The Brutal Equation of Contemporary Working Life

To be honest, a job that pays two to three thousand a month really just means you're paying to work. If you also have to pay rent, you are basically working for your landlord. Even if you own your own house and don't have to pay rent, this amount of money is barely enough to survive, let alone allow for any spending—you're basically kicked out of the consumer market.

To live like a modern person, you need at least a house and a monthly income of 5000; that's the ticket to enter the consumer market. If you want to get married and have kids? Without a house and a salary over 7000, don't even think about it, otherwise just the cost of diapers and formula will make you question your life.

The most ironic thing is that our current production technology is clearly learned from developed countries, but we only copied the machinery and equipment, completely ignoring how they treat workers. It's like putting a Ferrari engine in a bullock cart—no matter how advanced the productivity, it can't overcome the drag of backward production relations!