The road to a better life is always extending (online picture)
01 Personal experience: The income is getting higher and higher, the life is getting sweeter and sweeter, the more prosperous it is getting better and better
Life is one wash after another. As there are more and more experiences of cycling, the number of washes and the purity of feelings will become higher and higher.
I was born in the 1950s and rushed to the scene. In 1977, I took the first college entrance examination after the Cultural Revolution and took the job after graduation. I remember that the monthly salary was only a few dozen yuan, and the total salary paid for each month was 79.5 yuan. My parents and my sister live with us, and the living expenses of the family of 6 remain sufficient.
Slowly, we also had some savings and started to buy furniture and appliances. It is hard to say how rich your life is, but there is always a feeling of improving every day. At that time, Moutai liquor was 48 yuan per bottle, and the government agencies could buy one bottle with tickets during the New Year to satisfy their cravings.
Family living status around 1980 (online picture)
Later, I was transferred from the county to work in the region (administrative office), and my salary also increased from a few dozen yuan a month to more than 100 yuan. Indeed, the prices were low in that era, and the combined salary of two people was more than 200 yuan, which was quite satisfying. Because the housing at that time was uniformly allocated by government agencies, there was little pressure on life. The little life started to live in a blissful manner. Later, when the monthly salary increased from 360 yuan per month to more than 8,000 yuan, the living standard followed a big step. I am retired now and I can get 11,600 yuan a month for my pension. My personal feeling is that my living standards have really improved greatly.
Source: "China Statistical Yearbook 2022"
02 Relative to the sense of gain and happiness of the people: the pressure has increased dramatically, life is not as good as
There are data showing that the price of pork in my country in 1980 was about 0.8 yuan, and today the average price of pork is about 20 yuan, which has increased by about 25 times by multiples. In terms of currency purchasing power , 100 yuan in the 1980s is roughly equivalent to about 2,500-3,000 yuan today.
What is the increase in national income? According to the official statistics released in 2020, the per capita disposable income of in my country in 2019 was 30,733 yuan, and the median per capita disposable income of residents in the country was 426,523 yuan. In 1980, the national income was about 80-150 yuan, and the national income increased by about 330 times. Judging from the increase in national income from the 1980s to 2021, the per capita income level is far higher than the price level.
My personal comparison number is: from 1980 to 2021, the price increase will be about 25 times, while the wage income increase will be about 100 times. So my overall feeling is that there is no pressure, my life is relatively loose, and my family assets have achieved a leap from 0 to 100.
But if you walk on the street, you can hear the sound of soaring prices, low work income, and harder life. When it comes to feeling gain and happiness, some people express surprising indifference, with a sense of inability.
There are people who are angry, and there are many people who are cursing (online photo) What is the problem with
? What is the deep reason behind it?
I carefully sorted out the situations, and there are probably several situations:
First, the relative group of individuals' feelings of benefiting from social distribution directly determine their sense of gain and happiness. At present, we recognize and affirm the additional income brought by the role of the market mechanism in policy, and allow part of non-labor income, such as property income, and allow individual capital and other production factors to participate in the distribution of income. This objectively makes people who rely on labor to obtain income imbalance. They will think that working hard and earning little, while some people "get it for nothing." In fact, insisting on distribution according to work as the main body is not based on the premise of denying other distribution methods, but only by better developing various other distribution methods can it be conducive to the consolidation of the position of distribution according to work.
Second, the criticality and anti-inclusiveness of the personal mentality of the relative population lead to this group of people not being able to correctly understand the correctness and rationality of the coexistence of multiple distribution methods.If some people understand and tolerate non-labor income such as property income, then the sense of self-gaining itself will be in a harmonious and open state; if a person is the tilted side of the distribution of interests, he will naturally have a sense of gain and happiness; if he is neither the tilted side of the distribution of interests, he is more critical in his personality, and naturally he will have a weaker sense of gain and happiness.
Third, some people have a hatred and hatred towards the rich, which has affected their rational judgment of their own situation. Realizing common prosperity in does not mean synchronous prosperity. Under the conditions of socialism , some people have the rationality and necessity of their existence when they get rich first. There are differences in labor among workers, which is the fundamental reason why some people get rich first. The difference in economic conditions will inevitably lead to the prosperity of workers. my country has a vast territory, with different natural conditions in the north and south, central and western regions. If the economic development of is unbalanced, the returns will naturally be impossible to balance, which will inevitably lead to different levels of wealth. But some people just can't tolerate others being rich and noble, and would rather be poor together than others being rich and themselves. This is also an important reason for insufficient sense of gain and happiness.
Fourth, black income and gray income aggravate people's imbalance, and venting dissatisfaction will naturally arise. Black income refers to some illegal income, most of which are the income from embezzlement and bribery. Illegal income under the conditions stipulated by law, including tax evasion, tax evasion, smuggling, fraud, etc., is also included. Gray income refers to the part of income between legal and illegal, and there may be some washed part here. Illegal income must be eradicated, but the harm they bring is extremely serious.
5: Low-paying, low-paying and unpaid classes still have to account for a certain proportion, and of course they do not have a sense of gain or happiness. This class mainly includes people with a monthly salary of less than 2,995 yuan. Among them are ordinary employees of the enterprise, retired enterprise employees, college students who use their spare time to work part-time, farmers who work in their hometowns, cleaning and security guards, etc. They are limited by their personal cultural level, professional skills, age, etc., and it is difficult to obtain higher income. Especially some middle-aged people have elderly and young people, and often encounter bottlenecks in medical care, children's schooling and other issues. It is understandable that they vent their dissatisfaction.
Faced with the problem, the Party and the government are taking incentives to improve it. I believe that with the acceleration of the Chinese-style modernization process, related issues will be gradually solved.

