Real estate earns black money, saying that young people don't want to get married, the real reason is that they can't get married
Recently, there is such a hot topic on the Internet: "Young people don't want to get married, are they not married or can't get married?" I read a lot of comments, and one answer made me particularly emotional: "Not wanting to get married is fake, and not being able to get married is true." Savoring this sentence, I found that this was not the answer of one person, but the current situation of the whole society.
There are not a few young people who cannot afford to get married, they are the mainstream group of society, and they live and struggle in different first- and second-tier cities.
And the economic system and social status quo of this society are also driving such a situation: when it comes to marriage, the first thing that most people think of is to buy a house, which is almost equivalent to buying a house, which makes many young people unable to afford it.
The profit-seeking and policy mistakes of real estate developers seem to be a conspiracy, which promotes the process of marriage materialization in an unimaginable way until it reaches the extreme of absurdity.
I still remember Bai Yansong's famous saying: "If real estate can't be supported, where is the use of China's economic artery?"
That's right, China does need a strong real estate market, but when this "artery" gradually becomes the dependence of the national economy, and its profit-seeking nature is becoming more and more obvious, once the human consumption bound to it becomes more and more crazy, and more and more people can't afford it, whether it can maintain its sustainable development, it needs to be a big question mark.
Let's not consider the pressure of ordinary people to buy houses, just look at the housing prices in first-tier cities. To give a few examples: in Beijing, the price of a house in the first ring is approaching 300,000 yuan per square meter, in Shenzhen, there is even news that it exceeds 300,000 square meters, and even in many second- and third-tier cities, there is a unit price of more than 10,000 yuan.
What is this concept? Many people need to spend their life savings, or even six wallets, to get a place. Then, they also face other high costs of marriage, such as bride price, wedding reception, decoration, etc. All these have become obstacles for young people on the road to marriage.
In this society where "every inch of land is valuable", not only real estate, but also the rising cost of marriage has also discouraged many people.
On the one hand, society has excessively high expectations and requirements for the economic basis of marriage, and on the other hand, the profit-seeking nature of real estate further exacerbates this contradiction.
As a result, we have seen more and more young people choosing not to get married or postponing marriage, not because they don't want to, but because they really can't afford to get married.
Of course, we can't blame real estate and social pressures entirely either. Young people's own mindsets and values are also changing.
They are more focused on self-fulfillment and well-being, and are not willing to sacrifice their own happiness in order to meet societal expectations. But in any case, we cannot deny that real estate and marriage costs have become a social issue that cannot be ignored.
So, when we're talking about young people not wanting to get married, perhaps we should think more about the economic and social reasons behind it.
How to balance the development of real estate and the improvement of social welfare, how to reduce the economic pressure of young people, and how to create a more equitable and inclusive social environment are all problems that we need to think deeply about and solve.
Only in this way can we truly achieve social harmony and stability, so that every young person can have the freedom and right to pursue happiness and get married.