Chen Zhonghua: The high unemployment rate is not a bad thing
With the intensification of social "involution", more and more young people choose "Buddhism" when facing the pressure of work and life, and turn to pursue a lifestyle that is comfortable with what happens. In recent years, there has also been news that temples around the country have been "occupied" by young people, and the ridicule of young people "choosing incense between work and progress" has been spread on the Internet. According to data released by travel platform Ctrip in early 2023, orders for temple tickets in China increased by 310% year-on-year at the beginning of 2023, with nearly half of them coming from the post-90s and post-00s.
When this reporter visited two Buddhist temples in Shenzhen in mid-November, he found that even on weekdays, the temples were crowded with pilgrims, more than half of whom were young people. This phenomenon is different from the past temples only at the beginning.
The 1st and 15th are in stark contrast to the lively situation when important Buddhist festivals are lively;Those who come to burn incense and worship the Buddha are no longer just elderly believers. In addition, most of the volunteers in the temple are young people, some deliver incense to the believers inside the temple gate, some maintain order in the Buddhist hall, and some clean up.
Liu Xia, who has been a volunteer at Hongfa Temple in Shenzhen for 20 years, observed that the temple has shown a trend of younger people after the epidemic. She said that in addition to ordinary pilgrims, more young people are joining the ranks of volunteers and actively participating in various activities such as meditation and confessional pujas at temples. The 40-year-old Hongfa Temple is the most popular incense temple in Shenzhen.
Liao Zixi (not her real name), a 23-year-old who volunteered at Hongfa Temple for five days in mid-November, said she had the idea of volunteering a few months ago, but the number of applicants was too high and the number of beds at the temple was limited, so she couldn't make an appointment. "There happened to be a vacancy during this time, and I quickly signed up online after seeing it, and then came. ”
Many of the young pilgrims and volunteers interviewed pointed out that the temple environment away from the city made them feel comfortable and calm. Most of the respondents said that they did not have strong religious beliefs, but going to the temple made them feel at ease, hoping to use a higher power to free themselves from the unsatisfactory situation in real life.
Liao, who is still unemployed, describes her time as a volunteer as a "gap week". She said: "The current social situation is a bit abnormal, the involution culture is serious, and many systems are unfair. Volunteering at a temple is a spiritual journey, so let's face these issues in a different way. ”
Huang Qiqi (25), who just graduated from university in July this year, said in an interview that she had submitted more than 20 resumes in the past four months, but all of them were in vain. Seeing that the end of the year was approaching, she hoped to start working before the beginning of the new year, but she didn't know how to start, so she decided to go to the temple as a volunteer to cultivate her temperament.
She lamented: "This year's employment environment is too difficult. If I came here to volunteer for nothing, purely to experience the life of the temple, it must be fooling the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. If I don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, I also hope to get some corresponding rewards by dedicating myself. ”
With economic growth slowing, the issue of high youth unemployment has been in the spotlight over the past year. Official data show that the youth unemployment rate climbed month by month in the first half of this year and reached 21 in June this yearA new high of 3%. **Subsequently, the publication of the latest relevant data was suspended from August on the grounds of "sound optimization" of statistical work.
In my opinion, with the development of society, the progress of science and technology, and the development of more and more machines, it will inevitably replace more laborers, resulting in unemployment of workers and peasants, which is not a bad thing. Machines have caused a large number of workers (including intellectual workers) to lose their jobs, and the workers' jobs have been completely replaced by machines, so that the workers do not have to work, which can be said to be a great good thing and the inevitable result of social development.
Machines greatly improve labor productivity and facilitate people's life, work and Xi. But the use of machines has caused a serious problem of unemployment;The state should make overall plans and make unified arrangements. Let state-owned enterprises recruit more workers to plant trees in the desert, level land in rural areas, and build roads and houses. It is also possible to work in turns. Each job is changed from one employee to two or three employees. Development is for the sake of making the people happier, and it is by no means for the sake of making the people more tired.
In fact, at the moment there is no one who has nothing to do, but there is no plan and no one to organize. At present, there are still many dilapidated highway houses in the countryside, and even dirt roads and grass houses, and there are many dilapidated buildings and streets in the cities. ** We should increase investment in rural construction, which can solve the problem of overcapacity in the country and solve the problem of employment pressure, which is a cause that benefits the country and the people. **Don't worry about profits and losses when doing things for the people, you can print money if you don't have money.
In fact, to do these things, it is enough to be responsible for the production of money, and to give money to construction enterprises, and construction enterprises can organize the construction of workers and peasants with the money, and if workers and peasants have jobs, they will consume wages, and the economy will develop in a circular manner. Some economic brick makers may say that printing a lot of money will trigger inflation, and I think inflation is not due to a lot of money, but because of a shortage of goods, such as the current surplus of reinforced concrete and garage clothing will increase in price?The best way to solve the problem of inflation is to increase productivity, and what is lacking to produce something, no matter what it is, it is impossible to increase the price if there is more.
2023.8.3After the flood receded in Mentougou, the villagers went home one after another to check the damage.
A villager inspects his family's damaged house.
The first is to further consolidate and build roads through villages to solve the problem of difficult travel in remote corners and villages. Second, it is necessary to increase investment in water conservancy facilities in farmland, dig ponds and weirs, build ditches, and earnestly solve the problems of drinking water for people and livestock and for irrigation of farmland. Third, it is necessary to integrate and level the land and implement the mechanization of agricultural production, which can be jointly produced under the leadership of village cadres, or it can be contracted to an enterprise for production by bidding; it is necessary to change the past policy of contracting production to households, and divide a large piece of land into several small plots, one small piece for each household, and if you plant this and another, agriculture will not be mechanized at all. The fourth is to build a school, a nursing home and an outpatient department in one village, so that villagers can Xi study, seek medical treatment and care for the elderly nearby. Fifth, according to the actual needs, each village should first build a flood prevention and earthquake-resistant building with water, electricity, gas, radio and television, Internet, heating and air conditioning and other complete facilities, and provide it to the villagers free of charge to live in, and then let the villagers level the old houses into agricultural land. Don't tear down and build later, you want to profit from it.
If the above construction requires a lot of building materials and workers, there is no need to worry about overcapacity, nor do you have to worry about the employment of farmers, workers, college graduates, and retired soldiers, let alone whether the regime can be stable for a long time. Only those who win the hearts of the people can win the world, this is an iron law that has not changed through the ages. You have done so many good things for the people, and it is too late for the people to support them!
At present, constrained by the level of development, there is a large gap in the level of basic public services between the eastern, central and western regions of China, and between urban and rural areas. To promote shared development, it is necessary to pay close attention to weak areas and groups in difficulty to make up for their shortcomings, improve the basic public service system, and strive to achieve full coverage of basic public services, so that all parts of the country are basically equal and all people generally benefit.
Chen Zhonghua, director of Beijing Zhonggong Legal Consultation Center.
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