Chapter 757 [One outline is raised and all eyes are open, the bright moon rises and hundreds of rivers reflect]
An unprecedented nationwide discussion is taking place online. Today happens to be the weekend, so everyone has plenty of time to discuss it. It can be said that the popularity remains high, getting higher and higher.
The press conference site.
Lu Ming said: "Let's talk about the function and value of this plan. The implementation of this plan is conducive to the transformation and upgrading of the national economy and will help accelerate our country's return to the center of the world stage. The creation of this plan will greatly benefit the national economy.
The development and scientific and technological progress also include the following major benefits.”
"First, compared with welfare expenditures in areas such as medical education, housing, etc. in Europe and the United States, our program retains the individual and family options for beneficiaries to spend money. We will send you a sum of money, and you will be asked to buy medicines.
Whether you want to see a doctor or want to improve your housing, which hospital to see a doctor in, where to live, and where to get an education, you have a relatively large space for independent choice, thereby retaining and improving the market competition mechanism."
“Second, the scheme’s redistribution process is simple and straightforward, with relatively little corruption, where potential fraud occurs, which is nothing more than the falsification of identity and age, but through digital currency transfers and payment paths, plus
With the matching and intelligent identification of consumer big data and identity systems, the cost of finding fraud is very low."
"Third, this plan will greatly improve economic governance capabilities and management levels, because it provides a new means of macroeconomic policy, can accurately transfer purchasing power to the end of the policy chain, and can also improve the accuracy of national statistical information, which is beneficial to
Implement policies with precision.”
“Fourth, giving money to children and young people can encourage the birth of citizens, continue the current increasingly serious trend of low birthrate and aging population, and is conducive to the sustainable development of the country and nation.”
“Fifth, it is conducive to innovative development and high-quality development, because from a supply-side perspective, it can liberate the talents randomly scattered among young people, freeing them from the pressure of making a living, so that they can engage in more
Value learning and creative work. This plan makes it difficult for Chinese people to be exploited by all kinds of capital. Young people will not have to do so-called jobs that harm their health, personality and future in order to meet their basic survival needs. Wages will increase.
This will force the employer to use more high-tech equipment to replace manpower, forming a virtuous positive cycle."
"Sixth, it is conducive to maintaining social unity. This plan is not about egalitarianism, nor is it about robbing the rich and giving to the poor. This plan uses incremental debt denominated in local currency to make the pie bigger, so that young people from all walks of life can gain more affordability and growth.
Opportunities, and the rich can obtain a larger local market to expand their business, and the game of common prosperity changes from a stock game that everyone is worried about to an incremental game, and all classes can benefit from it."
"Seventh, it is conducive to slowing down or even reversing the worsening trend of inequality between regions and urban and rural areas. The realization of coordinated regional development is conducive to the long-term stability of the country and the centripetal force of the whole people. The inherent law of the market economy is that the strong will always be strong, the Matthew effect. This plan
Giving young people a sum of money, although they are not rich, can provide them with fairly stable support, or in other words, it is actually an investment for them, so it can, to a certain extent, adjust the imbalance caused by hedging market competition."
"Eighth, the implementation of this plan will help the country gain advantages in international cooperation and competition, and can help solve the problem of stagnant growth trend in the domestic consumer market. In another fifteen years, the size of the consumer market in Greater China will be
It brings a strong international negotiating position that is equal to or even exceeds that of Europe, the United States and Japan. Looking back at the two hundred years since human industrialization, a very clear rule is that under peaceful conditions, the market is power. Whoever has a bigger market has power.
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"Ninth, it can be beneficial to enhance the sense of identity and pride of the motherland and the nation among Chinese and overseas Chinese, and it can help attract the return of outstanding overseas Chinese. When others ask you again, "You are patriotic, but does the country love you?"
At this time, you can answer with great pride: [The country really loves me, the country is really kind to me, the country really cultivates me]."
After Lu Ming's words fell, the audience immediately burst into warm applause. They were not stupid enough to sing the opposite at this time, because what Lu Ming said was too correct. In the presence of everyone, even if they objected in their hearts, they had to go with the trend.
As a result, the audience burst into applause, and the young people watching the live broadcast, especially the young people in Ningzhou City, although they were not present, were excited in front of the screen and applauded from the bottom of their hearts.
