"Achen is a "social livestock" who works in Beijing. In the first half of the month of National Day, he opened the travel app and the price made him stunned - this summer, Achen went to the suburbs of Beijing and stayed in an ordinary homestay of more than 500 yuan, and the price was still acceptable; it was almost Mid-Autumn Festival, and the price was generally 1,000+, Achen hesitated and did not set it. After two days, the average price rose by 2,000 yuan.
0 looked again before National Day, and even a sky-high price of more than 7,000 yuan appeared. He watched the prices of B&Bs in suburbs of Beijing several times. In the last time, he simply turned off the ordering interface."
For a middle-class migrant worker who is tired and looking forward to going to the suburbs to have some breath during holidays, this situation is very cruel -
Now, there are only two choices in front of you. Either, spend more than ten times or even dozens of times the price on weekdays to buy this leisure, and it is a homestay that is already crowded;
Or, you can only give up the long-awaited comfort and give up the last holiday of the second half of the year with a disappointment.
But who caused this cruel situation?
The skyrocketing price of homestays is not the so-called malicious price increase of black-hearted merchants and capitalists that we take for granted - because the prices of homestays are determined by the market and are facilitated by the supply and demand relationship; the skyrocketing price comes from the surge in demand and the surge in demand. is the result of millions of workers like us scrambling to fight for .
So in the end, it is ourselves who pushes ourselves to this point, and it is the middle class who is "slaughtering" each other.
In contrast, on the other side of the market, capitalists have done nothing and are already counting their money.
It turns out that the highest realm of capital is not what we think is oppression and exploitation, or what we hold a sickle to cut leeks, but the fisherman - the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman enjoys his fruits, and they don’t have to do anything, so people spontaneously hand over the money.
However, this situation where middle-class snipers and clams compete and capital fishermen gain profits, and this situation similar to the skyrocketing prices of homestays and difficult to find a house, has become a reflection of economic prosperity and upgrading of people's consumption in the eyes of media and other bystanders, and has become a very good thing.
No wonder people always say that it is the middle class that supports the entire society.
Xunzi said: "Give people the government to benefit the people."
Politics, what should be concerned about is not whether the economy is prosperous or not, but whether the people are really well-off.
The false prosperity brought about by the battle between snipe and clam has only enriched the capitalists' pockets, but has made the people even more cramped.
