Original: Gu Ziming This article is authorized to be reproduced on WeChat official account: Political Affairs Hall Plus2019
The day before yesterday, Tianya Community, synonymous with China’s first generation BBS, encountered liquidity difficulties and launched a live broadcast to save the company. However, there were few viewers and only about 200 T-shirts sold the most.
As a content creator, I was very sad to see this tragic situation, but I was also thinking about why I created “Ming Dynasty Things” and “Tomb Robbing Notes”, and also praised the world of Ning Caishen and Shi Hengxia, so I ended up.
Thinking while having a meal, I finally came to the conclusion that no matter microblog, WeChat official account, or Tiktok tiktok, which came from behind, there is a core of “contract responsibility system”. On the platform, the creators own their own exclusive territory.
Although the overall efficiency of this model is low and can cause huge systematic waste, “private ownership” can maximize human subjective initiative and create various possibilities at the beginning of a thing’s development.
Moreover, due to human nature’s strong desire to protect private property, it will also drive a large number of vested interests in the reform to participate in the reform of the old order at the beginning of the development of this new thing.
Apart from the joint production and contracting responsibility system and the reform and opening up, the most familiar ones to us are the vast number of farmers who actively joined the army and were not afraid of sacrifice during the Agrarian Revolution, the end of semi feudal and semi colonial society, and the vast middle class who endured decades of housing loans during the land finance period, and the end of the Soviet style heavy industry mechanism.
Even in the past decade or so, the series of reforms that have broken the old order around us have essentially relied on the subjective initiative of the masses and mobilized them.
Eliminating traditional retail and starting e-commerce are Taobao store owners and live streaming influencers, eliminating traditional communication and starting Tencent’s empire are exclusive QQ and WeChat users, eliminating traditional media and creating new media are self media bloggers and up owners.
Even Yu’e Bao’s early success in reforming banks was because he gave everyone a private wallet that could continuously make money, uniting the general public.
Of course, his failure was also too proud to abandon the mass line and lose the support of the masses on the way to changing opponents.
So looking at Musk, this reformer, whether it’s PayPal for his exclusive wallet, Tesla for his exclusive space, Twitter for his acquired private online space, or Dogcoin for his private property, has successfully utilized “private ownership” and human nature. Every user he “captures” will unconsciously become his close comrade on the path of reform.
So Musk’s electric cars and energy storage stations will only buy cheaper and allow them to be privatized, because he is not trying to make money, but rather tying more people to his own tanks.
After chasing current events for so many years and watching the ups and downs, I have a deep feeling that reform is not better than whose plan, but rather who can mobilize the masses and create more vested interests in the reform process.
Therefore, with the emergence of the AI industry revolution, the previously stable relationships among all parties have also been shuffled.
If new capitalists want to reform the old order, they must attract more allies globally and open up more ports, just like IOS or Android stores back then, allowing more entrepreneurs to be driven by selfishness and give AI more specialized training and ancillary functions through their own efforts.
Based on our population size and quality, this wave of AI industry revolution is an opportunity for China, as well as many young Chinese people.