But suddenly, the contract changed, and someone told them: The unit is the unit, you are you, everyone will disperse it with some subsidies. In the future, I will find a way out and the unit will not care about you.

The question is, what should these workers do without a unit? Where is their future? Where is their way out? How should they survive? No one has ever taught them these questions before. Not only are they not taught, they are not allowed to discuss these things.

Now they suddenly threw them away like throwing a rag, and they immediately fell into a daze. The concept of life passed down by generations was instantly broken, and the outlook on life, values, and worldviews all had to be rebuilt.

If they are still junior high school students, they may be easier to adapt and change, but most of them are middle-aged. If they want to quickly change these concepts and rebuild a new one, the speed will be very, very slow. The result is that they cannot adapt to this change. In fashionable terms, it is called abandoned by the times.

What’s funny is that a few years ago someone patted their chests and said that this era belongs to them, and the working class is the master of the country!

This laid-off wave lasted from the mid-1990s to the end. Hong Tao was not very concerned about these things because his age could not understand the depression of the laid-off workers, but his uncle and his group could experience it personally. Their age was the one that was most affected by the laid-off wave, and some were notified by the unit to get out of money. Every time they got together, in addition to making a game, they would discuss these issues, and sighed and scolded the country.

Hong Tao heard them talk a few times. It is said that in recent years, there are about 60 to 70 million laid-off workers across the country, accounting for almost half of all state-owned enterprises and collective enterprises. In other words, according to statistics nationwide, one of the two state-owned enterprises and collective enterprises will go home to find a way out.

This situation is not particularly prominent in the capital. After all, this is the capital, with many administrative units and few real factories and mining enterprises. In the three northeastern provinces and the southwest, these areas where heavy industry, light industry and military enterprises were gathered, it is a different story.

"The tragedy on earth... Every dusk, there will be big men riding bicycles to carry their wives to the nightclub and the door of the karaoke bar, and then waiting at the door. Oftentimes, more than a dozen such people can be seen in one place, and the locals even gave them a title called the Ninja Turtle. Don't joke about them, at least they have a beautiful and beautiful wife who is still pretty and good at taking advantage of them. What should those older people do? No one wants to sell them, fuck!"

This is the feeling of the jealous uncle when he came back from the three northeastern provinces and reported his work with his uncle and his group of people. In his words, a large area of ​​heavy industrial cities in the three northeastern provinces is completely ruined. If I have millions of capital in my hands now, I will find a way to find a way worth tens of millions and hundreds of millions of state-owned enterprises in minutes, and I can instantly become big capitalists. This class, who was criticized and fought to the death ten years ago, turned over overnight. It also feels like I, Hu Hansan, is back again, and I am very proud.

If you just look at the number of laid-offs, you may not feel anything. There are more than one billion people in China, and it’s a big deal to have tens of millions of laid-offs. Can you say that the rest of the people are waste?

But the problem cannot be calculated like this. These laid-off workers are skilled laborers. They are not only the main force in the factory, but also the pillars in the family. When they are laid off, their husbands, wives, and children will not be affected? Their parents will not be affected? Using the most conservative algorithm, this number must be increased by four to five times.

After so many years of family planning, many families are families of three, and couples with dual-employed people have a child. If one of the couples is laid off, the family can still make do with it, and they cannot starve to death if they don’t live well, but what if both couples are unfortunately laid off?

This possibility is very high. In some heavy industrial cities, a huge state-owned enterprise is the main pillar of the local area. Many families work in the same factory for generations, and many couples are colleagues themselves. They have never left the factory, or the factory area in their entire lives, and even kindergarten and work in the factory.

Uncle Blind's family was also impacted by the tide of laid-off work. One of them was in a bus company and the other was in a canvas factory. Uncle Blind's unit was fine, but his wife's factory was not there. He asked the employees to go home three years ago. At first, he received some living allowance every month, but later he simply bought out his work experience and broke off his relationship with the unit. Now he had no hope of retirement. If you want to get your pension at the retirement age, you have to pay all the pension and medical insurance money for these years by yourself.

But the problem is that even the job is gone, where can I earn this insurance money? She has to know how to make a woman in her forties who has worked in a factory for half her life to make a living outside. What else would they do besides operating a loom?

Someone said, you have to learn, you have to recharge and adapt to social changes!

Learning? This word is too lightweight. Let’s not talk about whether she has the foundation for learning. If you have a child and have to take care of the elderly parents of two families to study, you can continue to learn? Do you still have the time and energy to learn?

Someone said again that this is the pain of reform! But look at the people who resell and make millions of dollars with various approval documents; look at the people who are in and out of the nightclubs in various places who spend their wages for several years in one night, they seem to have no pain? Why do they all have flat-headed ordinary people when it hurts?

Hong Tao couldn't understand these things either. The only thing he could figure out was what successor, what time to prepare, go to the fuck. In Beijing slang, now is the era when my father is dead and my mother is married, and everyone cares about their own people. Whoever can eat more bites quickly, who can make more money can make more money quickly, it is better to rely on those who are weak than to rely on themselves.

If you can eat more and make more money, and you will still have a little wealth in your pocket, you might as well take it out and help you meet someone who is still angry, such as those like Blind Uncle and Feilin. You don’t ask them to repay you anything, as long as you can make them feel better, even if it’s just a little bit, your conscience will be better.

Didn’t the old monk say that if you don’t plan to eat those fish, don’t catch them, you can still catch them in the future. This is not to help the fish, but to help yourself. Hong Tao feels that he has figured out this truth. What the old monk is talking about is not only fish, but also to put it on people. If you can avoid disasters and pull others, it will be no harm to yourself. If you don’t have harm, it is good. This is what dialectics says.

"What are you doing? Let the child talk to the teacher. Let our family go to work in a few days. It's not time for the season to change." Uncle Blind's house lives in a large yard. The yard is quite deep, and it directly connects two alleys, north and south. As soon as Hong Tao entered the yard, he heard Uncle Blind's voice. He seemed to be discussing something with his wife.

"The other children have been handed over together, but our Pingping is late. What do you want the child to think? Otherwise, think of a solution. At least we will get together for the child. We adults are fine. We can't let the child raise our heads in school." Hong Tao, the daughter-in-law of the Blind Uncle, has seen him more than once. She was a very neat woman. Not only did she clean up, but she was also neat and good at home. She was very good at managing the family. She didn't talk much and was very diligent. She didn't need to reach out to the man to do the work at home. She basically did it. But on this issue, she obviously disagreed with Uncle Blind Uncle Blind and was still insisting on it.

"What can I do? My brother-in-law has been laid off for more than a year, and their family is not much better than ours. Why do you tell me to open my mouth?" A penny stumped the hero. When it comes to money, the blind uncle immediately became impatient. As the saying goes, marry a man and get dressed and eat. Now his pocket is empty and he can't think of a solution. He is not impatient, but helpless.

"...Boss, don't argue with you two. How much does Pingping cost? I have it here. You can report the medicines to the unit and come back to get the money for the child. Your wife is right. It's okay for adults to suffer, you can't make the child suffer." At this time, the door of the house next to him opened, and a trembling old man walked out of it, holding a large handful of documents in his hand.
Chapter completed!