Who makes you poor – and how is society stratified?

Let me start with the conclusion: Great professors, great experts, barristers, famous doctors, celebrities, etc. may be the ultimate that ordinary people can achieve through hard work!
Further up, you have to rely on "someone above" and unexpected encounters.
This is not empty talk, but is determined by "social stratification".
Summary at the front:
1. Society is like a complex machine, with consumption cycles, debt cycles, class mobility... just like parts, interlocking with each other, and nested layer by layer. We are in it and are parts of these parts. Only by understanding its structure , only then can we know where it will take us;
2. Although people are accustomed to using the scale of wealth and social status to define class status, the real stratification logic is - the size of power, the level of assets, and the number of upward leap opportunities;
3. The upper class is wary of the middle class, but is very friendly to the bottom class. What they most hope for is to enable the lower layer to fully flow to the middle layer, and then firmly grasp the valve of the middle layer upward;
4. From the elite to the middle level, they will either be included (marry or join forces), or they will break out of the rules and suddenly emerge;
5. Urban white-collar workers/petty bourgeoisie are the ordinary middle class, the most popular. Because the higher-ups look down on it and are not knowledgeable enough to look beyond the rules, they can only spell out the rules;
6. The white-collar/petty bourgeoisie right wing is the slaughterhouse of consumerism, the center wing is the main base of YOLO (hedonism), and the left wing is the base of angry youth on the Internet;
7. Characteristics of the bottom class: passive distribution, no upward opportunities, and no right to speak;
8. The economic distress of the bottom class limits their cultural choices and thinking bandwidth, which is the legendary demographic dividend and sinking market;
9. The logic of personal dependence + vertical and horizontal governance methods + suppression of emerging fields are the reasons for the solidification of classes;
10. The process of class solidification is a process in which the logic of competition moves toward hereditary logic, which will make society lose its competitiveness, so the country will definitely break the solidification.
1. Hierarchical logic of social machinesSuppose you want to design a game about killing monsters and upgrading in a hierarchical society. How do you structure the stratification of this society?
Starting from economic logic, modern society is generally divided into two classes: the working class vs. the rentier class.
What is "salary"? Labor remuneration; what is "profit"? Rent, interest, taxes. This is a division based on income, which is very scientific, right?
But it’s not intuitive! Because one can be both a rentier and a wage earner.
For example, your colleague Xiao Zhao works with you and gets paid. He may not be as capable as you at work, and he may even be your subordinate, but he has several apartments in his house where he collects rent...
Besides, they are all salaried. A certain Internet celebrity expert’s annual salary is 1,500 yuan, and your monthly salary is 1,500 yuan. Do you think you are in the same class as him?
Therefore, people are more accustomed to using wealth scale and social status to distinguish classes, because these things can be seen directly.
"Analysis of All Classes in Chinese Society·1925" is classified as follows:
1. Upper level: warlords, bureaucratic landlords, compradors.
The most powerful ones were definitely the warlords. For example, Chiang Kai-shek, who later became president, was the largest among the warlords.
Bureaucrats and landlords followed. Their goal in peaceful times was to become powerful ministers, but in turbulent times, they aimed to become warlords.
Compradors are a special product of semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. The most typical ones are the four major families during the Republic of China. They are the profit traders of warlords, bureaucrats and transnational capital.
2. Middle class: national bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie.
The national bourgeoisie are the owners of private enterprises who open companies in the country, also called the industrial bourgeoisie.
They were oppressed by warlords and bureaucrats at home, and suppressed by international capital abroad, so they had anti-feudal and anti-imperialist motives.
But at the same time, they are wary of "playing the Marxist-Leninist card" because their interests, in the final analysis, still involve exploiting and beating workers.
Therefore, the goal of the national bourgeoisie is to both restrict the bureaucracy and suppress the grassroots. They are the flag wavers of liberalism and social Darwinism.
