Recently, Lao Hu posted an article, reviewing his experience of the gap between the rich and the poor in society at different times of his life, and reminiscent of his own experience, if it is in line with the festival.
When I was in elementary school, I didn't have any sense of the gap between the rich and the poor, and I didn't pay any attention to whether the people around me were well-dressed or well-fed. When I was in middle school, I vaguely felt the existence of the gap between the rich and the poor, and I felt that many children from good families were not doing their jobs. It was only when I went to university that I deeply felt the gap between the rich and the poor and between urban and rural areas, and that there was a huge difference between the children of poor families and the children of rich families in terms of dress, living habits, and ideological concepts, and they had very opinions about the huge gap between the rich and the poor in society. However, after graduating from college and working for a few years, I accepted everything safely.
Lao Hu said that the fairness of today's Chinese society has been greatly improved, and the author agrees with it. From the perspective of education, compulsory education has been well implemented, and as long as the children of poor families are willing to study, there is almost no problem in successfully completing university. The phenomenon of cheating and substitution in high school entrance examinations basically does not exist. From the perspective of employment, the recruitment of state units, such as the recruitment of public and state-owned enterprises, is also becoming more and more objective and fair, and the possibility of cheating is also getting lower and lower.
Of course, we still have a lot of work to do when it comes to social justice.
However, while the fairness of Chinese society has been greatly improved, it is difficult for the poor to produce noble children, and the phenomenon of social class solidification has been repeatedly mentioned, which seems incomprehensible.
Not really. At the beginning of reform and opening up, many people seized the opportunity and achieved a leap in class, because under the old system before the reform and opening up, many talented and capable people sank to the bottom of society and had no chance of getting ahead. Therefore, the social class reshuffle in the early days of reform and opening up was a special case of history, and it would not happen frequently.
In addition, modern society has also produced new unfavorable factors for ordinary people to achieve class jumping, that is, the involution of society and the popularization of information technology.
The involution of society leads to long hours of labor for ordinary people, on the one hand, there is no time to improve themselves, and on the other hand, there is no time to educate their children.
The popularization of information technology and the development of the Internet, on the one hand, have led to the concentration of social resources in leading enterprises and individuals, so that those people and platforms that can attract traffic have gained more wealth. On the one hand, it makes ordinary people addicted to mobile entertainment (especially kids) and shopping (especially some people). Therefore, the development of the Internet economy has made it more difficult for ordinary people to achieve class jumping.