Chapter 1211 Beyond Transcendence

Xinguan Zhuolei didn't quite agree with Fan Danbing's words, but she had a suspicion that the employment situation in recent years has been getting worse and worse.

Let alone other things, some clues can be seen from the recruitment of new employees of Fan's Investment Group.

When Fan Wubing returned to China, it was not easy to recruit undergraduates from regular universities at that time. It was because Fan's reputation was big enough and the treatment was good enough that some university graduates who were unwilling to return to their hometowns wanted to use this springboard to train and prepare for working in foreign companies. Who knew that Fan's development was advancing by leaps and bounds, and they didn't want to leave after staying.

In recent years, college students are no longer guaranteed to be assigned jobs, and the flow of talents has become market-oriented. After all, only a few university graduates can enter government agencies with good treatment and stability. Most people still have to go to the market. At this time, Fan's Investment Group has suddenly become a hot commodity.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if Fan's Investment Group wants to recruit a few cleaners now, they must have at least a bachelor's degree, and they must be girls with good image and temperament to be selected.

This is not to say that talents are being wasted, but there are too many graduates. In addition, a cleaner at the headquarters of Fan Investment Group earns more than 5,000 yuan a month, which is not a low income in Beijing. How can anyone reject such a job opportunity and say that they are not insulted?

Shen Ying's own company feels the same way. A few years ago, when the Internet boom just entered China, there was a shortage of Internet talents and programming talents, but now it is different. The tide has receded, and what remains are a bunch of poor people with no job.

At this time, if you want to recruit talents for any position, there will be a large group of people around, trying to lower their requirements as much as possible so that they can obtain the company's accommodation permit. They just think that there are too many talents to choose from, and they don't need to consider how much it costs to hire one person.

The issue of labor cost is really a factor that does not need to be considered for Fan or Shen Ying's Brahma Creation Online Game Company. What they are worried about is that it is not easy to choose. Because there are too many excellent talents.

Under the constraints of this environment, white-collar workers have become a useless existence. The leisure and generous treatment of the past are a thing of the past. The deteriorating environment they face now has reached the minimum standard of migrant workers. If they are not particularly talented white-collar workers, the future of other dispensable existence is really worrying.

In contrast to this situation, the black-collar class has emerged.

As early as a few years ago, the black-collar class was still a class that was looked down upon. Even county-level civil servants, if they did not hold the real power of some lucrative power departments,

did not have much benefit. After all, the salary and benefits of this class were very low. If they continued to work cleanly, there would be no day to get ahead.

However, the changes in recent years have made the black-collar class come back. In just a few years, through land finance and monopoly of political power, official organizations have gradually concentrated social wealth in their hands through various means, not only by heavy taxes and repeated charges and fines, but also by waste of resources and environmental pollution. From the vertical perspective, they wantonly overdraw to rob the foundation for the survival of future generations.

The government-owned economy is invincible in the monopolized non-competitive market, and the endless profits are like the rolling Yangtze River. Needless to say, industries such as water, gas, electricity, oil, telecommunications, finance, tobacco, health, education, customs, and highways, even in the fields of publishing, postal services, Xinhua Bookstore, municipal administration, sanitation, public transportation, salt industry, mining, railways, civil aviation, culture, sports, news, tourism, and land, because free competition is prohibited, their profits are still enough to make any foreign company jealous and bleed from the nose.

In any city in China today, a fat tax inspector can drive a Land Rover to work. It goes without saying how big his office is and how luxuriously decorated it is. I just want to tell you that he can exercise, sauna, and swim in the unit.

"A policeman who has just started working for two years has already bought a car and a house, without asking his parents for money. He has not applied for a bank mortgage. The basic monthly salary of a meter reader at the State Grid Corporation is 8,000 yuan! A simple calculation shows that there are more than 1,000 provincial and ministerial-level officials, more than 20,000 prefectural and departmental-level officials, and tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of county and department-level officials in the country, not including the central departments and military police system in Beijing. It is very common for ordinary white-collar workers in developed areas to have an annual income of 100,000 to 200,000 yuan, and a bonus of 100,000 yuan at the end of the year is not uncommon, and it is not only the tax department that has the financial resources to do so." Fan Wubing said to Shen Ying.

