Wen Sima Nan.
To answer the question of the title, it depends on what is used as an indicator.
If usedLuxury consumptionAs a target, China has long surpassed the United States. The United States is crying in the back, and "great again" can't catch up with us.
About a few decades ago, a kind of propaganda of "being able to earn and spend to stimulate consumption" prevailed in the first place, the spirit of thrift and thrift seems to be unable to raise its head, and the hardship and simplicity can't keep up with it all of a sudden, Lei Feng sat under the oil lamp to mend clothes Those shots entered the museum, and occasionally heard the saying that not a grain of food is wasted, that is mostly the old man educating his little grandson, look at the student cafeteria of any of your universities, go to any restaurant to see, the food is wasted and unbearable to look at.
Of course, in the whole society to advocate strict economy and oppose waste, this main line has not been broken, there is still a concept of it, but the light boat has crossed the ten thousand mountains, extravagant and wasteful, ostentatious consumption, Lao Tzu is rich, Lao Tzu is willing, at least in some places, some people have become a new fashion, and put an end to extravagance and waste, still diligent and thrifty, not flashy, it is like an old program that is sung during the New Year's holidays.
The low-carbon concept, the CD-ROM action has been fashionable for a while, but it is far from being promoted, the bottom line thinking, the limit thinking, the strategic vigilance of "living a tight life", has not aroused people's conscious action, "take it in moderation, use it sparingly", "save every copper plate", has long become a deaf ear, history has no echo here.
I recently did a few programs about Heilongjiang's grain self-sufficiency rate reaching 600 percent, and as the country's largest granary, one province feeds 10 provincesHeilongjiang's GDP may be underestimated。While being proud of my hometown, I also have hidden worries in my heart. Our country's food security is far from the time when we can relax our hearts, and we must let everyone understandAt no time can we talk lightly about the food passExtravagance and waste are by no means a sign of prosperity.
The old man who opposed the red line of China's 1.8 billion mu of arable land was run by his whole family, because China did not follow the road map he gave, nor did it follow the route of Zoellick again, he was very unhappy, and said that he would not come back, which is not a bad thing. In the program of American neoliberalism, even if the annotations are diluted to more than 800,000 pages, the words "thrift, thrift, and hard work" will never be found, not only in terms of ideas, but also in spirit.
A few days ago, I did a program and talked about itChina is the largest consumer of luxury goodsI thought it would cause some repercussions, but as a result, there was no repercussions. People's minds were liberated, and they were quite unimpressed, but some people criticized Sima Nan for making a fuss.
The first of the top three luxury consumers in the world is China, the world's No. 1 luxury consumer1. Luxury consumption occupies the largest share of the world's world, which was said to be 25% in previous years, and now it is said to have reached 40%, surpassing the United States to become the world's largest luxury consumer. The second place went to Japan, and the third place went to the United States. Didn't someone ask when China would overtake the United States? So what's the point, luxury consumption China is now a proper number one, and Trump's re-election has no power to shake China's status as the world's largest luxury consumption country.
Countries around the world looked at China dumbfoundedIsn't China a developing country? How is it the world's largest consumer of luxury goods? Foreigners can't understand why Chinese consumers are so interested in designer bags. Why are you so interested in jewelry? Since when did the Chinese become more enthusiastic about fashion brands and lead the world in terms of popularity?
Grandma Wang next door has a point of view, her old man believes that the so-called luxury goods are not needed to live a life, and they are specially used to show off, that is to say, the kind of things that exceed the needs of people's survival and development are called luxuries.
Because it is to be displayed, luxury manufacturers give it three things, the first is unique, the second is scarce, and the third is rare. What if it's not rare and scarce? Then create the strange, create the scarce.
From an economic point of view, luxury goods are the products with the highest relationship between value and quality, or the products with the highest relationship between intangible and tangible values. Luxury is no longer a material product, at best, it is a personal pursuit of a high-quality life, like in the recent TV series "Flowers", using the lens to see through something, and the rest is just profligacy and greed.
The great debate on the emancipation of the mind is nothing more than for everyone to talk about it and make this truth clear, and at this stage we are not in the initial stage of socialism. In the initial stage of socialism, will the production and consumption of luxury goods be our main direction? Will the wind of extravagance and waste allow him to rise like this? Including the consumption of luxury goods, this kind of extravagance is not productive, not technical, but ostentatious and profligate, and in the context of the widening gap between the rich and the poor, its social effects are likely to be negative.
You have the money to buy a bag, but I can't buy it after a year's work, what's wrong with wasting a few steamed buns? How do you explain such a question? A large number of theorists pile up concepts there, and they don't touch a steamed bun, a bowl of rice, a bag, and an old man to moisten the practical problems of this kind of society.
Spending all your energy where it shouldn't be will help surpass the United States and help you become self-reliant.
Before breakfast on February 23, 2024, it was written under the coconut trees on Ocean Flower Island, and tomorrow will be the fifteenth day of the first lunar month).
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