Do you think that if you make enough money, everything will be fine?

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Being poor is not a good thing. But not all bad things can be summed up by poverty.

Now I find that no matter what difficulties or bad things happen, it has become popular to use "poor" to explain it.

It seems that as long as you have money, everything will be fine. This is certainly a form of lazy thinking.

It’s almost November, and people who travel will inevitably stay in hotels.

Recently I saw two messages about the hotel.

Someone went to visit 7 express hotels and made an evaluation: How dirty are the express hotels?

In September, another organization tested five five-star hotels in Beijing. All are famous high-end hotels. As a result, none of the five hotels changed the bedding, cleaned the bathtubs and toilet seats after the guests checked out.

What impressed me the most was: Under the review news of that fast hotel, many people were criticizing the people who stayed in the hotel: "For a few hundred yuan a night, some sleep is good." If you have money, go and stay in a five-star hotel.”

When the five-star hotel was tested, some people in the comments began to sigh helplessly: Money can’t buy safety.

The question is: since when do we think security can be bought with money?

When did you start to feel insecure if you stay in a fast hotel just because you are "poor"?

2

Many of the grievances, misfortunes, and difficulties you encounter have nothing to do with poverty. In other words, poverty does not mean you should bear it.

But now this idea is becoming more and more popular:

You suffer because you are not rich enough. Any grievance or injustice you suffer, even if it involves the most basic protection, can be attributed to the fact that you are not rich enough.

Many people don’t even realize that they are thinking this:

The bag you bought came off the line after being used twice? Then you shouldn't complain, you should save your money and buy Hermès.

You queued up to move into public rental housing and found cracks in the wall? You shouldn’t complain because you don’t have the money to pay the down payment. You should even be grateful that you got an advantage.

I have a friend who is in the Starwood SPG club and is particularly obsessed with five-star hotels because she stayed in a small hotel 10 years ago and woke up with blood on the sheets.

She pulled off the sheets and there was blood on the mattress. There are layers of blood, old and new. She immediately felt like vomiting.

Later, when she recalled that disgusting morning, what she was most angry about was not the hotel, but herself.

She was angry that she had no money and no future, so she could only live in a small hotel.

But a bag should not fall off after being carried twice, and a house where people live should not have cracks in the walls. This is a simple truth.

This is something that neither the poor nor the rich should have to bear. It has nothing to do with money.

Just like a hotel should change the sheets and clean the toilet seat, it has nothing to do with how much it costs per night.

But what that friend thought was, if I had money...

Just like us. When we are embarrassed, bullied, or insulted, we don’t want to fight, but always paralyze ourselves: If I were rich...

Three

When most people When people think "if I have money", they will prioritize making money.

They feel that justice, safety, and dignity can be temporarily ignored. As long as I work hard to earn money and climb to a higher place, the unhappiness and embarrassment of the lower place will have nothing to do with me.

They don’t want to change, they just want to run away.

Nor do they feel unfair about the things they encounter when they are poor. Being poor means being oppressed, ignored, and harmed. What they see is not that these things are undesirable, but that they are poor.

Use poverty to explain all bad things, and use poverty as an excuse to forgive all bad things.

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Why do you subconsciously think that making money can solve everything?

This is not only because people love money, but also because many times, making money is the easiest choice.

Responding soberly and appropriately to every injustice and violation is harder than making money.

You must first have a strong sense of rights and interests. This requires you to receive a good education on your rights. You have to have the wisdom to understand what cannot be traded and what bottom lines cannot be touched.

After realizing that something is wrong, you must have the ability and conditions to act. But most of us don’t know the correct way to protect our rights.

And I regretfully discovered that this really has little to do with academic qualifications and wealth. It is a social blind spot.

When you find that the hotel has not changed the sheets and you cannot negotiate with the hotel, which department should you complain to? Which call should I make?

When a dating website cannot provide the true information it promises, who can sanction it?

You know nothing, are powerless, and actually have no courage. In the end, all the anger found the best way to escape:

Wait until I have money.

Five

There are always people who realize that they must act and know how to act.

There was an incident that impressed me deeply last year, "A girl at the Yi Hotel was attacked."

The person involved described the circumstances and consequences of his hijacking on Weibo.

Before posting on Weibo, she had tried many channels, but the hotel manager shut down her phone and had a bad attitude; she complained to Ctrip but received no feedback; the police station recorded a transcript but nothing happened.

She was very calm and insisted on recording the surveillance video. This video later became an important material that detonated Weibo.

One thing I admire about her is that when negotiating with the hotel, she asked them to answer what kind of response measures they would take if a related case happened again.

No one is an island, she thought of more people.

We can also take action on smaller things.

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Six

Poverty is not justice.

But poverty is not an original sin.

Safety, dignity, justice, these things cannot be traded. It is the promise of civilized society to everyone.

"If I had money..." Sometimes it is nothing more than a kind of self-comfort.

For people who think this way, it is likely that there will be another result: being poor may not necessarily be better than being rich.

When you get really rich, you will see how fragile the rich are. People who are rich do not know how to protect themselves. After getting rich, they gain more and lose more.

It is always harder to defend those things that are truly important and inalienable than to make money. It cannot be replaced by making money.

Maybe you can’t be the one to change and take action.

But at least you should be wary of the popular idea that you are suffering because you are not rich enough.

No, suffering is suffering, fraud is fraud, and harm is harm.

Don’t let many sins happen to us openly under the guise of the word “poor”.

Thoughts after reading:

Which problems did you ever think could be solved with money?