Chapter 461: How to Improve Competitiveness
It's too fast. It can only be said that it is too fast. The speed of development in modern society is simply astonishingly fast, and in just two years, some fundamental changes have taken place.
There has been a marked decline in basic prices. The prices of most raw materials are also falling.
It is the price of houses, cars, and the prices of various industrial products, even if they are cheap to the extent that they are basically not profitable, and they are very involuted, but now on the basis of involution, they will fall by an average of 10% to 20%, or even 30%, and all industries are falling in price.
Only people's wages have not fallen. Service fees in the service sector did not fall. In addition, subsidies for the poor have been increased, and a higher minimum wage has been formulated, the purpose is to stimulate consumption and maintain economic prosperity, even if many people eat and drink too much, resulting in obesity, it is also to increase the support for the weight loss economy, and will not call for less food and less drink, after all, if you are too frugal, the economy will not be able to maintain prosperity, and GDP will not grow, but the risk of shrinking.
This makes many migrant workers, even if they can only receive a salary of 3,000 yuan per month, they can live extremely comfortably.
Ask a person to spend up to 600 yuan a month on food. It costs 200 blocks on the hydropower network.
Spend 100 yuan on clothes and daily necessities. The basic survival is guaranteed, and the quality is not low.
The remaining 2,000 yuan can go to the restaurant to go to the restaurant, you can go outside to play, you can carry out all kinds of entertainment activities, you can be as happy as you want, such a quality of life, it is estimated that people who have a monthly income of five or six thousand may not be able to compare.
The happiness index has increased dramatically, and it has become recognized as the lowest price and highest income, and there is no one, which has a fatal attraction to foreigners.
For example, on many short video platforms, there are a lot of anchors who post the price situation of the supermarket on the Internet, how much is this thing, how much is that thing, and how much is that thing, and they pick it at more than eight o'clock in the morning, taking advantage of the freshest ingredients and the price is not discounted.
So five or six dollars a pound of pork. Ten dollars a pound of beef. Generally one or two, two or three pieces of vegetable prices.
The price of two pieces of rice is less than a catty. The price of a piece of high-gluten flour. The price of a drink for nine dollars, nine and one dozen dozen bottles.
The average price of four or five pieces, at most six or seven pieces of fresh fruit. The most expensive is thirteen or fourteen yuan a pound of durian, and twenty or so yuan of cherries, only these belong to the rich people to consume a lot of food, of course, ordinary people are not unaffordable, and even wait until the evening discount promotion, you can also buy a few catties to taste, will not feel pain.
In addition, after full electrification, the cost of vehicle travel is also cheaper, take a bus for two or three yuan, take a taxi within ten yuan, or sweep a shared electric car, it is only four or five yuan, you can go anywhere, and the freedom of travel has been greatly guaranteed.
In order to maintain the value of assets, there is not much change in housing prices now, the average price of 50,000 or 60,000 square meters in first-tier cities, it is difficult for ordinary people to settle down, but only one or two thousand in second-tier cities, and the average price of five or six thousand in third- and fourth-tier cities, and the interest on the mortgage is as low as 1%.
Last year. The official also announced the latest poverty line standard, which counts those with an annual income of less than 30,000 yuan, no well-decorated houses, and little sickness and old-age security as poverty.
For example, a middle-aged farmer, who makes a living from farming, raises pigs, chickens and ducks, can ensure that he is basically self-sufficient in terms of food, and lives in a farm compound of more than 300 square meters. But they still enjoyed the subsidy.
For example, in the second case, a man in his thirties with a disabled leg actually earns more than 100,000 yuan a month by playing gold in virtual games, sometimes he can only earn a few hundred, and his income is very unstable, but he also gets the poverty index, and when he goes to the hospital for treatment, he can be reimbursed 95%, and he only needs to bear a small part of it, and there is almost no pressure.
The last lazy person, who doesn't do anything all year round, is a lying flat person who is disliked by others, but considering that this person has a low education, poor social skills, low emotional intelligence, and insufficient actual survivability, he also lived in a 60-square-meter public rental house, only needs 300 funds per month, free water and electricity bills, and can also get a monthly relief fund of 1800, and the actual amount is 1500, and this money is enough for him to live in a house, have a second-hand tattered electric car to drive, and even make a girlfriend who is also not survivable. The two live together, lie flat every day, the quality of life has improved, they are now facing a dilemma, they plan to have a child, but it will significantly lower the quality of life, if they have three children, they can change to a bigger house, get a higher subsidy, but they will live harder, so they are very entangled, but under the advice of well-wishers, they finally tend to the second plan: have more children.
And so on and so forth. The above cases were made into videos and used as negative reports when they appeared in front of many foreign netizens.
Their mentality one by one is simply collapsed, the whole person is going to be numb, originally they thought they were seeing the tragic story of the bottom population, they thought they would empathize with such a story, but they all felt collapsed.
"Shet! A homeless man like me, who doesn't even have a watertight tent, can only sleep under the overpass, bitten by insects, and the poor people who live in 300 square rough houses over there are much better than homeless people like me! ”
"Our country's medical system claims to be free, but you have to wait in line for 18 months, and if you want to be treated immediately, you have to go to expensive private hospitals, and most of the money is paid by yourself!"
"One meal of meat for three days? I haven't eaten meat for more than a month, and I'm ten times poorer than this poor man! ”
"I really want to go to the East and be a poor man, and their poor people, in our case, may be called the middle class."
