The industry that is not debated in this way is the one that is the luckiest one.
In the past two days, due to the problem of domestic new energy vehicle pricing, the two top Vs on the Chinese Internet - Lu Kewen and Jiubian pinched up, and each of them helped their own fans spray each other for several days, saying everything, and the scene was once so lively. This weekend, we're going to take a look at it.
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Some people say that those who can explode on the Internet right now are the same as the host in Hainan who "celebrated" the Japanese earthquake and gained 7 million followers overnight, which is ultra-left. Therefore, the quarrel between Jiubian and Lu Kewen belongs to the ultra-left. I actually have reservations about this statement.
In my opinion, in the current Chinese Internet public opinion spectrum, he should actually be regarded as "center-left", even slightly more right-right than Teacher Hu Xijin - that is, he is still more human-speaking.
You see, the views held by Jiubian in the process of this mutual pinch are more civilian, and what he means is: ordinary people should not rejoice at the overpricing of domestic cars, what does it matter to you.
Yes, a group of people who can't even take out 100,000 yuan, and people who can't afford to buy a domestic high-priced car everywhere "Which Li is expensive", this scene is actually funnier than Mr. Li Jiaqi's live online death last year - as far as Li Jiaqi's net worth, maybe he thinks that the eyebrow pencil in his hand is more expensive than a small gold bar, "Which Li is expensive", people say from the bottom of their hearts.
But you, an ordinary person, only earn a few dollars a month? are obsessed with the "grand narrative", and instead of cheering for a high-end domestic car that you can't afford in your life...... Isn't this a bit expensive in the brain marrow?
But he ridiculed the reference to "grand narrative", which was more of a step on the tail of Mr. Lu Kewen and his fans. People are definitely going to jump.
It should be that Mr. Lu's proposition this time is the same as his plain, that is, he is engaged in a grand narrative, and the summary is: Those of us with a monthly salary of 3,000 usually brag to others, what is there to brag about? Isn't it that we now have a strong national industrial strength, and can build good cars like those old industrial powers, especially high-end electric cars? So although we can't afford to buy domestic luxury cars, it does not prevent us from supporting the high-end domestic electric vehicles!
Aside from the motive of collecting money to the car company's platform. As I said in a previous article, Mr. Lu Kewen's level of writing is problematic. Because he always uses a narrative trick - fictionalizing a scene that cannot exist in reality, and then convincing his audience to accept some kind of grand narrative in this non-existent scene, creating a sense of glory that does not exist.
Look at the scene he created this time that "ordinary people with a monthly salary of 3,000 have to rely on domestic luxury cars to brag", redeem this column. On the surface, it looks quite face-saving, but it's very funny when you think about it-
If you have a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan, who can you be the person you usually chat with and brag about? Will you be a foreigner of the great powers?
Don't be funny, don't say 3,000 per month, it's 5,000 or 10,000, and it's very difficult to get a visa to go abroad now. What's more, these companies in our country are eager to screw you on the production line, and it is more difficult for you to ask the boss for an annual leave than to ascend to the sky.
So I'll ask you, how many times a year can you go abroad as a salaryman? Can you go abroad and brag face-to-face with foreigners?
A person with a monthly salary of 3,000 is a braggart object that can be seen at ordinary times, that is, a Chinese colleague with a monthly salary of 3,000.
But when it comes to bragging, what you pay attention to must be the display of your high self-worth - there is such a thing, I have you or not, and this is worth bragging. You bragged to a flat-headed ordinary person of the same class as you, saying that our country is really strong now! The domestic electric vehicles produced are so high-end! I can't even afford them......
Do you think this is bragging? People listened and spread their hands: You are Chinese and I am also Chinese @ You can brag about domestic luxury cars, I can too. You can't afford it, and I can't afford it! Let's be poor here, talk about loneliness!
Take another 10,000 steps back, even if there are ordinary people with a monthly salary of 3,000, they really tighten their belts and go out of the country once, and they are fortunate to boast to foreigners that we can now build luxury cars. Will foreigners respect you for this?
I think Mr. Lu is making up the mood of foreigners out of thin air.
What's more, I was tired to ask, Mr. Lu, can you really say "we" to those fans with your monthly salary of 3,000?
You see, this is another layer of fiction, Mr. Lu, who doesn't write science fiction novels.
