No matter what era the society is, it has an extremely unique law of development, but it is generally developing step by step, and there will be no too strange phenomena.
However, in the past two years, six strange phenomena have suddenly appeared in China, some of which have even exceeded ordinary people's cognition...
The price of gold rose above 700 yuan, but buyers were endless
On 3 April, the gold price of many jewellery brands had already crossed $700 and was still on an upward trend until now.
A few years ago, the price of gold was only more than 400 yuan per gram, and it could have been even cheaper if it was bought from a private person, but now it has nearly doubled.
According to common sense, in the face of such a sharp rise, there should be fewer and fewer consumers buying gold, but the reality is diametrically opposite.
According to the staff of major gold stores, the current gold price is the highest in the past ten years, but there are more and more buyers, and even some are in short supply.
Why are consumers buying so wildly?
As we all know, gold has been a hard currency since ancient times, and gold can be regarded as the most valuable thing at home or abroad.
In many countries, cash may not have a store of gold value, so they buy gold as an investment.
coincided with the crazy rise in gold prices, some people wanted to make profits by buying low and selling high, and some people with conditions would also choose to follow suit, which led to this phenomenon of short supply.
Now that the tension in foreign countries has affected the price of gold, it is very likely that the price of gold will not fall sharply if there is no better change in the future.
House prices continue to fall, but fewer and fewer buyers
Unlike gold, when flipping is no longer feasible, the value of the house continues to fall.
In the final analysis, housing, as a rigid need, or a large item in one's life, is an area that is difficult for ordinary people to rely on to make a profit, and it is only purchased for themselves and their families.
However, now the housing in the country can fully meet the needs of the population, and the extra houses are reserved for businessmen and those who are more qualified to use.
The so-called buying up or not buying down is probably this situation.
For investors, it no longer seems that housing will rise sharply, so investing in housing is already a risky move.
For those who just need housing, although the decline in housing prices is a good thing, if you buy when it continues to fall, it is inevitable that there will be the possibility of spending more money in vain.
So most consumers are taking a wait-and-see attitude, waiting for the house to fall to a certain threshold, and then making a purchase, so as to save money and not lose money.
In general, when businessmen have made a lot of money by speculating in real estate, no one may try to speculate again, and even if housing prices rise again, it is far from the previous situation.
After the opening of the third child, the number of newborns did not increase but declined
In fact, there is a close relationship between this and the previous one, because the rigid need for housing will always be those young people, and the growth of the new population will also depend on the young parents who have just started a family.
The context of this matter can be roughly divided into three points:
The first is that the life of young people nowadays is too stressful, whether it is mediocre salaries or high housing prices, which has begun to lead to young people being reluctant to get married, so that they rarely have contact with the opposite sex.
How much does it cost to get married? This account must have been calculated by many young people, such as a house, a car, a bride price, three golds, and ceremony expenses, each of which is a large expense, and it is difficult for ordinary families to afford it.
The second is that today's young people are more individualistic and more independent than people from previous generations, preferring a self-sufficient lifestyle rather than putting themselves under pressure.
It costs money to fall in love, it costs money to get married, and it costs money to raise children.
The last is the life after marriage, the young people are not as good as before, divorce seems to be no longer a big deal, two people will divorce if they don't agree, and they don't pay as much attention to marriage as their elders.
Some young people will think: Since they are married and will divorce sooner or later, is it better not to get married?
These conditions have led to a decline in the marriage rate, which in turn has led to a decline in the fertility rate.
Even though the state has given a lot of support policies for three children, many young people are still reluctant to get married, and they clearly know that the money given by the policy is far from enough to raise a child.
They are struggling to live on their own, so how can they be embarrassed to let their children suffer with them?
In fact, the main reason is that the pressure of contemporary young people is too great, if the financial pressure of work, RV, and marriage is not so great, perhaps many young people are willing to have their own families.
While education is popular, academic qualifications are becoming less and less valuable
Nine-year compulsory education has been popularized for many years, and students who have passed the high school entrance examination have also been divided into technical schools and high schools.
However, when education has gone deep into the mountains, academic qualifications are becoming more and more cheap.
Open the recruitment software on your mobile phone, and click on a staff member who needs a bachelor's degree in a related major, which directly discourages those who are not undergraduate or whose majors do not match.
For the competitive pressure of finding a job, many young people must have suffered, sometimes just the academic adaptation is not enough, and they have to carefully prepare a vivid interview to package themselves.
With the continuous development of science and technology, the value of academic qualifications is also being weakened, in the past, people had an excellent academic degree, may exclude many competitors, but now everyone is on the same running line, how to exclude?
Especially in many high-paying specific occupations, they pay more attention to the experience of employees than academic qualifications, and many technical experiences cannot be obtained through academic qualifications, and academic qualifications have become an ordinary threshold.
If the previous college students were in short supply, then the current college students have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the supply has exceeded demand, so various companies will set the academic qualifications as the threshold.
For example, if in the sixties and seventies of the last century, anyone could eat white rice and white noodles for a meal, it must be a wealthy family.
But in today's era, who doesn't eat the whole ribs every once in a while, and even many people are tired of eating big fish and meat, so they like to make something light.
The involution of students, coupled with the involution of young people, has caused academic qualifications to become a very commonplace thing, so no matter how delicious the pork ribs are, they are not as good as white rice and white noodles in difficult times.
The pension of the elderly is higher than the salary of the young
You must have seen a lot of similar news on the Internet: the retired section chief of a certain unit in a certain place has a pension of more than 8,000 yuan per month.
In particular, the older generation, who contributed to the nation-building in their youth, may have a higher pension than that.
Looking at the wages of contemporary young people, take most ordinary people, they may earn such wages in first-tier cities, but in small cities, a monthly income of about 3,000 is the norm.
What is the concept of a monthly income of 3,000? It may be enough for this young man to support himself, let alone buy a car and a house, and he doesn't even dare to fall in love, because it costs money.
This kind of income imbalance makes many young people complain, why are they not as good as a retired old man as the main labor force?
For this mentality, Xiaobian wants to say that the pension of the older generation is high, and there is naturally a reason for its highness, they have worked hard all their lives to get such a pension, which is how young people who have worked for a few years can compare?
The root of the problem is not how high the pensions of the elderly are, but how low the wages of the young are.
Those with a monthly income of 3,000 cannot afford to buy a house in the county town, and those with a monthly income of 10,000 yuan still can't afford to buy a house in a big city.
The role of parents has "changed" into that of grandparents
For many children, it may not be their parents who accompany them in their childhood, but their grandparents or grandparents.
Everyone says "next generation", the normal meaning is that the grandfather kisses the grandson, but now there is a new meaning, that is, the grandson is closer to the grandfather, and even more than the parents.
Many young parents have to send their young children to the elders because of family pressure or emotional problems, and those who go out to work may not see their children more than a few times a year.
This situation has directly created the term "left-behind children", which is not uncommon even in large cities.
Especially those young parents, after the birth of their children, they are more panicked than anyone else, and they don't know a lot of details of taking care of their children, so they can only ask their parents to take care of them.
When I got up, my grandmother put on clothes, and when I got out of school, my grandfather came to pick me up, and only at eight or nine o'clock in the evening would my parents come to pick me up, and I had to go to bed as soon as I got home.
This is a sad phenomenon, and there are many times when you can't blame your parents, after all, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read.
epilogue
These phenomena have filled people's lives, and it is not strange to say that they are strange, but they are more of a kind of helplessness about reality.