime. Compared to them, I don't say poor in any way. ”

Wu Jingzhong: "I've already said it." When the total wealth of 100 million yuan is calculated as 5 million yuan by mathematical methods, the per capita standard line of everyone's subconscious has been reduced to 500 yuan. Take you as an example, if the real wealth is converted to 4,000 yuan, this figure is far more than the standard line of 500 yuan shown by statistics, and it is still a big step away from the real per capita wealth of 10,000 yuan. Rich and poor are relative concepts, and when you feel better than other people's quality of life, you will have the illusion that I am a relatively wealthy middle class. ”

Wu Jingyi disagreed with Wu Jingzhong's criticism: "Why do you say that national statistics are wrong? ”

Wu Jingzhong: "What an obvious thing. Let me ask you, is Wei Dongsheng the richest man in China? ”

Wu Jingyi: "Definitely." ”

Wu Jingzhong: "Who do you think has more wealth between Wei Dongsheng and the Five Generations?" ”

Wu Jingyi: "It must be Wei Dongsheng, and the fifth generation is not a businessman." ”

Wu Jingzhong: "Who do you think has more power, Wei Dongsheng or the Five Generations?" ”

Wu Jingyi: "It must be the fifth generation." ”

Wu Jingzhong: "So, do you think power is not a kind of wealth?" So, do you think that the fifth generation is included in the statistical data table with his salary, and you are in the same grade as the fifth generation? The formal salary of the elders of the Chinese cabinet is only about 10,000 yuan per month, but who dares to treat them as the middle class with a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan? ”

Wu Jingyi was speechless.

Wu Jingzhong: "The middle class is our self-deluded imagination. The brutal truth is that 90 percent of the middle class, including you, is a group of poor people under average standards. ”

Wu Jingyi was still unconvinced: "So what does it matter." I am not Liu Bang or Zhu Yuanzhang, and I don't want to be Liu Bang or Zhu Yuanzhang. I'm just an ordinary person, and if I can live better than ordinary people, I'm satisfied. If I can raise a house in Zhiwoyuan, I will have no regrets in my life. ”

Wu Jingzhong sighed: "Your kind of thinking is precisely the reason why I really joined the Alliance Party. ”