Chapter 121 Exploring the "Chinese-style" growth trajectory of China's rich

The wheel of history has entered the gate of the 21st century, and human society has entered a new historical stage. Today, a fresh trend of chasing wealth, creating wealth, and adoring wealth is forming in some social classes, which has become an economic driving force and ideological concept that supports the development of society. Today, this concept has become the source of motivation and the mainstream direction of Chinese people's work and life. Looking at the world today, we will find that in a developed and mature society, there will always be a mysterious class of wealthy people.For example, in the United States, the only superpower in the world today, there is a group of wealthy people of considerable size both in terms of quantity and quality.With the rapid development of China's economy, a mysterious group is emerging—"China's wealthy group", and we will always gain some enlightenment when we explore the "development trajectory" of this group.

To interpret the current roads of rich people in China to create wealth, we should naturally start from their primitive accumulation of wealth.Judging from the current history, almost the vast majority of rich people in China have benefited from the use of national policies, such as "reform and opening up", "three to one compensation" and other opportunities.Some people still believe that since the establishment and improvement of China's market economic system will be a long process, "policy opportunities" will exist within a certain period of time. From the current point of view, this series of policy opportunities mainly fall into the following categories:

The first category is "price" opportunities. In economic life, these people are very sensitive to the opportunity brought by the government's adjustment of the price mechanism according to market changes, and can seize this opportunity in time. We know that in the early stage of China's transition to a socialist market economic system, the pricing mechanism of light industrial products closely related to the lives of the people was the first to "test the waters".The reality in China at that time was that there was a shortage of light industrial products, and the market was in short supply.At that time, a group of operators engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of light industrial products quickly obtained wealth through relatively simple commodity wholesale and retail methods, and got their first pot of gold.In addition, the "dual price system" policy "inadvertently" implemented by some localities and departments has also contributed to the "great cause" of some people's sudden wealth.

The second category is "institutional" opportunities. At the critical stage of advancing the construction of the socialist market economic system, these people made good use of the opportunities brought about by the state's reform measures in the property rights system.The "change" and "reform" of the property rights system is the general trend of China's reform and opening up. This "change" and "reform" will bring many policy-oriented business opportunities.In the process of various economic components such as private capital and foreign capital participating in the country's economic life, the individual private economy and the collective economy have emerged one after another, followed by township enterprises and collective enterprises "beginning to emerge" in the Chinese economic family.As a result, a group of "entrepreneur-type" rich people appeared on the land of China.

The third category is "assignment" opportunities. This refers to the opportunities brought about by the state and the government's policy changes in the distribution of social products.We know that socialist laborers have the right to distribute the fruits of their labor. This kind of "distribution" refers to "distribution" on the basis of "reasonable" and "fairness".Our country's constitution has clearly stipulated that everyone has the right to participate in the reasonable distribution of society. In a certain sense, the reasonableness of social distribution is the main indicator for judging the degree of civilization of a society.But in fact, in the process of China's reform and opening up, we have been biased in the distribution of the fruits of labor, which has led to the "threshold effect" of social distribution policies, and the result is that some people have been "rich".

To be rich, one must first learn to be a "human" Let's look at such a story first: It is said that in the Song Dynasty, there was a rich man named Pang Yun, who accumulated huge wealth by lending usury all his life. One day, he heard the horses, cows, and donkeys raised at home talking to each other in Houcao, saying that because they had borrowed money from Pang Yun in the previous life and were unable to repay it, they turned into livestock to "pay off the debt" after death. Pang Yun was shocked, thinking that accumulating wealth was a crime of forcing people to turn into cows, horses, and donkeys to pay off their debts, so he came to his senses and quickly decided to send all the servants and women in the family to send money and send them back to the mountains. Let him live freely.Then put all the gold, silver and jewelry in the family on a dozen large ships and sink them into the sea, so as not to let the money "harm people" again.But he himself brought his old wife and children to live in a shabby house, relying on his own craftsmanship to weave baskets and fences every day, and then let his daughter Lingzhao sell it in the market, and the family lived a poor life by earning some change. Difficult life.

The final ending of the story is that all Pang Yun’s family went to heaven to “exalt”, and they also said that their whole family was originally “Stars descending to earth”. Fengmao is a "good boy", and his daughter Lingzhao is a "Guanyin Bodhisattva". This is the plot of a drama called "Pang Jushi Mistakenly Released His Debts" written by Liu Junxi, a dramatist in the Yuan Dynasty.While reflecting the "causal fatalism" and "feudal thinking" of the ancients, this drama also expresses their simple and primitive "realistic view of wealth".

Yes, under certain conditions, wealth can change a person's destiny.Wealth can make you behave in an upright manner, and it can also make you "behave like a cow or a horse".This shows that the control of wealth is in essence the control of one's own life and destiny. Wealth can not only allow you to "achieve the Tao and exalt", but also allow you to "do evil and go to hell".And today, are you "going to heaven" or "going to hell"?This is a "must-answer question" faced by some rich people in real life. Another version of this question is: Are you "being rich and benevolent" or "being rich and not benevolent"?If you are "benevolent for the rich", you should help the poor and save the world, spread wealth to do good deeds, care for the poor, and care for the people's livelihood. Such rich people are truly "benevolent for the rich".I remember that Bill Gates, the world-renowned rich man in the United States, once announced that he would donate all his property to the society free of charge.And if you are "rich and unkind", that's another matter.

Some people think that in today's society, the problem of "wealth concept" has not been "harmoniously formed" among the wealthy class in contemporary China. Don't you see, after some people have money, they waste everything and live extravagantly, and finally exhaust their family property, not to mention their lives, and stay infamous for life. Others pass all the money to their children, instead of giving a single penny to the society, and let their children and grandchildren live a life like "princes and grandchildren" in which they stretch out their coats and open their mouths to eat, so as to fulfill their "wealth life", "wealth" and "wealth". "Second World" and even generations to come have a dream of wealth that is "unlimited" forever.

And like Bill Gates, he neither leaves his property to his children, neither eats, drinks, and "consumes" like gambling (drugs), nor transfers "foreign countries", but contributes all to social charity The behavior of career, which is unimaginable in today's social environment. This raises a question of what kind of social wealth concept we should establish. We believe that "gathering wealth in a proper way" and "spreading wealth in a more righteous way" are the new era of wealth concept advocated by today's society. Bill Gates' feat reflects the current wealth concept we advocate.

We can understand that he does not think that he works hard to create wealth for himself, but for society.Although his wealth is attributed to himself, in his words, he himself is "God's 'caretaker of wealth'". Wealth is gathered in the society, and all of it returns to the society in the end.This kind of "private ultimate" of "private first and public" instead of pursuing "self-owned" wealth reflects the unique "wealth virtue" of the rich in the "Bill Gates-style" era. We believe that wealth should not be regarded as the "private ultimate" of eternal wealth, but should be derived from society and attributed to society. This should be the most correct and advanced view of wealth in modern society. It is certain that rich people armed with this "view of wealth" will understand that to be rich, one must first learn to be a "human being".