"140,000 a month, I kneel as a maid"
Not long ago, there was a job posting that caught fire.
Netizens uploaded a screenshot of the circle of friends of "Shanghai Mrs. Recruitment with a Monthly Salary of 140,000 Nannies", which couldn't help but make people's eyes widen.
Services include putting on and undressing the wife, and asking for "kneeling service."
There are quite a few additional terms.
For example, "don't want to have strong self-esteem", like "ancient close maids", can sing and dance well, and also have certain requirements for body appearance.
In order to verify the authenticity of this recruitment, someone contacted the middleman on the screenshot.
The housekeeping company said: The news is true, and two people have been recruited.
This recruitment has aroused discussion among netizens.
On the one hand, 2023 is the year 2023, a maid, kneeling, proper Empress Dowager literature.
This should be placed in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", and Concubine Hua would be ashamed of herself when she heard it.
But on the other hand, some netizens said: "This is 140,000!" ”
The chips are too high, so that these requirements are not impossible to consider:
"Don't say kneeling, it's okay for my wife to slap me twice if she is unhappy."
"If I hesitate for a second, it's disrespectful to money."
This topic is hotly discussed, with banter and ridicule, quite a bit of curiosity.
But as ordinary people, it is inevitable to find that this kind of thing is not a curiosity.
The rich do whatever they want, in fact, they have long been gone.
The most important thing to make the human body feel this disparity is probably the closest place to the entertainment industry.
The new generation of stars under the magnesium light has long lived a life more exquisite and elegant than "Shanghai rich wife".
The front foot walked onto the RV, kicked the shoes over at will, and the assistant followed closely to silently put them away.
Eating spits out food scraps with saliva, and some people reach for it.
There are also a few "big names" who, with wealth and fame, are always above ordinary people.
Even their assistants, who get along day and night, are often not taken seriously.
Agent Yang Lu accused a certain artist of the harm he caused to himself in the variety show.
When the artist was unhappy, he called him into the room to scold and vent his emotions;
He was also dropped on the highway and made him sleep in the bathtub, in the corridors of the hotel...
As a professional agent, Yang Lu will still have a psychological shadow when facing these unfair treatment.
In the entertainment industry, no matter how outrageous the requirements are, it seems to have become a very normal thing.
Any little preference of celebrities will be infinitely valued and amplified.
For example, on the notice list of celebrities, it is often densely noted:
Coffee can only be ground by hand, the fruit plate must be Starbucks, you cannot walk, and you must arrange a driver to pick you up wherever you go.
Spending money to hire people to do these things doesn't seem unreasonable.
But even so, ordinary people still find it difficult to accept this sense of gap when working with celebrities.
For example, in the crew, on the one hand, there are stars with a daily salary of 2.08 million, and on the other hand, there is a group performance with a monthly salary of 3,000, and the contrast between the two is very tragic.
A professional "dragon set" once revealed:
"Group acting is really the lowest level job in the entire crew, anyone can come up and step on you, that feeling is really uncomfortable."
Even if it is only a few seconds of footage, you can experience the "humility of the dog".
Every time the protagonists shoot one, they need to rearrange the costume shape, and there can be no negligence.
On the other hand, the group performers can only wear heavy costumes and wait, because they want to hide from the rain, they have to be scolded by the team leader.
The saddest thing is that these things are increasingly becoming "taken for granted".
Sometimes, stars seem to have become superior people, completely without acting skills, business ability is 0, and they can also get mixed up.
Not only that, but they also enjoy all kinds of benefits, and any little effort can be infinitely magnified.
Filming in the water is hard work, bruising and bruising is dedication...
Even wearing a piece of clothing, taking a script, and bringing a bottle of water can be praised as a clear stream in the entertainment industry.
However, these "supervisibly hard" stars are more likely to be worshiped.
In recent years, the entire aesthetic trend of the Internet has gradually put on the filter of money, fame and power.
This kind of Muqiang-style "looking up" has also reached its peak.
It's not just celebrities, it's also influencers.
They hold more wealth and resources in society, enjoy better treatment and service, and are sought after almost wildly.
There used to be a very popular label on a social soft, called "old money style", referring to those who obtained wealth through hereditary inheritance.
Because he is a "rich person", he deserves more attention and exposure, and is more likely to become a so-called Internet celebrity.
Just like the little prince of Qatar who exploded during the World Cup, he became popular all over the Internet with a single meme.
With his family's power, he easily won more worship.
Not to mention Young Master Wan Liu, who became popular all over the Internet with a "geographical positioning".
Against the background of mansions and famous paintings, the "young master" can easily attract hundreds of thousands of fans by transporting a basketball casually.
Off the spectrum, but also more and more "rationalized".
Looking at the current entertainment industry and Internet celebrity circle, it seems that it is getting easier and easier to become popular overnight by opportunistically.
The new generation of idols has also become stars such as Yu Shuxin and Ouyang Nana.
It's not that they are not excellent and do not work hard, but compared to these, fans also like their generous family situation, and they can also show the enviable "sense of relaxation" of the chaebol.
In the past, many popular idols struggled hard, relying on themselves from the bottom to fight all the way up and become the spiritual pillar of a generation.
There are blood and tears behind their stories, and their tenacity and bravery are moving.
But these high-quality idols who really work hard and climb up from the bottom by strength seem to have only stopped in the last era.
The grassroots who really want to rely on their own efforts to break into the entertainment industry is not that there is no chance of success, but that the price of the admission ticket is too high, so high that it is daunting.
