A while ago, a post on social ** sparked a heated discussion.
What does it take to get your dream job?
The post lists a few items that are very common on their own, but all of them must meet the difficult working conditions.
For example, the monthly salary is 6,000 yuan, the working hours are reasonable, the environment is friendly, and the benefits are perfect.
This sparked a discussion about income satisfaction, with different people showing very different lives and mindsets.
Some people expressed satisfaction with the monthly salary of 6,000 yuan.
Others believe that this is not enough, and that a monthly salary of at least 10,000 yuan is required to feel that they "live like a person".
There are many people in the comment area who have posted their work, and they can easily meet all the above requirements.
But for some people, 6,000 yuan is not only a dream income, but also a number that many ordinary people find difficult to reach.
Someone shared his helplessness: the monthly salary is 3,500 yuan, which has not risen for six years, and he doesn't even dare to make a sound.
So is a monthly salary of 6,000 yuan considered high?
reminds me of a discussion that appears repeatedly on hot searches, a topic that is discussed almost every year: Is it really so common to earn more than 10,000 yuan a month?
Among them, there is a highly praised answer, which has always impressed me:
Society has not changed, only the group that has spoken.
Those who earn more than 10,000 a month, although they only account for a small part of society, have the vast majority of the right to speak.
Their voices have created an illusion that making a monthly income of more than 10,000 seems to be a common phenomenon. ”
Referring to the data of the China Institute of Income Distribution of Beijing Normal University in 2019, the proportion of households with a per capita disposable monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan in China is only 061%。In fact, the vast majority of people do not have an income that meets this standard.
According to the data of Max's "Tracking Evaluation of the Training Quality of China's 2020 University Graduates", it is as follows
Fresh graduates with a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan (before tax, including salaries, bonuses, allowances, etc.) account for only 4 percent of the total number of people in this group3%。
That is, there are 681% of undergraduate graduates have a monthly income of less than 6,000 yuan.
Behind this data, there is an unequal distribution of income and the solidification of social classes.
When we shift our gaze from the voices on the internet to real life, another situation is also discovered.
In third- and fourth-tier cities, young people with a monthly income of less than 6,000 yuan are the norm.
Their lives and futures are fraught with uncertainty.
For many people, the stability and possibility of a monthly salary are bounded by invisible limitations, and become a ceiling that cannot be broken.
One of the common feelings they often have is:
The monthly salary is not high, and I don't know the future path, how to go.
It is as if the income is set at this level and cannot be broken through, which is the most desperate place. ”
In the face of such a situation, only through continuous self-improvement and improving the ability to make money can we truly change our destiny.
In Antifragility, Taleb argues that a stable job and income may seem reassuring, but in the long run, this stability becomes a constraint that limits one's growth and development.
In contrast, those who live in instability, such as taxi drivers, are more resilient to changes in their environment and are more likely to achieve income growth.
A monthly salary of 6,000 yuan is not high in today's society, but not everyone can easily achieve it.
When discussing income, we need to pay more attention to the voices that have been overlooked, to the ordinary people who are struggling to survive in their lives.
At the same time, it is also necessary to realize that the key to changing income is self-improvement and continuous learning.
Darwin revealed in his theory of evolution that the species that can win the battle for survival are not the faster, nor are they the best "configured" by nature, but the most adapted to change.