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This article was created by OUTSIDE, the author is Deng Xiaoxuan, and the editor is Che Maomao.
Many 30-year-olds' truest dreams are not in a fancy office environment, not in a high-tech investment project, but in a small lottery site.
In the office, we may be dressed appropriately and seem to be planning for the future, but once we get off work, change into civilian clothes, take the subway, and return to a small apartment in an urban village, it is the reality of life.
In the face of the volatility of the wealth management market, young people's dreams of wealth may have been shattered in the summer of 2021 with the failure of Zhang Kun and Gülen's investment.
However, at the lottery station, for only 2 yuan, you can buy a ticket to hope - a lottery ticket. Especially during the World Cup, the outcome of the football match seems to have become a gamble, and if it is possible to accurately predict the 2-1 victory of the Saudi team against Argentina, then the 60 times benefit will be within reach.
The lottery station has become the spiritual sustenance of young people, where everyone, rich or poor, has the opportunity to become rich, they can temporarily forget the fatigue of the day and look forward to the realization of their dreams.
At least until dawn, everyone has good dreams.
When the sun rises, dreams fade away, reason returns, and people realize that they are not the pride of the sky, so they start to welcome a new day. When night falls, recalling their dreams, their footsteps will involuntarily walk towards the lottery station.
After all, whether 2 yuan is used to buy a bottle of water, a bun, or an invisible hope, everyone has their own choice.
Su Xiao, a young man who works in investment and development at a veteran state-owned enterprise in Guangzhou's Yuexiu District, accounts for 40% of his monthly income. Due to the poor performance of state-owned enterprises, he has not received any performance bonuses since April this year, and can only get a basic salary of about 6,000 yuan per month. Although the lottery is his only form of entertainment, he also does not dare to overspend because the expenses in life are too great.
Originally, there were better career options, but Su Xiao chose to enter a state-owned enterprise that seemed easier at the time. When he graduated with a master's degree in 2019, he rejected the offer of a regular job in the business of a leading brokerage institution due to excessive assessment pressure, and later decided to come to the current state-owned enterprise after half a year of financial calculations in a technology company.