Netease｜The official media is embarrassed. Why do more and more people no longer believe that hard work can make them rich?

Original article from People’s Daily:Work hard, and life will get sweeter

People’s Daily is embarrassed. Why do more and more people not believe that hard work can make them rich?

Unexpectedly, People’s Daily published an article “Work hard, and life will get sweeter”, which has aroused heated discussions among many netizens.

Why do netizens not thank People’s Daily, but are so angry?

According to the logic, China has experienced three years of the pandemic. During these three years, people’s lives have been very difficult. Many people have lost their jobs due to the pandemic, are unemployed at home, and cannot afford mortgages and car loans, so many people’s finances have undergone some earth-shaking changes.

Unemployment rate scores in some areas of China

In the past, there was the pandemic, and you could blame the pandemic for not making money. Now that the pandemic has been lifted, there is no reason to have no money. If you still have no money, it’s not right. If you still have no money, it means you are not working hard.

So the author of People’s Daily thought of writing such a short article to encourage everyone, the short article is really sweet, but the sweet short article did not receive unanimous praise from the people, but instead received more and more ridicule, why why?

Let me take the people around me as an example. From the people around me, I saw that, in fact, working hard really can’t make money.

First, let me take my grandparents as an example. My grandparents are particularly hardworking. My grandfather’s father was killed when the Japanese devils came, so my grandfather became a child without a father, leaving only him and his younger brother, and my grandmother.

A child without a father has to rely on himself for everything, without a patron. If he had a father, it would be different, and many things his father could help him do.

My grandfather is quite hardworking. Our hometown is a cave dwelling, so my grandfather worked in the fields during the day, and had to dig soil with a hoe at night to build a cave dwelling. I don’t know if you’ve seen it. The cave dwelling is a very big hole. At that time, there was no mechanical equipment, all of them were shovels and hoes, digging with a hoe. In this way, my grandfather dug several cave dwellings for the family.

My grandfather worked day and night, working in the fields, but still had no money to build a house, still had no money to buy a small car. The best means of transportation he rode was a twenty-eight bicycle, and he could only afford a black and white TV.

You say, isn’t he diligent? He worked so hard that his back was bent, he worked so hard that he got sick, but he still only earned a little money.

Second, let’s take my father-in-law and mother-in-law as an example. My father-in-law and mother-in-law are also quite diligent people. They don’t go back to eat lunch at twelve o’clock. They get up at 5 o’clock in the morning and go to the fields to work. In order to do more work, he brings some dry food in the morning and eats it in the fields when he is hungry at noon, and only goes home at night.

No matter how hot it is in summer, with a temperature of 37 degrees, he goes to the fields to work with a towel on his head, but he and my mother-in-law can only earn 20,000 yuan a year.

20,000 yuan is the gross profit. If you deduct the money for buying seeds, deduct the money for buying fertilizer, and deduct the labor, you calculate how much money is left at the end of the year. It’s not bad to have 10,000 yuan left.

Two people only earn 10,000 yuan a year, do you think it’s a lot? Buy some vegetables, give a gift, and it’s gone to see a doctor and buy some medicine.

My father-in-law and mother-in-law still wear patched socks. Every time my father-in-law goes there, he doesn’t dare to take off his shoes. Once he takes off his shoes, there is a big hole in his socks.

Do you think hard work can make you rich?

Third, my husband went to deliver food at night for a while, and he only earned 5 yuan per order. From 8 pm to 12 pm, he only earned more than 30 yuan, and he only earned 800 yuan a month, what can he do with this 800 yuan?

The key is that delivering food is very hard. The wind and rain are so cold, the rain hits your face is so uncomfortable, your clothes are soaked, and you have to climb stairs. It’s so hard, and you only earn 30 yuan a day, and 50 yuan in good cases.

It’s freezing cold in winter, and scorching hot in summer. I don’t dare to ride an electric bike in winter, it’s too cold, and my hands are frozen.

Do you think he doesn’t suffer? He also suffers, but the benefits are very small, and it is not proportional to the labor he puts in.

But look at some people, a cup of tea, a newspaper, they don’t come to the unit until the sun is high, report to the unit, sit there and drink tea, sober up, go out to date their lovers at noon, and play in high-end entertainment venues at night. The money they earn in a year is more than what we earn in a lifetime, and the money they embezzle is more than what our descendants earn for several generations. How free and easy is such a life? Happy as a god.

I used to be simple-minded, and I really thought that hard work could really make you rich. I have always believed this sentence as a truth. I have always believed that if you work hard, you can have gains. I have always believed that if you work hard, you will definitely be rewarded.

After so many years of being beaten in society, I finally understand that hard work doesn’t necessarily pay off. Some people don’t have to work hard to have everything.

When did I wake up?

I have been working in a private company, so my salary depends on the boss’s mood. Some employees work very hard, but the boss can’t see it. He is never given a raise. He is not seen for anything good.

But the first to be laid off are those old scalpers who work hard.

Some employees do very little work, always lazy there, don’t do much work, talk the most, don’t stay in their own work posts all day, running around, but every time they get a raise, the boss thinks of him first, and every time there is something good, he looks for him.

I have been in the company for several years. I come the earliest every morning. Our other employees come later than the boss, but the boss doesn’t say anything about them, and gives them two raises a year, 500-1000 per person each time.

But I’m not so lucky. I’ve been in this company for 5 years, and I haven’t had a raise for 3 years.

Every time the boss has to apply for some subsidy projects, when the boss assigns me work, he says, work hard, and I’ll give you a big red envelope at the end of the year. Hehe, I really took it seriously in the first two years, and I worked hard, but when it came to the year-end bonus, I was the least, and I was not as much as those who were late and left early.

When you tell the boss that the money is too little, the boss will say that you can see that the company is losing money, not making money, and the business is not good.

But I saw that since I came to the company, the boss has bought several luxury cars, such as BMW MX7, Porsche J and several new energy vehicles, and he has bought 3 villas. This villa in Suzhou costs several million, and the boss already has a son and a daughter, and has given birth to 3 more children.

If the company really has no money, will he buy so many luxury cars and villas? If the company has no money, will he have 3 children?

The facts prove that he has money, but he is not willing to give it to you.

What do you think makes you feel that “Work hard, and life will get sweeter” is wrong?

Do you have any doubts about this sentence?

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