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In recent years, there has been a hot word on the Internet, small town as a questioner.
It refers to poor students who are born in rural areas or small towns, study hard, are good at taking exams, and enter first-class colleges and universities in the college entrance examination, but lack a certain vision and social resources.
There is a certain "self-mockery" connotation to this word. The small town, which refers to the bottom floor; A questioner is a person who can only take exams and does not have any resources. If you are at the bottom and have no resources, then the situation is more difficult.
Countless parents and elders believe that as long as their children are admitted to college, they will be able to change their lives.
Is that really the case? College students in the 90s, due to their scarcity in number, are more valuable, and may really be able to change their lives. Nowadays, college students are everywhere, and due to the large number, they have become worthless, and it is basically impossible to change their lives against the sky.
As a result, the group of highly educated poor people is expanding indefinitely.
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When it comes to high education, many people are puzzled, how can they be poor when they have academic qualifications?
Because education and wealth are not directly linked. A high degree of education can lead to a good job. There is a limit to the wages that can be worked, and unemployment and layoffs also occur from time to time.
You can see this by looking at the migrant workers in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Every year, there are countless young migrant workers pouring in, and there is no shortage of highly educated talents from 985 and 211.
If you are a 985 or 211 college student who graduated from liberal arts, the average salary is about 7,000. But if you are a 985 or 211 college student who graduated from science and engineering, the salary should be more than 10,000 yuan.
When you see a salary of more than 10,000 yuan, you will definitely say, isn't this already a high salary? Compared with the income level of backward areas, this monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan is indeed a high salary. But in a big city, can you afford a house?
In Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the housing prices are the lowest, and the lowest prices are Guangzhou. However, who can guarantee that they will be able to afford a house in Guangzhou and at the same time put down roots in Guangzhou?
If the parents are rich, or if the parents are locals, that is indeed possible. On the contrary, on his own, even if he works for a lifetime, he can't afford to buy the old and dilapidated children in the suburbs of Guangzhou.
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What's the most in a big city? The largest number of workers are workers. And a considerable number of these migrant workers are single and will not get married and have children.
There has always been a saying on the Internet that "there are more than 800,000 leftover women in Beijing". Since there are leftover women, there will definitely be leftover men. It can be estimated that in the four cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen alone, there are millions of leftover men and women.
Could it be that these older migrant workers don't like to get married? Basically, there are very few people who actively do not marry, and the vast majority of people are "passively unmarried".
A young man from a small town, who is very good at reading, is a high-achieving student who graduated from 985, working in a certain first-tier city, with an annual salary of 300,000 yuan. It's high enough.
But with an annual salary of 300,000 yuan, he can't afford to buy a big city. What's more, who can guarantee that he can earn an annual salary of 300,000 yuan for the rest of his life? It is possible to lose your job at the age of 35.
Then he can neither afford a house, nor do he have any asset accumulation, and he is also facing the risk of layoffs, so he can only become the "highly educated poor" mentioned above?
The problem of housing alone has stumped countless people. Coupled with other problems, the ability of the town to be a problem solver is obviously uneven and unsolvable.
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Behind the highly educated poor, there are these three cruel bottom truths.
Truth 1: The depreciation of academic qualifications. Scarcity is expensive, and more is not worth much.
Academic qualifications are a stepping stone. In the past, there were few college students and few people with stepping stones, so it was still very simple to make money. Nowadays, there are more college students, and there are more people with stepping stones, so the involution is intensified.
The intensification of involution, coupled with the reduction of jobs in the market, will reduce the labor cost (wages). It is equivalent to that if you don't do it, some people will do it. Young people with high education become worthless.
Truth 2: Class solidification. From the very beginning, the class was doomed.
When it comes to class solidification, I believe many people will cite examples of historical celebrities such as "Zhu Yuanzhang" to refute it. However, formulas are not to be messed with. Zhu Yuanzhang lived in an era when the world was in turmoil, and the class had already collapsed, so how could it still be solidified?
What's more, how many people can become a bull like Zhu Yuanzhang? There is only one Zhu Yuanzhang in history. For ordinary people, dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the sons of mice can make holes, which is the naked reality.
Truth 3: Unemployment is frequent. The wave of layoffs at the age of 35 is a hurdle.
At this stage, whenever we talk about food delivery and express delivery, we will ridicule that this is a "knowledge-intensive" industry. Why? Because after countless people lose their jobs, they all go to deliver takeaways and express delivery.
A person who has both studied and has a certain degree of education will not be able to find his next home after being unemployed, so he can only become a takeaway brother or a courier brother. Isn't this equivalent to being reduced to the bottom and becoming a poor person with a high degree of education?
05
Write to the end
In Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, as well as some developed second-tier provincial capitals, there are a large number of highly educated poor people.
The resources of a city are limited, and the number of highly educated young people who can pour into it is unlimited. This dooms the resources to be insufficient. Ordinary people have no background, and it is difficult to even drink soup.
It is difficult to cross the strata unless you can accumulate a certain amount of big city assets.
The question is, how can the assets of this big city be so easy to obtain? Even senior white-collar workers with a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan are difficult to have. Reality, after all, is difficult to accept.