Why are some people still poor and living at the bottom of society even though they have been working hard?

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Original title why many people work hard all their lives , Still living at the bottom of society ？

I wonder if you have ever thought about such a problem , I have been working hard , But I live very hard .

The following author makes some analysis on this problem , I wonder if you agree .

1, The biggest obstacle for the poor is “ Lack of home schooling ”

You passed the exam 985、211 Entering a big factory is a blessing , Or yellow robes for takeout , It is basically determined by the examination results , And the factors that determine the exam results , In addition to IQ , The most important thing is “ Family Studies ”.

There is a statistics. , It is said that nearly half of the top students in the college entrance examination are from teachers' families , This shows that teachers have high IQ , Children have inherited their parents' high IQ , That's why I did well in the exam ？ Not necessarily , In essence, teachers master more than ordinary people “ Exam routine ”.

Examination competition is essentially a race against time , Who can learn more problem-solving routines in the same time , Who can win . Therefore, master learning skills , Ponder the teacher's intention , summary “ Examination methodology ” crucial .

If the child's parents are not Xueba , There is no money to go to a good school , Unless the child is gifted , Otherwise these things , Children alone cannot figure it out , Ordinary parents only say to their children “ Study hard , Less to play games ”, In this way “ Family Studies ” something is better than nothing , It will be too late for the child to figure it out , What's the point of understanding the skill of seventeen at the age of twenty-five ？

Unless like “ College entrance examination madman ” Like Wu shanliu , Win with time , Take the exam more than ten times , From the second line in the first year , After that, the score gradually increased , I have been admitted to several famous schools in more than ten years , Finally, I was admitted to Tsinghua . One thing about black humor is , This guy went to private school later , Teach students exam skills , It's also the best use of things .

Ordinary parents “ Family Studies ” The lack of is also reflected in life guidance , The children are working , Their only guidance is “ Get on well with the leaders ”, As for how to have a good relationship with leaders , What should we pay attention to when dealing with leaders , There is no concept .

The ancients said “ precept ”, Actually “ Teaching by oneself ” The effect of is far greater than “ Words and expressions ”, How do parents deal with interpersonal relationships , How to deal with the outside world , Children will be intact .

Except for a few lucky ones , Most people are people from the bottom , In youth, they will be shackled by their parents' cognition , I didn't know the truth and operation logic of the society until I was hit by reality , But it's too late . Many things , Many reasons , You can understand it when you are old , But who knows better than society , Knowing early and late is a different fate .

If you were born at the bottom , The sooner you understand , All your parents' advice to you , In essence, it will pull you to a higher position in the same class as them , Because they only know the means of survival of their class , The lessons they have learned apply only to their class .

If your goal is to cross class , Especially climbing out of the mud at the bottom , We should use cruel self-education , Change the wrong education in childhood and adolescence , It's hard , It's hard to grasp the heart and scratch the liver , It's hard to get close to yourself and lift your hair off the ground , But not so. , There is basically no chance of class transition .

2, Poor people's “ Vulnerability ”

A word that often appears in history textbooks is “ Land acquisition ”, That is, the landlord annexed the owned land of ordinary farmers , Become a big landlord in the fields . So what is the process ？

The biggest difference between ordinary farmers and landlords is , It is difficult for ordinary farmers to have surplus grain , The output of the land can only barely make a living , Once the year is bad , The harvest is not enough for a year . When the wheat seedlings are still green in spring , The grain has been eaten , This period is called “ a new crop has not yet come ”.

So most farmers had to borrow grain from landlords , To get through this difficult time , But the interest of borrowing grain from landlords is very high , Often one year down , The grain produced in the field , It is less than the total amount to be repaid after interest rolling . therefore , Farmers have to sell their land to landlords to pay off their debts , In this way, the landlord achieved the purpose of annexing land .

You see , The biggest problem for ordinary farmers is “ Vulnerability ” Very high , Although landlords will also suffer losses in disaster years , But the rich wealth of the landlords made them “ Anti frailty ” Ability , Much higher than ordinary farmers , So that when there is a crisis , It can harvest ordinary farmers , Instead, it increases your wealth , But the poor will return to zero because of a crisis .

The most terrible thing is this “ Vulnerability ” There will also be intergenerational transmission .

A few years ago, there was a very popular article called 《 Beijing middle age under the flu 》, The author is a middle class living in Beijing , The newly retired father-in-law in Northeast China opened the window in winter because of willfulness , Caused a cold , And then develop into pneumonia , Changed several hospitals , In the end, I got into two thousand days ICU, Just start-up fee 6 Million of artificial lungs have also been used , Tossed around for more than a month , Spend millions , Finally, he was killed .

The author describes , The reason why it costs so much , Because his father-in-law has no insurance , The reason why he didn't buy insurance was that his medical insurance card prescribed medicine for his father-in-law's parents , The insurance company is likely to refuse compensation after the accident .