Next down are the petty bourgeoisie, who have certain assets, such as farmers; or have skills, such as engineers, cultural and sports stars, lawyers, professors, etc.
In terms of ideology, the petty bourgeoisie is divided into three categories: right, center and left:
The rightists have production surpluses, are relatively wealthy, and always want to climb up. So they curry favor with the bureaucratic landlords and fear the turbulent revolution;
The centrists are just self-sufficient, knowing that there is no hope of rising, but there is no risk of falling. Their attitude is on the fence. They can understand the decadence and corruption of the bureaucratic landlords, but they are also suspicious of the revolution. The reason is that the landlords and foreigners have great backgrounds and you can't handle them;
The left has debts, risks of unemployment and salary cuts, and anxiety about class decline. They have received propaganda from book theories, so they are most eager for revolution.
3. Lower class: semi-proletariat.
For example, semi-owner farmers, in addition to cultivating their own land, have to rent land from landlords and borrow debt to survive.
There are also small handicraftsmen in cities who are also semi-proletarian. They have certain skills, but their irreplaceability is very low. They are always worried about unemployment and falling back into poverty.
最底层的是无产者——除了自身体力啥也没有。
包括血汗工厂的工人、农村长工、临时工，以及游民无产者。
比如祥林嫂属于农村临时工，阿Q则是游民无产者；
又比如拉车的祥子，他有自己的车时，是半无产阶级；没车，但给人拉包月时，是有稳定工作的无产阶级；既没自己的车，也不拉包月，就是灵活就业；最后车也没得拉，便也成了游民无产者。
他们都是最底层无产者，都没有未来。
After reading this, you will definitely want to put yourself in it, but don’t! Society is developing, times are progressing, and the market has changed.
When we discuss the teacher's classification method, we do not mean to apply it mechanically, but to learn his thinking tools for dissecting society.
The social hierarchy is also simplified into three levels: "upper-middle-lower":
1. Upper level: power owners & owners of high-moat means of production;
2. Middle level: owners of small means of production & property-owning workers;
3. Bottom class: proletarians.
他的分层有贯穿上下的两条主线：
一条是权力，从大到小；另一条是生产资料，但并非是从多到少，而是从高到底。
High moat refers to monopoly status and entry barriers.
A place without a moat is a place where free competition is possible, and a place where we ordinary people can reach through hard work.
As we all know, South Korea’s class solidification is very abnormal.
Isn't there an English proverb about "being born with a silver spoon in your mouth"? Koreans have followed the "spoon class theory" - they divide the younger generation into four levels based on their parents' income levels.
Although this statement is popular, it is unreasonable because many of the resources that power can be realized are not directly reflected in income.
For example, South Korean President Yoon Seok-yue's income is much lower than that of his wife, not to mention those chaebol bosses, but can you say that the president's class is lower than that of the chaebols?
I think the standard for class division in modern society is not only the power and assets mentioned above, but also the number of opportunities for upward advancement.
Based on this, we can expand on Korea’s “spoon class theory”:
1. Golden spoon - top-level bureaucrats + monopoly plutocrats:
They are the absolute ruling class, including the head of Cheong Wa Dae, the heads of real power departments such as the National Assembly, the Prosecutor's Office, the Bank of Korea, and the Military Commission, as well as the real power figures of monopoly chaebols such as Samsung and Hyundai.
The moat of the golden spoon class is very high and cannot be entered without a chance encounter.
2. Silver spoon—middle-class elite:
The silver spoon is divided into two levels: the upper level and the lower level. The upper level is the business owner. Since he does not have a monopoly like the chaebol, he has few chips in the game and can only rely on upwards. Either rely on the bureaucracy or rely on the chaebol (the upstream and downstream industrial chain).
Ha Doyoung in the Korean drama "Dark Glory" belongs to this class.