In fact, what Fan Wubing said is only "legal" income, and this part of the property is not afraid of being disclosed.

A while ago, the news mentioned that all white-collar workers in a certain place in the south have two cars, and it is normal.

Of course, everyone knows that for white-collar workers, income is definitely not just salary. Medical care, transportation, food, drink, defecation, urination, corruption, bribery, etc., all of which can be supported by taxpayers for free. The monthly car allowance is even several times more than the salary of migrant workers in a month. They can also buy sheets and pants in the city and get invoices for reimbursement, or sell the large amount of expensive medicines they received for free. Even prostitution requires invoices.

It can be said that the so-called black collar means that they are not equipped with a spouse in the legal sense. Others are the kind of people who enjoy endless supply.

In many places, many new industries have emerged to serve black-collar workers. For example, gift recycling shops mainly recycle the high-end tobacco, alcohol, medicines, supplements, etc. sent by black-collar workers, and then sell them again. go out. Although this reputation is not great, the benefits are huge. If a small store like this is opened in a small county with a population of 300,000, it can be operated properly. It is very easy to make hundreds of thousands of profits in a year.

The reason why the living standards of the black-collar class have improved dramatically is because they monopolize all social resources including politics, law, economy, and information. They consume at least half of the national income. Their rise constitutes a prominent pole of China's new dualistic society. Although this group is relatively small in number, it is absolutely huge. A rough estimate shows that there are more than 20 million people in the country who are engaged in parasitic monopoly.

Compared with those petty bourgeoisie white-collar workers whose material and spiritual lives were very pale a few years ago, only those who enjoy and monopolize political rights can truly realize the dreams of generations of Chinese people. They have definitely reached or even surpassed Europe and the United States.

Of course, other ordinary people on the other side are from standard third world poor countries.

The subversion of black-collar workers from the official background to white-collar workers from the grassroots reflects the penetration and borrowing of political power into the free economic field, using political power to usurp economic power.

This kind of self-enrichment economic status has violated the official spiritual and public welfare foundation, tarnished the legitimacy, and lost the ethical dignity of politics.

Officials have transformed from servants of the people into "democracy" - the masters of the people, from just arbiters of public interests to spokespersons of their own interest groups, from night watchmen of the country and society to selfish and despicable thieves. This is a kind of An extremely dangerous tendency.

The white-collar class can be said to be open, or the children of poor people can realize their white-collar dreams through reading.

Because of this, the value of white-collar workers has depreciated sharply in China, which has abundant human resources after the expansion of university enrollment.

Relatively speaking, the black-collar class is completely closed-off. It is precisely because of being closed-off that rare goods can be found and are in high demand.

Public institutions have actually become private backyards controlled by bureaucratic power groups. It is theoretically not impossible for children from ordinary families to join this group, but it can only be said to be very slim. Yes, civil servants are recruited openly, and positions in monopoly official enterprises are also recruited from the public. As long as there is no problem with your political stance, you can register for the exam.

But everyone knows the rules. This is the so-called unspoken rule. Whether you pass or not does not depend on your test scores.

The special thing about black-collar workers is that they have become organized and are becoming hereditary. The former is consolidated and the latter is inherited.

After the sad demise of white-collar workers, the low-key rise of black-collar workers has triggered waves of enthusiasm for civil service examinations throughout society.

At the same time, black-collar workers have also become the targets pursued by all businesses. They have more real and powerful spending power than white-collar workers. Wherever they go, prices are soaring and their investment in real estate is rising. Farmers lost their land and white-collar workers lost their homes. When white-collar workers meet black-collar workers, they are immediately squeezed out of their suits.

