Behind the self-mockery of migrant workers is the strength of tenacity and upward mobility.

Recently, the stem of "migrant workers" has spread all over the network, and related expression packs and quotations have emerged one after another.

Either joking, inspiring, or deconstructing classic quotes, for a time, netizens who had been teased by Guevara's sentence "It is impossible to work" began to laugh at themselves and said "Good morning, migrant workers" to each other every day.

But are these surfers who call themselves migrant workers on social networks really migrant workers?

1 ? Why do you talk about "working"?

When I was a sophomore, I decided to take a winter vacation job in order to save money for Jay Chou's concert. My roommate was puzzled and said, "Why do you use the word' part-time job' instead of part-time job?"

Because … because this is a high-frequency word in my growing environment:

If you don't study hard, you will go to Guangdong to work.

I'm going to work in an electronics factory to earn money in the summer vacation.

I have worked in a garment factory for more than 2 years ...

In the context that people around me frequently mention the word "part-time job", it seems different to say "internship" or "part-time job".

Although I haven't personally experienced the life of an assembly line, I know a little about it from Chaplin's film Modern Times and the descriptions of people who have experienced it.

and it's not hard to find that people who are busy with the construction period or goods for a week and have no choice have no energy or will to speak online at all.

internet entrepreneur @ 丫丫丫? In TEDx's speech, he mentioned that he had been undercover in the factory for three months, and what was the most commonly used software for blue-collar workers? Wifi master key, QQ and audio-visual software.

Look, there is no Weibo, Station B, Zhihu or Douban.

So in fact, people who laugh at themselves on the Internet as "migrant workers" or who can surf the Internet all the time, keep abreast of hot topics and have the right to speak on the Internet are not really migrant workers.

2 why do you laugh at migrant workers?

On the other hand, people laugh at themselves by working, in fact, because they know the hardship of that situation.

And now the meaning of working is becoming wider and wider. It can be said that people other than the boss, no matter what line of work, salary or not, are all wage earners.

On the other hand, today's white-collar workers and workers are actually connected to some extent. As early as a few years ago, some people felt that the people who are doing ppt in the office today are actually no different from the women workers who stepped on sewing machines in those years.

It's probably all the same hard work, and it's all mechanical.

In the past, the gap between workers may not be big, but now, colleagues sitting in the same office, some of whom may be relocated households, drive Mercedes-Benz to and from work every day without paying rent, and their monthly salary is used for entertainment or socializing.

Most people, however, may be crowded in the subway rush hour, and worry about being late for work or not having a attendance bonus. Their monthly salary is used to pay rent or subsidize family of origin, and some of them are carrying mortgages.

Under such a heavy pressure, there is a natural need for an emotional outlet for the hopelessness of class jump and the confusion of future uncertainty, and the stem of "migrant workers" just meets such a need.

3 why aren't "social animals" on fire?

In the past two years, especially when the 18-year-old Japanese TV series We Can't Be Beasts became popular, the word "social animals" was often used by office workers to make fun of themselves.

this word refers to the employees who work very obediently in the company and are crushed by the company as livestock.

Paradoxically, however, "social animals" did not form a prairie fire on the Internet like "migrant workers". In the recent Baidu search index, "migrant workers" were dozens of times as many as "social animals".

why is it that the influence of social animals is not so great, which is also the self-mockery of office workers?

First of all, literally, the two species are different, one is livestock, and the other is human. Presumably, everyone would rather be human.

On the other hand, the meanings of the two are different. Social animals have a hint of silent resistance and sorrow against being squeezed, while migrant workers seem to clear up the gap between us (you and I are both migrant workers), which is more relaxed and uplifting.

No wonder there are so many jokes and emoticons about migrant workers.

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Summer of the Band, in the second season, the Chair Orchestra sang a song in Minnan, called Dream of Missing, which mainly tells the story of guitarist Zhong Ying's father working silently, working hard silently, and caring for the whole family with diligence and love.

There is a lyric in it-"Everyone has his own things and cannot exchange with others."

Maybe everyone laughs at themselves, but in life, they have the same energy as this song-gentleness, sureness and tenacity, and grow up.