The lower level of the silver spoon are senior talents in various industries, such as senior professional managers, great professors, great experts, barristers, famous doctors, celebrities, etc. This is the ultimate level that ordinary people can achieve through hard work. To go up further, you have to rely on "tops" Someone" and the unexpected encounter with heaven.
Park Yeon-jin and Lisa Lee in "Dark Glory" are in this class. Of course, they do not rely on personal efforts, but rely on "the responsibility of passing on the family to our generation."
The difference between the upper and lower levels of silver spoons is that the upper level has family assets that can be passed down from generation to generation, while the lower level mainly relies on professional knowledge to serve the higher level.
Relatively speaking, the middle class has the strongest international mobility. First, their assets and skills are more popular; second, they are not deeply tied to domestic politics like plutocrats and bureaucrats.
3. Copper spoon - urban white-collar/petty bourgeoisie:
That is, the intellectual proletarians, such as middle-level enterprises, ordinary civil servants, and self-employed people.
The difference from the bottom layer is that the copper spoon has a chance to climb up.
Cui Huijing, Son Myung-wu, and the heroine Moon Dong-eun in "Dark Glory" are all in this class.
Let’s walk through the thinking tool again—the inside of the copper spoon is divided into three categories: right, middle, and left.
The right wing is a group of people who have a surplus of income but cannot reach the middle class. In terms of their thinking, they try to climb up and become the middle class; in terms of consumption, they try their best to imitate the middle class, which is the slaughterhouse of consumerism.
The flight attendant Cui Huiting in "Dark Glory" is portrayed in a very typical way - she is trying her best to marry the second generation while taking pictures everywhere.
But look at those really middle-class people like Park Yeon-jin and Lisa Lee, who shows off their bags? People just treat it as normal consumer goods.
The middle wing has no hope of rising in class, but if you don't have children, you don't need to worry about falling in class, so it is the main position of hedonism.
Korea’s YOLO culture was started by this group of people.
The risk of the left wing slipping is huge, such as the 35-year-old crisis, real estate thunderstorms and other anxieties, so they react most violently to capital exploitation and social injustice. Accusative public opinions such as "Hell Korea" are issued by the left.
4. Soil spoon - the cornerstone of society:
They are urban traders, workers in labor-intensive industries, migrant workers... Wen Dongen's mother and nanny Jiang Xiannan are both in this class. Features of soil spoon are:
1）被动再分配。
他们没有参与分配的权力，因为他们的工作不可替代性很低，没有劳动议价权。
其收入与其说是工资，不如说是劳动力再生产的成本。
2）无上升希望。
虽说土汤匙都没有向上的希望，但根据其是否有稳定收入，情况又有所不同。
有稳定收入的，虽然经济窘迫，但生活有着落，知道自己上升无望，于是寄托下一代，给子女很大压力；
无稳定收入的，既无技术也无本钱，只能选择一些劳动价值很低的工作，抗风险能力极弱，省吃俭用，思想上抗拒消费主义，以玩物丧志论之，而且忽视子女教育，常常要求未成年子女帮衬劳动。
3）无话语权。
土汤匙虽然在经济权力上被广泛侵占，而且生活窘迫，但他们并没有像铜汤匙左翼那样接受过理论训练，既缺乏理解社会的思维工具，也缺乏必要的思维带宽。
一方面，他们生活的大部分时间，都被繁重的劳作所占据，出于心理补偿机制，余闲又被奶头乐占据；
另一方面，不管是古代的小农经济，还是现代的工业社会，底层劳动者所从事的都是机械性的重复劳作。
在马克思所处的时代，人们就已经发现——机械性工作是去能力化的。
去掉的能力，主要就是思维能力！
经济窘迫叠加缺乏思维能力，就限制了土汤匙的文化选择——他们观察社会主要通过自己的双眼，见识主要来自于对照自身生活，对家长里短的兴趣甚于理论逻辑。
所以他们是抖音和神剧的常客，也是下沉市场的主流。
After describing it, now you need to take your thoughts back and take a look at the whole picture of class society, and then you can immerse yourself in it.
