A few days ago, CCTV host Bai Yansong asked an expert with a frown: How to solve the problem of ordinary people "not daring to spend money if they have money"? Today, a note of "the budget of post-80s couples in 2024 exceeds 220,000" and a video of "couples talking goodbye to their hospital beds" have become hot spots.
One year, two children, only housing, transportation, education and other basic living budget, 220,000. More or less, people in different regions and different situations will have different views in their eyes. 220,000 may be money that many people can't save in their lifetime, but the high budget is so necessary that it doesn't even include their three meals.
Wife: "I won't save you, do you hate me?", husband: "I don't hate you, it's you who followed the wrong person". This is a love that is too heavy to bear, like a candle flame in the middle of the night, weakly struggling, swaying, and extinguishing in the wind and rain. The dignity and value of life and love are coldly weighed and trade-off by reality at this moment, and in the end, there is no better choice, only which choice can make the living strive to live.
The daily trivial and heavy life has exhausted everyone's mental strength, and we are tired of coping with it, but we can't break free, and we only feel exhausted. However, those experts and hosts were holding coffee in the studio with a suitable temperature, while discussing how to empty the people's pockets more when they were worried about the country and the people. They are too busy to see the anxiety and distress of the post-80s couple, nor can they hear the self-blame and whimpering of their wives in front of the hospital bed.
The studio show is just a big show and a business for them. When you put down the headset, most of them will think about where to eat later and what to eat? Those ordinary people who run errands in the summer and wait for guests in the cold wind are like a drop in the ocean, and occasionally think of them and sigh with pity: Work hard, no matter how great the difficulty is divided by 1.4 billion, it will become insignificant.
Education, medical care, childcare, pension, and housing, the "five mountains" in the field of people's livelihood, have been pressing our people out of breath. The government has been trying to provide optimal solutions and policy support in these areas, but so far, the majority of the population is still feeling extremely burdened. The global economic downturn caused by the intensification of geopolitical conflicts, trade wars and other disputes after the epidemic may continue in 2024.
What can we do? We can only work hard to make money and survive in the current harsh environment. All that remains is a word "wait", waiting for the Sino-US trade dispute to be suspended or a winner appears, when the geopolitical conflict does not worsen, and when the global economy recovers. When it's hard, I hope those experts are less noisy, so that we can occasionally bury our heads in the sand and wait for the wind to come.
Standing at the bottom of the valley and waiting for the crest of the wave seems simple, but it is also very difficult. I wish all friends can survive the current cold winter and usher in the inevitable spring.