You have never been poor, you don't understand

Preface I often hear people

around this argument: "Why do we have to pay so much tax to support people? Those poor people are lazy, so they are poor, but we have to pay. Why? You are weak and

you are justified?"

In Zhihu, which is known as a "middle class gathering place", someone asked the question two days ago:

Should subsidies and benefits for the poor be abolished to motivate them to make progress?

My answer at the time was:

there are always one, two, three or four people who deny the existence of class barriers and think that the poor are poor because they don't work hard enough.
Such people are either stupid or bad.

A very interesting phenomenon is that people who have been wealthy since childhood often feel that everything they have now is the result of their own efforts. And only those born poor know how important a good family is.

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Let me tell you two stories first.
During the reign of Emperor Hui of Jin, there was a famine in one year, and the people had no food to eat, but had to dig grass roots and eat Guanyin soil. Many people starved to death because of this. The news was quickly reported to the palace. Emperor Hui of Jin sat on the high throne and listened to the minister's report, and was greatly puzzled. The "kind" Emperor Hui of Jin wanted to do something for his people. After thinking hard, he finally came up with a "solution":
"The people have no corn to satisfy their hunger, so why not eat minced meat?"

Before the United States abolished black slavery, the United States The white slave owners of the southern plantations especially liked to list a black model, saying that he worked hard and never complained, so he could get some more food and pay every month. For those who were not able to eat and were dissatisfied with the slave owners, they criticized them for not working hard enough to support their families because they did not work hard enough.

Of these two stories, the former is stupid and the latter is bad. The question "why not abolish subsidies and benefits for the poor to motivate them to make progress" has both the stupidity of the former and the badness of the latter.

It not only attributes the poor to the fact that the poor do not work hard and do not make progress, which is what they deserve, but also believes that as long as the subsidies for the poor are eliminated, the poor will move forward and work hard, and the efficiency of the entire society will be improved.

I think they probably thought of themselves as slave owners.


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Now many college graduates like to flaunt their pain.
For example, getting up at seven in the morning to go to work, and going home at ten in the evening, for example, making a whole drawer for the postgraduate entrance examination notes, going to the library early in the morning to occupy a seat, turning over the pages of the real paper, shh, shh.
But when they are sleepy, they can rest on the office chair for a while, and when they are hungry, they can go to the school cafeteria to have a meal and then come back to work.
This is called effort, is this called pain?

Taiyuan Fu * shi * Kang's assembly line employees have to process 900 products per hour when they are busy, and the average processing time of each product cannot exceed 4 seconds. During the ten hours of work, every second must stand on the ground. The mechanical and repetitive work is done with concentration there. "It felt like a walking dead," many employees admitted.
However, they will not leave, because they know that Fu **** **** Kang is the McKinsey in the assembly line factory, and if they leave here, they will never find a better place to work. Fu **shi* Kang security guards who are dozens of meters away often look at them enviously, expressing that he also wants to be a worker, but because he makes too many mistakes, he can only be a security guard.
In 2011, if an ordinary rich worker only worked 10 hours a day, his salary was an "enviable" 1,800 yuan. So on average they work more than 60 hours a week.


The wages of workers at the Datong Black Coal Mine are slightly higher. Every day at 6 o'clock before dawn, I would go down to pull coal until I could no longer work at night. A worker can be paid about 100 yuan a day by transporting tens of kilograms of coal from a place seven or eight hundred meters underground, which is roughly equal to the daily pay of an intern who doesn't have to do anything. In addition to the harsh working environment, the workers have to face risks such as mine collapse, the boss defaulting on wages, and their own body being unable to bear the risks. Even so, when asked if it was hard work, a worker surnamed Chen from rural Sichuan still said:
"It's 10 times better here than in my hometown. Working here for one year is comparable to working in my hometown for six years."


At the foot of Mount Everest The Sherpas guide climbers from all over the world. They carry luggage for climbers and build human walls for their employers to pass through dangerous and insurmountable obstacles. That way they can earn $4,000 a year in wages. In order to convert this into an income of less than 40,000 yuan, many Sherpas died on the way to the summit of Mount Everest.
"My friends and brothers are dead, and it's actually just luck that I survive," said Pasang, a Sherpa. "That's our job, and it's the only way we make money."


Well, when you blow Air conditioning, sitting on the subway, going to college, using a computer, and working a decent job in the city, what position do you have to face these people at the bottom who are struggling for basic survival and say, "We should cancel the welfare of the poor." What about motivating them to make progress?"
You know, many of them don't even know how to read or even speak Mandarin. And you can even communicate with foreigners in English.
Some people may go to eat noodles with the central leadership every day, and some people may go back and play for the first half of the year with a single word with the cadres at the main office level.
This is called stratum, which represents the education received, the information that can be contacted, and the circles that can be reached are completely different. The above three points are the biggest factors that affect the profit.