Such thing , It's essentially a “ Vulnerability ” Intergenerational transmission of , There is a term in economics called “ Intergenerational income elasticity ”, That is, the influence of parents on their children's income .

Atlantic once published an article called 《 We are the new nobility of America 》, In the face “ Intergenerational income elasticity ” Made a very vivid description ：

Imagine yourself standing on the socio-economic ladder , There is a rubber band tied around the ankle , The other end of the rubber band is tied to the step where your parents stand . The strength of the rubber band determines how difficult it is for you to break away from the steps you were born with . If your parents stand on the top of the ladder , When you fall down, the rubber band will pull you back ; If they stand at the bottom , When you start to climb up, it will drag you down .

3, Poor people's “ Scarce mind patterns ”  

This is an interdisciplinary team in the United States 2017 The research results of , The research content is the way of thinking of people under the condition of scarce resources . This research is Psychology 、 A model of collaboration between behavioral economics and Policy Researchers .

Research conclusion ： In the long-term resources （ money 、 Time 、 Effective information ） In a state of scarcity , Poor people's pursuit of these scarce resources , Will monopolize their attention , So that they will ignore the more important 、 Something more valuable , Cause psychological anxiety and resource management difficulties .

in other words , When you are very poor or have no time , Your judgment and self-discipline will decline comprehensively , Lead to further failure .

It's not hard to understand , Many troubles in life , In the final analysis, it is because there is no money , When resources are limited , You will encounter many trivial things , These bad things kill people's will , Waste people's energy , The pattern of limiting people .

The study further explains , Cultivated by long-term resource scarcity “ Scarce mind patterns ”, It will cause people to lose the mental power they need to make decisions , Research leader Murray Nathan called it “ bandwidth ”（bandwidth）.

A person with limited resources , Every day for “ Which shoe is cheaper ” perhaps “ The rent is 300 yuan less ” Worry about this kind of problem , It will produce ” bandwidth “ The situation of being occupied , There is no extra effort to learn and improve .

Everyone may have this experience , It's hard to concentrate on learning after work , After work, I just want to drink coke, play games or brush short videos , In essence, it's because “ Mind power ” Consumed by daytime work .

The survival pressure caused by long-term lack of resources , It will also cause cortisol to rise , Cortisol is also called “ Stress hormones ”, It sounds like a bad hormone , In fact, it is of great benefit . People naturally secrete cortisol before exercise and competition , It can temporarily improve memory and improve pain threshold . The human body can evolve and retain the hormone cortisol , It is the result of natural selection .

A primitive man who faced the beast , Whether he chooses to fight or escape , Appropriate pressure will enhance his vigilance and combat ability , Therefore, the survival probability will increase .

But too high cortisol has become a bad thing , It makes us overly negative , Magnify the bad side of things . Encounter opportunities will hesitate .

Here is a story about poverty alleviation .

2015 In, China began to implement targeted poverty alleviation , The Chinese Academy of engineering has also received the task of poverty alleviation . Academician ZhuYouyong, former president of Yunnan University , The average income of a person in Yunnan is only 1000 The deep poverty-stricken villages of Yuan engage in poverty alleviation . Academician ZhuYouyong is studying the local soil carefully 、 climate 、 After hydrological conditions , Decided to promote the planting of agricultural products suitable for local development — Out of season potatoes , That is, winter potatoes . Plant in November and February , It will be listed in March and April next year , It is the first potato to appear on the market in the country , No worries about selling .

But the local villagers didn't cooperate at all , Let academician Zhu and his students do science popularization explanation , The villagers just refuse to plant this kind of winter potato that they have never heard of ： We have never planted , What if I lose money ？

In desperation , Academician Zhu had to find a piece of land , Take the students to plant potatoes first . A few months later, the potatoes were harvested , The quality is really good . Driven by this , Finally, a villager is willing to plant 10 Mu winter potatoes , Sold after harvest 7 Thousands of dollars , In this country, the per capita income is only 1000 The place of Yuan caused a sensation , Under the influence of demonstration effect , The planting area of the whole county soon exceeded 10000 mu , The poverty rate in this county has increased from 50% drop to 2% about , Poverty alleviation has achieved great success .

Cortisol causes the poor to be extremely risk averse , Unwilling to take even the slightest risk , It will also lead to “ Delayed gratification ” Ability to weaken , Pursue instant pleasure , Earn money and don't save it , But to buy wine 、 Eat junk food , Playing games can make people happy immediately . Many middle-aged people will say when they are persuaded to quit smoking ： This is my only hobby , Even quit smoking , What's the point of being alive .

People at the bottom , There are too many bad things in life , Only dopamine secreted temporarily , Wash away these trivial pains , No , Life is going to be unbearable . This is why the poor seem to be more self disciplined .

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