I'm not happy.

Recently, it is increasingly found that the world is changing so fast that it seems to be abandoned if it is not careful.

Think of a sentence I saw before: the wool is on the dog and the pig pays the bill. At first glance, it looks like a joke, but the truth behind it is really terrible.

The change of society puzzles us. Many people break the rules, cross-border robbery, and break through the three views. The power of technology and the Internet is changing our lives and habits earth-shaking.

20 18, only two months left. What should we do?

0 1 Change or go out.

I went out to take a taxi yesterday and chatted with the master in the car. The master complained that the taxi business is getting harder and harder now, and I can't make much money after a tired day.

What is the reason? The master also analyzed it. First, the popularity of private cars, then Didi taxis, and now bike sharing and car sharing directly impact their traditional taxi business.

The master is a local and has been driving a taxi for more than ten years. I worked in a foreign country in the early years, then got married and never went out again. Because I had no other skills, I bought a driver's license and drove a taxi. At that time, I spent a lot of money and made many contacts.

It was still a good job for people at that time. No sun and rain, no effort, and the salary is not bad.

However, in the past ten years, the obvious feeling for the master is that it is getting worse every year. Especially in the past year or two, with the impact from private cars and Didi, he felt more and more boring.

An obvious example is that their starting price was six yuan five years ago, and it is still six yuan five years later. Originally, they expected the starting price to rise a little, but in this case, it would be fine not to reduce the price, and there is no need to think about raising the price.

I asked him why he didn't change jobs. He gave a wry smile. He also wants to change, but he doesn't know what to change. He can't do anything but drive these years.

I was speechless and didn't know what to say. Then I arrived a little late, paid the money and got off the bus, still thinking about this problem.

In fact, there are not a few people around us who have similar experiences with that taxi driver. They have been doing the same job day after day for more than ten years, never thinking about breakthrough and change, and never trying, but they gave up when they met some difficulties, so they stayed in their comfort zone and lived quietly and practically.

However, when life requires them to change, they find that they have completely lost their ability to change, and they can do nothing but their old jobs.

What's wrong with this life? Yes, everyone has their own way of life.

However, this way of life is not recognized by the society, and the society has been changing, and the surrounding environment is also changing. If you don't change, the result will be eliminated.

Now this society is no longer an era of "eating all over the world with one move". In fact, such "moves" have never been seen before, and we must adapt to the changes of this era.

Otherwise, either change or go out.

Only change can lead to a way out.

There is also a true story.

I have a client who is the boss of a company. There used to be 300 to 400 employees in the company, but now there are only 100 employees after layoffs. But he laid off staff not because the benefits were not good, but because the benefits were too good.

Because, in the past, the production process was low and a lot of labor was needed, but the labor cost was low, which he could accept. But now the profit of commodities in this society is declining, but the cost of labor is rising. Overwhelmed, he had to constantly improve his production technology to reduce his production cost.

But here's the problem. If the production process is improved, there will be no need for so many workers. As a result, he had to lay off employees.

The client later told me that he actually recognized the efforts of employees. Many employees work for more than ten hours every day, sweating like rain on the assembly line. But from a businessman's point of view, he doesn't pity these efforts, because they are unchanging efforts and don't let him see what they want to do.

He appreciates people who work hard, but he only appreciates people who can bring changes to this society and work hard. Those who keep working hard are pitiful and pathetic, because they have not brought changes to this society, but have been repeating the work of their predecessors.

So, sorry, we have to go home.

Isn't it cruel?

Yes, I thought so at first, but then I thought about it carefully. If not, maybe his company would have closed down long ago. He is 56 years old, but he is still innovating and starting a business. Why? Because he is also afraid of being eliminated by society.

It suddenly occurred to me that more than a decade ago, Dell was regarded as a classic case by all textbooks, and Nokia and Blackberry were also regarded as spokespersons for technological innovation. But now, Dell has withdrawn from the world's top 500, Nokia and Blackberry have been acquired, and the future is unknown.

If you don't change, you will be eliminated. You change, you have a way out. This is the truth that the world proves to us every day.

Society is punishing those who don't change.

I was born in the countryside. My grandparents are down-to-earth farmers, and so are many neighbors. As far as the degree of hard work and diligence is concerned, we are far behind now.

I remember my parents left me at home with my grandparents when I was a child. Every day, my grandfather goes out to work in the fields after five o'clock. My grandmother cooked lunch and sent it to him. I didn't go home until eight or nine in the evening, ate a few mouthfuls in a hurry, and then continued to do housework until very late. This kind of day is not a day or two, but year after year and decades.

Even so, in the past few decades, the life of my family, including my neighbors, has hardly improved much. It was not until more and more people in the village went to college and more and more people went out to do business that the situation slowly changed.

So I knew from a very young age that I should never be moved by my own efforts, because there are too many people working hard in this world, and it is really difficult to change a person's destiny without making breakthroughs.

Whether it is taxi drivers, laid-off workers or our grandparents, their efforts are often like this: they were doing it ten years ago, and they are still doing it ten years later. The methods and methods have hardly changed, and the efficiency has hardly improved.

But in this decade, the world has been turned upside down, the internet has been pervasive, artificial intelligence has advanced by leaps and bounds, robots have replaced factory workers, unmanned drivers have replaced drivers, and mechanized farming has replaced farmers.

Such changes make every ordinary person less and less valuable and competitive.

Our older generation, perhaps because of the economic and national environment, have no conditions to receive a good education, and thus have no ability and consciousness to change the breakthrough.

But now, almost everyone is a college student. In fact, most people are doing repetitive jobs that have no improvement and fantasize about changing their destiny with this job.

Unfortunately, what they expect may never come, because such efforts are really worthless.

You know, eat small fish used to be a big fish, but now it's the fast fish that eats the slow fish. If you stay the same, then you will be punished by this world.