In an era when people were extremely left-wing, it was impossible to imagine what a free market economy would be like. In the parallel world before Xiao Letian, there was a period of time where even farmers were prohibited from contracting land!
Was that vigorous reform that year really successful? The answer is, of course, no. In the early stages, even rural land reform was difficult to advance, and the social resistance to change was astonishingly high!
Rural innovation has given people a glimmer of hope, but industrial innovation is in deep waters. The interests involved here are simply too great, and the difficulty of reform has reached the point where local governments and the central government are competing against each other!
There are many cases where local governments refuse to implement orders, and even unjust cases have occurred in some extreme areas, and some people who dare to take the initiative to start their own businesses have been arrested and suppressed!
It is precisely under such a severe situation that the black and white cat argument was coined, the circle on the South China Sea was coined, and the slogan "Get rich first, bring wealth later" was coined!
Don’t think that the difficulty of innovation at that time was lower than that of the late Qing Dynasty. In fact, the situation was more complicated and difficult. If you are not careful, you may be following in the footsteps of the former Soviet Union!
Because China is so big, when hundreds of millions of people think about problems with one thought, that kind of powerful thinking inertia cannot be directly confronted!
Are you saying that the past system is backward and outdated? Maybe what you said is right, but there is already a large group of rentiers in that system. Who will give up the benefits that are easily available?
At this time, we can only rely on the little to lead the way, use the first wealth to drive the later wealth, and use the method of boiling frogs in warm water to slowly change people's hearts!
This argument of getting rich first and then getting rich caused great controversy in Xiao Letian's previous life!
If you analyze it carefully, society at that time generally had three levels of understanding of the argument about getting rich first and then getting rich later!
The first one is very simple, and it is also the view of most people, that is, some people get rich first, and you people have to share the money you earn equally with everyone. Even if it is not absolutely equal, you can still give us some!
Do you ever remember the rural predicament Brother Dayi encountered? He got rich first, but as a result, all the people in this village came to take advantage of him, and these people didn't even have the slightest sense of moral guilt!
Indeed, these people have no sense of guilt, because this is their understanding. Those who get rich first have to give me money. This is natural and natural, and this is what the policy promotes!
Is this big-pot spirit of equalizing wealth and poverty really the true meaning of the argument that people should get rich first and then get rich later?
If everyone in the world thinks so, then they are underestimating the great man who is in a high position!
This kind of secular understanding only exists among the lowest level of society and the least educated people, and the second argument is more common.
The second understanding is that those who get rich first should use investment and other methods to increase local employment rates and increase people's income levels, thereby revitalizing the economy!
This understanding is somewhat reliable. Basically, most of the local middle class and officials and management think so!
It’s right to think about it. You are from this county and this city. You succeeded because you were one step ahead and caught up with the good times. You are the first to get rich! Shouldn’t such a big entrepreneur invest and build businesses in his hometown?
When you make money, you help your hometown increase the employment rate and the income level of the people. This is also an idea of getting rich first and then getting rich later!
This argument is very moderate, and indeed many people do this, but how high is the proportion?
I'm afraid the ratio is 50:50! In reality, many entrepreneurs and capitalists who got rich first did not invest in their hometowns, or in other words, their investments in their hometowns only accounted for a small part of their assets!
And where does more money go? I went to the first-tier cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, went to the Internet economy, and even went abroad directly to make overseas investments!
At this time, there were a lot of doubts in society, and there was a certain amount of attack on this theory of getting rich first and then getting rich!
And those who don't use money to give back to their hometown will have all kinds of big hats slapped on them!
It is difficult for people who are caught up in emotions to see the whole picture of the whole thing, but if you let go of your attachments, jump out of this circle, and consider this issue from a higher level, you may have another sense!
First of all, the great man must have considered the situation when the first rich people transferred their funds and left their hometown without building their hometown!
Because this is not something difficult to predict. Anyone with some basic knowledge of market economics can expect this to happen!
Because no matter what the first rich person thinks in his heart, even if he loves his hometown elders very much, he still has to follow the most basic wealth principles when dealing with huge funds!
Chasing profits and avoiding risks!
Why are the assets of those who got rich first transferred? Because when doing business, you must consider where the market is, where the finance is, where the resources are, and where the infrastructure is!
Logistics costs, labor costs, financing costs, public relations costs... these must be considered comprehensively. If everything really depends on idealism, why is there a folk saying that investment cannot be achieved in Shanhaiguan?
Therefore, the second judgment of the theory of getting rich first cannot be wrong, but it is not the true meaning in the minds of great people. People's understanding does not touch the deepest thinking!
The first and second understandings are actually wrong, and they are not the original intention of the higher-ups!
So what is real? What is the real purpose of the theory of getting rich first?
The emperor's mind actually lies in the third understanding, and Xiao Letian's family had a deep understanding of it in his previous life!
Before Xiao Letian threw out the answer, he recalled his family elders in which parallel world he lived in. His parents, especially those who experienced the huge changes in the 1970s and 1980s, had many life experiences. It’s very sad!
The 1970s and 1980s were the best historical period for the Chinese to overtake and change their own class, because at that time everyone was living in a big-pot environment and had already developed inertia!
The deep blue ocean of the market economy belongs entirely to a great era without competition!
In that era, as long as you were brave enough to open a small restaurant, you could make a fortune. When the average worker's salary was only a few dozen yuan, it was very common for a private breakfast shop to make a monthly net profit of thousands!
Think about it, the income gap is hundreds of times, isn’t this money gained in vain?
Looking back, in the 1990s, before the housing reform, there were still a lot of houses with an area of 3,000 to 4,000 square meters in the capital. But look at it a few decades later!
There are many elders in Xiao Letian's family who missed that great historical period and watched the opportunity slip away. Is it because they have no ability? no! Are they lazy? Not at all!
It’s just that you have a stubborn mind and are unwilling to accept changes. You fall into the comfort zone of your habits and muddle along! Rather than saying that they are afraid of risks, it is better to say that they are afraid of change!
