“The software industry is completely wiped out,” this is a hot topic recently, and many people may have seen it.
I didn’t want to write about this topic, because frankly, I’m tired of writing about the negative news about the Chinese economy. Over the past year, negative data has emerged endlessly, and I have always held the mentality that “this may be temporary,” to criticize appropriately, and hope for improvement as soon as possible.
At the beginning of this year, the economy recovered somewhat, and I immediately wrote with anticipation, “There is a weak recovery trend.” But soon, after May, the economy went into recession again, and my mentality was also hit.
Although I currently live in Europe, my family, parents, relatives, and friends, totaling hundreds of people, all live in China. My public account readers also often express anxiety about survival, and I also have businesses in China. Based on these basic interests, I hope that the Chinese economy will get better and better.
So when I heard that relatives in my hometown were selling vegetables for 2 cents a catty and losing 100,000 yuan on a truck of sheep, I felt very heartbroken. I know how difficult it is for farmers, and I also know what it means for farmers’ income to plummet in an economic downturn.
On the other hand, I sincerely hope that the Chinese economy will get better (and of course, I also hope that it will be accompanied by in-depth reforms and a move towards social civilization). Because for the whole world, the healthy development of the Chinese economy and society is a good thing, and it is bound to be problematic for the United States to be the only one.
Because whether in the domestic environment or in international politics, full free competition is a good thing, and monopolies will inevitably lead to decline.
So I am constantly criticizing and constantly speaking out the truth to offset those mainstream voices that are trapped in blind self-love and arrogance. I know that those voices are not only not conducive to national progress, but will instead harm for ten thousand years.
Back to the main topic, is the complete collapse of the software industry alarmist, or a truth that is difficult to speak of?
I choose the latter.
I can even sum it up in one sentence: The so-called “software” industry’s fig leaf is finally going to be torn off. Many Chinese software companies, to put it bluntly, are a kind of insult to the term “software industry.”
Because a real software company must be standardized, have an industrial system, and at the same time have core innovation capabilities and productivity to drive potential, and these are almost non-existent in Chinese software companies.
Most Chinese software companies can be said to be bureaucratic institutions that engage in human resource outsourcing. The human resource outsourcing route was originally the “low-end processing industry” of the software industry, earning money from physical labor; and now software companies are also becoming bureaucratic, with serious internal rule by man.
The deterioration of the entire industry has reached the stage where quantitative change causes qualitative change, so there are huge losses.
Because in the past, they could still make profits by selling cheap programmer labor, but now, with the increasing internal competition in the industry, the efficiency of enterprises is declining day by day, and profits are also gradually being diluted, which has become the current state of looking like it’s about to rot.
There are some similar companies, such as some e-commerce companies that have gone public in the US. Don’t look at them making a lot of money now, it’s only a matter of time before they go down this road – because they originally had no profits, they were just relying on extreme exploitation.
The Chinese software industry is a bit like the film industry, lacking its own industrial standards and industrial system. Sometimes it seems that something can be done, but it is also achieved by temporarily accumulating resources, but in essence, a complete set of industrial rules has not been established.
It’s also a bit like Chinese football, fighting for it, sometimes it can achieve a little result, but it can’t last. Because they don’t properly train youth, don’t properly operate the league, the football institutions are becoming bureaucratic, and corruption is serious. Now, even Thailand has to “draw.”
The Chinese software industry also has a characteristic like Chinese football, which is that every company leader who comes up tries to overturn everything and start over, without properly consolidating the underlying architecture. In the process of changing, it becomes continuous internal consumption and waste.
In addition, being eager for quick success and instant benefits is also a similar characteristic of the two. Software products are made and they immediately want to make money, and they want to make quick money, grab a ticket and leave, never thinking about real innovation and long-term strategy. Football is the same, every leader wants to achieve political achievements as soon as possible during their tenure, and at the same time avoid making wedding dresses for the next leader, and the final result is that they also get sent in.
The Chinese software industry always relies on “open source,” just like Chinese football always wants to rely on foreign coaches.
You think the Chinese software industry is a bright high-tech industry, but the real software industry is no different from a sweatshop that manufactures cheap socks.
The key is that after making a bunch of bad products, they still have to use the banner of “high-tech” to deceive subsidies, not only not making money, but also wasting taxpayers’ money. In recent years, how many subsidies has the software industry eaten by bragging? And how many wealthy stars have football created by fooling around?
But in the end, all that’s left is a mess.
As I said at the beginning, I hope the Chinese economy will get better, but I will definitely not be stingy in criticizing these garbage industries and mixed industries.
The terrifying thing about the current public opinion’s tendency to whitewash peace is this: “We can’t bear to scold our own children,” and in the end, they become useless, harming three generations.
Software industry, Chinese football, scold them fiercely!
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