Recently, a share on Xiaohongshu by netizens has sparked widespread discussion and has become a hot search on Weibo .
She said: "html's monthly salary is 1.80,000 yuan, but every day she helps the boss arrange meetings, arrange flowers, order food, and handle express delivery. She doubts the value of her work, and feels that it will be aborted if it goes on for a long time."
But everyone saw that the monthly salary is 1.80 yuan and the simple work is a pie, and they were surprised and envious. They made a lot of witty comments in the comment section:
"The monthly salary is 18,000 yuan, which is very meaningful in itself."
" Where is the address? Where is the contact information? "
" Why don't you ask me to help you? Do something meaningful." Some netizens at
also expressed their understanding: "It's really terrible to do simple things at a young age. Every day is very relaxed and not tired. Everyone wants to live like this, but no one can live like this for the rest of their lives." These discussions in
actually cover two questions: What is the significance of work? How long can the meaning of work last?
The scientific and technological revolution has promoted social upheaval, urbanization has given rise to the atomization of individuals, and confusion, nothingness, and cynicism have almost become the spiritual background of modern people. Regarding the topic of "HTM7, a monthly salary of , but meaningless work", many people think "this is the meaning of work."
In modern society, people are increasingly becoming screws for jobs, and the personal color of work is gradually erased, becoming meaningless mechanical labor for individuals. If you insist on , you must pursue the meaning of your work, you may only have a salary and can barely support a narrow space of meaning .
Because in the consumer society, the magic of money is infinitely amplified, and a higher salary means higher consumption capacity, which is the source of meaning production in the consumer society.
If the default work content itself is meaningless, then the realization of meaning can only count on a monthly salary of 1.80,000. It’s no wonder that everyone sees that number is very popular.
What value plays, what growth space, what industry ceiling are all second--they are just means to keep themselves in a good working state that is not replaced. The fundamental question is:
"Can I keep this kind of good thing for the rest of my life?"
As long as I can have money and nothing for the rest of my life, what's the point of lying flat? Money and consumption will create endless meaning for my life. If you insist on finding meaning within the work framework, you are afraid that you have not been criticized by society, right? The ideas of most people summarized above are indeed the survival logic of efficient and labor-saving and reducing internal pain in the real environment. It is almost a tacit consensus among people in the workplace.
Meet at work by chance, finish work, and live a good life after work . Work and life are completely different. Living outside of work, the meaning is naturally not obtained in work. The meaning of work is probably to provide capital to maintain the current situation of life.
But the existence of this social mentality shows a somewhat sad reality: in the post-industrial era, the status of individuals has just been highlighted. It seems that everyone has the opportunity to do secure work to create social value, but in fact it is ushered in a fate of alienation.
can theoretically be suppressed by the subjectivity of work by the help of work. This is the paradox of modern civilization.
Remove because of the human position . Only when a carrot and a pit can everyone find a job fairly and realize their potential; and the position is ahead or even higher than that of others, allowing everyone who finds a job to be gradually alienated into screws.
The old movie "Modern Times" reveals this problem:
The craftsman spirit in the era of hand-made factories was eliminated between the conveyor belts and gears of large factories, and the difficulty of work was reduced and the degree of standardization was increased. On the one hand, allowed more people to get work away from poverty, and on the other hand, work became meaningless mechanical labor with few personality colors.
Chaplin is suffering from this exaggerated alienation disease. The action of screwing the screws makes him less and less like a human being.
If we add the logic of consumerism, we will find that the reality is even more absurd: , who can't stop working overtime, can't stop browsing mobile phones and buying things after work.
I am a screw, data, cash flow , and the money I earned is spread in society, even if I have gained emotional value because of browsing my phone and improved the quality of life because of consumption;
, but no one can guarantee how long this joy lasts, it depends on how long that meaningless but profitable work can make me do it.
Finally, the most embarrassing moment appears, which is the moment when you begin to discover " I am human ". is a self-evident fact, but this fact does not exist anywhere in .
