Chapter 71 They are rich, but we despise them!

December 4, 1981 happened to be the "auspicious day" for local folk weddings and funerals. On this day, at the foot of Qingyuan Mountain, miners working in the Xin'an Coal Mine discovered that mine manager Li, who used to be at the entrance of the mine at 8:00 every morning, had disappeared. It turned out that this day happened to be the wedding of the son of Boss Wang of Dongshan Coal Mine near Xin'an Coal Mine. Coal bosses from more than 100 large and small coal mines in the entire Fenyuan mountain area all came to congratulate them, while local workers went to work as usual.

There is a saying, "People in poor society step on others, and people in rich society praise others."In some local coal mining areas, a "rich class" represented by local coal bosses and a "poor class" represented by miners have formed.These coal bosses "ventilate" and help each other in organizing production, sales markets, and cargo transportation.Over time, on the basis of mutually beneficial sharing of production resource allocation and market information, a "coal boss alliance" of "hidden rules" was formed. Accompanied by the rise of such a wealthy class, the lives of the people around it are getting poorer and poorer.

With the gap between the rich and the poor, the seeds of "hatred of the rich" will surely take root. The extreme confrontation between the rich and the poor will have a negative impact on social stability and harmony. According to media reports, in recent years, several rich men in our country have fallen in a pool of blood: Shanxi billionaire Li Haicang was killed; Zhejiang Wenzhou tycoon Zhou Zubao was killed; Gansu real estate tycoon Liu Enqian was killed; Sichuan Mingda Company Chairman Ge Junming was killed... The grim facts are before us. In the society we live in today, the income distribution gap between different groups of people is constantly widening, and the resulting grassroots "killing the rich and venting hatred" incidents are staged one after another on some rich people. .

The poor with an annual income of less than 2,000 yuan live under the same blue sky as the billionaires on the Forbes list. This is the reality faced by the people in the local coal-producing areas.This may be the current "Chinese style" "the status quo of the rich and the poor". In view of the fact that the gap between the rich and the poor is too large in the current society, some people believe that the growing gap between the rich and the poor among the people has become a "stumbling block" for my country to continue to promote the great cause of reform. So far, some experts have pointed out that the current income gap between the rich and the poor in our country has approached the "warning line" of the conflict between the rich and the poor recognized internationally.At this time, letting it continue to develop will endanger social stability, and the government needs to take active and effective measures to narrow the income gap in order to ensure the normal operation of society.

Of course, we can also think about this issue from another angle. Does a society with a small or even average income gap represent a reasonable and progressive society? To be sure, the answer to this question is no. Today, after more than 20 years of reform and opening up, no one, regardless of rural or urban residents, low-income or high-income earners, is really willing to return to the era of widespread poverty in order to narrow the income gap. In fact, in today's society, the phenomenon of "all people running for wealth, all people thinking about being rich, and all people pursuing wealth" has become the instinctive pursuit of the current Chinese people to keep pace with the times.In the face of the widening income gap in society, the mentality of the miners is extremely complicated and contradictory when dealing with the wealthy class represented by coal bosses.

In a coal mine next to Shengli Village, such a thing happened: It is said that the coal boss spent nearly 5 million in other provinces to buy a luxury car. He originally wanted to drive back to the coal mine to show off in front of the workers, but in the end The mountain road fell into a ravine hundreds of meters away, causing car crashes and fatalities. If the car is destroyed, you can buy it again, but if you die, you can't come back to life. Now, their coal boss is gone, and the coal mine does not exist, and the coal mine is gone, so why do workers need it? Later, the boss's family hurriedly paid a lot of money to ask workers to help carry the car and people. As a result, when the workers heard that their boss had died, they ran away and hid.