So exciting! So inspiring!
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The press conference entered the question and answer phase.
The first media reporter to be selected stood up and asked: "Thank you for the host, may I ask Mr. Lu, will giving money to young people make them lazy and unwilling to work?"
This first question raised is quite concise and to the point, and it is also one of the core points of debate among many people. Now there is a lot of quarrel on the Internet over this issue.
At the press conference, Lu Ming smiled and said methodically: "This kind of universal benefit plan will inevitably evoke some bad memories and worries among the Chinese people about the success and failure of the big pot rice in the past, but this plan is not a big pot rice, because it does not
By distributing money to middle-aged and elderly people, the outcome of life still mainly depends on the hard work of the individual. It will not lead to large-scale laziness and substituting work, because it is different from unemployment subsidies."
"Unemployment subsidy means that you cannot receive money if you have a job. If it is unemployment subsidy, it means that some people with relatively low living requirements are willing to stay at home and do not work if they have a job. They just receive unemployment subsidy and lie flat, which is lower.
Consumer spending, there is no need to drive screws, and there is no need to wash dishes. Higher unemployment benefits will lead to this kind of laziness and non-work."
"But our plan is only related to your age and has nothing to do with whether you have a job. Moreover, regarding universal basic income around the world, quantitative statistical studies have found that the payment of basic income will not reduce the willingness to work.
It may even increase people's willingness to do more challenging work in some areas."
"What's more, our plan means that in your middle-aged and old age after the age of 35, you have to rely on the abilities and savings accumulated when you were young to live. If you don't work, you won't have savings, and if you don't work, you won't be able to improve yourself.
ability."
"This program can protect young people from being exploited by capital, because they do not have to engage in low-value or harmful labor for physical and mental health in order to have three meals a day. However, the amount of money distributed will certainly not be particularly high, and it will not be enough for young people to enjoy wealth.
Life. More importantly, after the age of 35, you will no longer receive money, which means that young people must lay the foundation for their financial situation for the rest of their lives before the age of 35."
“In fact, we believe that this method will make young people face more fierce competition, because in the original cruel pyramid structure of wealth distribution, only the small number of families from the top of the pyramid are qualified for their children to receive a good education.
, hidden in the competition for mid- to high-end jobs.”
"After the implementation of this plan, the children of 80% of families are eligible to participate in mid-to-high-end competition, and the vertical mobility of society has been greatly enhanced. To put it bluntly, no one can lie flat, and no one can continue to be high in society just by relying on the support of their parents.
The top is moist and alive.”
"Finally, I would like to add that we need to change an ideological concept, which is the concept of playing. After the plan is implemented in Ningzhou City, there will definitely be a group of children in Ningzhou who play first. Children who love to play are human beings.
It’s natural, but there’s also great value in playing.”
"As long as you play well, whether it's basketball, table tennis, or badminton, as long as you play well, you can make money. Of course, football is an exception. You can still make money even if you don't play well."
The whole audience burst into laughter and was caught off guard. Everyone was thinking seriously, but when they heard this, they suddenly stopped.
The episode passed quickly, and Lu Ming continued with a smile: "Including playing games, you can become a professional and make money by playing games. E-sports is very popular now. So I think we need to change our mindset.
Just playing, it itself is valuable. If you can play well and become famous, you are creating wealth in itself, and the value of consumption is also very huge."
The answer to the first question ends here, and people watching the live broadcast are also thinking.
This plan is indeed much better than the unemployment subsidy. Unemployment subsidy actually creates a lot of laziness and non-work. However, under this plan, the money is only paid until the age of 35, and then there is no money. Young people have to prepare for their lives after the age of 35.
Plan and lay the foundation while you are young.
Before the age of 35, everyone has three relatively equal opportunities, which is equivalent to investing in him from birth to the age of 35. If he chooses to enjoy it, it means giving him three opportunities that will not work.
There is no need for such genes to be inherited and should be eliminated. When you are old and pitiful, no one will sympathize with you, and you will not be sympathized by society. This is a typical pitiful person who must be hateful.
It is impossible that there are no such people, but what is certain is that such people are a very small number and are not enough to affect the overall situation.
Moreover, such people are not worthless, and they are also bringing strong consumption to society.