There are also people online who divide social classes into the following based on the logic of division of labor:
1、国家与社会管理者
2、企业主
3、经理人员
4、专业技术人员
5、办事人员
6、个体工商户
7、商业服务业员工
8、产业工人
9、农业劳动者
10、城乡无业（失业、半失业者）
If you think about it carefully, this is not called the logic of division of labor, but the logic of value return.
That is, how much resource allocation you can get for the work you do, and ultimately wealth, power, and opportunities.
The key is that many things are not obtained through work assignments. For example, is Wang Sicong’s status obtained through work?
It is hereditary.
Whether it is reasonable or not will be discussed later. The facts and logic must be clarified first.
Another thing to note is that although people are used to talking about "pyramid society," the real society is not a pyramid, but an "inverted thumbtack" type.
After so many years of "flooding" (the essence is to make money flow to the rentier class and debt to the working class), the upper part of the thumbtack will be longer and thinner, and the lower part will become wider and wider...
Now you know why the “sinking market” is so big? Because it's really big!
2. Class flow algorithmNo matter what era they are in, people in the "sinking market" will have a strong victim mentality - they feel that the upper class will only bully the lower class and will not take care of the interests of the lower class.
For example, when we say we support property tax, many people say - don't think about it, how can anyone do anything to them?
They think that both gold spoons and silver spoons are superior to others, and they are both greedy for wealth and unkind.
In fact, this is not the case. The conflict between the silver spoon and the silver spoon is more intense.
The purpose of the golden spoon is to perpetuate the country forever; the purpose of the silver spoon is to make further progress.
But the pits on the top floor are limited. If someone goes up, it means someone will be squeezed down. Because the logic of the power cake and the economic cake are completely different, there is no increment. If others eat more piece, you will eat less piece.
Therefore, the golden spoon must be wary of the silver spoon, but it is very friendly to the middle and lower classes. Because when the social order is normal, it is difficult for the lower class to directly challenge the position of the upper class. Because there is a silver spoon in the middle - you don’t need to do anything from the upper layer, the middle layer will block it for you.
The story of "in the old days, when the king was in front of the hall and the swallows flew into the homes of ordinary people", it would only happen in a period when order is broken down.
When does order break down?
It was when the lower class lived in hardship and saw no hope that they reflected on the situation: "Princes, generals, and ministers would rather have the seed." Water can overturn a boat. The left wing of the copper spoon + the earthen spoon is the water.
So for the golden spoon, the best game strategy is:
第一，要让铜汤匙和土汤匙看到向上的希望。
因为他们是社会的主要建设者，得让他们卷起来。
看不到希望的话，傻子才卷！
第二，牢牢把持住银汤匙向上的阀门。
既不能让他们大批量向上，万一把自己给挤下去了呢？也不能一点希望都不给，得维持着他们在桌子上和和气气的氛围。
最好的办法，就是设计出一条能被上层灵活掌握的护城河，让中层去跨：比如说贷款环节、特殊资源的审批、持证经营所需的证照等等。
第三，对于那种顶牛逼的银汤匙，成本最低的控制是收编。
收编的形式通常有两种：一是联姻；
二是入股。
古代科举放榜之后，豪门冲上去争着结亲，主考官则忙着搞师生团伙，都是出于这样的设计。
So, how does a silver spoon climb up and become a golden spoon?
From the perspective of "incorporation", both silver spoons and gold spoons are in every possible way to please them. Because whether you can get in or not depends entirely on whether you let go. This is the unspoken rule of the operation of the social machine.
Silver Spoon knows very well that those clear rules written on paper are used to explain to the subordinates - why can he get in, but you can't?
Because he is a returnee from a prestigious school and you are a low-income countryman, what else can you say?
The biggest difference between the golden spoon and the silver spoon is that the upper level has explicit rules and the upper level has hidden rules.
