What is the biggest obstacle in the process of the
poor becoming rich? There are four biggest obstacles for the
poor to become rich: First, the most difficult thing for the poor to break through is their parents. Second, the terrible homogenization and stratification. Third, the shackles of consumption. Fourth, the learned helplessness. The most difficult thing for the poor to break through is their parents. Parents are the starting point for everyone and the ceiling for most people. Most of the recent generations in
China are better than their parents, because their parents are delayed. In the next few generations, you can see the power of my words. In the mature societies of the
United States, Britain and Germany, this is very obvious, and the vast majority of children can not surpass their parents.
I often see some parents who have accomplished nothing and educate their children well, but the children seem to be deliberately against them, no matter what the parents say, the children just don’t listen.
This is a phenomenon that many parents should reflect on: most parents do not realize that their children are imitating themselves. He will do as
you do.
Of course, when he grows up, he will educate his children in the same way, and he will also be logical, but the children still do not hear, and then do what they should do.
That is to say, excluding the low probability of genetic variation, children inherit two sets of genes from their parents, one is physiological genes, your child looks like you, has the same pupil color and earlobe shape as you, which is physiological genes.
The other is the gene in the sociological sense. Your child does things like you and thinks like you.
If there is no compulsory education, your child will probably be a copy of you, which is called social gene.
Compulsory education has changed the social genes of many families. After all, we can learn some basic knowledge from Newton and understand society and human nature from Lu Xun. It
is no longer confined to the fact that all knowledge comes from parents, but the influence of parents on children is almost decisive.
That is to say, the rich will pass on some of their experience to their children, and the poor will pass on many of their methods and ideas to the next generation. Although he knows a lot of things are wrong, he passes them on unconsciously. The result is often that the parents are the same as the children, which makes people pessimistic and uneasy.
For the vast majority of people, they can’t learn much useful survival skills from their parents, because their parents don’t know how to strengthen their survival skills, let alone how to pass them on to the next generation, and this state will always be passed down through “social genes.”.
This is particularly evident in the agricultural era, because reading was a luxury at that time, and knowledge could not be learned casually as it is now. The average family did not think about reading and learning at all, and almost all the experience came from their parents.
Only in a landlord family like Zeng Guofan, the eldest son is honest at home farming, and the rest of the children choose a flexible brain to study, this generation will be a scholar, and the next generation will be a Jinshi.
When one of them was promising, he brought out the other brothers in his family. For example, when Zeng Guofan became prosperous, he brought out his two brothers, Zeng Guohua and Zeng Guoquan, to fight with him outside.
Later, Zeng Guohua was killed in battle in Sanhe Town, while another younger brother, Zeng Guoquan, was very successful.
In ancient times, people as a whole followed an “evolutionary algorithm,” one step at a time, selecting the best from each generation. If one person developed, everyone developed together. Compulsory education is one of the biggest breakthroughs in
modern society compared with ancient times.
Compulsory education originated in Germany and was regarded as a trump card for Germany and the United States to catch up with Britain rapidly. After the first industrial revolution in
Britain, the focus of government work was on coal mining and textiles, and the technology content was not high. At that time, Britain treated workers as cattle, and replaced one batch with another. There was no human resources at all.
Germany was the first to popularize compulsory education. The era of
electric power requires a large number of skilled workers, who must have relevant knowledge. The
British model of “cattle education” was outdated because illiterate people could not operate electrical equipment.
Later, Germany and the United States, which paid attention to education and had a high quality of the whole people, came from behind to catch up, which later became the trump card of Japan, China and other late-developing countries.
Compulsory education forces children to go to school. On the one hand, it allows for patriotic education. In a melting pot country like the United States, every morning the children have to recite the oath, which is known to all as “under God, indivisible.” After a long time, the national consciousness comes out. Another advantage of
compulsory education is that it breaks the “social gene.”.
Parents know so little that it is naturally difficult for children to learn knowledge from their parents.
Schools have compulsory education, and children are sent to schools to be forcibly indoctrinated with the Big Bang, evolution, molecular biology and so on.
In China, compulsory education has created many miracles in recent years. The poor village has been able to produce dozens of college students, which has changed the fate and broken through the ceiling of parents. It has to be said that compulsory education has made great contributions.
However, after all, it is a minority phenomenon to be admitted to an ideal university. All over the world, there is a situation in which people at all levels come together. Birds of a feather flock together
, and excellent people gather together. This is not their deliberate exclusion, but a mechanism of “homogenization and stratification” that can be proved mathematically.
This phenomenon exists everywhere, across species and civilizations.
That is to say, if you are a poor person, you leave your family and try not to be influenced by your family, but your social class determines that the people around you are generally not the kind of people who are particularly excellent. You can’t learn much from them. If you want to become powerful, you have to break through this circle.
Terrible homogenization and stratification are generally equal in the early stage of society, a bit like shaking water and oil vigorously and mixing them together for a period of time, but after a while, they will gradually return to the state of separation of water and oil, and the various strata will form a clear boundary.
