Matthew Effect

Give him whatever you have, so that he can have more. No, even what he has will be taken away from him. "

This sentence comes from Matthew 25: 29 in the Bible. Later generations took this as an allusion and summarized the "Matthew effect", that is, the stronger the strong, the weaker the weak.

Matthew effect is the coldest rule in the world, but it is everywhere.

The richer you are, the faster your income will grow!

Thomas Piketty, the author of Capital in 2 1 Century, believes that the current rate of return on capital is greater than the economic growth rate, which will lead to the accumulation of social wealth to a few people.

In other words, the richer you are, the faster your income will grow! The statistics of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) confirm this point.

In the last 30 years, the incomes of high-income groups and low-income groups in developed countries such as Britain and the United States have increased, but the incomes of high-income groups (government and enterprise managers, financial practitioners and IT practitioners) have increased even faster.

The accumulation of investment wealth is like snowballing. At the same speed, the bigger the snowball, the faster the volume increases. Just like investing in a wealth management farm, the more investment, the higher the income. The proceeds become principal and then reinvested. After repeated several times, his income has exceeded the principal of small investors.

When Wang Jianlin's small goal of "making a hundred million first" was screened, did you ever calculate that Wang Jianlin's net worth was 260 billion, and one hundred million only accounted for 0.04% of his total assets, which was really just a small goal for him!

For young people with no property and an annual income of 100000, a small goal of 100 million is not too difficult, that is, not eating or drinking, working1000.

The higher the education level, the more attention is paid to education.

When the voice of "reading is useless" is rising at the bottom, the investment in education by the upper and middle classes in society is even crazier.

Last year, an article entitled "Beijing's Helplessness: How to Fight Baby in Haidian" was madly forwarded in the circle of friends of parents from all walks of life.

When the mainstream media bombarded extracurricular classes as a machine to cultivate exam-oriented education, the author revealed his children's courses in remedial classes:

Chinese is taught by the teacher of Peking University, and the children read the university and The Spring and Autumn Annals, but many of them are actually about history, which is a horizontal comparison of what happened in China's history and foreign history, with cultural and philosophical enlightenment.

English is taught by famous teachers in New Oriental, and children begin to spell naturally, not by rote, but by telling English stories.

Mathematics is taught by graduates from 985 famous schools in China. The Olympiad in the lower grades of primary school is enough for liberal arts students to surrender their guns, but children will be very happy when they learn it.

The author claims that his son gets up at 7: 30 in the morning, finishes class at 8: 00 in the evening, and has to do his homework when he gets home. After finishing his homework, he also has to read extracurricular books, usually children's books. He finishes reading one book every week, and one in Harle, including science and technology, history, geography and so on.

Maybe you will think that such parents are cruel and make their children suffer so much. What about a good happy education? What is even more cruel is that these are all requested by the children themselves.

He is usually controlled to go to bed at ten o'clock in the evening, but he often goes to bed later than this. The child is only seven years old! I'm really worried. Every time I tell him that you don't want to go to extracurricular classes, he always doesn't want to. He has a goal, that is, he can beat his father and have something he knows his father can't do.

The last sentence of the article is intriguing: success is really not the accumulation of a generation.

Of course, we don't have to be too anxious about this. Matthew effect is suitable for the centralized development of resources, and it is not all bad for us ordinary people, because efforts are also a kind of resources. As long as you are willing to pay and make progress, life will get better and better.

Any society will be stratified when it develops to a certain extent. The question I want to discuss with you today is: What are the fundamental differences between different levels of society? Is it the order of wealth?

No, it's actually something more subtle.

Divide society into three levels, upper, middle and lower:

1, upper class

The upper class is a group composed of big entrepreneurs, politicians, investors, rich second generation, stars and celebrities. The biggest feature of this group is that people are good at marriage and work together. For example, we often see news that an entrepreneur married a star; A star got the original shares of an enterprise; A rich second generation is with an online celebrity and so on;

Why do upper-class people always hold each other's hands?

In the upper class, there were few people at first, but then everyone became famous and heard about each other. If you want to know who it is, just ask. Everything is clear, so everyone attaches great importance to their reputation.

Secondly, everyone in the upper class holds a lot of resources, and everyone knows a truth in their hearts: they must have their own resources to exchange those in others' hands, so as to revitalize resources and control more and more things, so people in the upper class are willing to share them.

