It's a lie to get rich through hard work! -Stop fooling yourself with fake diligence ~

But can hard work really make you rich?

Assembly line workers are hardworking and work 10 hours a day. Even if they don't stop all year round, they can't get rich through labor.

In fact, we also know that hard work does not necessarily make you rich. It is likely that the harder you work, the less likely you are to get rich.

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Let me make another analogy, such as primary school mathematics. We know that speed × time = distance, and distance is just a line. Only by adding the function of the second coordinate latitude will it accumulate into an area. If there is a third latitude, there will be volume. With more latitude, it will move and have life.

Hard work can create wealth. However, hard-working people may not share the wealth.

Why?

We must first understand the nature of wealth.

Where does wealth come from?

Many people say it comes from labor. Yes, labor can create wealth. Only through labor can we create products and exchange wealth.

If you work 8 hours a day and plant 200 kilograms of rice a year, then your wealth is what 200 kilograms of rice can get.

If you are diligent, work 12 hours a day and plant 300 kilograms of rice a year, your wealth is what 300 kilograms of rice can be exchanged for.

? At this time, wealth = labor. ①

This is active income. It is reasonable to say that more work is more, but it is not necessarily.

? So, is wealth completely equal to labor?

? Not necessarily.

Wealth is closely related to labor, but it is not completely equal to labor.

For example, you bought an automatic seeder, an automatic sprayer and an automatic harvester. These machines have greatly improved your productivity, so that you can grow 500 kilograms of rice only by working for 2 hours every day. Then your wealth is what 500 Jin of rice can get.

Although the labor force is less, the wealth has increased.

At this time, wealth = labor x productivity. ②

Productivity depends on many factors, such as knowledge, technology, tools, machines, processes and methods ... These things together determine your productivity in creating wealth.

So, is wealth completely equal to labor × productivity?

? Not necessarily.

? You made rice in China, and rice sells well because almost every household eats rice.

But if you produce rice in other countries, rice may not sell as well as China, because in some countries, not every household eats rice. For example, the value of rice in the United States is a little less than that in China. Therefore, if you produce the same amount of rice, you will get less wealth in the United States than in China.

The same product, because different customer groups have different needs for it, has different effects.

? Therefore, wealth depends on utility besides labor and productivity, that is, this is the essence of wealth.

Wealth = labor force × productivity × utility (3)

If the three factors correspond to the basic resources of this era, then labor represents population resources, productivity represents scientific and technological resources, and utility represents commercial value.

Understand this logic, you will understand that our country's early economic take-off benefited from our population advantage. The reason why the United States can sit firmly at the top of the international list is due to their advanced technology.

For individuals, labor represents the time you can invest, and productivity represents your leverage, such as knowledge, tools, teams, funds, etc. Utility represents the unit value that your labor can create.

? These three factors together determine the wealth you can create.

Although labor, productivity and utility determine the amount of wealth. But the most basic source of wealth is labor. .

Labor is "1", and productivity and utility are many zeros after "1". Without labor, there is no wealth. So we say that labor creates wealth? .

However, there are two very big problems in creating wealth through labor.

(1) First question:

In the early days, the total amount of wealth created would increase rapidly with each additional unit of labor time. But slowly, the growth rate of wealth creation began to slow down. After that, even if the working hours are increased, the total wealth created will hardly increase. This has reached an upper limit.

For example, your work is saturated. No matter how much overtime and repetitive work you do, it is difficult to get wealth equivalent to your efforts except for a little overtime pay that is not enough to make up for your health.

The second problem of labor creating wealth:

Is creating wealth equal to making money?

Not exactly. Creating wealth is not called making money, but distributing wealth is called making money.

Why do many people work 365 days a year and strive to create wealth, but in the end they don't get much wealth? It is because he has no right to distribute wealth.

For example. If you create a commodity, you need seven steps. Each step is completed by one person (we use the number 1 ~ 7 to represent the person who completes each step). Finally, this commodity was sold to 70 yuan.

So, here comes the problem: Seven people created 70 yuan's wealth. How should I divide 70 yuan?

According to the value created by everyone? However, it is difficult to measure how much value each person has created. This is the problem of performance incentive, which can be associated with the problem of sharing porridge with monks. (Review the past and learn the new-/P/99EA41B17E98)

Just as it is difficult for us to measure whether manual workers or mental workers create more wealth, we can only say that mental workers have greater power to distribute wealth because they are scarcer.

Therefore, hard work does not necessarily make you rich.

The essence of getting rich is not to create wealth, but to distribute it. Wealth is created by ability and distributed by scarcity.

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Therefore, if you want to have more wealth, you must do everything possible to improve your scarcity.

For example, for an individual,

The question you should think about is:

-Is my ability very lacking?

Am I in the scarcest department of the company?

-Am I the scarcest position in the department?

-Do I have the scarcest resource?

-Can the scarcity I have now continue to be scarce in the future?

Today we are talking about "Diligence doesn't necessarily make you rich". As you can see, we definitely don't deny diligence, let alone make a fortune. Instead, it emphasizes that diligence will bring wisdom, and life needs multiple latitudes to make a difference.

Grandpa Confucius has taught us for a long time-

A gentleman should not worry about not having enough to eat, be prepared for danger in times of peace, be cautious in words and deeds, be honest and clean, and be thirsty for knowledge.

I don't eat for a day and sleep for a night. It's no use thinking about it. It is better to learn. -Confucius "The Analects of Confucius Wei Linggong"

You don't have to go to Switzerland to see the snow.

You don't have to fly to Provence to see a lavender.

You don't have to wear expensive clothes to fancy restaurants.

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Yes, poverty limits imagination.

However, it does not limit your growth.

You don't have to witness everything wealth can witness,

But, honey,

We can always make ourselves better,

There is nothing more irreplaceable than this.

Irreplaceability is priceless.