Is the "reading uselessness" losing its market?

Advocating "reading is useless" has actually existed since ancient times, and Lutz also said:

"People and countries have it, so why study and then study?" What "nothing goes to the three halls" is even more immoral.

But this is also an example. After all, the imperial examination system since the Sui Dynasty and the discrimination against businessmen in ancient times made the theory of reading useless a joke.

Ten or twenty years after the resumption of the college entrance examination, there are very few people who can say that reading is useless and can be ignored. After all, college students who exist as social elites will not be ridiculed without foundation in any case.

Therefore, the theory of reading uselessness really began to be discussed, and even captured a large audience. This is a matter of nearly ten years.

The theory that reading is useless is untenable. In fact, many people know it, so the answer here is not whether reading is useful or not.

But whether the "reading uselessness" is losing its market, that is, whether the number of people who still believe in this argument is decreasing.

The answer is yes.

There is a premise to discuss whether the "reading futility theory" will lose the market:

In other words, the "reading uselessness" here is to roughly recognize the reading uselessness as the earning uselessness. Because if not, there is no need to talk about whether reading is losing the market or not, and there can be no market.

Knowledge, self-restraint, three views, and so on, how can reading be useless? Are you blind?

Therefore, what I am discussing here is also a utilitarian aspect of reading.

In other words, people now will realize more and more that reading has always been the best way to break through the solidification of the class and obtain "secular stability", and it will not change for the time being in the next few decades.

At least for the vast majority of people from ordinary families, it is.

From the perspective of public opinion environment, I thought for a moment and decided to look at the phenomenon of "reading uselessness" losing its market from the perspective of the public opinion environment where arguments breed soil.

Tell me.

1 month 10, Han Han Weibo published a long article "Education I Understand".

Write very chicken thief, I pick out some ideas:

The current education system, including the college entrance examination system, certainly cannot take care of all aspects, and there are many places to be improved, but no system can take care of everyone. For most people, it is basically fair.

The barriers of all classes in our country are not completely clear. As long as you work hard enough, there is still a great chance to break through the dimensional wall and go to a higher place.

Studying hard, working hard, getting into a good university and learning more skills in China will definitely change the fate of your life and family, which is much bigger than that in developed countries.

Han Han said shamelessly that he never said "reading is useless", but as a person who has read most of his articles, I can clearly say:

In Han Han's early articles, there are many negative emotions about "exam-oriented education".

But now you see, Han Han has grown up, trying to guide everyone who cares about him correctly.

In the past ten years, the Internet has become the main platform and public opinion carrier for the public to speak out. Self-media and savage self-media are becoming more and more free, and more and more people can participate and speak freely. At the same time, its guiding force is getting stronger and stronger.

Among them, people with personal influence are the initiative of public opinion.

We find that these activists are getting younger and younger. After all, the Internet is a stage for young people.

At the same time, most of them are highly educated.

A group of highly educated people will not tell you that "reading is useless". On the contrary, they will only make you consciously or unconsciously think that reading is useful.

This is a subtle change, and the public opinion environment of young audiences makes the "reading uselessness" slowly bankrupt.

Times have changed. From a realistic point of view, it is true that many people's wealth in the past did not depend on reading.

Take my uncle for example. He didn't go to college, but at the peak of his life, the former mayor of our city was very close to him.

My little uncle, because his grandfather was ill at that time, earned work points instead of his grandfather, and dropped out of primary school to herd cattle directly. But then I went to Shanghai alone and slowly gained something.

That era was an era of adventurers or speculators. It's really a sentence:

How bold people are, how productive the land is.

The events of those twenty or thirty years, to some extent, have been calm now, which can just be used to prove the inevitability that the theory of reading uselessness has gradually lost its market in these ten years.

Let's just say that it is still an age of adventurers, but this era has put forward more requirements for adventurers. One of the most prominent points is knowledge.

Moreover, the role of knowledge in this era will only be constantly amplified. Whether you are looking for a job or starting your own business, knowledge has become a threshold existence.

The diploma ten years ago is far less important than the present diploma. I mean important, not valuable.

Ten years ago, it might be good to find a job without a college degree. But nowadays, the popularity of higher education is increasing day by day. It's really hard for you to find a job without a college degree.

You said I was going to be a waiter. Why didn't anyone want me? I call you herdsman.

Diploma is not equal to knowledge, but at least it is the externalization of knowledge.

Secondly, it needs to be added that the career development potential with low knowledge requirements is far less than that with high knowledge requirements.

I worked as a waiter for several years, and I was promoted to a lobby manager at most. Awesome.

But everyone who works in an Internet company, if he can't get into trouble, will start a company and become a boss, and the dividends gushed out by the Internet will increase by millions.

Although it sounds incredible, there is no denying that this possibility exists. Moreover, the speculative channels that everyone can participate in are being continuously compressed and the potential is getting smaller and smaller.

However, knowledge-based speculative channels are constantly being explored.

For example, my uncle made a fortune by selling bricks when the construction industry was booming. Selling bricks to make a fortune now? It doesn't exist. Most of the opportunities to get rich now are concentrated in knowledge-intensive industries.

So you see, these days, seizing opportunities and grabbing dividends is increasingly inseparable from knowledge. Even if you find a well-paid job, you can't do without a diploma. You said that in this reality, who still believes that "reading is useless"?

The essential absurdity is the premise I mentioned at the beginning. "Reading is useless" is completely absurd in essence.

Reading is not equal to a diploma, nor is it simply equal to the skills learned. When we were in primary school, the teacher taught us. One of the purposes of going to school is to learn to be a man.

The school provides not only the purposeful learning process and the learning results that need to be completed. More, perhaps it is a subtle transformation of your diversified learning environment.

To put it bluntly, schools play an important role in the construction of a sound personality, and schools are equally important to the sublimation of a person's body and spirit in many ways.

So as I mentioned at the beginning, how can reading be useless? No matter from the spiritual level or the practical material level, reading can't be useless.

Nowadays, there are often some jokes on the Internet that are similar to "people should read more books if they are ugly". These jokes seem ridiculous, but in fact they show our generation's "seeing through" the "futility of reading".

The sublimation of understanding the concept of "reading" and the essential breakthrough of the argument of "uselessness" are making the "uselessness of reading" completely bankrupt.