Chapter 5 4. The Law of the Great Era: Separation of Classes, Complete Reorganization of the Dominant Social System

Under the new system advocating free economy, all commercial activities are based on profit-making, and human desires are endless. In this process, no matter how much wealth the owner of capital accumulates, it is impossible to be satisfied. As a result, wealth was quickly concentrated from the hands of the majority to the hands of the few, which triggered the Matthew effect we mentioned earlier. The most important reason for the inequality of wealth and the separation of social classes It is the will of capital at work! Topic introduction: The ubiquitous Matthew effect - capital concentration under the free economy - psychological poverty under the shadow of monopoly - the source of money worship beliefs

In the United States in the last century, a researcher of the history of science named Morton discovered a strange phenomenon. According to his observation, the society always does not hesitate to give more honors to those scientists who have already won considerable honors. On the contrary, for those scientists who are not well-known, the society is reluctant to recognize their contributions and achievements. . This is a strange social psychological phenomenon, according to a story in the Bible, this psychological phenomenon got its name: the Matthew effect. To put it simply, the so-called Matthew effect is nothing more than that the honorable people become more glorious, and the humble people become humbler. Even simpler, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

As we know, the Matthew effect definitely does not only exist in the theoretical research of sociology. What we do know is that long before this accurate theoretical description entered China, our social classes had quietly separated and flowed away to their respective polarities. If some people are ignorant of this status quo of class separation, then we only need to express the social effects of this status quo. Chinese society is currently heading in the direction of polarization between the rich and the poor! What we see is that the controllers of resources in the past have now formed an unprecedented monopoly of social resources, and some of the largest number of ordinary workers are even on the verge of life and death.

The ancients once said: "The fields of the rich are connected with rice fields, but the poor have no place to stand on. The rich have thousands of mansions, and the poor have no houses." Unfortunately, such a situation is currently being staged in Chinese society, and it will It was worse than prophecy. If we compare the social classes in the past to a pyramid, then since 2000, the spire of this pyramid has been vacated, and almost all resources have been taken away, leaving only rubble everywhere. What we need to figure out now is, why did such a stable pyramid configuration collapse in just 10 years?What forces have brought about this change, and what is its impact on our social system?In the second half of the great era, how will this hidden law work?

The polarization between the rich and the poor is an evolutionary trend in commercial society. In the era of traditional planned economy, there will be no such phenomenon. In that era of "36 yuan a month" for all people, supply by ticket, and welfare benefits differentiated by administrative levels Here, even if there is such a gap, it will definitely not be as obvious as it is today. However, once our system moves out of the era of survival, a free economy will naturally arise. Under the new system advocating free economy, all commercial activities are based on profit-making, and human desires are endless. In this process, no matter how much wealth the owner of capital accumulates, it is impossible to be satisfied.As a result, wealth was quickly concentrated from the hands of the majority to the hands of the few, which triggered the Matthew effect we mentioned earlier, and directly led to the reality of social class differentiation in China.

In view of this, we once again found a valuable law: Under the new economic conditions, the most important reason for the inequality between the rich and the poor and the separation of social classes is that the will of capital is at work! To put it simply, our old economic system was an inefficient machine formed by the strict control of the state, division of departments, and industries in their own way; When it comes to the export of capital, there is no opportunity to mobilize the capital in their hands, so compared with ordinary people, they do not have a big advantage. However, capital can bring excess surplus value, which is not only an inevitable social phenomenon under the conditions of market economy, but also an iron-clad economic law in commercial society.

Most of the most profitable social wealth is concentrated in real estate, real estate, mines, advanced capital markets, oceans and other fields, which are beyond the reach of ordinary people.If someone proposes to abolish state intervention in the economy and realize social fairness through market allocation, then this person is either ulterior motives or extremely naive. In any country, ordinary people do not have enough ability to develop these fields. Only those strata that have primitive capital in the era of planned economy are able to engage in this social engineering. If you have capital, you can hire labor, if you have capital, you can purchase equipment, if you have capital, you can introduce technology, and most importantly, if you have capital, you can have market access qualifications. For example, in the capital market, ordinary people have no chance to get involved .

