Flee to the depths of opportunity. --Ma Huateng
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Since the controversy of 996 came out, there have been people in the circle of friends who have been arguing endlessly.
Someone asked me an interesting question the day before yesterday, assuming that everyone is 996, why some people are listed, and some people die suddenly. It's all struggle, why the end is so different.
What he meant was: It's not fair.
Let's briefly explore what "fairness" is.
"Fairness" equals no chance.
We live on a planet that seeks fairness in will but can only take care of ourselves.
The uneven distribution of resources is called "opportunity" in the eyes of some people, and "unfair" in the eyes of some people.
Happy or sad, in front of us is the same glass of water.
There are no fairy tales in this world.
Knowing the cruelty of life but still loving it, that is called a mature person.
The essence of civilization is to compete for the right to allocate resources.
Our civilization itself, when unfolded, can be understood as a gradual process of "fairness" reduction.
The earliest injustices were natural.
For example, if you are born in a resource-poor area, there are few fruits, there are few rabbits, and the weather is cold and noisy, and the natural life is not as moist as those born in areas rich in products.
But in the eyes of modern civilization, this is fair. Flood disasters and so on, written in the contract, are called "force majeure".
Other than that, it's basically fair.
As long as it is the fruit of the tree, you can pick it; as long as there is fish in the river, you can catch it; you can also pick up rabbits in the hole. Like animals, in collecting societies, you have basically fair rights.
In agricultural societies, this right was relatively lost.
For example, this piece of land is reclaimed by me, and the output is only allowed for my wife and children, and you can't move.
Resources have boundaries.
Fortunately, in the early days of agricultural civilization, the population was not large, there were many wastelands, and the wasteland opened by each farmer was his own farmland. As long as you are diligent, it is not a problem to pick up dozens of acres of land, so there is a saying called "thirty acres of land a cow, wife and children hot kiln head."
At that time, the peasants were not proletarians, the peasants had assets, which were later called petty bourgeoisie by Marx.
In modern times, capitalist society has emerged.
What is capitalist society?
Capital, which gathers in the hands of a few and then reduces the vast majority of the people to proletarians, is capitalist society.
At this time, a class appeared, called the proletariat.
Where there is a proletariat, there is a bourgeoisie.
These two roles are the two major prerequisites for the formation of capitalist society.
There was a story of the so-called "sheep eating people" in Britain, that is, there were a group of farmers and farmers in that year. They had married and had children on the land of England, and they worked hard every day, and their lives were very good.
But they did not expect that the land they cultivated would eventually be killed by sheep.
Because of the gradual development of industrial civilization, a thing appeared, called the steam engine.
The steam engine has changed the power mode that relied on natural conditions in the past, and can rotate in situ and create value in situ.
This makes all the original factories that can only rely on natural power, such as wind power, use windmills to drive machines, such as factories that can only be built by the river and rely on water flow to drive machines, all dogs.
After Watt invented the steam engine, the Bolton Steam Engine Factory appeared, and the steam engine was mass-produced, so all the factories began to use artificial power.
Therefore, the opening of factories no longer needs to rely on the natural conditions of wind and waterways.
This means that with the steam engine, factories can be built anywhere.
Thus, the era of large-scale industry came.
At that time, when factories were opened in Britain, the most profitable was the textile industry. The raw material of the textile industry is wool, and with the steam engine, you can open a factory, open a factory to engage in textiles, and earn more than farming.
As a result, the feudal owners and farmers who used to cultivate farmland no longer farmed.
Because sheep breeding required large tracts of land, the nobles drove away the peasants who had rented their land, and even demolished their houses to occupy the land where they could raise sheep. For a time, patches of grass could be seen everywhere in England, divided into pieces by wooden fences, fences, ditches and walls. Farmers who have been evicted from their homes have become homeless wanderers.
Thomas More wrote in his book Utopia:
"Sheep, which were originally very tame and had little to offer, have now become greedy and fierce, even to eat people, and they want to flatten our fields, our dwellings and our cities."
This is the story of the famous bloody "sheep eating man" enclosure movement in history, the primitive accumulation of the early bourgeoisie.
What are the results?
It is resources that are more unfairly distributed.
The proletariat is a very strange phenomenon. There are no animals in the history of biological worlds that are proletarians, and even sand-carved fish can swim casually in the sea, and even ugly birds can find a branch to roost at will.
But civilization develops into capitalist society, and an organism emerges, defined and self-accepted as having no resources, no means of production, not even a place to stand, and if it wants to enter a neighborhood or sleep in a park, it will be driven away.
This is capitalist society, where resources are gradually gathering, and at the other end more proletarians are created with nothing.
Harari wrote a book called A Brief History of Mankind, which records a consensus:
Mankind never had a great famine in the age of hunting and survival.
If you think about it, the population was very small at that time, collecting plants, spring, summer, and autumn; hunting, spring, summer, autumn, winter can be hunted, how to fight. Hence the name "Garden of Eden".
At that time, there was no great famine, and naturally there was no large-scale starvation of people.
Until the emergence of agricultural civilization, the land continued to expand, the forests became farther and farther away, and the hunting resources disappeared directly.
What to do at this time, you can only farm.
Just like industrial civilization, organization continues to expand, what to do at this time, young people can only work hard to save academic qualifications, and then enter the company, into the unit, the result of the unit 996, what can you do?
Industrial and commercial civilization is a more helpless stage after agricultural civilization.
The inevitable result of capitalism is the reduction of the overwhelming majority of the people to the proletariat.
Why today everyone says 955 system, that is the early 007 people in exchange for it.
Early child labour and all workers work twelve to sixteen hours a day.
Check out Chaplin's Modern Times.
In Marx's words, "become an appendage to the machine." Man, life becomes an appendage of the machine, all struggle in a state of intense competition, and if they are not careful, they will go bankrupt and have nothing.
Finally, we adjust the timeline to the end.
Around the turn of the millennium, the United Nations released a report on the world's richest people, such as Gates, such as Buffett, such as Mexican telecommunications tycoon SLIM, which shows a high concentration of wealth resources.
Roughly speaking, these are the world's richest people, and the wealth of one person is equal to the annual fiscal income of six poor countries combined.
Moreover, the wealth of the top five hundred richest people is actually the total wealth level of the 400 million poor.
It also presents two sets of data, 2 percent own 50 percent of the world's wealth, and another 50 percent own only 1 percent of the world's wealth.
More than a decade before this, the United States, which claimed to be the world's most free, equal, and country, also released a data on the disparity between the rich and the poor, when 12% of the people in the United States owned 90% of the wealth.
In other words, this equates to 1% of people owning 8% of their wealth.
After more than a decade, this figure became 2% of people owning 50% of their wealth.
It is equivalent to the increase in wealth gathering at almost three times the speed.
The more civilization develops, the sharper the claws, and the more fiercely it is seized.
What will happen in the information age?
Anyway, we are all the products of the trend, how strong the trend is, those who go along with us prosper, and those who oppose us die.
This is the state of the environment in which we are.
So back to our topic itself, it is all 996, all unfair, how to break.
The answer is: there is one thing that is fair.
That's time.
That's why those people work so hard.
Creating more value before your time is bought is one of the few options for migration & dimensionality reduction.
After all, there are no fairy tales in the world, and we have to weave ourselves.
How long can people's freshness last?
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