"Fighter" Sima Nan concentrated his firepower to attack Lenovo in 2022, sorted out the seven deadly sins, and pointed the sword at the founder Liu Chuanzhi. The seven deadly sins are bloody, making people clap their hands. In his mouth, except for a very small number of private entrepreneurs such as Ren Zhengfei and Cao Dewang, who were affirmed or praised, all other private enterprises or entrepreneurs were hung up by him as capital and capitalists, and constantly criticized and wrote about them.
Since the listing of Ant Financial was urgently stopped, the image of Hangzhou Jack Ma who has been painstakingly operating for more than ten years has been rapidly disintegrated, and the once sought after Ma Dad has almost reached the point where everyone shouts and beats, and finally he chose to disappear. A year after the failure of the ant's listing, everyone found that Ma Yun had long been far away, from Spain to Australia, from Japan to Thailand, all over the world, but he had never set foot on Chinese soil again (at least not publicly reported). Not only that, even if Ali's core business was continuously eroded by competitors and the stock price plummeted, he did not publicly express his position, and Ma Yun's move of "passing through the door three times without entering" has become a warning sign worth pondering and interpreting in people's eyes.
The sequelae of the epidemic for three years are prominent, many young people have become Kong Yiji who can't take off his long coat, even if the media frequently releases some job-seeking chicken soup for young people, such as the post-90s couple set up a stall to sell snacks and earn 9,000 yuan a day, but the reaction of young people is more and more resistant, because under the cold reality, young people have changed from the initial questioning of such news to the current "disgust", but this disgust and resistance has been interpreted as young people are reluctant to take off Kong Yiji's long robe and can't put down the shelf of readers.
It seems that the three things that are not related to each other are actually inextricably linked at a deep level, I think it is causal, and if you see the connection between the three things clearly, you can understand the current social and economic problems, and it is clear what Sima Nan is wrong?
First, in the past two or three years, private entrepreneurs have been facing a huge uncertainty, and everyone is worried that if they are entrepreneurs today, they will become capitalists tomorrow when they wake up. Who caused this phenomenon? I think it is inseparable from a group of new types of public knowledge represented by Sima Nan, and they always steal concepts to call private entrepreneurs capitalists. Always judge the actions of the entrepreneurs of the year with the eyes of the present. When New China was first founded, there were still millions of barefoot doctors in the countryside? These barefoot doctors who also work in agriculture when they are busy in agriculture, and practice medicine in their leisure time have made outstanding contributions to eliminating the four pests, eradicating blood-sucking insects, and preventing and controlling infectious diseases, but according to today's perspective, those barefoot doctors do not have medical qualifications, sanitary conditions are not up to standard, and live "veterinary" behavior, should they also settle accounts after the fall?
Second, the identity of entrepreneurs has always been questioned by ill-wishers, no one wants to sit on such a roller coaster, no one wants to wear such a hat, in order to seek stability and safety, then you can only be more cautious in business strategy, rather than showing your edge and becoming a bird, it is better to honestly make a little money. It's okay for one or two entrepreneurs to think so, and if everyone thinks so, it will be a major blow to the vitality of the economy as a whole. Worse, a large number of distorted interpretations are unavoidable in this information age and will continue to be a huge source of pollution that undermines the confidence of the entire economy. If people's hearts are scattered, China will not only have no way to give full play to the advantages of a unified market, but also make investors dare not invest, entrepreneurs dare not work, and consumers dare not buy.
Adhering to the mentality of rather trusting what they have and not trusting them, many private entrepreneurs, especially those private bosses who have done a large business scale, are at their own risk, whether they should do or should not do the expansion decision has been pressed the pause button, the development and profit of the enterprise have been put in the second place, and low-key and showing weakness have become the first priority of entrepreneurs.
There is a line in the movie "The Wandering Earth", "hope" is something as precious as diamonds in this era, if the word hope is turned into confidence, then this sentence must be the common voice of today's private entrepreneurs. Like a hot potato, Tencent successively threw away most of the shares of Meituan and JD.com in the form of dividends, and ByteDance said nothing about the listing schedule. In the past, various e-commerce platforms competed to show off the report card's Double 11, in recent years, all e-commerce companies have chosen to deal with it low-key, and the founders of Internet upstarts have also resigned and abdicated one after another, and even showed a resolute attitude of returning to their hometowns.
Once the most dynamic Internet bigwigs in the private economic field are afraid of shooting the first bird, I am afraid that it is only a microcosm of private entrepreneurs in the past few years, doing business is most afraid of uncertainty, if the concern cannot be dispelled, confidence will not be able to return. If local companies themselves do not have the confidence to invest in large quantities, foreign capital will be even more afraid to come.
