Produced | Tiger Sniffing Young Group
Author | Zhazha County
The title image is from Davide Bonazzi
This article was first published on the Huxiuyou content public account “It’s Hard to Escape” (ID: huxiu4youth). Here, we present the faces, stories and attitudes of young people today.
If you want to define a keyword for the Internet public opinion field in July this year, I think it should be: struggle.
How do you say it, look at it: On July 7th, a Weibo user Tuina Xiong posted Moyu’s text and forwarded it for 10w+.
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Later, there was a joint venture with Baili tents in a large high-tech enterprise in Haidian, which caused controversy.
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In the huge wave of public opinion, more and more people are starting to complain about overtime and hard work. Opponents believe that massage bears are another kind of bad guy who sells anxiety. Fishing is rubbish, and struggle is the right way in the world.
On the issue of this struggle, the two sides have come and go and kill each other for a month in the Internet field, and no one can argue why.
Compared with the final answer to the question of “Whether it is worth striving in the workplace”, what makes us more curious is: why the positive energy of “struggle changes life” taught by parents and teachers since childhood has become a contemporary worthy discussion Social phenomenon? And how can people who struggle become abusive struggles for many people?
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Why do people start not believing in struggle?
To talk about struggle in China today, the topic of 996 cannot be avoided.
Let’s not talk about the news about the death of working overtime in Yuan, just how long have been quarrels about this matter recently: In January, there were praises announcing 996, in April, programmers used GitHub to protest against improper overtime, and in May Ma Yun was because “996 is a blessing” “I was scolded. Basically, as soon as this incident happened, it could immediately occupy the high ground of public opinion, and there were many opponents.
From the common words like vampires and capitalist exploitation in the comments of netizens, you will find that the 996 concept of struggle has long become a kind of workplace logic that is contrary to life in contemporary workplaces. More and more people use this Question the effectiveness of the struggle.
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Throughout history, you will find that this is probably the most controversial era in Chinese history.
Look, the three words “death to duty” that were filled in the lives of officials at all levels in ancient China have become the motto of all the elites because “work hard and die.” Down the soil”. Because the struggle at that time was about salary and survival.
In the reform and opening up, everything is full of hope.
Everyone goes to the sea to get up early and greedy, work day and night, you can eat meat all day, you can buy a car, and even this secular success can make you an idol of the people. Desperate struggle is indeed an effective way to promote a successful person from the mud leg obviously and effectively.
Li Xiaohua, an entrepreneur who just picked up China’s first Ferrari from the Temple of Heaven in 1992
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Nowadays, as the times change, the economy is becoming more stable, and the possibility of a class jump is much smaller than that of their predecessors. This not only happens in entrepreneurial stories, but also in the workplace.
When night falls, in Zhongguancun, in Wangjing, and in China World Trade Center, there will be countless tents rising like the sun as usual.