The gap between the rich and the poor has always been a big problem, and one that the ruling class is unwilling to face. The logic of sophistry about the gap between rich and poor has always existed, and people are not surprised and think it is normal.
In ancient feudal society, the gap between the rich and the poor was relatively obvious. The emperor and the powerful landlords are not many and can live a good life, while the peasants have a large number but cannot live a good life. The elites maintain a high desire to live, have money in their hands, consume very high, and their desires are difficult to satisfy, while most of the common people are farmers, and they maintain a low desire to live, there is no need for fine clothes and food, and there is no need for fragrant cars and BMWs, just food and clothing. However, if the conditions for food and clothing were not met, the peasants were about to rebel. It's not that they can't see the gap between the rich and the poor, and it's not that they don't know how their suffering life came about, but they are powerless to resist and can only maintain a low desire to live. As long as there is a stutter, there is no rebellion, even if it is oppressed, it does not rebel. The magnates do not have to directly participate in production and labor, but they can get a lot of money and food, while the peasants directly participate in production and labor but do not have enough to eat, which is a huge inequality.
Farmers see this inequality, but they can't change it. Even when there were peasant uprisings, they often failed, and those who succeeded were only replaced by the emperor, and the system of exploitation and oppression still existed, so that the peasants could not turn over and could not obtain the treatment of "the tiller has his land". The social problems of the dynasties focused on the peasants, who could gradually become rich if they had access to their own land and did not have to pay taxes. However, the rulers of all dynasties refused to loosen the chains in their hands, not only did they not give the peasants some land, but also bound the peasants firmly to the land, so that they could not be free. In this way, it can ensure that the peasants can produce food in a steady stream, and it will also be continuously supplied to the magnates for consumption, ensuring the basic stability of the social level, and at the same time ensuring the rationality and extensibility of the feudal exploitation system. The widening gap between the rich and the poor is a reality, and it is also a reality that it cannot be reconciled. Therefore, when the peasants saw this phenomenon, they did not hesitate to spend more than three generations of efforts to train a scholar and let the scholar take the exam. After the scholar passes the exam, he can become a powerful person and drive the whole family to become rich and noble. However, the elimination rate of the imperial examination is very high, and not all scholars can cope with it. As a result, there are cases of scholars who fail to pass the exam for a lifetime, and there are also cases where they commit suicide because they fail the exam. They want to achieve class leapfrogging, but they often fall into the sand, waste time, and even die.
In order to dilute the concept of class and make people no longer pay attention to the gap between the rich and the poor, the emperor had to rule people with superstitious thoughts. It is necessary to take the lead in carrying out superstitious activities, not only to fabricate birth myths, but also to claim to be the Son of Heaven, saying that he is doing the way of heaven and being admired by all the people. The common people follow superstition, not only to worship the emperor and all levels of **, thinking that they are the stars in the sky and have a good fate, while the lives of the common people are like mustard and have a bad fate. After accepting their fate, the common people recognized the class gap and the gap between the rich and the poor, believing that it was originally so, that there was no need to pursue equality for all, and there was no need to pursue great wealth and nobility, and fate had long been stipulated in the dark and could not be forced.
The ancients' view of fate seems to be a spiritual placebo and an anesthetic. Up to now, there are still people who advocate fate, and they want to submit to fate, or change fate, and whether it is subservient or change, the premise is to recognize social reality, recognize the gap between the rich and the poor, and recognize fate. In order to comfort people, it is necessary to make a ranking of average wages, a ranking of average income, and make the data look good, but in fact it is even more false. Many people's incomes are "averaged", and there will be no real income performance. People look at the average income instead of the breakdown of each person's income, and of course they think that their income is higher, but it is still too low. The number of rich people is small, but there is a lot of wealth, and the number of ordinary people is large, but the wealth is small, on average, it will appear that the rich have less income and the common people have more income. Is there a kind of income equality? In fact, this kind of sophistic logic is just a manifestation of a narcissistic mentality, a kind of comforting false data, and cannot be taken seriously. However, some bureaucrats and intellectuals believe that such data is useful, at least to measure the local income gap, and to let people see some of the facts ...... the gap between the rich and the poor has narrowed
The gap between rich and poor has been around for a long time, and it is not something that people say can be changed, or even never can be changed. As long as the powerful exist, they will occupy a lot of high-quality social resources, and they will not be easily let go, nor will they be shared with ordinary people. As for whether the country is the best country or whether it hides wealth from the people, it depends on the nature of the state power and the strategy of those in power. However, all dynasties have had sophistic logic about the gap between the rich and the poor, whether it is the foolish people with superstitious ideas or the fool of the average income, which can be regarded as a ruling strategy, but it is not the fundamental way to solve the gap between the rich and the poor. In order to solve the gap between the rich and the poor, it is still necessary to develop the rural areas, not the cities. Only when the rural areas become rich and the peasants become rich will the gap between the rich and the poor gradually narrow. At present, the most important development is to allocate urban resources to the rural areas and promote the development of the rural areas, so as to eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor to a certain extent, and truly hide the wealth from the people.