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This kind of scene must be familiar to you.

People are pouring into cities like swarms, putting great pressure on urban resources, including public resources such as air, fresh water and food.

As a result, most people had to endure dirty air, dirty fresh water, poisonous food, and anxious emotions. Instead, remote villages became people's ideal living environment.

At this time, the "higher class" began to travel to the countryside for sightseeing, and even settled in places with beautiful environments, which soon became a gathering place for the rich.

However, ordinary people did not have such a good choice, because people at that time only had a few days of vacation each year, which was not enough to rest, and it was impractical to go out for fun.

In order to obtain more leisure time, the general public began to launch labor movements and finally obtained sufficient rest time.

With ample rest time and the advent of modern means of transportation such as trains and bicycles, people quickly embarked on their own travel tours, thus forming a new way of consumption - tourism .

However, not everyone is keen on traveling. Many people don’t even know what to do on vacation, so they can only spend time in the bars, restaurants and clubs prepared for them in the city. .

At this time, the civilization level of the "high class" has become their own natural protection umbrella, at least they will not do anything that will harm themselves.

But the people at the bottom are different. They take drugs, drink alcohol, fight, fight, engage in prostitution, and gamble, which leads to the social order getting worse and worse...

In this way , the government needs to come forward to manage people's free time, including prohibiting various bad activities and organizing various beneficial activities.

As a result, large-scale activities such as sports and sports events began to enter the lives of the lower class people, especially passionate sports such as football, basketball and volleyball, which can often attract thousands of people to watch.

These movements not only improve the quality of life of people in their free time, but also promote a new consumption model.

On this basis, many cultural and artistic events have also developed, and cultural and entertainment venues such as theaters, concert halls and stadiums have appeared...

This is not fiction, it is fact.

This is not now, this is the European countries in the 19th century. The "higher class" is actually the aristocracy.

These fragments were excerpted when I read "A Brief History of European Culture".

There is nothing new under the sun.

Words of wisdom.

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What is worth pondering is not the similarities across time and space, but the logic behind this social phenomenon.

—— Consumption stimulates the economy, and the economy expands its strength. Strength determines everything. This is the essence of economic society and commercial civilization.

This is what the author said.

It turns out that the construction of a country ultimately depends on the efforts of every citizen, and the so-called economic society is to use economic means to encourage people to contribute money and efforts to national construction, specifically consumption.

For example, during the operation of a company, individuals must pay various taxes when participating in commercial or non-commercial activities.

Therefore, in social activities, people seem to be working for themselves, but in fact they are contributing to the country. The more income a person has, the more consumption power he has, and he can bring benefits to society. The economic benefits will be greater.

Obviously, people’s consumption power and consumption vitality will inevitably become important economic parameters for this country.

Therefore, in the 19th century, European countries worked hard to improve the consumption power of their residents and launched a series of policies to stimulate consumption, hoping to use the consumption boom to drive economic prosperity.

——Compared to cities, rural consumption power and vitality are relatively lacking. How to improve their consumption power and vitality? The easiest way, of course, is to turn them into citizens.

This is what European countries did in the 19th century AD.

The above scenarios are exactly the problems faced in the process of urbanization and the solutions of "taking advantage of the situation".

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What does this tell us?

1. Only by following the trend can you get twice the result with half the effort

There are natural trends and artificially constructed trends. What is natural is like human nature, which seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages, and what is artificial is like policies and guidelines. Only by following the trend can one make a huge difference.

To put it bluntly, it is very important to figure out the intentions of top-level buildings and as small as immediate bosses and business partners

- Just like a few years ago, a stock investor posted, "Xinwen Lianbo" reported that the manager ate home-cooked pickles on the plane the day before, but did not reveal what the "home-cooked pickles" were. The next day, Fuling mustard rose to the limit. After that, the stock price continued to rise from more than 30 to more than 40. ——

And the bigger the business, the more so.

This is also the reason why the giant businessmen I visited watch current political news and read N daily newspapers every day.

2. Think more independently and follow the crowd less.

Many times, what you see is what others want you to see.

What you follow is what others want you to follow.

Even what you are doing is what others are guiding you to do.

Just like, entertainment comes first, or even, entertainment leads to death.

Driving and being driven, assimilating and being assimilated, projecting and being projected, paying and being paid, consuming and being consumed.

That’s all.

Therefore, we must learn to see the essence of things, and then stand on the leading side, not the dominated side.

Third, strength determines everything

After knowing that the essence of economic society and commercial civilization is that "consumption stimulates the economy, the economy expands its strength, and strength determines everything", you should understand

——In the business society, whether it is a country or an individual, strength determines everything, and a large part of strength refers to economic strength. There is no denying this. Whether you admit it or not, this is a fact.

Therefore, it is irrational to pursue some meaningless expressions or even comparisons for the sake of vanity that exceeds one's own consumption power.

To put it bluntly, what you need to pay attention to is how strong your real strength is and how much your assets are.

In short, as an individual, you should still use your strength as your boat and independent thinking as your oar. Don’t follow what others say or follow the crowd. In this way, even if you cannot become famous, at least you will not become someone else’s director without knowing why. The cannon fodder of the "human farce".

I am Wu En, wish you well.