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Really speaking, luxury cars are actually luxury goods, and luxury production has always been the worst positively correlated with a country's industrial strength.
For example, in the late Qing Dynasty, China was a big producer of luxury goods, and the snuff bottle was originally transmitted from the West, and we could quickly localize it, play it out of flowers, and engrave words and carvings in the inner tank. But when have you ever seen the foreigners at that time look up to the Chinese because of this?
The foreigners of the late Qing Dynasty looked down on the Chinese, not because we could not make any expensive and frightening luxuries at that time, and even had little to do with whether our industrial strength and military strength were strong. The most critical problem is that the behavior standards of the Qing people at that time were completely different from those of others, and the Qing Dynasty at that time, let alone China. Every time an overseas embassy comes to China, it must go to the wharf to greet it, and the greeting decree of three bows and nine bows on the spot, kneeling on the ground, is also published in the newspaper by foreigners and made public.
You say that there are too many such "oriental scenes", how well you blow our snuff bottles, how ingenious the carving of the big smoking gun is, and how comfortable the sedan chair is, can foreigners afford us?
The equality of personality, proper manners, the harmony of the three views, plus your personal ability or charm are the key to whether the other party can look up to you in the interaction between two modern people.
As Mr. Lu Kewen imagined, seeing a foreigner brag about how expensive our luxury cars are, so expensive that I can't afford them, and you can afford them - it's the 21st century, and you're still bragging like this, isn't it too low?
Britain has a Rolls-Royce and Italy has a Lamborghini, which are the most expensive luxury cars in the world.
But I've never seen an Englishman or Italian brag about someone else, you see we have a Rolls-Royce, a Lamborghini, how expensive cars are!
Isn't that a neurosis?
What would they say if they really wanted to brag?
A literate Englishman can say, at best, you see, we have Shakespeare, we have Magna Carta, we have Adam Smith, we have John Mill, we have the birthplace of individualism and conservatism, we have given birth to the Industrial Revolution, we have inspired the whole world.
"I'd rather England lose India than lose Shakespeare. —Winston Churchill
A cultivated Italian will take you to museums, see the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, Meicheerful Angelo, Raphael, look at Galileo's telescope, see St. Peter's Basilica, see the ancient buildings of Rome, and tell you that they have always been the source of the spirit and legal system of Europe, and the engine of European civilization to start again.
"The glory of Rome lies not in its territory, but in the noble republican spirit of its citizens" - Marcus Cicero
If you really meet a foreigner, you need to brag and want to rely on your country to gild your identity, not by a luxury car, but by the brilliant ideas and cultural heritage that this country has contributed to the civilized world.
Because you can't afford a luxury car, but the spiritual and cultural heritage is free and can be shared by the whole people of a nation.
But the irony is that learning these things and teaching us how to be normal and effective foreigners brag about the knowledge is now the most despised major in China - the kind that can not be chosen by children to stun and stun to borrow the auspicious words of teacher Zhang Xuefeng.
Why is that?
I don't know, but I do know that Mr. Lu Kewen is purely nonsense there, or the most earthy and vulgar kind of nonsense-
Think about it, in reality, when you meet a big brother, you will brag about how expensive and expensive the luxury car you bought when you meet people, what do you think?
You must think that this person is an unbearable, poorly educated, and mentally empty man who has nothing left but a few stinky money.
And to what extent does a person have to be empty, bored, boring, and impoverished?
Blowing a luxury car itself is already very vulgar, and you can't afford to buy it after blowing it for a long time! What kind of embarrassment is this?
Congratulations to Mr. Lu Kewen, who has once again created a new level of local bragging.
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In this way, it seems that I am completely on the nine sides of this debate.
But I think it's a bit awkward to say that.
In fact, in my opinion, the fight between these two big Vs is very nonsensical in itself, and what they are arguing about is a topic that should not exist in the first place.
I remembered a joke and said: There was a couple who read the newspaper that someone else bought a lottery ticket and won a jackpot of 100 million, and as a result, they began to imagine how they would distribute it if they bought a lottery ticket and won the prize. My wife said that she wanted to help her relatives. My husband said that I bought the money in the lottery ticket, why should I give it to my relatives?
As a result, the two quarreled, quarreled and quarreled, and went directly to the divorce procedures the next day.