Silver Spoon, as a social elite, has long seen through how the game is played inside and outside the rules. Even if they themselves cannot see through it, the think tanks around them can help them see through it.
Therefore, they know how to look beyond the rules and either follow the unspoken rules and be included (marriage or join a team), or they "do not take the usual path" and find a track that the upper management has not noticed, and then they suddenly emerge and are out of control.
For example, new money companies like Zuckerberg and Musk all follow this path.
Someone asked, why are there areas that the golden spoon cannot notice? Don’t they see the overall situation?
We say that whether it is "hereditary" or other forms of unspoken inheritance, there is a trend of dimensionality reduction!
What's the meaning?
That is to say, the family businesses of hereditary people will become simpler and less technological, and therefore less and less competitive. Moreover, due to the complex interest structure, the response will be sluggish and unable to effectively respond to changes in the current situation.
For example, this was the situation at the end of the feudal dynasty.
换成家族企业也一样，假如你创业成功，从市场竞争中存活了下来，你要怎么把打下的江山传递给子孙？
你能保证他们跟你一样英明神武吗？你保证不了！
If you want your future generations to have adequate food and clothing, and your country to be strong forever, there are only two ways to go:
第一，是垄断基础生存物资的生产、转运和销售。
这在古代，就是盐、铁、钱币，至于现代，就自己去想吧；
第二，是占据那些不可再生的公共资源，并以私有财产的名义，往下传递。
这在古代，是土地、矿山、园林池苑......至于现代，自己也去想吧？
For example, the Li family in HK, what kind of assets did they buy later? It's either transportation, telecommunications or tap water, or it's direct land purchase. They are all mature industries with monopoly and rigid needs.
They don’t engage in innovation because failure to innovate can easily lead to ruin. In other words, hereditary families will increasingly lack innovative spirit and competitive thinking. The "high moat" not only hinders outsiders, but also traps themselves.
注意，这里聊的可不是“富不过三代”这种片汤话，而是说“世袭”这种传承机制是降维的，这是属于上层人的熵增，其根子在不劳而获。
因为对抗熵增，必须持续做负熵，肯定要消耗能量，想要轻松地绵延江山，注定会一代不如一代。
For example, Park Yeon-jin and Lisa Lee in "Dark Glory" are obviously not as knowledgeable as their parents.
What does "knowledgeable" mean?
有见识不是说你会多国语言，会识别各种品牌的包包，会区分“地铁里的气味”，就叫有见识。
见识指的是对世道人心的领悟，是对社会机器运转的掌握和对人性法则的敏锐洞察。
This has the most to do with learning and thinking, and has little to do with where you are.
Nowadays, it is said that academic qualifications are devalued, and many people have a question - if you still have to deliver food after finishing college, what is the point of studying?
Gaining knowledge is the greatest meaning of reading!
Don’t be blinded by the present conciliation. If there is any last bit of fairness in this world, it must come from reading!
Because knowledge will not automatically creep into his head just because he is a high-ranking person. Whether civilians or nobles, they all need to learn, think, and understand bit by bit.
You know, the most effective way to build a high moat in ancient upper-class society was knowledge monopoly.
This is because before the invention of printing and paper, books and bamboo slips were extremely expensive, and studying also meant being out of work, which the lower classes simply could not afford.
At that time, only the upper class could afford to read and be knowledgeable, so they said, "Only the upper class wisdom and the lower class foolishness remain unchanged." This means that the upper class people are knowledgeable, but the lower class people know nothing. This has not changed for thousands of years. thing.
In the past, long-term knowledge was a sense of superiority that only belonged to the powerful class, but it is different now. Because of the existence of publications and the Internet, everyone has been drawn to the same dimension in terms of knowledge acquisition, and the rest is about understanding and self-discipline.