"Nowadays, a so-called white-collar worker working in a private enterprise with a meager income can only maintain food and clothing. For him, consumption is already an exaggerated and desperate word. In the previous storm of the Internet downturn, Countless foreign companies have gone bankrupt, their performance has declined, they have laid off employees and cut wages, and white-collar workers have been hurriedly unemployed. On the contrary, domestic government-owned organizations have become rich and prosperous despite the market situation, making them the envy of the Fortune 500 employees. "Fan Wubing said to Shen Ying, "If white-collar workers once set off a wave of TOEFL fever and petty bourgeoisie fever, then the black-collar world has made traditional Chinese studies and snobbish culture popular, including conspiracy, emperors, cynicism and collection studies. Etc., all reflect the formation of the black-collar society’s core consumer class.”

"I really don't have any research on this, but I feel that housing prices have risen quite sharply recently. Several employees in the company complained that although their incomes are high-end, they still have a lot of difficulties in buying a satisfactory house. pressure." Shen Ying said to Fan Wubing.

"That's natural. White-collar workers can only be called labor resources at best, while black-collar workers are the real masters of the country." Fan Wubing waved his hand and said, "The decline of white-collar workers represents the end of the intellectual elite and the decline of the rational spirit. The rise of black collars represents the expansion of power ideology and the return of the king of bloodline and conspiracy theories that oppose knowledge and power.”

The impact of the decline of white-collar workers is extreme. The devaluation of knowledge will inevitably lead to the resurgence of the theory that reading is useless, and Chinese society will move closer to feudal capitalism. Social culture is becoming increasingly deserted and saline, returning to the trap of gangster culture and palace intrigue and shady politics.

The obstruction and strangulation of white-collar workers by black-collar workers has aborted the emerging middle class that will form the mainstream of future society, and the Enlightenment Movement that established a constitutional civil society was forced to collapse.

This kind of joint effort of the plutocrats and the powerful to kill. The innovation ability and creativity of a nation are seriously degraded until they are lost. The social structure and information structure are further solidified and dismembered, and the younger generation is suppressed and blocked at the bottom of society by the elderly and conservative vested interests.

Healthy social mobility and wealth circulation have stalled, and the vitality and source of social progress have been suffocated and blocked. The popularity of the wolf totem culture of winner-take-all, the unscrupulous officialdom culture, the Zaizi culture of valuing natural things, and the sublime and great Manchu emperor dramas all reflect the decline of white-collar rules and the rise of black-collar rules. Society has struggled to recover from knowledge and civilization, and has irreversibly retreated into barbarism and ignorance, where power takes all and the weak eat the strong.

"From what you said, it seems to be a very scary knot." Shen Ying felt a little cold, but she immediately said, "But. Even so, it has nothing to do with us, right?"

"It really has nothing to do with us, I'm just feeling a little emotional." Fan Wubing sighed, "Some people divide society into eight classes. I think it makes sense. The first class is the king at the top. The first class is composed of hundreds of families. They have appalling wealth and are the controllers of the country. Below them is the second class, local wealthy families, perhaps tens of thousands in number, who control the family. Local power naturally has unparalleled property. The third class is composed of the best of these groups such as public servants, state-owned enterprise managers, monopoly state-owned enterprise personnel, and private business owners, as well as top white-collar workers. The fourth class is composed of ordinary people who have a relatively comfortable life, but their social status is not high and they have little influence on society. The fifth class is made up of urban civilians and rural people who live better. The sixth class is the poor group, which is a large number of people with little purchasing power. The seventh class is the extremely poor class without wealth, and the eighth class is the last group of catastrophically poor people. class.”

"This, Ge Fen seems to be very clear and practical." Shen Ying nodded and replied, and then she asked, "Then which class do you think we belong to?"

"We?" Fan Wubing smiled and said after a long time, "We probably exist outside these eight classes. Even if all eight classes are destroyed, it will not affect our survival. . So, it’s a bit unreasonable for me to feel this way. Why bother?”