The key to breaking class solidification is to understand these principles.

A reporter was in the country and saw a child herding sheep.

Reporter: What is your ideal?

Shepherd: herding sheep.

Reporter: What are you herding sheep for?

Shepherd: Make money.

Reporter: What do you make money for?

Shepherd: marry a wife.

Reporter: What is the purpose of marrying a wife?

Shepherd: Have a baby.

Reporter: Why do you want to have children?

Shepherd: herding sheep.

This is the story of the once widely circulated shepherd boy. Some people regard it as a joke, some people regard it as an interesting story, some people regard it as a joke, and some people regard it as an fable. Laugh it off after reading it, and you may not think about the deep essence behind this story.

Behind the story of herding sheep baby is the problem of class solidification. A generation of sheep, a generation of sheep; One generation is poor, one generation is poor; Rich generation, rich generation. After a society and a class are completely solidified, the convection between different classes stops, which is terrible. Because in such a society, what kind of person a person will become depends not on his ambition, intelligence and ability, but on his class identity.

Its terrible lies in this sense of powerlessness and hopelessness. Even if you have great skills, having a good father at home is better than a useless person; Even if you have a gift for absolute beauty, you can't compare with other girls who are eager to marry. Class attribute has become the only evaluation system that marks all relations between people.

What is the essence behind the solidification of social strata? On the one hand, different levels of convection channels are closed. On the other hand, the convection efficiency is blown. When the resistance and cost of cross-class flow are greater than the thrust and income, it can be considered that the convection efficiency between different classes in this society is blown. Although the channel is not closed, there is no obvious convection.

If the offspring of the shepherd boy will no longer herd sheep, he must first open his eyes and understand that there are many more promising occupations in this world than herding sheep. This requires a society and an open ecology. Secondly, he needs to have the opportunity to master the knowledge and skills to start a new career. The prerequisite for him to get this opportunity is that the knowledge of this society should be open. Ecological opening is the premise of knowledge opening.

What is an open ecology? There are rivers, lakes, seas, oceans, inland saltwater lakes and ponds in the world.

In every ecology, there will be corresponding biological communities. A loach born in a pond may never know. It turns out that there is an environment and possibility like the sea. Just like a shepherd boy can't imagine the possibility of life other than herding sheep. Because the ecology they live in is a closed ecology. What if all the rivers, lakes and seas are connected? Even if the loach still lives in the pond, it has at least heard of the sea. Although the shepherd boy still lives in the country, he has at least heard about the life of city people.

After people's eyes are opened, according to the biological instinct to adapt to the environment, he will weigh whether the benefits brought by the new business after deducting costs and risks in the new ecology are far better than the current living conditions. If he gets a positive conclusion, then he will start his own evolutionary tree without hesitation.

The so-called rich people's thinking is actually that in a social environment with open ecology and knowledge, they will choose to keep pace with openness and evolution and fill their evolutionary trees. The so-called poor thinking tends to choose self-enclosed solidification and uproot its evolutionary tree.

The real poverty is not the absence of wealth, but the self-solidification and backwardness of his time. There is nothing wrong with being poor for a while. As long as you keep up with the opening and evolution of the times and fill your evolutionary tree, you will become rich in the future. Real wealth doesn't mean having more money. No matter how much money you have, if you fall behind, you will soon become poor.

Historically, the prosperity of dynasties was caused by the opening of social ecology and knowledge. The downfall of the dynasty was due to the excessive solidification of the class, which led to the closure of social ecology and knowledge. There are three sharp tools to solidify social stratum: land, house and knowledge. In different historical periods, these three have played a role as a yardstick to mark different classes.

Land-dominated social stratum differentiation

1, strongman. From the books such as Salt and Iron, Historical Records and History as a Mirror, we can all know that in the period of agricultural civilization, land was the most basic factor of social and economic production, while the powerful men merged considerable land at that time and became super landlords higher than ordinary landlords, and their every move could even affect the ruling and opposition parties. So the rulers basically let the strongmen out at the first opportunity. Once the strongmen become bigger and the court can't help them, then the dynasty is not far from collapse. The ancient strongman was very crazy. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the social strongmen at that time dared to fight against the regular army of the state capital with their own soldiers and occasionally won several battles.

