I just heard a story about a new waiter on a train pushing a cart to sell drinks, but came back twice and didn't sell a few bottles. So the waiter said to the conductor in frustration that the price of this drink was too expensive and no one bought it. After hearing this, the conductor smiled slightly and said to the waiter, you wait for half an hour before selling, and then the conductor casually turned off the air conditioner on the train. Half an hour later, the waiter went out to sell drinks again, and less than half of them were sold out. The waiter had to reload it several times, and it was all sold out. The conductor asked the waiter if it was sold out, and the waiter said, "Yes, it's all sold out." Then the conductor asked the waiter to sell instant noodles, and the price was relatively expensive, and the waiter was still worried that he would not be able to sell it. At this time, the conductor said, don't worry, you can wait an hour before selling, so he turned on the air conditioner and turned the temperature to very low. As a result, an hour later, all the instant noodles of the waiter were sold out.
Of course, many of us are very angry about the above phenomenon, but some people say that in fact, this is called macroeconomic control. In fact, life is like this, each of us has been on this train all our lives, but many people don't feel it. We still remember that 20 years ago, when urbanization first began, all localities began to carry out large-scale construction, and also put forward the concept of commercial housing, and used this to attract the population and attract rural people to settle down in the city for employment. However, due to the achievements of reform and opening up over the past several decades, many rural areas have developed very well, fully meeting the needs of people's lives, and people's living standards have also been greatly improved, so people's willingness to buy houses and settle down in cities is very low. However, the peasants all have the habit of saving money, and because they are accustomed to living a hard life in the past, everyone is very cautious in spending money, so what should we do? How can we encourage the peasants to go to the cities for consumption? At this time, the means of macroeconomic regulation and control have played a tremendous role.
I believe that everyone is well aware of this means of regulation and control to encourage peasants to go to the city to buy houses, and by transferring the two most important aspects that have the greatest bearing on the interests of the rural areas, one is educational resources and the other is medical resources, these two high-quality resources have been transferred to the cities through administrative means, and then the school district housing has been divided. As a result, for the sake of children's education and future, and for people's health and medical care, many rural people are forced to move from the countryside to the city. But as we all know, if you want to go to the city, you have to pay a huge price, not only the cost of living has increased exponentially, especially a house is enough to consume the savings of a peasant family for a lifetime, but it is still not enough, and it is also necessary to advance the labor of this year and several decades.
But have we ever thought about the huge price behind this kind of behavior, because this phenomenon is not a natural law, but is formed by the strong intervention of administration and capital. This has led to the emergence of many huge problems in a short period of time, such as the fact that rural people cannot integrate into urban life in a short period of time, and thus many families are struggling to live in the cities; second, a single house has caused the peasants' wealth accumulation over several decades to evaporate in an instant, and they have to fall back into poverty; third, many cities simply cannot accommodate so many rural people to find employment, which has brought a heavy burden to the development of the cities; fourth, a lot of capital has maliciously raised housing prices through the policy of predicting in advance, which has brought greater difficulties to the lives of the peasants and the urban bottom groups; fifth, there has been a serious crisis in the old-age pension of the rural population; and sixth, a large number of people have poured into the citiesSeventh, a large number of children have poured into the city to attend school, resulting in a huge involution in education.
In addition, there are many more families who have bought a house that is of no practical use at all, because there are no jobs in the city, so they can only sit there and live in the countryside. It is only useful to wait until the child is of the right age to go to school, which also creates a huge waste of resources. However, we can see a result, that is, the wealth accumulated by a large number of rural people in the decades after the reform and opening up has been taken away by capital in a grand manner through this means. This also fulfills the old saying: after decades of hard work, you will return to the pre-liberation period overnight. We can see that the creation of wealth is extremely difficult, but the transfer of wealth is very easy, and only the trick of peasants going to the city to buy houses has allowed these peasants to return to poverty from a well-off life overnight. We can say that although this idea of urbanization has promoted the development of cities in the short term, this development is unsustainable, and it seems that it has already shown many undesirable consequences.
We can clearly see that behind this development model, farmers pay a huge price. I believe that if the fruits of this development can be shared by the people and the country can be benefited, then farmers are willing to support it unconditionally. However, we can see from the real estate crises that have occurred in the past two years that many achievements have actually been monopolized by some capitalists, and the country has not been able to fully benefit from them, and the people's lives have not been better improved, but have created a more extravagant life for the capitalists. Nowadays, whether it is the problem of Evergrande or other real estate developers, many of us have seen the outflow of some wealth capital through some improper means, which is very distressing. It can be said that if it is for the development of the country, the common people must have no hesitation, and if the result of development is to enable this small number of people to live a more luxurious life, that result is contrary to our expectations.
Of course, the original intention of urbanization is good, in order to further improve people's quality of life, in order to improve the market competitiveness of local cities. However, if we fail to face up to the law of natural development, and if the middle is used by some capital, this policy, which originally benefited the people and benefited the people, will become a tool for some capital to harvest the wealth of the people. Do you still remember the phenomena of the sharp rise in housing prices in the past few years? In some places, housing prices were even able to double overnight, and this is not only unreasonable, but also extremely inconsistent with the original intention of the policy, and it is precisely because these policies have been kidnapped by some capital that these policies have deviated from the original intention of urbanization and caused the people's property to suffer great losses. It is precisely because of this behavior that the wealth accumulated in the countryside in the past few decades of reform and opening up has been quickly transferred, and it is heart-wrenching to think about!