Isn't this another kind of sadness?
Xiao Shi is not a hatred of the rich, and does not want to instill the chicken soup of the soul that "hard work will succeed", but wants to say a kind of plight of ordinary people.
Whether it is in the face of "Shanghai Kuotai" wanting to spend 140,000 to find a maid, or in the face of some excessive privileges of celebrities.
We are no longer able to explore whether it is reasonable to "spend money to buy the dignity of others", and these unfair resources can hardly provoke any emotions in us.
This reflects the despair of society as a whole -
We seem to be increasingly resistant to the idea that we can change our destiny through hard work.
The collective lies flat and rotten, accepting the reality that rich people can trample on their dignity at will.
If you enter some emotional live broadcast room late at night, you will find thousands of men and women at 3 or 4 a.m., all lining up to tell the same story:
Whether it is emotions, life, when it comes to money and reality, the helplessness of being unable to change the status quo.
In recent years, the decline in confidence and confusion about the future of ordinary people have been particularly pronounced.
People are gradually smoothed out by life, and cognition gradually becomes "effort is useless", making it easier to turn their heads and worship those who are born with abundant resources.
So, when we see the structural inequities caused by the tilt of resources, our first reaction is no longer anger, but a powerless envy.
Behind this, it reflects the trap of meritocracy.
Many Internet celebrities and the second generation of stars who became popular overnight know how to use people's psychology to quickly gain people's attention and maintain a degree of not being hated.
Although they have achieved success with shortcuts with the blessing of family resources, they know how to please the audience.
Wang Sicong's arrogant propaganda has been outdated for a long time.
The current second generation of stars is smarter, such as Guo Qilin, Zhang Ruoyun, and Dou Jingtong, and they generally show an approachable, down-to-earth temperament.
The audience also gradually liked the reality of stars and Internet celebrities.
Under the comment area of Young Master Wan Liu, in addition to the "a loud noise in the sky, the old slave shines".
There are more praise voices: "I really envy this kind of person, obviously so rich and so hard to improve!" ”
Previously, in the popular talent show, those "rich second generation" were also more likely to get the love of fans.
For example, "Fan Chengcheng", who has its own traffic, showed clumsiness and honesty on the stage, and instantly gained a large number of fans.
It makes people have the illusion that "my brother can obviously go back to inherit the family property, but he is still willing to pay sweat to pursue his dreams".
People's "Muqiang" mood has increasingly become the mainstream.
It is undeniable that many upper-class people are indeed very motivated, very hard-working, and willing to prove their worth with hard work.
However, the essence of meritocracy lies in the rationalization and obliteration of the huge systemic inequities by linking effort to achievement.
As Professor McSandel said: The meritocratic elite not only owns and uses his own privileges, but he also argues himself by praising them for their hard work -
They want ordinary people to see that they really deserve all the good things in the world.
In middle-class families in the United States, children who are admitted to Ivy League schools will also work hard from an early age under the influence of the environment.
But the data is still a little brutal:
In the United States, not only Ivy, but also in the top 100 universities, 72% of students come from families in the top quartile of income levels, and only 3% of students come from low-income families.
Although anyone can take the test and apply to college, students from wealthy families actually make up the majority in higher education.
How many of their peers don't even have the opportunity to work hard and compete with them?
Therefore, the value of ordinary people's efforts is no less than these people who are born with their own aura.
And those Kuotai and young masters whose wealth crushes ordinary people can't buy anyone's dignity.
In the Korean movie "The Insider", the editor-in-chief of the newspaper in it said a line: words are power.
The impact of words is huge and subtle.
When the elites of society hold the vast majority of the right to speak, ordinary people can only be deprived of the right to speak and fall into deep despair.
This is part of the reason for the powerlessness of today's people: we seem to be in control of everything, but we can do nothing about it.
Today's popular Chinese stories are increasingly leaning towards elite narratives, as the title of an article suggests:
#最让人敬佩的富二代, rely on your own efforts to succeed.
But I still like the previous story more than that.
For example, after 30 years of debut, he counterattacked all the way from the grassroots at the age of 25 and finally got Liu Qingyun, a little golden man.
There are also martial arts scenes that have filmed countless real knives and guns, regretting that they "accompany and run" countless times, and finally recognized Jackie Chan.
The same goes for the stories of ordinary people.
More than a decade ago, "Moving China" made countless people cry.
These shows are full of stories of ordinary people.
They include diplomatic ambassadors, mountain teachers, anti-narcotics police, veterans of the war, astronauts, engineers, scientists, and athletes.
There are also barefoot doctors who silently treat and save people, and old people who scavenge waste and help students.
These stories are all touching or heart-stirring.
And now, these stories have become less popular and deeply disliked: too red, too fake!
In the past, Chai Jing also did many similar interviews, filmed in the form of documentary-style reports, and made the "Beautiful Chinese" series.
Among these hot incidents, there are interviews with the parents of both sides of the Yaojiaxin case, there are urban management and hawkers, and ordinary people blocking the road to save dogs.
The purpose of these stories is simple, that is, to give dignity to ordinary Chinese.
The struggle stories of these ordinary people give us confidence and backbone.
It is also these ordinary stories that allow our next generation to not be humble and not to fall into deep despair.
Such a Chinese narrative is a story that can make people stand up and be people.
As the saying goes: "Under the magnesium light is called art, under the scorching sun is life." ”
Click "watching", ordinary people's warmth, sorrow and joy, is the real world.