2. Landlord. Below the strongmen, control part of the means of production and organize social production. Small capitalists in agricultural society. They can't control the situation in the ruling and opposition parties, but can only control the order of one township and one village. Or in more fashionable terms, they were the middle class at that time. The backbone of maintaining social production order.

3. Rich peasants. Owning one's own land and farming on one's own is equivalent to the current household contract farmers, or to individual industrial and commercial households. Family is the owner, user and laborer of land. Owners and production workers are not separated.

Have plenty of food and clothing and live a well-off life.

4. Tenant farmers. I lost my land and had to rent the land of the landlord. After paying the rent, there is not much left. I have been struggling with food and clothing and the poverty line, and I have been living in poverty or suffering. In the movie White-Haired Girl, Yang Bailao's family is the daily life of ancient tenant farmers, and Huang Shiren's family is the daily life of landlords.

5. refugees Land annexation is getting worse and worse, and the big landlords are powerful. Through land merger, they have monopolized the means of production, so in order to extract more benefits, they will raise the rent of tenant farmers. Tenants who can't afford to rent or grow land become refugees. Refugees are the source of peasant uprisings in past dynasties. The outlaw Red Eyebrows, the Yellow Scarf Army, Huang Chao, the Red Scarf Army in the late Yuan Dynasty, the Li Zicheng Uprising in the late Ming Dynasty and the Tian Ping Uprising in the Qing Dynasty were all refugees. As long as the refugees are promised land after the rebellion, there is no need to mobilize them to fight. When a society and a stratum solidify and further polarize to the point where people can't live, then some people will destroy the existing established order at the expense of their lives.

The social stratum dominated by houses is divided into 1, and the city is strong. Someone who builds houses and can sell them at the high price they want. Because there is a monopoly. There are too many resources merged. They are super landlords. I won't go into details, as everyone knows.

2. City landlord. Uncle and sister Fang, real estate speculators, and some senior relocated households who were assigned to more than a dozen houses because of demolition. These people have dozens, dozens and hundreds of houses. Some local small developers also belong to the urban landlord class.

3. Urban rich peasants. There is no need to mortgage your own house, and some families can even rent several houses.

Small life is carefree and stress-free. Enter a well-off society ahead of schedule. In fact, the thinking of China people has not changed much. In an agricultural society, people are very rich, and their first reaction is to buy land. In today's industrial society, when people have money, the first reaction is to buy a house. These are deeply rooted things in culture. Such ordinary investors are not malicious speculators in real estate speculation. They are just based on the cultural inertia of our nation for thousands of years, showing their desire for real estate, for living and working in peace and contentment, and for advanced and more advanced. Because in the former agricultural society, rich peasants bought more land, so they could become landlords and rentier classes, and they didn't have to work anymore.

4. Urban tenant farmers. People in mortgage to buy a house, also called house slaves, regularly pay rent to urban landlords and rich people every month. I have been ploughing the land and paying the rent every month. In a few decades, this field can be my own. Is this field really your own? Before paying the rent, it was actually rented, because as long as the supply is cut off and the rent cannot be paid for several months, the land will be recovered by the landlord.

5. Urban refugees. Tenants in the city have at least one piece of farmland rented by themselves and can keep it for decades.

Urban refugees, for their own stability, don't even have a down payment for renting a piece of land. I can only do short-term work, change fields everywhere and keep moving. Although the rent is paid for the house every month, the tenants can see hope, but the refugees can't see hope. House slaves are at least qualified to be house slaves, and refugees are not even qualified to be house slaves. Refugees sometimes call themselves diaosi. Anyone who still has snacks and hope alive will humiliate himself with such a sad name. It can be seen that the hopeless life makes refugees use this evil word to solidify themselves.

Knowledge-led social stratum differentiation

1, knowledge is powerful. The era of knowledge economy is a global ecology. Now they control the giants of IT, cultural media and creative industries. They export not only information infrastructure and entrance, but also standards in content and so on. At the same time, they also exported a new religion, a brand-new religion in the era of knowledge economy, which is business ideology. Knowledge is powerful, and it is the primary operator and engine of knowledge economy.

