However, compared with the past, young people nowadays seem to be bent on "making money" and even prefer to give up the time to study entertainment and fitness. What is reflected behind this phenomenon?
1. Young people urgently need money to get a foothold in the city.
Mao Mu once said in "The shackles of human nature": "Of course, people are not pursuing wealth, but they must have a life that can maintain dignity, so that they can work unimpeded, generous, bright and independent." That is, money is the foundation of your life and everything else can exist on it.
But now, it seems that nothing can show a person's achievements better than money. You may feel it in the chattering words "fund" and "stock" at young people's parties, stimulated by well-developed friends when chatting with friends, or felt it in the brightly lit office building in the morning.
You have to admit that money can solve 90% of things around us. Not all contemporary young people are bent on making money, but they are under too much pressure and have to concentrate on making money. Rent, food, clothing, housing and transportation, social feelings, travel and vacation, etc. There is no place without money.
Most of us are not rich second generation, and we all need to work hard and struggle on our own. If we are a middle-class family, we can help at home without too much pressure. But more people come alone, and their parents have no life savings. If they have no foothold, they can't go home, which will increase the burden on their parents.
Young people hope to earn more money, get a foothold in the city as soon as possible, and live a relaxed life without bowing for money. But when you have worked hard, but look at people around you who are better than you, they work harder. So I can only fight hard.
2. I can't accept myself correctly, and the sense of gap is too strong.
Young people have long been accustomed to living in a rapidly developing society, striving for achievement and success. But before that, few people told us how to accept ourselves and be a precious and happy ordinary person.
From small to large, parents and school teachers always compare us. We are required to work harder and harder, or we will not be able to get along in society in the future.
So from primary school to high school, from high school to university, from university to society, we seem to have been comparing with others. Comparatively speaking, we gradually have no way to put our position right. For a long time, such thinking inertia has left us in a state of self-denial, and we are extremely anxious at the sight of someone's success. So that when there is a gap between my ideal and reality, we always think:
Why? I'm not the one who succeeded?
Perhaps what young people should do is self-acceptance, rather than blindly fighting for it. Accept yourself now and accept that you want a better life. You must first admit your shortcomings. You do have some shortcomings. Then, get along with the problem through a more complete understanding of the problem itself. It is a part of your life, or from the perspective of some things, it is not all a shortcoming. Make money with a good and upright attitude.
As Du Mu said in Sleepless in the Tang Dynasty: "Mo Yan's fame and fortune, fame and fortune are personal enemies."
3. There are more and more restrictions in the workplace
You must have noticed that many big companies, especially some big Internet companies, are keen on recruiting young people. The age limit is getting closer and closer to 26. In China, entrepreneurs are getting younger and younger, which leads entrepreneurs to decide the age to recruit members. Generally, I don't want to be too old.
This is a main reason, in order to facilitate communication. Older entrepreneurs generally do not exclude young people. Young entrepreneurs, when recruiting entrepreneurial members for the first time, often exclude older employees.
The reasons for hiring more young people are obedience to management, ability to work overtime and travel, long working hours, energy, vitality and low salary.
Therefore, young people have a heavy sense of crisis and want to seize every opportunity to create a golden age.
4. Strive for self-realization, freedom of life and improvement of life quality.
Young people are keen on making money, in fact, in order not to rely on their families and their partners, in order to improve the quality of life, in order to have "freedom", let themselves shine a unique light.
On the positive side, focusing on money actually shows that everyone has more spare energy and financial resources, opportunities and support for starting a business are more common now, and young people have more choices and more money.
Anyway, trees move to death and people move to life. Try more and you may have a greater chance in life.
Finally, I hope that young people who have been trying to "make money" will eventually succeed. Share a word:
I want to live a few more years and die a few more years. Either I am destroyed or I am destined to be brilliant. If one day, you find me bowing in front of mediocrity, please fire at me.