We never knew that an employment problem had stumped tens of millions of college students, let alone that academic qualifications were no longer a stepping stone to ability, and even people over 35 years old had been eliminated by society.
We once lamented that there are many obsessive characters in the industry of delivery people and couriers.
They have special skills, they can play the piano, play football, advanced mathematics, and English, and think it's a pity that they become couriers or delivery people.
Because in the eyes of most people, these jobs are done by unproductive people.
Their relatives and friends will also feel that the person who does these things is an incompetent person. As everyone knows, only this kind of work can not have so much competitive pressure, and only such work can allow them to support the burden of a family.
When we think that food delivery and express delivery are unproductive, have you ever wondered why they chose this job?
Is it really incapable and incapable? Or is the current employment situation forcing them to make this choice?
Do you know how much of a crisis this choice brings to society?
What is a new form of employment?
It is that most people choose to work flexibly instead of being a person who works a fixed number of hours every day in a certain company or a certain factory.
This group of people mainly includes couriers, food delivery workers, ride-hailing drivers and other people who don't want to be restricted too much and basically work according to their own mood.
This type of person has a common characteristic, that is, they are basically over 30 years old, or students who have just graduated from college.
And the number of these people is constantly expanding.
According to the available data, this group of people has now reached 84 million, accounting for more than 20% of the country's employment.
In fact, this is a shocking statistic, after all, the information given by the factory is that it cannot recruit workers, and the company also says that it is short of people, on the contrary, it is difficult for college graduates to find jobs.
It's the same problem as men and women looking for a partner.
A group of men are looking for a partner, and a group of women are also looking for a partner, but these people do not interfere with each other, do not affect each other, and in the end I said that I tried my best, but I didn't find it.
The same is true of the current employment environment.
There are very few positions that can fit one person, let alone positions with high salaries and benefits.
Because the number of graduates is increasing year by year, and the number of jobs remains the same or even decreases, many capable people cannot find jobs.
On the one hand, the requirements for the corresponding positions are too high, and on the other hand, people with high education cannot accept ordinary positions.
Especially for positions where the salary is too low and there are too many trivial tasks.
Once upon a time, some experts came out and said that college students should not be obsessed with high-level work when looking for a job, but should start from the grassroots level.
But how can children who have received more than ten years of higher education suddenly accept to do things with people who have never been to school?
It's not that you look down on anyone, it's that the psychological gap is too big and will have a negative impact.
If more than ten years of hard study are the same results as those who have never gone to school, then what is the hard work of many years?
Why is there a shortage of people in the factory? It's because the working hours and working methods are not recognized by today's young people at all.
First of all, the working hours of the factory are very long, saying 8 in the morning and 5 in the morning, but in fact, they are basically working overtime, and sometimes they are too busy to even rotate continuously.
There are not too many wages, and some factories will even deduct employees' wages because of poor efficiency.
The most important thing is that young people nowadays want to have a career that can be developed, and the work in the factory is like a life that can be seen at a glance, so young people are reluctant to choose.
After all, most of the screws in the factory are no-brainer.
However, this is not the most serious problem, and the crisis that exists in society as a whole has only just begun.
1. Wages are a problem
The first is that the cost of living is rising, but the income we can get is decreasing.
Take housing as an example, housing prices have undergone a qualitative change in the past 20 years.
As far as Shanghai, an international metropolis, is concerned, the average house price has reached 550,000 yuan, while the average house price 20 years ago was about 5,000 yuan, which is a tenfold increase.
If converted to 10,000 yuan corresponding to **, 10,000 yuan 20 years ago is about the same as 110,000 now.
But our income hasn't changed that much.
According to the data, in 2001, the per capita income of urban residents was 6,987 yuan, and that of rural residents was 2,378 yuan.
By 2020, the per capita income of urban residents will reach more than 40,000 yuan, and the per capita income of rural residents will also reach more than 17,000 yuan.
The growth rate is about 6 times, which is directly half of the housing price.
Not only the price of housing is **, but the ** of bulk items is also rising in a straight line.
The price of fruit is ridiculously high in a few years.
In the past, you could still see fruits for about one yuan in the supermarket, but now many of them are five yuan as a base, and people say: I can't afford to eat fruits anymore.
The reason is that people's incomes are too low to support such high consumption.
Take delivery workers as an example, when this profession first appeared and people were in high demand, delivery workers were really profitable.
Relevant personnel also said that it is not a problem to earn tens of thousands of yuan at the peak.
But now that more and more people are entering the food delivery industry, there are fewer and fewer orders that can be distributed, so the result is that the money earned by delivering a single order of food delivery is constantly decreasing, and the income is also reduced.
As a result of a long period of time, the food delivery industry has also rolled up.