If you want to find yourself and develop yourself, you cannot avoid pain. It is better to close your eyes and deal with work seriously and live a good life.
Therefore, it used to be " because I have ", so this work was completed (more people have no self or work); now it is "because there is this work station", so I found this job (people have self and work, but self and work are different things).
However, different social and working environments, due to the economic level, cultural atmosphere, workplace rules, and fierce competition, although " alienated " is a common spiritual dilemma for modern people, the degree of perception, exposure, acceptance or resistance of this dilemma may be very different from another place.
Suppose your configuration is a free shipping area 4A advertising company, and the work content is to work as an artist for Party A. Commuting for 1h after get off work and returning to the suburbs of the city, you may still be confused:
What does Kaitlyn, who works overtime in the city center to modify the picture and me?
The work and life are so alienated that the colleagues in the building will never see each other after get off work, but in order not to be replaced by the next artist Zoey, the work content can occupy unlimited life time.
If you work within the system of a small town, you are given favors by leaders of all sizes at get off work, and you meet an acquaintance in the unit in three or two steps on the way to work. Work and life are integrated. From home to office, you are always the same sister Zhang and Brother Li;
At this time, you are anxious that you have a good salary and you don’t have enough room for growth in your work?
will jump out of the local area. If the work duration of an overseas Internet manufacturer is strictly limited and there is no overtime work, the promotion requires the whole group to reach a consensus and everyone emphasizes growth. Will your pursuit of the meaning of work itself be revived?
After all, this is the same truth, and it is another question of thousands of people. Maybe the screws are also available in different models and colors. has limited personality, infinite work, limited income, and unlimited demand.
society's pulley rotation, each has its own way of living.
So, who is creating social value?
As a socialized person, everyone is creating value, but the input-output ratio, self-satisfaction, and time limits for creating value are different.
Sometimes we can’t help but doubt that many screws that create value are just a hole that just happens to be embedded in the production machine temporarily. As long as we are no longer in the position of a nail, our own body has not created value.
At the same time, the enhancement of individualism is often accompanied by the dissolution of heroism:
Obviously, heroes are not ordinary me, and the people who create the greatest value are the people who build the framework. They create production machines, specify the position of each nut, and create their own career from 0 to 1;
We act according to the rules and regulations, not only the space we create is limited, but also eliminate the necessity of criticism.
Because of the logic of " capable people go to mediocre people go to ", it makes people easily turn inward once they start criticism: Since that's the case, why not create meaningful work? Is it because I am not capable or my conditions do not allow it? It doesn’t matter how much value
creates, the measurement criteria can also be changed, and the loss of self-worth is the most terrifying thing.
Speaking of this, it is not difficult to find that the significance of work is really unpredictable.
It’s different if you change your cultural environment and job types. Sometimes it’s just a subjective feeling, and whether it has meaning depends on your sense of value - ’s meaning is a kind of construction of .
Therefore, many netizens can adopt the attitude of: "In the past, I felt that I didn't want to grow up, but now I feel that hesitation for a second is disrespect for money ." Don't be serious, it's important to make money.
can also return to the basics and deconstruct everything: work is not tailored for individuals, its meaning is meaningless but paying. If you want to pursue meaning, don’t work and create. What should I do if
is not a hero that can be created? No one stipulates that the public cannot obtain meaning through other paths: you can spend money, and improve your life with salary, probably a visible and tangible meaning.
doesn't want to bow to consumerism, so it jumps out of the framework of work, like what young people often say now, " lives elsewhere ", with more creative moments in life.
is not good, and a person has a mouth that can be said in a round way, no matter how meaningless it is, it can become meaningful. For example, the netizens commented that "Why is there no room for growth when serving tea and pouring water to order a conference room with ? It is all about dealing with people and things."
Or, thoroughly recognize the reality and strategically retreat.
All appearances are false. I work hard to spend the long years, and I don’t suffer or forget to camp. On the surface, my body is squeezing the subway, but in fact I have already flown out of the sky. , no matter the ever-changing social elimination mechanism, it turns out that you have come to the earth to overcome the tribulation.
