For example, in a society, the upper class monopolizes and controls the supply of steamed buns, and only supplies 1,000 steamed buns to the cattle and horses in a year like squeezing toothpaste; even if there is a bumper wheat harvest and the flour is idle and moldy, only 1,000 steamed buns are supplied to the cattle and horses.

Then the superiors will design rules around steamed buns and bind a series of values ​​to the infinitely over-issued steamed buns; the media and experts will constantly instill in you and reinforce the important values ​​of steamed buns: not having steamed buns will make people look down on you, a man without steamed buns is not worth marrying, a man without steamed buns has no furs, steamed buns will always increase in price, so buy early and enjoy early...etc.

As a result, steamed buns became a medium for ranking and harvesting. When "cows and horses must have steamed buns, and cows and horses with steamed buns are awesome" became a consensus of the whole society, even if steamed buns themselves were not scarce and wheat flour was in unlimited supply, as long as they were monopolized by the powerful and became a necessity, and only 1,000 steamed buns were given to you a year, then the price of these 1,000 steamed buns would only be set by the 1,000 richest people in society. As long as the 1,000 richest people were willing to buy, no matter how expensive or unreasonable the price of steamed buns was, and no matter how many people thought it was a bubble, the sky-high price of steamed buns could still exist for a long time.

Therefore, steamed buns are not made for cattle and horses, nor are they meant to fill their stomachs. Instead, the superior people use steamed buns as a medium to fabricate a meaning, making the cattle and horses bear pressure and work diligently all their lives just for a lump of unlimited supply of flour; the superior people also rely on flour, fabricated meanings, and false values ​​created by themselves to exploit cattle and horses for decades and maintain their peaceful lives.

As long as a few variables are guaranteed, the sky-high price of steamed buns can be maintained:

1. The supply of steamed buns is limited;

2. The rate of increase in the issuance of steamed buns is lower than that of paper money, and the supply of high-end steamed buns such as cream steamed buns and red bean paste steamed buns is strengthened by the high-grade properties of steamed buns;

3. Maintain the consensus that the richest group buys steamed buns;

You think the sky-high price of steamed buns is unreasonable, you think the sky-high price of steamed buns is a bubble, is it useful? It will not change the slightest, and you may even become more and more powerless and insignificant under the influence of the values ​​given to you by your superiors, and finally be forced to become a person who buys steamed buns.

Of course, if you think that power makes all this unreasonable, you can also change it. There are only a few ways to change it:

1. Run away: go to a place where steamed buns are cheap;

2. Work hard to climb up and change your ecological niche: become a person who makes and distributes steamed buns, so you don’t need to worry about buying steamed buns;

3. Completely change the basic color of your own cultural attributes: don’t care, don’t compare, don’t compete, don’t be jaded, live only for yourself, life is so wonderful, how can you be trapped by steamed bread?

Support the positive and healthy development of the steamed bun industry, and eat steamed buns instead of frying them.

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