When the general public suddenly wakes up, the original capitalist class has already carried information, driving capital to beat the market for many years, and develop more wealth with the capital in their hands, thus realizing capital appreciation and leaping into China's new elite class , and then monopolize the market, and the rich and powerful who have monopolized the market must pursue excess profits, and endless economic squeeze can only make ordinary people poorer. When the country did not monopolize the trust industry in the early days, it was impossible for ordinary people to benefit from this industry, because the entire industry was monopolized by entrepreneurs with "capital status" like the Rongs and his sons.

On the one hand, they have powerful capital that ordinary people dare not even imagine. On the other hand, they have an extremely close relationship with the country, and they are even government officials themselves. Such innate conditions make it easy for them to occupy the market. In this example, it is quite a typical combination of power and capital, so its capital expansion speed is the fastest. When hundreds of millions of people are still busy with a color TV, the Rong family has already laid the foundation Later, the foundation of the richest man in the mainland. The effect of capital monopoly on the separation of social classes is so shocking.

When social classes are separated and the gap between the rich and the poor widens, it brings another unexpected problem—the psychological poverty of the masses. The so-called psychological poverty refers to the illusion produced by comparison and reference.When we stayed in the era of the planned economy, even though the material was scarce to the lowest standard of living, we were all in the same situation across the world, so even if we got an extra two catties of national food stamps, we would be extremely happy. Because there is no contrast, naturally there is no shabby feeling. However, under the current economic system, although we no longer worry about eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year, when we see luxury cars and mansions, many mansions, and the astronomical figures on the list of rich people’s assets, it is difficult to balance our psychological desires. Under such circumstances, inferiority complex becomes inevitable, and we will undoubtedly think that we are living in poverty.

In the era of the planned economy, in addition to trying to smooth the gap between the rich and the poor and requiring people to contribute to society, the country also advocates a social atmosphere of hard work and thrift. civilization to guide the people.But when the market economy system was advanced and the original controllers of social resources became the most powerful monopoly capital, this desire to build an equal society suddenly came to naught. The market economy has brought great material wealth to our society. The prosperity of the society has brought about the psychological poverty of the people. Before the advent of the market economy era, the reference objects of our life were nothing more than neighbors, rich families with an eldest son who worked in a butcher shop, a second son who worked in a grain store, a third son who drove a car, and a poor family. The family is nothing more than eating less meat and not being able to sit on the driver's seat of the liberation car.The comparison frame of reference is almost the same, and the feeling of rich and poor is not strong, so the mentality of complaining about society is far from that strong. However, the separation of social classes has cast a huge haze over the lives of the masses. No matter how rich our material life is, no matter how much electrical appliances and food we have at home, we cannot compare with those of the new elite. If we compare our monthly wages with the profits of monopoly capital, the feeling of poverty will immediately appear, and it will follow. What is true is the illusion that he has been treated unfairly, and what is more serious is that he has wrongly judged the shape of the entire society, believing that the masses are suffering and the country's economy is being pulled into the abyss by a small number of people. This kind of psychological harm to ordinary people has been going on for a long time, especially when we witness a small number of powerful people in fresh clothes and angry horses, using various visual impacts to strengthen people's feelings about poverty, so the mentality of social injustice spreads on a large scale until it lasts until the deep in everyone's heart. Since entering the era of the new millennium, the society we live in has been turned upside down even more. In the process of class separation, the magical asset figures are staggering, and the accumulation speed of capital is beyond imagination. We can see the predators who manipulate capital everywhere, just like the legendary gods who can call the wind and rain, doing whatever they want. Therefore, in a country without God and without faith, these capital manipulators who have succeeded in their careers have become the gods and leaders of money worship in the commercial age. History of success. When greed in human nature becomes the driving force of life, when the desire for profit becomes the fuel of society, and when capital players become a model of success, we live in an environment where money is piled up. Most of us lack a clear belief, so we start to regard money as a new religion, and the science of success becomes a new life criterion. Once we fail in the business field, life loses its meaning. This kind of change is of a society-wide nature. From the moment the phenomenon of psychological poverty appeared, ideological changes swept the whole of China along with the first half of the great era.Our traditional thinking is being replaced by a variety of new thinking, and this new thinking is also the opportunity for future wealth. If you are unfortunate to belong to the popular class in the separation of social classes, then if you have not yet grasped the true meaning of new ideas, then it means even greater misfortune. Clearing away another layer of fog, in the second half of the great era, whoever masters new ideas will master the most beneficial resources among the people at the same starting point. So, what are the new ideas? How did it sprout?What kind of impact will it have on traditional thinking and traditional society? Our search is not yet complete.