In my opinion, the Chinese Internet, under the leadership of the two big Vs, quarreled over "whether domestic cars should take the high-end route", which is no less funny than the couple's quarrel over the illusory 100 million - this is simply a salty radish and a light worry.
Even if you Lu Kewen can name a thousand reasons why "you should support domestic cars to take the high-end route", but if these high-end cars made by car companies are off the production line, no one will buy them at all, and car companies will lose money one by one. You and your fans are shouting "full support" and "I'm proud" there, what's the use of?
In the same way, even if Jiubian can say a thousand kinds of "domestic cars still have priority to take into account civilians", but if the luxury cars made by domestic car companies are really bought and have a good reputation, let them build and sell them, and develop new technologies to feed the manufacture of civilian cars, so that civilian cars become cheaper, easier to use, and even more luxurious, why not?
The key to the problem is only what kind of answer the market will give to the high-end of the domestic car industry.
If their new car is worth the money and there is enough purchasing power, consumers will naturally vote with their money, and the industry will flourish on its own, and there is no need for Lukewen to add any sacred buff to it that "benefits the country and the people".
Yes, in a normal and healthy market economy society, entrepreneurs may need to consider many questions when launching a product, but there is only one thing that needs to be answered: is it "beneficial to the country and the people" that he is engaged in this product?
After the launch of your product, the sales will be good, you can make more money, pay more taxes to the state, and provide more employment opportunities for the people. This product and your business are beneficial to the country and the people.
As for the rest, let the market choose.
The market is free, so businesses should be free as well. If a business decision-maker has a dream and wants to build a luxury car, of course you can! If you are popular, you will survive, continue to expand the production line and continue to develop. If you can't sell, you die, and there will naturally be new and other business niches that you have left behind or abandoned.
If you want to be free, you have to be responsible for your own choices, and this is especially true of business.
This is the logic of a normal commodity society.
And take this logic to look at the debate between Lu Kewen and Jiubian about whether domestic cars should be high-end, and you will find that they are actually arguing very turtle hair.
These two big Vs were able to bring so many people to participate in this debate that shouldn't exist......
I think the reason for this is because there are indeed many people in China, and their thinking is still stuck in the era of "planned economy". In the thinking mode of the planned economy, as long as there is a new dynamic in a certain industry, they instinctively want to debate whether this dynamic is "beneficial to the country and the people", or even whether the industry should develop.
This is a very typical way of thinking about the planned economy, which fantasizes to influence and determine the development direction of an industry through people's subjective assumptions, rather than objective market reactions.
So from this point of view, you say that Nine Sides and Lu Kewen are both leftists, but this is indeed the case - only leftists can have this kind of delusion, and this harmful and unprofitable idle mind.
But there is no way, the current public opinion field cognition, you can't be popular if you don't leave it.
But you look at the stupid and coarse civilian cars made in the Soviet Union, which you may not even want to buy with money, and listen to the jokes that the Russians still circulate today to make fun of their cars...... You can know that by relying on this way of thinking, it is not possible to build high-end cars, nor civilian cars, and even the automobile industry and all industries.
The Soviet Union made cars without effort, and both high-end cars and civilian cars were tried.
What kind of industry can benefit the country and the people? Entrepreneurs can make profits, industries can develop, the state has taxes, and the people have jobs, and this is the greatest benefit to the country and the people! Let the market decide what should be decided by the market, and let the entrepreneurs do what products they are willing to promote, let them do it themselves! We, the bystanders, should we do less to be idle?
Of course, I know that Jiubian and Lu Kewen are both big Vs, and big Vs can often receive orders for public relations advertisements from car companies. In fact, as a small V, I finally got involved in similar activities of several car companies last year. I still remember that once the person in charge of public relations of the car company said to us: "Please come to all teachers, do not ask for anything else, please help us create a friendly atmosphere of public opinion and a relaxed operating environment." ”
After listening to it, I smiled bitterly - a friendly atmosphere of public opinion and a relaxed operating environment. Isn't this what a company, no matter what industry it is engaged in, as long as it is legal, it should be obtained naturally?
A nation that is not recorded in history is the happiest. In the same way, an industry that is not discussed by public opinion and debated whether or not it is "beneficial to the country and the people" is the luckiest.
Give the market back to the market, and let entrepreneurs build whatever car they want to build - anyway, they are responsible for their own profits and losses, and the market will always give them the most reasonable answer.
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