A few days ago, a news report on the severance expenses of employees of Toshiba Company in Dalian Japan swept the Internet.
On September 11, Japanese electronics company Toshiba Corporation confirmed that it will stop production at its Dalian plant by the end of September, and today to transfer its factory capacity to Vietnam and Japan.
According to internal employees, Toshiba's compensation plan is the average monthly salary x working years x working years coefficient. Specifically, assuming that an Average Monthly Salary of a Toshiba employee is 5,000 yuan, an old employee who has worked for 28 years can receive a one-time compensation of 224,000 yuan for working years, and an employee who has worked for 14 years can receive a compensation of 91,000 yuan. In addition to years of service compensation, employees can also receive a living compensation linked to retirement age, and the closer to retirement age, the more living compensation.
This makes many domestic migrant workers envious. An interesting question arises, how rich was Japan in the 80s, once known as the miracle of the world economy?
We can look at the Japanese chess holy war to see how high the income of Japan's top chess players was that year! The Japanese Chess Jihad was held for a total of 45 sessions from 1977 to 2021. The prize money for the first championship was 17 million yen, which later rose to 32 million yen, and since the 25th period, the prize money for the champion has been 42 million yen, and since the 34th period, the prize money for the champion has risen to 45 million yen.
The 1980s were the golden age of the Japanese economy. Due to the perennial trade surplus, in September 1985, the United States, Japan, Britain, France and Germany signed an agreement at the Plazz Hotel in New York, unanimously deciding to jointly intervene in the foreign exchange market. This is known as the "Plaza Accord". Japan's economy began to flourish and decline, and until now in 2021, it is still languishing, known as the lost thirty years.
A chart of the exchange rate of the US dollar against the Japanese yen
Based on a six-year average of 220 yen against the US dollar, 17 million yen during the Fujisawa Hideyuki period from 1977 to 1982 was equivalent to 77,000 US dollars, and 32 million yen was equivalent to 145,000 US dollars.
What is this concept? 30 years ago and 30 years later, it was obviously not objective to simply compare exchange rates directly. Just like China's 10,000 yuan households in the early 1980s were basically the richest people in various places, but now the 10,000 yuan households are poor households and the object of national poverty alleviation, and the direct equalization of 10,000 yuan households in two different eras is the biggest fool in the world. Based on the comprehensive measurement of M2, house prices and employee income, the 400,000 US dollars of the first Ying Cup in 1989 is equivalent to the current 220 million yuan.
According to the "Average Wages of Employees in Beijing Over the Years", the annual per capita wage of employees in Beijing in 1989 was 2312 yuan, and the statistics were paid attention to the employees, which were basically state-owned enterprises and public institutions at that time. The average salary of non-private workers in Beijing's cities and towns in 2020 is 145766 yuan.
400,000 US dollars in 1989 is equivalent to 400,000 * 8 / 2312 = 15094, which is equivalent to the annual wage of 15,094 people, which is converted into 2020 wages: 15,094 * 145766 = 220 million yuan.
That is to say, in the 1980s, when Fujisawa Hideyoshi was in six consecutive jihads, 77,000 US dollars was at least equivalent to 42 million yuan in 2020, and 145,000 US dollars was at least equivalent to 80 million yuan in 2020.
After the globalization of the world economy, the exchange rates of various currencies can already reflect the real economic strength of various countries more objectively. The 2021 Japanese chess jihadist championship has a prize of 45 million yen, which translates to 2.9 million yuan, which is still the highest prize money in the world chess world, but it is far from the 80s.
This also reflects the reason for the weakening of Japanese Go from one side, the income of Japanese professional chess players is actually steadily and sharply declining, and an industry with a steady and sharp decline in income may attract talented young people to enter? The answer, of course, is no!
Compared with Japan, China's professional Go has been booming in the past 30 years, and professional Go is simply a pyramid-like existence compared to other industries, and professional income, social status, honor and exposure can be described as a great harvest. Nie Weiping's status and treatment in China are far from being comparable to other honorary chess saints in Japan, and Ke Jie's status and treatment in China are not comparable to those of Yuta Iyama. Professional Chinese chess players can enter 985/211 universities, while the average Chinese college entrance examination students who can enter 985/211 universities are only 1 to 3%. Ke Jie, Gu Li, Jiang Weijie, etc. entered Tsinghua University, the highest institution of learning in China. Therefore, to become a professional Go player in China is a successful life. Even the profession of a Go teacher is a decent social work compared to other professions with the same degree in China.
It is the attractive prospect of Chinese professional Go that has attracted countless young talents in China to devote themselves to this industry, which has created the current glory of Chinese Go.
National fortune, chess luck! True to me!