In the past, I could earn **1,000 a month by working hard, but now even if I work hard, I can only earn 4,000 or 5,000, which is not low.
But even so, the level of competition in the industry is not low, and the number of people entering the industry is still increasing.
A large part of this is because the job is more free, and you don't have to accept the twists and turns of the workplace, and no one cares about your education and life experience.
2. There is a contradiction in the society of the depreciation of academic qualifications
In the past, college students were the sweethearts of various industries, but now it seems that even graduate students and doctoral students can deliver food.
Because now there are fewer jobs and more people, just like wolves have more meat and less meat.
In fact, no matter how powerful a person is, he also needs opportunities.
Because of the large number of people, companies are unscrupulous when treating their employees, and they are even more strange and even a little difficult when recruiting workers.
For example, recent college graduates are required to have at least two years of work experience; For example, a very ordinary clerical job requires at least a graduate degree.
Even in the express delivery industry, some places require more than two degrees.
When the employment form is good, no matter what educational background people are rushed, and when the employment form is not good, even highly educated talents have no place to play.
In the aftermath of the pandemic, many companies went bankrupt due to poor management or broken capital flows, resulting in a large number of unemployed people.
There are many college students who graduate from school and can't find a job, and now there are many people who already have work experience to re-enter society.
Now it is not only China's employment situation that is not good, but the whole world is problematic.
The Great Depression left Harvard's top graduates as porters.
Therefore, no matter what country or society, if there are more people and less work, then learned people will definitely be allowed to do things that do not need to be learned.
The depreciation of academic qualifications is something that cannot be avoided.
3. Attitude issues will affect society
The influx of a large number of practitioners into an industry will indeed bring new opportunities to the industry, but at the same time, it will be accompanied by serious attitude problems.
The change in the employment environment makes people more and more angry, and even derives a *** personality.
Today's young people start complaining because they can't find a suitable job, because they can't afford to buy a house, because they complain because of the severe pressure given at home.
If this situation develops for a long time, it will inevitably have a serious negative impact on society and even the country.
We can analyze who exactly makes up people in the industry such as couriers and delivery workers.
First of all, there are recent college graduates.
They are full of hope for society itself, but society teaches them a lesson of reality.
Some college students can't find a suitable or desirable job for a while, so they choose certain industries for a transition. But many people find that those jobs that work overtime but can only earn two or three thousand cannot survive for themselves.
With a rent of 2,000 and a salary of 3,000, how can you live in the city and gain a firm foothold in society?
In fact, it is not only college students who choose to deliver food, but also many migrant workers who have given up their hard work to enter the industry.
Because the industry earns more and is free.
Places like construction sites and factories are too oppressive for them, and the heavy work makes them have physical problems, and some of the money they earn needs to be handed over to the hospital, and some even have no insurance, so they can only bear the problems themselves.
In contrast, the time of delivery is free, the income is about the same, and the payment of insurance, which is the pursuit of many people.
But this is also a warning from society that jobs that work for the majority of people will flood more people.
Over time, it will cause the involution of the industry, such as the increase in the number of unemployed.
Many people who reach the age of 35 are dissuaded by the company for a variety of reasons, because they have more needs and less energy.
The increasing number of university students in society has made business owners aware of the benefits of cheap labor.
Because recent college graduates need a job to enrich themselves, and at the same time, they have strong energy and motivation and will not be bothered by their families.
So now it's not easy for people after the age of 35 to find a job at all.
On the one hand, there is a shortage of people, and on the other hand, there is still unemployment, and this kind of problem will only make the contradictions in society continue to expand, and when they reach a certain level, they will be intensified.
This is also the reason why people would rather take out and deliver express delivery than enter factories and enterprises.
After all, no one wants to be unemployed in their 30s, and become an elderly person who has been abandoned by society.
In fact, the current social contradictions are far more than the three crises we have mentioned, and the main problem is the change in the economic structure.
If we want to solve these problems, we must first eliminate the involution in various industries.
We should not only look at the problem from the surface, but also look for the root of the problem.
Why would people rather deliver food outside in the wind and rain than go into a factory for a stable job?
It's not because people are more interested in suitable and free work.
Who doesn't want to sit in the comfort of their office and enjoy a quiet afternoon, and who doesn't want to recuperate during the holidays they deserve.
However, there are too few employment opportunities provided by this kind of work, and in order to be able to win, people can only constantly enrich themselves and make themselves more powerful.
Even if you get this job, you have to work hard to be irreplaceable, otherwise you will be forced to be laid off at the age of 35.
But this earth will turn around without anyone, and every position is not specific to a certain person.
Therefore, what we need to change is the current social atmosphere, not to produce more serious involution.
I wonder what you think of these three crises? Do you think the number of people in these industries will increase?