Although, elites still have three advantages in "long knowledge":
1. They have seen it before, and it is relatively easier for them to get rid of low-level interests, so they can focus on high-value goals and understand self-discipline better;
2. They are financially well-off and can more easily free up their thinking bandwidth to make long-term plans;
3. Elites have better learning resources and learning awareness. They can indeed learn a lot of knowledge by themselves. You can also figure out these principles by yourself, but the cost is to spend more time and take more detours, and most elites will find the right one. For those who preach and understand the problem, I can explain it to him in 10 minutes.
So from a probability perspective, it is easier for elites to look beyond the rules.
Whether they follow unspoken rules and are recruited, or take unconventional paths to become a new force, they will not waste their energy on clarifying the rules with ordinary people.
For example, Sarah Li in "Dark Glory" is a famous returned artist. Why do you think she doesn't go to college in South Korea?
In the Ming rules, it is the copper spoon that is rolled to death.
It is difficult for them to see upward hope at first. After all, the superiors look down upon them, and they themselves lack the insight and courage to explore the path of innovation;
Secondly, they do not own any high-moat assets that can be passed down from generation to generation, so they have deep anxiety about class slippage, so they can only withdraw.
Either work hard and hope to be promoted from middle-level to high-level, from a young lawyer to a big lawyer, from a small boss to a big boss...
Either they will be involved in their children's education and hope that their children will be like themselves, the king of papers under the clear rules, so that they can at least maintain their class status.
It's one thing for them to roll themselves up. It's another thing to build high barriers to prevent people on the next level from moving up.
The reason why the copper spoon right-wingers are keen on consumerism is not only to create the illusion of wealth for themselves by imitating the middle class, but also to borrow the concept of consumption to separate themselves from the bottom class.
For example, someone says that he drinks coffee and you eat green onions - you are not the same person.
So who is the most ruthless person at the bottom? This is the group of people!
Remedial classes, school district housing, and other class barriers stipulated in the rules were all built by them. Its purpose is also to use money to separate the bottom layer.
在韩国，公共住房和商品住房之间也产生了居住隔离的问题，拥有房产的居民不想和公共住房的居民共用服务设施，会在不同片区之间竖起围墙和铁丝网。甚至，不希望
自己的孩子和公共住房的孩子一起上学。这种空间的隔离，最终会导致社会阶层的隔离。
They hope that your family will go to a school for migrant workers and their children will go to a star school; your children will be thinking about nipple fun while their children will receive various programs and trainings.
In other words, tutoring classes and school district rooms are not designed by the upper level, because the upper level is not in this game at all and does not need these things at all.
Tutoring classes can be cut off at will, and school district housing will inevitably face policy risks!
However, because of the volume, more and more copper spoons are not having children. The left wing is full of hostility and their slogan is - the greatest resistance to "Hell Korea" is to stop producing slaves for them.
The slogan of Zhongyi YOLO is - children and grandchildren will have their own blessings, and I will enjoy the blessings without children and grandchildren.
Even the right-wingers who are obsessed with climbing up are not born. In "Dark Glory", only Silver Spoon's Park Yeon-jin has children, while Bronze-Spoon's Son Myung-oh, Choi Hye-jeong, and Moon Dong-eun have no children.
Although they are not as keen on expressing their dissatisfaction as the left-wing angry youth, they are the class with the strongest sense of fairness.
Because they are at the bottom of society and are in financial difficulties, the only reason they can accept failure is that they are not capable enough, have insufficient knowledge, and cannot win over others.
This is also something that the upper class society and mainstream public opinion have been promoting.
But if they knew they lost from the beginning, who would still be willing to take part? Who wants to keep delivering value upwards?
In this sense, Zhang Xuefeng's role is the same as Zhou Gongzi's catfish. They are using completely different ways to tell the bottom class the same fact - you lost the moment you were born!
This is what class solidification looks like - everyone knows that high-moat means of production are very important, so those who come first get them first, and then through various overt or covert operations, they become "hereditary". Then how can the latecomers develop? What about space?