"Liars are all liars, our media has deceived us for decades, and now we find out that we are fools who have been deceived very badly!"
"If I were given a chance to go to the East, I would not hesitate to abandon everything and run wherever I went, it may not be a hell for the rich, but it is definitely a paradise for the poor!" Buzzing.
A lot of things can't be covered up, people can't be fooled, and the West seems to have become chaotic again. Far from it.
It's a bit far. Or return to the difficulties faced by the current Xu Yuan's magical group.
That is, the competitiveness is obviously insufficient, the goods cannot be sold, the profits are falling significantly, and in another two or three years, the revenue may decline significantly, which will seriously affect the cash flow income of the magic group, and even face the risk of making ends meet.
What to do? What can be done to resolve this crisis? Xu Yuan took the main senior management of the Magic Group to hold a discussion meeting for several days and discussed many solutions, but Xu Yuan felt very dissatisfied.
Because most of the executives think that the magic group, the benefits to the employees are too good, the wages are too high, resulting in high costs in all aspects, the number of employees plus their families, actually more than 800,000, about to close to 1 million, an average of 200,000 yuan per day on their heads, that is, 200 billion maintenance personnel costs, if you can separate this and cut it by about half, then you can save 100 billion, which is a very good number.
Secondly, it is to cut off some huge costly, no market competitiveness of R & D projects and factory product production lines, these projects and production lines, the annual maintenance expenditure, is also more than 100 billion, if cut half of the useless, another 50 billion saved.
Finally, in terms of investment, we can no longer invest hundreds of billions of dollars every year to invest in other technology companies and use money to help them burn, although the current aerospace industry, controllable nuclear fusion, new materials, chips and other fields are very worthy of investment and shares, but most of them are still in the stage of burning money, and they have not made much profit, and they are far from the end of burning money.
Anyway, with a three-pronged approach, a little harder heart, the crisis of the Magic Group will be solved, and then find a way to reduce costs and improve its competitiveness, it is estimated that it will not be long before the Magic Group can reverse the decline, restore its competitiveness, and get back everything that belongs to it.
But for these suggestions of the executives, Xu Yuan did not adopt any of them, and even criticized them, because the magic group is to be trustworthy, the hundreds of thousands of employees of the magic group, they got the promise, that is, as long as they do a good job, the group will manage them for a lifetime, as long as the group does not fall for a day, their iron rice bowl is stable, the group will do what they promised, so that they will not lose their jobs, will not reduce wages, and will not affect various benefits, everything remains the same, Even if the group is under great pressure, it will not give up even one person.
Seeing that the boss Xu Yuan was so determined, the executives didn't say anything, and they didn't persuade again, but just sighed, feeling that the boss was too kind, maybe from now on, the life of the group is really only five years, and this big ship is estimated to not last long - they feel very pessimistic.
However, his wife Song Jiayun is one of the people who expressed her support for Xu Yuan, and she is consistent with her man, and she does not plan to rely on layoffs, wages, and investment projects to solve the crisis encountered by the group, and plans to think of another way, preferably an unconventional way.
Privately. Xu Yuan had a good discussion with Song Jiayun.
"Husband, if you want to solve the problems that the group is encountering now, reduce the price of products, and engage in low-price competition, there is no future, and there is no profit at all in the end, so you can only come up with some innovative ways to bring new income, and it is not less than 500 billion income, in order to get out of this crisis and restore the original vitality." Song Jiayun said.
"But in my hands, I control all kinds of resources in the entire Daming World, can't I solve the problem of declining income with some more precious resources from the Daming World, that is a whole world." Xu Yuan didn't understand the Tao very well, he was obviously a person who owned a world, but he couldn't make a fortune with this, it was really fucked up.
"It's useless, resources are never worth much, what is really valuable is those very scarce things, and the Ming world, there are only mineral resources and common daily necessities resources, which have not low mining costs, but now our modern society, after having unlimited energy, the mining cost of resources will immediately come down, and it is about to enter space, mining those endless meteorite minerals, once successful, it is the price of gold, which may fall to thirty or forty yuan a gram, The tens of thousands of tons of gold that we have hoarded with great difficulty, in a few years, may be turned into cabbage, the speed of the world's development is too fast, and some of our preparations now seem a little ridiculous. Song Jiayun said.
"Is there really no better way, there are no more competitive goods in the Ming world?" Xu Yuan shook his head and asked.
"Yes, the green organic food in the Ming world is very good, whether it is organic rice, organic vegetables, top beef, and other ingredients, etc., but the top ingredients, to the freshest state is the best, if it is after three or five days, or direct cryopreservation, the taste will still change greatly, which reduces the competitiveness of green organic food, in addition to artificial environmental simulation, the high technology of modern society, can also cultivate the top organic food out, we have little advantage, It will be surpassed very quickly, so it is unlikely that you will always rely on organic food to make more profits. ”
"So how do you make money?" Xu Yuan asked again.
"High-tech, only high-tech can be competitive, if we can be in the Ming world, vigorously cultivate talents, develop high-tech industries, and strive to surpass the modern society in certain subdivisions, or in terms of innovation, go ahead, in order to sell high-tech products, to obtain higher profits." Collect something far beyond modern society and regain the competitiveness of the Wonder Group? Xu Yuan suddenly thought of the world like the Matrix Empire, and immediately said.
"You still have a world in your hands?" Song Jiayun's pretty eyes suddenly lit up.