Recently, Tsinghua professor Huo Zhenxian's remarks have caused an uproar on the Internet. This highly respected scholar even openly opposed the wage increase for the "low-level people", on the grounds that if the salary was raised, these people should "lie flat". Such a view of ignoring people's livelihood and suffering cannot help but make people feel cold. Could it be that in the eyes of some scholars, the blood and sweat of laborers are only worthy of a bowl of chaff and vegetables?
Why did Professor Huo overturn the people's jobs with a stick when he was criticized as a "big man" in the academic circles? In all fairness, Professor Huo's knowledge and contributions are obvious to all. However, no matter how big the brand is, it cannot be reversed and right and wrong cannot be confused! There is a saying that the people regard food as the sky, and the warehouse knows the etiquette. The firewood, rice, oil and salt of the common people are related to the safety of the world. Won't the phrase "wages should not be raised" push hundreds of millions of laborers to the edge of the precipice? If this logic of being rich and unkind to the rich becomes the mainstream, society will not be chaotic?
What is the encouragement of the "lying flat theory"?" Is it appropriate for people at the bottom to "work hard all their lives, not just to live and work in peace and contentment, and to have no worries about food and clothing?" Is it appropriate to finally get out of the way and be poured a basin of cold water? Just imagine, wages cannot rise, prices are soaring, and life is suffocated, who still has the heart to struggle? If you don't let people lie down, what else can people do? In the final analysis, improving treatment is not charity, but the respect that laborers deserve. What's more, everyone's efforts are rewarded, and there is hope for society!
Netizens were indignant and condemned endlessly. Some people asked: Why do the rich try every means to evade taxes and avoid taxes, and the poor have to tighten their belts? Some people sarcastically asked: Are the "people at the bottom" not worthy of a decent life? Some people also asked: Scholars often invest tens of millions of dollars to buy houses, but have they ever thought about beating workers with firewood, rice, oil, and salt? All these questions hit the nail on the head. Unless Professor Huo can come up with more convincing arguments, this remark will be self-defeating!
In fact, raising wages is not only necessary to ensure people's livelihood, but also to the needs of economic development. The treatment of employees is good, the consumption power is improved, and the market vitality will naturally come up. On the other hand, if labor remuneration has not risen and domestic demand is sluggish, it will be impossible to talk about corporate profits. Therefore, to benefit the people is actually to accumulate momentum for development, and this reason could not be simpler. But there are always people who pretend to be confused, and they have to say that the people's sense of gain is the cause of "laziness", which is putting the cart before the horse!
What's more, distribution according to work and more work is the basic principle of socialism. Respect for labor and knowledge come from our Constitution. Now they are doing the opposite, saying that wage increases are "getting something for nothing", and understanding "lying flat" as not wanting to make progress, which is shaking the foundation of our system!
Here, I would like to appeal to the vast number of colleagues in the academic circles to adhere to their academic conscience and write their papers on the land of the motherland. Even if a hundred schools of thought contend for academic discussions, they cannot be divorced from the national conditions and the masses. Improving people's livelihood and well-being is related to the happiness of hundreds of millions of families, and we have the responsibility to speak out for it, rather than standing on the commanding heights and saying cool things. Let learning become a sweet spring that nourishes the people, not a whip that overrides the masses.
At the same time, I also call on policy-making departments and the whole society to pay more attention to the demands of the "people at the bottom". It is the most basic demand of people's livelihood to create a fair employment environment for workers, improve the wage growth mechanism, and ensure that income and prices are synchronized. "Lying flat" is not advisable, but forcing people to "lie flat" should not be. Only by making everyone feel that the struggle is worthwhile, can our society be full of hope.
Huo Zhenxian, wake up, how many people's jobs have been smashed and how many people's hearts have been hurt by the phrase "wages should not be raised"! Intellectuals should not be condescending to the top, but should be down-to-earth and observe the people's feelings. Isn't the significance of academic research to seek happiness for the people and rejuvenation for the nation? If we forget even this point, what can we talk about being a teacher?!
"Let's have fewer people?" When you said this, did you ever think that if there were no people at the bottom who had "given more children" and dedicated their youth, shed blood and sweat, how could we talk about today's well-off life? Behind the sentence "we should not raise wages" is indifference and we do not know how to be grateful. If you forget about the workers, you will lose the qualification to speak for the people.
To hell with "lying flat"! We firmly believe that every drop of sweat of labor is worthy of being treated kindly, and every figure of struggle is worth remembering. As long as the salary increase is no longer a dream, a happy life is just around the corner.