A few years ago, around 600 million people earned only about 1,000 yuan a month. After all these years, it feels as though many now earn even less than that. With monthly mortgage payments of over ten thousand yuan and barely enough to support themselves, who dares to marry or have children? Many people believed economist Ren Zeping's prediction that housing prices were still only halfway up the mountain, only to see discussion groups dissolved and posts deleted afterward.