Don’t think it’s unreasonable. It’s the same all over the world, ancient and modern. When
I was in college, we people from small cities went to big cities and found that the people in big cities were not much different from us in dress, which was not fashionable.
At that time, the students in our class lived in the dormitory of the unit. I went to see it and felt that it was not as comfortable as the bungalow in our small county town.
I feel that around 2008 is a watershed, urban and rural areas are rapidly divided, young people in big cities are becoming more and more fashionable, and they look different from those in villages.
My former college classmate, who is now teaching in a university, once told me that when he stood on the platform, he could see at a glance which students were from big cities and which were from villages like himself.
Moreover, he has found that one thing has become more and more obvious in recent years. There are fewer and fewer rural students in the university, and the grand occasion when he went to university that the whole school was full of “local cannons” is no longer repeated.
In fact, observing Europe and the United States, we can find that Europe and the United States have been developing peacefully for hundreds of years, while our country has developed from poverty and blankness to the present, compared with them, the development time is not long.
Now people are talking about the middle class and so on. The middle class can spend hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan a year on their children. Education has evolved into an arms race.
In the future, this state of affairs will only become more and more serious, and there will be a “circle” in which different circles live together and cooperate. People in
some circles only need to maintain the status quo and not fall, while others need to constantly break through upward.
It’s a bit like some people who live on a high floor, as long as they don’t fall down, while others need to climb up breathlessly.
The problem is that people on high floors maintain a high advantage in the competition, and the lower the level, the worse the resources and conditions, the more difficult it is to climb up.
This phenomenon exists all over the world, and the more mature the society is, the more it is.
In Germany, 5% of people own nearly half of the houses in the country, and most of the rest rent houses. Only 5% of the people
in Leipzig have houses, and the rest rent these people’s houses.
Previously, there was a saying on the Internet that Germans were not in a hurry to buy a house, so the house price was not high.
Then I lived in Germany for a while, and then I went there again.
I asked a German colleague of our company, do you Germans really have such an open-minded view of real estate consumption?
He said that only fools do not like housing, most Germans can not save money, generally can not afford housing. In
European and American countries, wealthy families buy school district houses in high-quality schools from the very beginning, and then go to high-quality junior middle schools through high-quality primary schools, and then to key middle schools and key universities.
Of course, this is not to say that if you enter a high-quality primary school, you will be able to go to a famous school. The top private schools in Europe and the United States do not have this effect, but the probability will increase a lot.
Relatively speaking, the probability of ordinary people going to famous schools will be reduced a lot, and the right to education will move up a little bit. During
the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the imperial court found a phenomenon that the south was much stronger than north in the imperial examination.
Of course, there are many reasons for this phenomenon, for example, the south is less affected by war, many rich and educated families have a strong foundation, these families often have tens of thousands of books, and even have libraries, there are people in the past Dynasties who are officials in the court, familiar with the imperial examination routines, counseling the children in the family naturally have a bonus.
More importantly, since the Song Dynasty, the economy of the South began to surpass that of the North, and the South could devote more resources to the cultivation of children. The proportion and number of children studying in the South far exceeded those in the North. The two provinces of
Fujian and Zhejiang have more academies than whole country. The advantages of
economic power will feed back to all levels, including education. Since the Ming Dynasty,
China has been a bit like the current admission model, each province will be taken care of, rather than simply the whole country together, but within the provinces, there are still some places that occupy the vast majority of places in the province.
As the economy continues to develop and society evolves for a few more years, it will evolve into a circle everywhere. If you can’t get into this circle, you can’t do certain things.
For example, if a child cannot get into some good schools, he will not be able to get into “211” and “985”, or it will be very difficult for him to get into such universities. If he cannot get into such universities, he will not be able to get into a better company in the future.
I say this not in preparation for selling anxiety, but as an objective reality that is coming, or has come. The Shackles of
Consumption In Rich Dad, Poor Dad, there is a sentence that has a deep influence on me: Both the poor and the rich will buy luxury goods, and the poor often buy them with their hard-earned money every month, which should be invested or left to their children.
The rich buy with the capital they generate. When the
poor buy luxury goods, they do look rich, but then they enter the debt crisis. The
monthly salary is used to repay the debt and continue to borrow, and they enter a vicious circle.
Ordinary people spend their wages, while some people with rich people’s vision will save their money and buy things that can bring running water. Things
that can bring running water are called assets, and then spend the money brought by assets, because that income is passive income.
Moreover, there is a big gap between the consumption of the poor and that of the rich.
Previously, a top real estate developer in Germany made a particularly interesting remark. He said that when wealth accumulates to a certain time, money can not be spent.
If you buy a luxury car, the value of the car will increase. If you buy a watch, the value of the watch will increase. If you buy gold, the value of the gold will increase. You can’t eliminate money through consumption. This may be the boring part of the rich life.
But there is a problem here, this kind of asset consumption is easy to say, but it is very difficult to do.
The most basic point, these years slowly everyone began to realize how comfortable it would be to buy a few houses and then sit as a charterer. We all know the truth, but how to do it? The first and most difficult part of
this problem is the need for a large amount of start-up capital.
