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Those who say ‘generation after generation is not as good as generation’
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Human beings have accumulated wealth for thousands of years
All knowledge, insights, wisdom, and art
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Technological prosperity, cultural prosperity, and urban prosperity
The achievements of modern civilization have been opened up layer by layer
Enjoy to the fullest
The above paragraph is from a video of the May Fourth speech “The Afterwave” released on Bilibili on the evening of May 3, 2020. I don’t know if my friends still remember?
The actor He Bing’s sonorous tone matched with the touching scenes in the video, and he quickly brushed the screen in his Moments, earning him “praise” on the hot search. Some people have tears in their eyes, blood gushing out, passion filled with fighting spirit, while others deeply feel that “this generation of young people is no longer the same”
At that time, although the mainstream evaluation of this video was good, there were also some rollovers, and many post-90s roast:
The people who go to swipe and forward are all post-60s, post-70s, or team executives. As “front wave”, they deeply feel that the era “back wave” is full of infinite challenges and possibilities, but we don’t think so ourselves
The young people in the video cannot represent the younger generation, let alone all young Chinese people. China is not only a first or second tier city, nor can everyone achieve their dreams
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Today we will talk about:
The “Houlang” people enjoy more than just the fruits of civilization
Soon, three years have passed. If this video was released today, there would be more roast than three years ago.
In April 2023, despite a slight decrease in the national urban survey unemployment rate, the urban survey unemployment rate for workers aged 16 to 24 reached a record high of 20.4%.
This number was 18.2% in 2022, 14% in 2022022021, and around 10% in 20192018.
So, if the video “Houlang” were to be released for the first time today, it would probably not have been “praised” for being hot searched, but rather “sprayed” for being hot searched.
Under the pressure of employment, the choices and mentality of young people have also changed. There is no joke like this: I chose to offer incense between going to school and going to work, and between seeking others and myself, I chose to seek Buddha.
Why, young people no longer “want to struggle” and do not become “backward waves”? It is because “backward waves” not only enjoy the fruits of civilization, but also bear the “burden” of civilization
Of course, this situation is not unique to China. In 2023, it will not be easy for young people around the world:
Let’s take a look at South Korea around us first. The information about the collapse of the South Korean real estate market in the past two days has been flashing on the screen. The overall housing price in South Korea has been declining for 9 consecutive months, with a drop of over 30%.
Why did the South Korean real estate market crash so quickly? Because South Korean real estate is a unique form of rental, full rental housing.
A fully rented house is this house. Tenants only need to pay a 50% to 80% deposit to the owner, and the house can stay for two years for free. After the two-year period expires, the deposit is fully refunded, which is equivalent to living in the house for two years in vain. Many landlords will use the tenant’s deposit to continue buying and renting houses, and then continue to use the deposit to buy houses, continuously increasing leverage to invest in the real estate market. So this also gave birth to a large number of speculators.
And when housing prices collapse, landlords run away, and tenants suffer the most. In the past April alone, South Korea has reported at least 17 tragedies of suicide among victims of all rent fraud.
And most of the victims of full rental housing are still young people who have just graduated from society, and have not yet struggled much. Their lives have already lost at the starting line, and they still have to bear the burden and move forward in the future.
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Take a closer look at Ukraine.
According to a chart published by The Times in the UK, Ukrainian men and women aged 20-25 have actually become extinct. Compared to 2021, the number of men and women in the 20th generation of Ukraine in 2023 has decreased by more than two-thirds, and the population line for the entire age group around 20 has completely declined.
Ukrainian women have left the country and never returned, but what will happen to such refugees? Everyone knows that local practitioners in “certain industries” in Europe represented by the Netherlands are said to strike to protest against unfair competition of “Ukrainian” women and demand government regulation. And young Ukrainian men were unable to leave, and most of them died in battle on the battlefield.
It should be noted that whether it is due to “full rental housing” in South Korea that the property is ruined, or it is due to “disappearance” on the battlefield in Ukraine. This group is all born in the 1980s and 1990s, which is also known as the ‘post wave’.
Of course, is the world so cruel and pessimistic? Not really. In the past two days, as soon as Musk left in China, Huang Renxun was about to come.
Huang Renxun is not as well-known as Musk, but his influence is not weak at all. He is the founder of NVIDIA, the world’s largest semiconductor company, and recently, NVIDIA’s market value exceeded $1 trillion.
As an arms dealer in the era of artificial intelligence, Nvidia’s GPU is widely used for training large models.
Among them, according to OpenAI’s publicly available data on ChatGPT, its entire training computing power consumption requires 10000 Nvidia A100 as the computing power base, taking into account interconnection losses.
In March 2022, NVIDIA launched its top-notch GPU chip H100, which can improve the speed of training large models by more than 30 times.
What is Musk talking about? On the last day of the new energy visit to China, Musk met with Shanghai Municipal Party Secretary Chen Jining and was welcomed to “increase investment and business layout in Shanghai, deepen cooperation in new energy vehicles, energy storage and other fields, and bring more new products, technologies, and services to Shanghai”.
It should be ‘new energy’
What is Huang Renxun talking about? Bloomberg quoted insiders as saying that Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun will go to China in June to meet with executives from Tencent, ByteDance and other enterprises. It is reported that Huang Renxun’s trip to China also includes Ideal Automobile, BYD, and Xiaomi. Insiders said that Huang Renxun has not yet finalized his plan, and the details of his itinerary may still change.
It should be ‘artificial intelligence’
The combination of new energy and artificial intelligence should be called “new energy vehicles”. Yesterday’s article from the Political Affairs Hall?
Huang Renxun, who broke through the blockade, is coming
?At the end, it says:
In the future, China can use Musk’s technology to develop a series of applications for autonomous driving and energy storage, and can also use AI semiconductor chips to develop endless AI applications and device terminals. These fields will be the fastest developing areas in China’s future and the direction for the next generation of young people to strive for.
These new energy sources, artificial intelligence, are actually what “Houlang” says: the achievements of modern civilization are opened up layer by layer and can be enjoyed to the fullest.
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Indeed, the future is full of possibilities. In today’s century long upheaval, it seems that young people in every country have unlimited possibilities. However, it should be noted that the “post wave” not only enjoy the fruits of civilization, but also bear the “burden” of civilization
Not every trailing wave has the opportunity to ‘choose’, nor does every trailing wave have the ability to ‘choose’. Most of the rear waves did not become “front waves”, but silently disappeared on the beach
The desire for Houlang to become Qianlang without being shot dead on the beach requires personal effort and talent, as well as understanding and stepping on the trends of the times
But… to elongate the dimensions of life, are those ‘waves’ that have stepped on the trend of the times necessarily the life that each of us wants to pursue?
30 years ago, a young teacher from Central South University of Finance and Economics. In less than seven years, he grew up to be the general manager of the investment banking department of a securities firm at the age of 33
Then it took another seven years to become the chairman of a leading securities firm
And then it took another seven years to become one of the spokespersons of Chinese securities
And then it took another seven years to become
And today
How many seven years does life have?
Listen to the Party and follow it
Learning time
We should extract themes and themes from the changes of the times, the progress of China, and the voices of the people, showcase the beauty of Chinese history, mountains and rivers, and culture, express the aspirations, creativity, and development of the Chinese people, and present the spiritual atmosphere of the new era in a comprehensive and panoramic manner.
——On December 14, 2021, the opening ceremony of the 11th National Congress of the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the 10th National Congress of the Chinese Writers’ Association