The narrator said: Ye Yu, I can understand the reasons for giving up on dreams, but I don't understand why "most people" give up on dreams?
Ye Yu said: What else could be the reason? It’s not that most people are poor. Because I am poor, I have no money to pursue my dreams. If you don’t have money and you have to survive, you can only spend your time making money. Since we have no money or time, how can we have time to pursue our dreams.
When talking about the poor, it is inevitable to talk about the rich. To answer your question clearly, we must first admit that the world is in the hands of a few rich people. After all, the 10% of rich people control 90% of the world's wealth and resources. Whose hands do you think the world is in?
Secondly, the significance of the existence of the poor to the rich has resulted in the vast majority of people being poor.
for example:
Some time ago, I saw an Internet celebrity posting a video online about global warming and calling for the protection of polar bears. He said that polar bears have fewer and fewer places to stay. When it can no longer swim, there will be no more polar bears.
At that time, I thought this person was so disgusting. Why can't wealth and wealth be shared, but sins must be shared equally?
I do not understand the meaning?
For example, house prices are soaring, I can’t afford a house, and I have no place to stay. As for me, who can't afford a house, I can't afford a car, and I can't bear to turn on the air conditioner. In this way, I need to bear the responsibility for global warming. I have never been to the beach, but the garbage on the coast is my fault. When I was a child, I advocated not eating shark fin, but the only time I saw shark fin was in Yao Ming's public service announcement on TV, "No buying and selling, no killing." I couldn't afford it, so I was protecting it, so naturally it was for those who could eat it. Shut up, those who are angry.
3% of the world's richest people consume 65% of resources, so they call on 97% of ordinary people to save resources. Will the savings be used by the rich in the end? The water that a poor man saves for 20 years is not as much as the water that a rich man uses to maintain his golf lawn in one session. You must know that the faucet in Dai Shan’s house is never turned off. Are we who save water like clowns?
A very small number of rich people in the world consume the vast majority of resources. While the rich consume resources, they call on the vast majority of ordinary people to save resources and live environmentally friendly lives. If you save till death, who will use it? Or for the rich.
Bill Gates preaches environmental protection every day, but no matter where he goes, he uses private jets to fly the same distance. Ordinary people fly on airlines, hundreds of people fly on the same plane, but Bill Gates flies on private jets, which is equivalent to saying that Bill Gates One person's carbon emissions are equivalent to hundreds of people.
The rich and famous promote green travel and encourage ordinary people to drive less. The ultimate goal is for everyone to equally share the carbon dioxide they produce.
This is called wealth cannot be shared, but sin must be shared equally.
The water in two standard swimming pools is enough for an average person to use for 80 years, including eating, drinking, bathing, flushing toilets, etc. It is meaningless for ordinary people to save water, but it is harmful. For example, leaving handwashing water to flush the toilet makes the toilet smell unpleasant.
Disposable chopsticks are made of fast-growing wood and do not affect the environment. One tree can produce enough disposable chopsticks for an ordinary person to use for a lifetime. The public chopsticks outside cannot be washed clean and are greasy, causing various potential infectious hazards. Many of the things they call on you to use sparingly actually have no meaning at all and will only bring you trouble.
Thinking of a previous question, if aliens came and had to sacrifice you to save the earth, would you be willing?
Do you think I would? When you were enjoying your blessings, you didn’t think about me. But when it was my turn to sacrifice, you told me some great truths about sacrifice and dedication. You asked me to contribute to the continuation of the world. Do you think I would be willing? Then I usually tell you the truth about sharing blessings and sharing resources. Are you willing?
This is the reality of society - the rich are squandering and the poor are guilty.
Real environmental protection should be about "asking the rich not to waste", rather than asking ordinary people to save.
Their bad deeds are very subtle - they work hard to teach you how to do them well, and then they let you do the bad things themselves.
Of course, I don't mean to say this to you to be as bad as them.
Rather, I want to tell you this social reality that you may not be aware of yet. We just need to be ourselves - it is enough to take care of our own conscience. There is no need to share the sins of others equally. That is none of your business.
The above is one of the meanings of the existence of the poor for the rich - to equally share the sins of polluting nature and wasting resources.
In fact, the world needs a lot of poor people, the more the better. The greatest wealth of the rich is not luxury cars and mansions, nor the mess of cultural relics and savings. The greatest wealth of the rich is the poor. So someone deliberately keeps you poor, preferably for generations to come.
80% of people who work hard support the 20% of people who get something for nothing, and the purpose of these 80% of people's existence is to help the other 20% of people live better, and then these 20% of people rack their brains and constantly design Various rules restrict and control 80% of the people. The wealth of the rich comes from the labor of the poor. The harder the poor work, the richer the rich become. This is the so-called getting rich through hard work.
If your own hard work can make you rich, the richest man in the world now should be a donkey.
Why do poor people become poor? It’s not necessarily because poor people are lazy, unmotivated, and don’t work hard, but because all of this is designed, but you don’t know it. Some people have specially designed many poverty traps to make it difficult for the poor to overcome this rhythm. When you work hard for several years, have a little savings, and design a house loan and a car loan, which will wipe out your future decades, you get a car and a house through the car loan and house loan, and you feel proud. , but they don’t know that these are just a trap.
Then you have to leave early and come back late every day. You are so busy that you can't stop. You have no time to think about other things, so that you will just make ends meet for the rest of your life, and you will never turn around. The biggest gainers of benefits are often those who do not abide by the rules and take advantage of them. After they get their benefits, they start to make rules for everyone to abide by to ensure their own benefits.
So by now you should understand why "most people" will give up on their dreams.
. . .
In the Daxia Palace, at a simple harem family banquet, Daxia Emperor Xia Wuyan, Queen Luo Qingyuan, Prince Xia Xinghe and Princess Xia Yimo were sitting together.
Today is the happiest time for Luo Qingyuan. She understands that as a member of the royal family, although she can enjoy the splendor, wealth, and fine food and clothing of an ordinary family, the price she pays at the same time is that the family spends less time together and more separation. Sometimes Luo Qingyuan would think about what if her family of four were just ordinary people: men farming, women weaving, and children going to school. When the children grow up, they are reluctant to leave their lives as a married couple and stay together until they grow old. In their own eyes, the ordinaryness is sometimes more dazzling than the sun.
But thinking about it is just thinking after all, so Luo Qingyuan cherishes this rare time of family reunion.