Have you ever played "Monopoly"? When every square is bought by the first player, other players are losing money every step they take, and it is only a matter of time before they are eliminated.
3. How does class become solidified?First, every level above, except for the dirt spoon at the bottom, digs a moat.
From top to bottom, the moats are: political influence, economic resources, and educational opportunities.
As the moat is dug deeper and deeper, each class feels that there is a natural chasm in front of them.
Tutuan faced sky-high prices for school district housing and remedial classes. They complained - why is it so difficult to obtain equal educational opportunities?
Copper Spoon laments the depreciation of academic qualifications - he graduated in 985 and lost his life in a big factory, but he can't catch up with a house in a big city.
The silver spoon is rolled up where no ordinary person can see it. There is an academic term called "upward management", which is the way they write papers. In other words, it is also called upward attachment.
Why is the ancient gate valve called a "gate"?
Because the logic of dependence at that time was blood, marriage and nepotism - you were either his biological child or his relative, or you had to marry him, otherwise you would not be able to get a big job.
The logic of dependence of modern academic circles is "study" - if you want to have academic status and obtain academic funds, you must be personally attached to an academic authority.
The logic of personal attachment, in today's terms, means hanging out in circles and making connections.
Some people say that he can do this, he can toast, he can make trouble, and he has special social skills, so he can make connections.
fart! This "relationship" is prioritized, that is: blood relationship > nepotism > interest binding > Bole > emotional value...
Many people show that they are "good at building relationships" and at best they provide "emotional value". In the face of blood ties and interests, this is nothing!
In addition, in order to strengthen the effectiveness of their power, those in higher positions will consciously suppress the rules, so that those in lower positions cannot see a clear path for promotion and can only choose to rely upward.
For example, in ancient times, what determined the promotion of lower-level bureaucrats? It is the support and recommendation of senior bureaucrats, which is much more important than the performance appraisal of the bureaucracy. Who do you think they will support?
The logic of personal attachment will solidify the upper class, and gradually, water will no longer be poured in.
Therefore, even if he is a silver spoon, he will feel that business is getting more and more difficult. There are many new projects and new projects, but he just can't get them.
更严重的是，这种依附逻辑会沿着权力脉络，不断向下层社会延伸。
于是你会发现，许多领域很快就没了明规则的生存空间。
Secondly, in order to transfer conflicts, the upper levels will adopt vertical and horizontal methods to create mutual opposition at the lower levels.
The so-called vertical cutting is to carve out the more disadvantaged among the disadvantaged classes.
Because the upper level will not easily transfer their own interests, but will only transfer some of the interests of the lower level to another part of the lower level with greater bargaining power.
For example, in the United States, black people have been discriminated against for two hundred years, but they turn around and discriminate against new immigrants from Hispanics and Asians.
The same was true in ancient China. The stricter the class hierarchy and the more severe the feudal education, the lower the status of women.
This is a specific cultural context created by the ruling class to maintain a hierarchical society - transforming the dissatisfaction of the lower classes into oppression of the lower classes.
In a class society, everyone is exploited and everyone is an exploiter.
For example, when you enjoy cheap takeout and lament that the delivery efficiency is inferior to Europe and the United States, have you ever thought that this is at the expense of exploiting the bottom workers?
As for the so-called cross-cutting, the most typical example is the "identity politics" in the United States. The establishment elites side with women's rights, LGBT and new immigrants, while Trump uses the banner of anti-establishment - supporting Protestants and old white men from the Rust Belt.
In fact, 99% of the sufferings of these people at the bottom are the same, but the American elite takes advantage of the 1% difference to separate them and pit them against each other, thereby ignoring class contradictions.
Using the same technique, one can also think of the African country Rwanda.
In order to better control Rwanda, the Belgian colonists forcibly divided the Rwandans into Tutsi and Hutu based on whether they owned more than 10 cattle, as well as appearance factors such as height and weight, nose bridge height, nose width, and neck length. , and printed on the ID card. Then they supported the small Tutsi and suppressed the large Hutu.