If you save money slowly, it is estimated that you have to save until the end of the world to save the down payment of the house, because the money you earn is not enough.
For most poor people, the most difficult thing is that they don’t have enough money to spend. How can they save money to buy assets?
Some people say that they can borrow money, but in the case of less running water, borrowing money with big leverage is almost a death wish. What is
more depressing is that poor people have poor credit, can not borrow money, or the cost of borrowing money is too high. The credit
here is not the credit in life, but the bank’s credit rating for you.
Poor people have low ratings, and banks either don’t lend you money or pay very high interest rates.
This is a very good inspiration for those who have the conditions but have problems with their consumption concept, but for the really poor, there is almost no solution, knowing that the current way of life is getting narrower and narrower, but still can only go like this, which may be the most depressing thing in the world.
Of course, there are some people who “understand the truth, but the objective conditions make it impossible to operate,” but there are still many people who really lack a string in their minds.
I have a classmate who became a village cadre after graduation from graduate school. He said that the state allocated funds to poor households, but many poor households did not make good use of this part of the money, and many people spent it blindly after they got it.
He laments that some people are poor because they lack opportunities, and some people really lack knowledge and have problems with their concepts, so it is difficult to help them up.
Learned helplessness The following is a very instructive quote from Wang Chuan’s microblog in Silicon Valley: From Barry Schwartz’s book Paradox of Choice-If a person is in a state of lack of choice for a long time, The subconscious brain will gradually think that nothing can change the status quo and change its destiny, so it will enter a state of so-called Learned helplessness and become more negative.
Even if the situation changes and there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, we will not act. When
this condition is serious, it can lead to a decline in immunity and even depression.
When there are many choices, the sense of self-control is very strong, so that people can maintain a positive and enterprising posture for a long time, which is good for physical and mental health.
Of course, there are three problems when there are too many choices: decision-making takes more energy; the possibility of making mistakes after choosing is greater; and the psychological frustration caused by making mistakes is greater.
If you don’t make a choice for a long time, your brain will become very negative.
Many people say that they feel that they are going to get depression, in fact, they can reflect on whether they have almost nothing to choose at ordinary times, and it is life that forces you to move forward? In
this state, over time, it will indeed produce a more and more serious negative state.
This is also the biggest difference between the strongman and the poor that I have witnessed over the years. Most normal people seem to have a sense of fate about life. They feel that this is it. It’s not impossible to make do with it.
Of course, the more powerful people can do more things, the poorer people can do less things, no resources in hand, action is naturally poor, and do nothing smoothly, will be a great blow to confidence.
I think you can run your own thing, it can be a micro-blog, it can be a headline, it can even edit some simple videos every day, of course, it can also be more complex projects.
A reader told me that after reading my article last time, he reflected deeply and found that he had no strengths and could only play games. Recently, he began to play games live and uploaded some game tips, such as how to press the gun in Jedi Survival and how to play P Club games. He had a wave of attention and would be a part-time up owner in the future. He
finally knows what he should do in his spare time.
This is what I have repeatedly stressed that a person must change from a consumer to a producer in order to change the predicament.
Because it is the big brother who produces and the poor who consumes.
If a person has been a consumer, playing other people’s games, eating other people’s dishes, instead of turning to the production side, it will always be in a pit, never want to turn over.
You have to let others consume your things. The consumption
here is not necessarily spending money, but now spending time is also consumption.
You spend a lot of time on other people’s products, such as a game, an APP that makes you happy for a short time but wastes time, which is also equivalent to contributing value to others. A decision
now may not work for a poor person with few resources and no hands-on skills, but it’s likely to change your life completely in five years.
If you have done something and failed, there are many reasons. Maybe you are not that material, or you are unlucky. But if you don’t do anything, you feel that you can’t do it well. This is really a psychological problem. The decision
from childhood began to analyze for a long time, suddenly found that if a particularly poor person read my article, perhaps it is really of little use, but will be more depressed.
Society is not friendly to the poor, far more than defects of the way of thinking, more importantly, the lower the class, the less resources available, the higher the cost of trial and error. Everything
in this world needs trial and error, and trial and error needs cost.
Especially in the eyes of the whole world, it is very embarrassing.
From the current point of view, the best way is our method: let the villagers go to the city first, integrate into the social division of labor, and give those enterprising and flexible people a chance, maybe they can find a way to take their fellow villagers out.
This is not nonsense. After a village in Jiangxi received poverty alleviation funds, under the leadership of a very powerful farmer, the whole village produced rice cakes and sold them to the whole country. Now the village is rich.
Of course, this is a macro-level operation, specific to everyone, we need to think more and act more, try more things with low-cost trial and error and long-term dividends. Now
I think the term “mass entrepreneurship” is particularly good. If everyone has time to do something, it doesn’t have to be very profitable or very unique. If you turn around overnight and do it, maybe five years later you will feel that the small decision you made at the beginning has really changed your life.
. Focus on not getting lost ~