Third, entrepreneurs have a conservative mentality, suffering is ordinary people, cost reduction and efficiency, layoffs and salary reductions, job reduction and suspension have become the most commonly heard words in the past two or three years, for large enterprises, it may be possible to use a sentence of internal optimization to bring it over, but for the affected individual ordinary people, it is an unbearable financial blow, mortgages, car loans, children's tuition to rely on wages to maintain, the sudden cold winter is enough to crush the unprepared majority, especially the light group is the most affected, The whereabouts of tens of millions of college graduates every year has become a perennial problem.
If one person can't take off his tunic because of that person's problem, but a group of people can't take off his tunic, then it's definitely a different problem. It is normal to have some expectations after more than ten years of hard study, everyone is very realistic, if you enter the factory, you can also get a decent income, let alone take off your long shirt, young people will rush to go even if they take off their bare arms.
The reason why Kong Yiji's topic has aroused a violent emotional backlash on the Internet is that everyone cannot accept that the official media did not guide in the direction of how to make the cake bigger, but persuaded everyone how to accept a smaller cake.
Sima Nan always said that you all said that I was wrong, but you have to point out where I am wrong. Through the above analysis, everyone understood one year that the group represented by Sima Nan undermined the confidence of private enterprises. Because private enterprises contribute more than 80% of the country's urban employment, it can be said that it is the only savior of the job market and the only way to continue to make the cake bigger.
So the focus now is to restore the confidence of private enterprises, so we urgently need a clear signal to tell the whole country and even the world. This is still a free and open market, and we still respect the invisible hand of the market.
Ma Yun, who has a representative status in China's private enterprises, returned to China, not for Alibaba, nor for private enterprises, but also for the purpose of unifying ideas across the country.
Finally, let's talk about this topic a little deeper, in fact, Sima Nan and the like are also a spotted hyena that follows the smell of fish, the problem is still in policy, a big feature of our country is "a loose chaos, a chaos to catch, a grasp and death, a death to loosen the endless cycle", such as the decennial crackdown at the level of public security, and the economy is also like this.
When private enterprises engaged in turmoil, the regulatory policies did not keep up, and then the capital began to come nonsense, and then began to grasp it, and when it was grasped, it was directly killed without controlling the strength, and now it began to deliberately relax.
Before Ma Yun returned to China, many places had already realized the importance of private enterprises to local economic development. Some time ago, Hainan Province announced that against those involved in the case of private entrepreneurs, those who can not be arrested will not be arrested, those who can not be prosecuted will not be prosecuted, and those who can not be sentenced to real punishment will not be sentenced to real sentence. As early as last year, Jiangsu, Beijing, Guangdong and Shandong and other regions issued the "List of Minor Labor Violations Not to be Punished", which shows that more than 60 items include seizing workers' ID cards, not going through employment registration procedures in accordance with the regulations and not providing detailed salary slips, obstructing the supervision of labor and social security departments, etc. These violations are no longer punished, replaced by only warnings. In order to allow enterprises to reduce costs and stabilize production, choosing to open some green lights on legal issues can be said to be a mysterious operation, if it continues like this, it is estimated that it will be chaotic again, and a new cycle will begin.
In the final analysis, this is because we have not formed a fixed institutional path for a long time, simply put, the high-voltage line is very vague, and no one can say who is qualified and who violates the law. The great uncertainty forces people to develop a habit of seeing the wind and rudder. Capital naturally has the pursuit of profit, as long as the expectation is relatively clear, they will spontaneously adjust their rhythm through the invisible hand of the market, re-rationalize the development ideas, find new profit growth points, and do not need to rely on rigid administrative orders, by squeezing the legitimate rights and interests of ordinary workers to maintain their own profits, after all, the growth of enterprise revenue is only a means of governance, not an end, the purpose of governance is the rise in the income level of residents, and the continuous optimization of the employment environment.
If the income of enterprises declines, the idea of fighting the law will be raised, but when it is the turn of residents' income to decline, take Kong Yiji's robe that he cannot take off as an example, which is indeed somewhat unreasonable. The rise and fall of private enterprises directly determines the success or failure of economic development, if these enterprises lose confidence and fear, one by one, can only see the rudder, conservative operation, then industrial upgrading will inevitably be impossible to talk about.
Industrial upgrading must involve private enterprises, and private enterprises urgently need a clear red line, under the premise of not touching this red line, free development and free competition. This is not only crucial for China's economic recovery and industrial upgrading, but also for whether the robe worn by the younger generation can be put back on. Kong Yiji's robe in the hearts of the public has long ceased to refer only to the identity of the reader, but symbolizes a dignified life, we cannot afford to lose prosperity, so we must let the cornerstone of prosperity be guaranteed, and this cornerstone is faith. Ma's return to China was easy, and China was nowhere near big enough to accommodate a businessman, but his return meant only a beginning, not an end.
The confidence in the free economic market has been earned by more than a billion people for decades by insisting on high-quality opening up a little. We still need to be patient and optimistic about this rebuilding of confidence, at least we can clearly feel that we are on the right path.