2. knowledge landlord. The knowledge tycoon is responsible for dreaming, and the knowledge landlord is responsible for making up these dreams. They are knowledge power stations and downstream foundries of DreamWorks. They are responsible for turning the dream in DreamWorks into reality and giving it to users.

3. Knowledgeable farmers. It is skillful to be a value builder in DreamWorks and foundries. For example, Cheng, who earns hundreds of thousands or even millions a year, is a designer, strategist, financial miner, architect, screenwriter and so on. And the small team composed of such people are all knowledgeable farmers.

4. Knowledge tenant farmers. I have no creativity, knowledge output and value building ability. You can only buy other people's copyrights and IP, use your own platform and traffic, and rent other people's knowledge to organize production. For example, The Voice of China and I am a singer.

Such programs and the TV stations behind them are all engaged in the work of knowledge tenants. Although he earns a lot of money, he is only a tenant farmer. In the era of knowledge economy, people who can't export their ideas can only rent other people's fields to plant them.

5. Knowledge refugees. The update of knowledge has been seriously behind the development of the times. Abandoned by the times, I can't understand the world more and more. It has become an isolated island in the era of knowledge economy. This kind of isolated island may be a person or an enterprise. Why do some giants suffer serious losses or even go bankrupt in the short term in the new economic era? Because they have become an isolated island in the era of knowledge economy. For example, Nokia is a typical example. Tenants still know that if there is no creativity, they can copy and buy other people's creativity, and they can survive as long as they keep pace with the times. Knowledge refugees live in their own world and solidify themselves into an island. In the era of knowledge economy, no matter how big the island is, it is barren, and no matter how strong the historical performance is, the refugees will collapse.

The above is the division of different social strata in the socio-economic form of three different historical stages. At present, we are in the stage and period of knowledge economy. The basic characteristics of this era are ecological openness and knowledge openness.

The inequality of education, to a certain extent, has caused the solidification of social strata in the era of knowledge economy. The ecological openness and knowledge openness of knowledge economy provide more opportunities for people to fill the evolutionary tree. Education is just a starting point on the runway. What can you do if you start a second faster? Life is not measured in seconds. It depends on the overall performance to decide who crosses the line first. The trajectory of life is so long, there is no need to keep staring at a starter.

Even an ordinary person can be promoted to the knowledge-rich peasant class as long as he points out his evolutionary tree. If you can advance to the knowledge-rich peasant class, you will see a bigger world. After broadening your horizons, you will open up new opportunities and further fill your evolutionary tree, so that you can continue to advance to a higher level.

On the other hand, it refuses to open up, refuses to evolve, even unpluggs its evolutionary tree, solidifies itself into a self-class, and lives an island-like life in the rapidly changing era of knowledge economy.

More people may still live in the last historical class division era dominated by houses. And from this, I position myself as a social stratum, and use it to distribute the resources of life elements. In fact, times have changed and the world has changed. The era of real estate is gone forever. The biggest investment in the future is investment in knowledge, investment in one's own mind, investment in vision and investment in insight training.

In the former agricultural society, the decline of a scholar-bureaucrat took a long time. Now, years, even minutes. In the past, if a poor child wanted to get ahead, it would take generations of relay races. Now, you don't even know when it will become popular overnight. Xiaomi has become the world's top 500 in five years. What does this mean? Liquidity and efficiency at all levels are higher than ever before.

The previous social strata solidified through land, policies and houses. Now in the era of knowledge economy, is there anyone who won't let you surf the Internet? As long as you can enter this world, all the old social class solidified devices will no longer work for you.

In an era of connection, all class solidifiers are destroyed by facts. Because knowledge is intangible, there is no tangible barrier to stop this invisible torrent.

In the era of knowledge economy, the solidification of all strata is essentially self-solidification. In the era of ecological openness and knowledge openness, backwardness is not only a failure, but also a shame. Why? Because everyone is talking about dreams, and all you want to do is herd sheep.