This is actually another “coffin carrying parade”. In the face of such a young life who died of overwork, so many people began to push others and themselves, accompanied by tears. It is reported that a recent post on Sina, Sohu and other “microblogs” that “PwC female masters die of overwork” has attracted great attention from netizens. The Post said that a female employee of PWC, one of the four big accounting firms, died of acute illness due to fatigue. The female employee’s name is Pan Jie. She has just graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with a master’s degree. She is only 25 years old. After the post appeared, it was reprinted and followed by 10000 people in one night, and has now become the headline news of many websites.
The argument of “demographic dividend” has been rampant for many years, but now it seems that the time for society to squeeze this dividend is far from over. Obviously, what “demographic dividend” points out is not only the cheapness of labor, but also the intensity and overwork of workers. Pan Jie’s untimely death is such a timely and distressing case: for several months, she kept posting on her micro blog such statements as “I have a fever when I have a free time”, “I work overtime again”, “I wake up hungry”, “I roll all over the floor, and I want to sleep”. She really died soon. This not only means that the state of long-term overwork is really going to kill people, but also means that when a citizen continuously tells the world about her plight and pain, she does not receive any substantive concern.
It is not so much the long-term overtime and overload work that crushed the 25-year-old pan Jie, but the “demographic dividend” of this era and the dual pressure of real life that emptied her originally full life. The reality of low pay, the reality of low pay and the right to rest can not be guaranteed, the reality of low pay and the right to rest can not be guaranteed and the basic social welfare protection mechanism is lacking, the reality of low pay and the right to rest can not be guaranteed and the basic social welfare protection mechanism is lacking and the relevant legal system is weak, coupled with the anxiety of the people’s livelihood in the era of inflation, “everything is rising but wages are not rising.”, It has long become a bigger fact of this era: the pressure of “overwork” that Chinese workers generally bear makes this generation of workers, mainly young people, gradually hollowed out in the daily overwork. “Predatory exploitation” is a special expression.
I have a job but no life. Everyone has no smile on his face, and everyone is tired. When you are young, you work hard to earn money. When you are old, you spend money to buy your life. A society in which most of its members are in a sub-health state can hardly be said to be healthy. How many people in China have never worked hard, and how many have resisted? Is it true that, as someone once asserted, this generation of Chinese workers is for sacrifice? From the original meaning, “sacrifice” is a sacrifice for sacrifice. The hollowed out people are just such a sacrifice, either to their yearning for a better life, or to the exploitation and oppression of the system or system.
Calm, elegant, self-confident… All these are the temperament that the Chinese people in Lin Yutang’s works once possessed, but they have no relationship with the younger generation of working class in China, even including the middle class. As the commentators have said, the material and spiritual aspects of the criteria for measuring the middle class in foreign countries are indispensable, but the Chinese middle class, who came from the poor generation, still stay in the realm of buying a few houses and changing a few good cars. In order to realize the material “middle class”, they have abandoned the spiritual “middle class”. The sense of urgency and pressure brought by the fast-moving economic development had to make them give up their spiritual pursuit. Therefore, it is not so strange that the middle class in China “only makes money but does not read”—— The mediocrity of a social middle class predicts the deep sadness of a society in a symbolic way.
What Pan Jie’s death means is, on the one hand, the increasingly powerful national strength and, on the other hand, the increasingly hollowed out human resources. Isn’t it a situation that the two are strong in the outside but dry in the middle? Is China’s development necessarily at the expense of the spiritual and spiritual well-being of a generation? Although “your body and name will perish, and the river will flow forever”, shouldn’t the development of the country and society be based on the liberation and happiness of people first? In any case, we do not want to see a struggling and always sub-healthy China.
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