Valley squeeze
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The second reporter asked: "Hello Mr. Lu, what I want to ask is about labor costs. Paying people directly will inevitably lead to higher labor costs, which will affect the development of my country's manufacturing industry. Employment that is beneficial to society, what do you think of this?"
Hearing this, Lu Ming paused for a moment, and then replied calmly and confidently: "What I need to remind everyone is that our purpose of developing the economy and manufacturing industry is to let the Chinese people live a good life. People are the purpose, and industry is the purpose."
You can’t put the cart before the horse when it comes to means.”
"Our labor market has seen a structural mismatch between the difficulty of finding jobs for college students and the difficulty of recruiting workers in low-end manufacturing industries. To understand this mismatch, we need not to reduce the welfare and development space of young people in order to retain low-end industries, but to
To create more internationally competitive high-end manufacturing industries, the rise in labor costs will force the application of technology, forcing companies to invest in more research and development and equipment procurement, thereby creating more design, research and development in office buildings for college graduates.
High-paying jobs in marketing, financing, etc.”
"Of course, after young people receive a stable amount of money, some export industries that cannot afford a higher income level and cannot use their equipment to replace manpower will accelerate their outflow from the mainland, and they will move along with the geographical expansion of East Asia's production network
To neighboring small countries, this transfer will give neighboring small countries the opportunity to participate in the international division of labor and increase their income."
"When people in small neighboring countries have income, they also have demand for mid-to-high-end products and services. For example, they want to buy mobile phones. At this time, because we are buying the goods produced by their low-end manufacturing industries, it is their biggest
Trading partners, and more importantly, we are its largest market, and the market is power, so we can make demands.
"Do you want to buy a mobile phone? I don't say you have to buy our Huawei mobile phone, but you have to provide a level playing field and cannot deliberately suppress my mid-to-high-end products. Otherwise, I will import mid-to-low-end products from you.
Mid- to low-end products have low technical content, and there are plenty of people who can replace you.”
“So, in the context of further integration, this kind of employment replacement can increase the international market share of our country’s mid-to-high-end manufacturing products and help create more mid-to-high-end job opportunities for our country’s young people.
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A third reporter asked: "Hello Mr. Lu, my question is, this plan only gives money to young people, but not to middle-aged and elderly people. Will it be difficult to get the support of middle-aged and elderly people? And for the
They don't seem to be fair. In addition, I noticed that the Internet has triggered unprecedented discussions about this, and a so-called 'gnawing at young children' ridicule has appeared on the Internet."
"However, under the implementation of this plan, it seems that 'nubbing babies' is also a strategy. For example, if a couple directly gives birth to seven or eight children, each child can receive money, which must be a lot of money.
Mr. Lu, how do you evaluate these issues?"
After this reporter raised the question, especially as soon as the "gnawing baby" incident came out, netizens watching the live broadcast started to get angry again, with barrage comments such as "This child must not be kept", "Knife" and so on.
Brush the screen.
The style of the serious discussion is also distorted.
At the press conference, Lu Ming answered methodically: "This is a good question, but what I want to say is that most of the resources in human society are actually in the hands of middle-aged and elderly people, especially men. The resources of society
Distribution and rule-making are also mainly controlled by this group. We believe that giving money to middle-aged and elderly people is flattery to power and a reward for seniority. And giving money to young people is an investment in the future of the country and nation.
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"I personally appeal to middle-aged and elderly men to have a sense of responsibility and to put responsibility before power. Within the same ethnic group, young people are the continuation of the lives of middle-aged and elderly people and the place where their values are striving. In advocating individual value-based
In European and American culture, this may be a big issue worth arguing about, but in the Confucian social system that believes in collective value, this issue is not a problem in my opinion. Isn’t it better for your family and children’s future if you work hard?”
"Of course there is also what you said about giving money to young people, giving money from birth until they are 35 years old. This will make some people realize that they can live a good life by having more children, which is what you call 'gnawing at the young'."
As a result, some people at the bottom have a lot of children instead, which reduces the population quality of the entire nation. The rich use the consumption power of young people to make more money, immigrate or transfer assets to avoid high tax rates, etc. This all makes sense, but it is completely sufficient.
We need to implement appropriate supporting strategies to control these negative costs.”
