As early as 170 years ago, Marx put forward the view in Capital that the development of capitalism can be divided into two stages: free competitive capitalism and monopoly capitalism.
In free competition, production and capital are constantly concentrated, and when the concentration of production and capital develops to a certain extent, it will lead to monopoly. Monopoly, on the other hand, is to obtain high monopoly profits, which are obtained through various monopoly organizations and monopoly prices, and which serve only a few capitalists.
This monopoly is bound to plunge capitalist society into the "middle-income trap", and then the middle class in this society will be collectively cut leeks, the middle class will become poor, the poor will become beggars, and the whole society will fall into a crazy inner volume, and eventually lead to a vast proletarian revolution!
For example, if the United States, Britain, Germany and other countries are still in the stage of free competitive capitalism, then South Korea next to us has entered the stage of monopoly capitalism with one foot!
Through the map, we can find that the landform of South Korea and Shanxi Province in China have similarities, about 70% of the land is mountainous and hilly, after removing the arable land, the land suitable for building large cities is not even 10%, coupled with the historical conflict between The Korean and Korean Dynasties, so they do not dare to build large cities near the 38th line.
So it seems that in this 100,000 square kilometers of land, there is only one Seoul that still has some potential!
As a result, Seoul, which accounts for only 0.6% of the country's land area, concentrates more than 20% of the population of South Korea, which provides a natural convenience for the concentration of capital. Coupled with the fact that this is the political center of South Korea, the concentration of power has further led to a high concentration of resources, and those Korean chaebols we know as well, such as Samsung, Hyundai, LG, Daewoo, SK, they are all products of The "Han River Miracle" in South Korea for 40 years.
That generation of Koreans with a fast-growing economy to make money, a generation of people who have made ten generations of money, and now everyone has become a behemoth.
The wealth created by the 10 major chaebols each year accounts for 44.2% of the total GDP of South Korea, and it can be said that half of the country is held by the chaebols. These big chaebols firmly monopolize all social resources in South Korea, which is almost fatal to the young generation of South Korea!
First of all, if a young Korean wants to have a good future, he must go to the big city of Seoul; but after going to Seoul, young people will find two very important things: First, in Seoul, where the chaebol monopoly, young people have no opportunity to start their own businesses! To take an example that everyone understands, there is a very interesting question in China's entrepreneurial circle, if you go to start a business, and then your entrepreneurial project is copied by the goose factory, what should you do?
The reproduction ability of the goose factory is already very strong, but there are still new enterprises in China that can stand out, and we are a vibrant scene.
But if you look at the years since the "Miracle of the Han River" in South Korea, are there any new companies that you can call a name for?
No, the cake is so big, it has long been divided up by the first generation of capitalists, who firmly hold on to wealth, resulting in the young people who can only go to be social animals, and even when they are social animals, they are also caught in a very serious involution! That's exactly the second point I'm going to make!
Seoul's infighting at all levels is severe, with 25 million people already concentrated here, and when the high-speed train of the "Miracle of the Han River" came to a standstill, it was able to provide fewer and fewer jobs every year, resulting in increasing competition!
There is a passage in "Parasite" that touched me deeply: the Kim driver's family, who lived in the basement of Seoul, mentioned in a small talk that there were 500 fresh college students competing for the job of a guard in Seoul. A skilled driver, in order to be able to apply successfully, has to use intrigue and trickery to calculate another driver to get into the position, although this is the plot of the movie, but these things really happen in every corner of Seoul!
I can say it unceremoniously: Seoul's inner volume began as a child.
First of all, Koreans themselves know that since the chaebol has no way to monopolize entrepreneurship, they must send their children to the chaebol's company, such as Samsung's welfare treatment is not bad!
In order not to let the child lose at the starting line, the school district house in Seoul Gangnam area will be the first choice of every parent, so the land price here began to soar, according to South Korea's official data, the house price in Seoul Gangnam District rose by more than 92% in the past four years, and the average house price in the city center reached 140,000 yuan a square meter, and the upward momentum did not decrease.