Thirdly, although the communication between people in the upper class basically belongs to the exchange of interests, cooperation is conditional, but because everyone has a certain background and strength, everyone has formed a mechanism of checks and balances. In general, few people are willing to do things that are "out of line" and "take big risks". Who will lose their hard-earned land to take advantage of others?

Therefore, although hypocrisy and have it both ways are indispensable among people in the upper class, at least on the surface, it seems that "you respect me one foot and I respect you ten feet". If one day two people have to turn against each other, they will not solve it themselves. In a word, upper-class people always try to keep a style.

2. Middle class society

The middle-class society is a group composed of executives, white-collar workers, entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized business owners and freelancers. This group should enjoy a comfortable life, but everyone is generally anxious. On the one hand, high housing prices and the influential Internet make them feel insecure. On the other hand, the wealth wave of real estate and the Internet makes everyone eager to move, so the biggest feature of this group is waiting for help.

Why do the middle classes have to wait for each other?

First of all, the best way for the middle class to change their destiny is to start a business. Almost everyone has plans to start a business, but starting a business requires certain risks. Their living burden (such as mortgage, living expenses and health reserve fund) makes it difficult for them to go into battle lightly, so everyone is waiting for a faster, more suitable and safer opportunity.

Secondly, entrepreneurship also needs to find suitable partners and partners. But in fact, what people in the middle society lack most is trust, which is mainly the result of the extensive traditional business and bottomless competition. After all, people are afraid of themselves. In fact, there are many talented and potential people in the middle class, but everyone can't hug each other with open arms;

Therefore, the middle class is the most embarrassing class. They can have ups and downs, but they have to face pressure, risks and doubts.

They are also eager to change and create, but it seems that they have been waiting for the opportunity to attack. However, how can there be opportunities and people tailored for us in this world?

3. Underclass society

The lower class mainly refers to people who have no means of production and only make a living by selling labor. They struggle for survival in the cracks. They often have no culture, don't care about dignity, let alone self-confidence. More importantly, they often complain, haggle over every ounce and trample on each other.

Why do the lower classes trample on each other?

For example, in the vegetable market, aunts will quarrel with vendors for a few dollars. Why? Because I really care about these few dollars. If you buy and sell vegetables every day, there will be a gap of a few dollars, so you will spend a lot more a month.

This is a kind of cost. If you can't afford the cost, you will be dissatisfied and angry, you will need to defend yourself, and then you will be forced to face it.

People with higher social and economic status will not embarrass waiters. Most of them won't.

Why? I think you all know that there will be a quarrel in the vegetable market because of the price of vegetables.

So, have you ever seen anyone arguing with a salesperson in a luxury store? Quarrel about this bag being expensive and this bag being cheap?

Have you ever seen a customer tear the waiter's face in Michelin Samsung? Even if the waiter accidentally made a mistake, most of the guests who can patronize Michelin Samsung will not tear it.

Why? Because I don't care.

Before 2000, Guan Zi proposed that "perseverance is only possible if there is a constant production". This sentence is really not casual. A person must have certain wealth and assets before he can have his own principles and positions. When a person lives for a living and is exhausted all day, he often wanders on the edge of transgression, crime and hard work.

Secondly, they always compare with each other and guard against each other, always afraid that others will live better than themselves. They are not worried about the success of people who have nothing to do with themselves, but always care about the success of people around them, which makes them feel jealous.

Even they will plot against you in the dark. You are in the light, he is in the dark, and they will take pleasure in making you unhappy. How difficult is it for the poor? Everyone is a vulnerable group and should help each other.

This is one of the most fundamental differences among the upper, middle and lower classes:

People in the upper class, everyone is staring at each other's strengths;

Middle-class people, everyone is waiting for the benefits of others;

People in the lower classes are waiting for other people's jokes.

In fact, this is also the difference between first-tier cities, second-and third-tier cities and the vast number of counties and rural areas;

There are too many capable people in first-tier cities, and everyone checks and balances each other and can only abide by the rules;

Although second-and third-tier cities have infrastructure, there are too few opportunities, and everyone can only stare at each other and have ambitions;

The vast county towns and rural areas are basically dominated by local strongmen, and the relationship is more important than ability, and calculation is greater than effort; Comparison is higher than life;

The terrible thing about class solidification is that the lower the person, the slower the progress. You are growing at 10%, but your upper class has been growing at 30%. You think you are getting closer and closer, but in the end you find yourself getting farther and farther away.