"American columnist Barbara Allenrick chose six places to work in different cities in order to experience the life of the American people at the bottom in 1998. In order to ensure that she can truly experience the life of the local people at the bottom, every time she goes to In one place, she concealed her identity and cut off contacts with her past friends. She started with a savings of $1,000. However, she still made a decision for herself, she must have a car of her own, otherwise it would be too inconvenient. The cost of maintaining a car in the United States is really high. It is much cheaper than in China, and this car owner can be poor.
In these areas, an ordinary person without a degree can find a job with an hourly salary of 6 to 7 US dollars. After working eight hours a day, it is 50 US dollars. Working 25 days a month is $1,250. 　
But if you want to be closer to the workplace, the rent is often more than $600, which is too heavy a burden for someone who earns more than $1,000 a month.
So she had to go to the I rent a house dozens of kilometers away from my work place, but the cost of maintaining a car, as well as eating cheap and nutritious fast food, I have to pay $400-$500 a month to buy food and gasoline. Then, there is not much left.
In a strange place The first few days in the city to find a job will be more difficult, because I haven’t found a stable place to live, and I have to go to a hotel for a few days to transition. These days of accommodation will quickly use up the $1,000 accumulated, and I will wait until I find a job and get the first A salary, money to pay the rent quickly.

Barbara has changed six jobs in different cities, retail, cleaning, elderly services, but the end is the same:
she finds herself in a dilemma.
--> Having to live in a remote place because of no money 　
--> having to spend a lot of time on the road because of living in a remote place
--> time spent on improving herself and discovering better job opportunities because of spending a lot of time on the road Fewer and fewer
--> to cover rent and living costs, she has to convince herself to take on more hourly jobs or part-time jobs
-->Because she spends too much time doing all kinds of hard work, she gradually becomes a working machine, unable to do anything else, until the emotional explosion leaves
and moves to another place, and enters the next cycle.
Yes, changing six jobs, no matter how hard you work, can't get you a future, not even at Walmart. It's a ridiculous fact that they, the people who do service at Walmart, can't afford the products that are promoted at Walmart.
This is class.

When you see a poor child working hard in Beijing, and finally becoming the best among his peers, he gets an annual pre-tax salary of 200,000 yuan, but because he has to pay off the debt his family borrowed for him to go to college, he is sick and in bed. The old father had to continue to frugal every day. Another rich man earns 200,000 hours a year just by renting out his family's house.
This is class.

When you found out that Ma Huateng's father was the listed director of Yantian Port Company, he drove a Mercedes-Benz to account for Ma Huateng in 1997. Liu Chuanzhi's father was a senior executive of the People's Bank of China and the International Trade Commission. Wang Shi's father-in-law was the vice governor of Guangdong Province.
You will feel that this is the class.


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British also believed that poverty was due to laziness and was a sin. For
example, the "Poverty Law" required that the poor who received relief must work in the Poor House. The working conditions were much worse than ordinary factories, and the wages they received were also low. much more.
The purpose is to stimulate these poor people to go out and support themselves.
A British professor recalled that when he was a child, there was a slum factory next to his home, and some old people were so disgusted that they didn't even go near it. They would rather starve to death than go in.
Later, when the economic crisis came, many “decent” families who were recognized as hardworking and thrifty were also bankrupt and displaced, just like those who were poor before.
At last they realized that poverty is not a form of laziness, not a sin. Poverty is a misfortune and needs help.


First, because China's emerging middle class is not far from the bottom. They often have decent jobs with low incomes. After saving money for more than ten years, they finally paid off their mortgages and car loans. They successfully transformed from a descendant of the bottom class into a middle-class, and their self-confidence was bursting. , likes to blame the world's poor for not working hard to improve their lives.
In fact, a natural disaster, a man-made disaster or a serious illness can make them stage a farce of "the middle class changing petitioners overnight". Only then did they realize that they did not have the ability to quickly gather wealth again, and there were no middle-class friends around who could really help them selflessly. All I have is a pair of hard-working hands and a little bit of savings accumulated through continuous hard work.
Now these savings are gone, so the dream of the middle class is broken, and the middle class becomes petitioners overnight. Only then did they realize, like the British, that poverty was not far from their "pseudo-middle class".

Therefore, helping the poor not only reflects the spirit of humanitarianism, but also saves ourselves.
Besides, it really pushes the proletarians in a hurry. Heard this sentence?
"What the proletarians lose is only the chain, and what they will gain is the whole world."


Conclusion The

above is the article, and the following are some complaints:

China does not know when a culture of slaughtering the people at the bottom began to rise.
"You are weak and you are justified", "Why don't I give you a thumbs up", "Why don't I help you", "Why don't I lend you money", "Why do I refuse to help you", "You are just a weak circle" , poor family, low IQ", "Why don't I associate with poor people", "Poor and ugly men must be distracted", "Poor people must also have bad character"
These articles are popular, and they are exposed every day and night, whether true or false The so-called "original sin of the poor", first fully deconstructed the mentality of the people at the bottom, and then clearly pointed out that they should not interact with the people at the bottom. Recently, the argument that "you are poor is because you don't work hard" has appeared again, and it has begun to punish the hearts of the people at the bottom.
So those people at the bottom who are up early and late in the night, struggling to survive, are thus beaten into the endless hell of being lazy, greedy, not worthy of help, without IQ or emotional intelligence, and they deserve to perish. Ten thousand feet before giving up.

I just want to ask you these people, do you think your surname is Zhao?
if not.
Why do ashes and dust hate each other?


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