After decades of torn apart, the conflicts between Hutus and Tutsis have deepened, resulting in a tragic massacre in 1994. The movie "Hotel Rwanda" tells this story.
Third, the golden spoon will instinctively suppress emerging fields.
As mentioned earlier, the way for silver spoons to break through upwards, apart from being included, is to "not take the usual path."
But the silver spoon can control the silver spoon's upward opportunities by controlling power resources such as certification, qualifications, operating rights, and bank loans.
For example, in Japan, after the bubble crisis, their technology tree was always wrong. A big reason is that its banking resources are completely controlled by a few large consortiums. Even if they are wasted to extend the lives of zombie companies, they rarely flow into the field of innovation.
This move created a large amount of junk assets for banks and caused a huge credit crisis in Japanese society. Its harm was much greater than the decline in housing prices. It was the real culprit of Japan's "lost thirty years".
There is another example that illustrates this problem. In the movie "A Good Show", a group of people lived on a desert island and formed a "primitive" society.
居于统治地位的小兴看到有可以搭救他们的轮船经过时，第一反应竟不是通知众人，而是隐瞒消息，何解？
因为回到文明世界，他的高层地位就没了。
So was Emperor Qianlong's refusal to open his eyes to the world really out of the arrogance of the Celestial Empire?
I prefer to believe that he was worried that once the maritime ban was lifted, a powerful bourgeoisie would be born and threaten the imperial power. Out of the need for convenient rule, he deliberately restricted the lower levels of the empire to an inefficient small-scale peasant economy.
The above, whether it is the extension of the logic of personal dependence, vertical and horizontal governance methods, or suppression and restrictions on emerging fields, will lead to an increasingly solidified class society.
This is determined by its top-down distribution structure and is not subject to anyone's will.
Although we are unhappy, we still need to understand that at this stage of development of human society, class differentiation cannot be avoided.
Because social resources are limited, efficiency can be maximized by concentrating them in the hands of a few elites.
比如在一个原始部落，大家都以捕猎为生，后羿每天能打到10只兔子，其他的9个猎手只能打1只。
这时天上掉下一把神弓，谁拥有它，谁的捕猎能力就会增加10倍，请问这把弓该给谁？
给后羿，部落捕到的兔子是10＊10＋9＝109只；
给其他人，部落捕到的兔子是10＋1＊10＋8＝28只。
应该给后羿对不对？
The next question is who has the right to make this allocation.
As a result, a class society based on the logic of distribution of power and economic resources emerged. Its original intention was to improve the efficiency of resource utilization.
The logic of Marxism in eliminating classes is that the productive forces are highly developed and social resources are unlimited.
In the above example, it is equivalent to having countless divine bows for free use, so there is no distribution problem.
Obviously, the current stage is not developed enough, and class differentiation cannot be avoided, so who should control the resources has become the most important social proposition.
The simplest and most effective logic is - whoever has the ability to make good use of resources should become the ruler of social resources.
For example, Hou Yi was the best at shooting arrows.
This explains why capitalism brings the British, and it can defeat feudalism and bring the Qing!
What is the logic of capitalism? ——Whoever can seize resources can control them.
This is of course problematic, because seizing resources and utilizing resources are obviously not the same ability. But it is still much better than feudal hereditary, because the logic of hereditary is-whoever is born well can control the resources.
Reincarnation is not about ability, it is about luck that can only open a blind box once.
Moreover, because you are born to win, you don’t have to compete for jobs, but your abilities are removed.
The difference between a person who is good at grabbing resources and a person who lies on the resources after opening the blind box is basically the same as the difference between a stone and an egg.
The solidification of classes, to put it bluntly, is the hereditaryization of classes, which will inevitably make society lose its competitiveness.
Therefore, the country has sufficient motivation to tear down the barriers to upward mobility for the lower class. This can be firmly believed!