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a few days ago to see Going to the picture above, I feel very emotional, and I feel that this is the real life state of many people, including me: Working in the CBD of first-tier cities, dressed like a dog, but eats takeaway fruits and lives in the urban area. Old broken small or outskirts. This is indeed similar to the state of migrant workers 20 or 30 years ago. They are all migrant workers who have left their hometowns to earn some money but the money is not enough to allow people to stay in this city.
A friend briefly compared the social status of himself and his parents a few days ago. A rough judgment is that, when combined, he can be considered the top 1/3 of the country. Parents Stuck at one-half of the dividing line. This kind of rough comparison is actually not easy. Except for a few people who do have a huge class jump, most people have difficulty judging whether they are better than their parents in the past. tends to overestimate themselves and underestimate their parents. This is because when comparing generations, it is always easy for us to fail to see that relative social status has not actually risen due to the overall development of the times.
parents are farmers,You have entered the city, but the proportion of the urban population was only when your parents were young, and how much is now. Think about it carefully, is it true that many relatives of their parents' generation are in the countryside, and most of their own generation have gone to the city? The population of first-tier cities and provincial capitals has also greatly expanded. It seems difficult to say that it is a big achievement to buy old and small cities, and it is still very important to become a Beijing-Shanghai resident 20 or 30 years ago. .
When parents were young, most people either farmed or looked for a factory to stay, and other occupations could absorb very little labor. At the same time, there is a clear distinction between good occupations and bad occupations. The good ones are good, and the bad ones are bad. Of course it's different now. First of all, with economic development and the acceleration of urbanization, there are more and more glamorous occupations. In other words, aren’t today’s white-collar workers in foreign companies and employees of large factories just a few decades ago, employees in cotton spinning mills and steel mills with better economic benefits?
At the same time, the intrinsic value of specific occupations is getting harder and harder to evaluate: occupations that make more money may be unstable, 996, and those that make less money may be decent; occupations that used to be very glamorous are now likely to be decent. It has its own characteristics, such as university teachers.
Perhaps the biggest change is that it is difficult for us to change our destiny by reading or by profession. Professional income and property income are not worth mentioning.
This may be the uniqueness of the new era "migrant workers" mentioned earlier.They are extremely dissimilar and extremely similar to the former migrant workers: First of all, they are indeed different from the migrant workers. Their education/profession is high enough and their income is good enough. But on the other hand, they are indeed very similar to migrant workers, because the price ratio of high income to assets such as houses is not worth mentioning, and they are still the mobile poor in big cities.
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