School district housing is an important factor contributing to the rise in house prices, for example, President Kim is willing to bid 140,000 for his children, but President Park is willing to bid 150,000, everyone comes and goes, house prices remain high, and the vicious inner volume starts from here and spreads all the way to Seoul! After all, the number of school district rooms is limited!
But the school district room is just the beginning! Next is to find cram school for the children! In Daejeong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, there is a street known as "Korea's most high-end cram school street", and there are as many as 1,057 various cram schools in the neighborhood, creating a cram school market economy of about 20 trillion won per year.
A large number of students come and go to major cram schools every day. Ask any student here, and they will answer: at least four or five cram schools will be taken during the school year, and there will be more holidays.
High school students in South Korea generally have to learn at 9 p.m., and after school, they either go to cram school or go home to continue their self-study, almost every day to learn 12 o'clock, but they are still anxious, because what awaits them is a more inward-looking future!
To get into the top 10 chaebol companies, you must first get into three of South Korea's top universities: Seoul National University, Korea University, and Yonsei University. College admissions vary little from year to year, which means that no matter how hard South Korean high school students try, only 2% of them will be admitted to prestigious universities. About 15% of these people who enter the elite schools will be able to mix results in the future, and the rest will all spend their youth in the endless inner volume!
This is still true of top talents, let alone the lower classes. 996 did not dare to think at all, the average Korean worker grows up about 12 hours a day, in order to keep the post, you leave work at 12 o'clock, I will leave at two o'clock in the morning, you leave at 2 o'clock in the morning, I will hang a hanging bottle in the company to work. You hang up the bottle, I live in the company! Come on, who's afraid of whom!
If I do two people's work alone, one person is bound to have no job, and the unemployment rate will rise.
As soon as the unemployment rate climbed, everyone in the whole society was at risk, and they could only work harder to squeeze out more employment rates; the employment rate continued to decline, so South Korean parents vowed not to let their children lose at the starting line; so when they were children, they frantically rolled in, desperately went to cram schools, and desperately squeezed into the best universities.
In the end, everyone has a college degree, which is equivalent to no college degree, so they go to graduate school; graduate students finish studying for doctorates, doctoral students go to enterprises and other doctors to fight time, fight energy and even desperately.
As a result, South Korea, whether it is the middle or the lower layer, has formed a complete inner-scrolling dead cycle!
Although it is a developed country, Koreans live super tired! This generation of young people is not willing to have children at all, and there will be only 270,000 newborn babies in South Korea in 2020, what is the concept of 270,000?
South Korea has a population of 50 million, while the permanent population of Guangzhou, China, is only 15.3 million, the birth population is 210,000, the birth rate is more than 2.6 times that of South Korea, the current death rate in South Korea has been greater than the birth rate, in the long run, from 2031, the total population of South Korea will begin to decrease, by 2065 will be reduced to 43 million, after 2165 shrink to 15 million, and finally disappear.
But compared to the idea that South Korea will disappear, I personally disagree. As I mentioned at the beginning of the video: the development of monopoly capitalist society to a certain extent will inevitably lead to a vigorous proletarian revolution and thus to a fairer socialist society. This is the natural cycle law of the development of human history, otherwise the Soviet Union would not have been able to dye most of the world red and force the United States into that desperate situation!
Unfortunately, the Soviet Union was ultimately unable to shoulder the burden of leading all mankind to a bright future, and the responsibility for history fell to our ancient nation.
Please wait and see, South Korea is going to be so inward, it is absolutely going to hurt the fundamentals or even face collapse, then capital will certainly abandon this land of right and wrong, only the East is the hope to redeem them, when the time comes, history will return to orthodoxy, we will be their only light!
Do you agree? If you agree, we'll talk about it in the next issue!