"For example, you said that there may be a phenomenon of 'baby nibbling'. In fact, we have regulations. The number of children of each couple who can enjoy the benefits of the program cannot exceed three children, which means that the fourth child you give birth to is
, since he was born into this world, of course he can receive money, otherwise it would be unfair to him. It is not his fault that he was born into this world, but the money he receives will be supplemented by additional taxes paid by his parents."
Good guy!
Hearing what Lu Ming said, the people who had just come up with the idea of "gnawing babies" immediately GGed. Sure enough, such a loophole cannot be ignored, and the team of plan makers must have thought of it.
Lu Ming added: "Of course, in addition to giving money to children and young people, we also give it to the oldest 1% of the population. Now the plan is being implemented on a pilot basis in Ningzhou City. The oldest people in Ningzhou City can automatically
It is calculated that there are about 80,000 to 100,000 people. Including the establishment of the national population database in the future, after it is established based on digital currency, it is completely possible to calculate the oldest 1% of the population."
Lu Ming smiled and said: "We also give pension money to the oldest 1% of the population. While caring for the young, we also respect the elderly appropriately. This is also in line with the traditional values of our country."
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In the next half hour, Lu Ming answered various questions from reporters, including doubts that debt expansion will bring about asset price increases like those in North America, and whether large-scale borrowing to give money to young people will bring problems.
Come the issue of higher inflation and so on.
Lu Ming also answered them in detail one by one.
At the end of the press conference, Lu Ming also made a final concluding speech: "New ideas and new innovations will inevitably impact the original interest pattern and people's thinking inertia. To understand and accept this innovation, in addition to requiring everyone to be open-minded,
To think with our own minds, we also need to reflect on and update the cognitions we have always accepted.”
"Including what is debt? What is currency? What is inflation? What is surplus and deficit? What is scientific and technological progress? What is effective demand? What is equality of opportunity? What is value standard, etc. It involves politics, economy, finance, history
Wait for multiple disciplines.”
Speaking of this, Lu Ming opened the mineral water and took a few sips, and then sighed with emotion: "It may be true, but we actually hope that everyone can realize that we Chinese people are not born to be tied to machines.
Driving screws, or wiping the table at the dining table, or washing dishes in the kitchen.”
"As the most intelligent and largest human race, we are actually more suitable to undertake R&D, design, and marketing work in office buildings; as the most peaceful and secular nation, we are actually more suitable to travel among countries in the world to bridge various ethnic groups.
differences between them, brokering various transactions, etc.”
While Lu Ming was speaking, more and more listeners, especially the young people watching the live broadcast, gradually became excited.
Lu Ming continued to say in an emotional tone: "Today, most of the dirty work that our Chinese children have to do can be handed over to robots, to the children in poor countries who have not yet escaped absolute poverty.
do, thereby also driving their development and improvement.”
"Before seven years ago, our people worked hard to support their families. We sacrificed our own environment and the hard work of our workers in exchange for green paper tickets printed by others. We thought that with this layer of interest, we could have relations with the United States.
With the ballast stone, it can be stable for a long time. Since the trade war last year, is it stable? Is it a ballast stone? My face is swollen."
"The methods of our ancestors must also be changed. Empower our young people, let them consume vigorously, let them grow and create the world's largest market, use their needs to drive the development of our high-tech industry, and let them
Among them, the best and most promising geniuses can grow better and freely, and they can often break the ceiling of the nation."
"Instead of letting Europe, the United States and Japan print money for us and the whole world, it is better for us to provide credit currency and high-tech products for the world. We have the world's largest high-quality population, we have seventy years of capital and technology accumulation, and we are people-centered.
We must achieve high-quality development and industrial structure transformation and upgrading, expand the scale of the local market, and achieve a dual cycle with internal circulation as the mainstay. Therefore, we can achieve common prosperity in the new era."
"To achieve this goal, we must take serious measures, big measures, practical measures, and hard measures. This plan is an important starting point to achieve this goal. The pilot implementation in Ningzhou City is a great
The path of exploration and verification... is like a single outline that is visible to all, like the bright moon rising and hundreds of rivers reflecting it."
As Lu Ming's speech ended, the audience burst into thunderous applause again, and all people from all walks of life present stood up and applauded.
