Being a young man begins with not working overtime on May Day.

On February 8, 20021year, the person wearing a mask was in a shopping mall in Shanghai. After the epidemic, China quickly recovered its vitality. /vision china

It is said that the kindergarten has started involute.

Actually, it's not just kindergarten. If involution is understood as "don't lose at the starting line", it actually happened as early as the fertilized egg was formed-no, even before the fertilized egg was implanted. In Hong Kong, some parents will make careful plans to make sure that their children will be born in a specific month when preparing for their children to enter a prestigious school (some kindergartens in Hong Kong only accept babies born in 1 month).

Are you sure you want this life?

If you can choose, some people would rather not be born than "roll up" from birth to death.

There is no need to be so sad. In fact, if you don't want to "roll", then don't "roll"-everyone else is playing this game called "involution", and you can choose not to play or quit. As long as you reserve the right to say "no", then you have taken the first step of "rolling back".

Are you sure you want this life? Teacher Li said that there is no such worldly desire. /Creation Camp 202 1

Never worked, never got paid.

Why not?

"I have never looked for a full-time job in my life. I've been in the freelance business. Nobody wants to see your education. However, I sometimes envy the year-end award that office workers get. "

This is the confession of the Japanese media that once formed the "Tokyo Squid Club" with Haruki Murakami.

In the early 1990s, Duzhu Xiangyi made many young friends in Tokyo, one round younger than him. Their income is meager. They usually live in four-and-a-half-or six-fold rented houses (one fold is about 1.62 square meters, and the four-and-a-half-and six-fold are about 7.29 square meters and 9.72 square meters respectively). Their living conditions are nothing more than "working two days a week and practicing in the studio for five days", "modeling a little bit and painting the rest of the time", and they are "losers" in the eyes of the secular.

But everyone thinks that, from a certain point of view, the lives of these young people are "sound". "I don't earn much, but I won't take what I really hate as a way to survive. Instead of living in a house with high rent and taking a tram full of people to and from work, it is better to move into a small room where rent will not be a burden. Whether you are going to play or go to work, you can solve it by walking or cycling. There is no study and restaurant at home, but there are favorite bookstores, cafes or bars opened by libraries or friends nearby. The street is just an extension of the room. " Build a whole link and write it in the book supernumerary.

On July 10, 2020, Qingdao, a girl who took the college entrance examination took a group photo with all her textbooks for three years in high school. /vision china

He began to visit these young people's humble abode one by one, arranging interviews with one hand and filming with the other. 1993, I visited nearly 100 young people's homes, and all of them built an interview text and photo collection and published it, named Tokyo Style. At that time, fashionable home design atlases such as "Parisian style" and "Miami style" were popular. Everyone thinks that living in a big house with luxury furniture is not the so-called "style". In fact, people who own luxury houses are a minority, and ordinary people who live in small houses are the majority. "Why do we have to have a big house and buy such an expensive sofa? Why do you eat at home with exquisite utensils and wine glasses? We belong to the majority, why must we learn from the minority? "

Duzhu Xiangyi believes that this pursuit and beautification of "exceptional style" is related to the reporting tendency of the media. The model rooms in fashion magazines are arranged like idol dramas, and even some magazines advocate that "if you don't live in this room, girls won't come to play", which makes readers mistakenly think that that is the life they should have. The publication of Tokyo Style has played a disenchantment role. Readers living in small cities or rural areas have responded, "Tokyo used to be such a place", not "I can't afford this kind of life" as I imagined.

I haven't been to work, and I haven't been paid (the main income is manuscript fees and royalties). I have been a freelance editor and writer for decades, and I tell us what life is like with my own experience. Those young people in Tokyo who live in shacks and don't have full-time jobs, but live a happy life, still have reference significance for us today, that is, they don't stick to the "work contract" in the industrial age and turn themselves from "tool people" on the assembly line into free individuals; Pay more attention to spiritual needs rather than satisfying material desires.

2019 April 12, Shenzhen, R&D District of Huawei Bantian Park, a Huawei employee looks at his mobile phone during his lunch break. /vision china

According to the "China Freelancers Report" released by LinkedIn at the beginning of 20 17, there are nearly 30 million freelancers in China, including network celebrity anchors, beauty bloggers and freelance writers. The report found an interesting phenomenon: in the United States, 50% of freelancers are over 50 years old; In China, 14% of freelancers have less than two years working experience, and only 4% have more than 10 years working experience. This shows that young people in China are more brave to break away from the nine-to-five working mechanism.

At the end of the same year, the investigation report "20 17", where did the young people go? The survey conducted by the BOSS direct employment platform for the working population aged 18 to 35 also confirms this point: 78.2% of young people are willing to choose freelance.

Pang Letian, a freelance writer, wrote an article in Forbes magazine to help young people solve the confusion of "continuing to work or choosing freelance". She has five years of freelance experience. Her experience is that people who want to become freelancers must have strong enough desire to support everything that comes with it. It can be a strong desire to pursue free work or a strong desire to hate going to work. "In either case, motivation is the source of everything."

Go ahead, have fun.

Aunt Wang, a netizen from Weibo @ Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, thinks that young people are really under great pressure, with high housing prices and fewer opportunities. If their talents are not outstanding enough, it will be extremely difficult to gain a foothold in big cities. "What should young people do?" An elder sister replied, "Didn't you just come?" House prices are high in big cities, why not buy them directly? It's none of your business if you don't buy it. "

201910/0 in Quanzhou, Fujian, tens of thousands of people queued up for more than ten hours to subscribe for 308 suites. /vision china

@ Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai Wang Ayi believes that the best way to break the involution is "I don't play, ok?" "Come on, I admit, I just can't afford a first-tier property. How's it going? I can't stay. Why? I just want to go back to a small city, and my wife and children are hot. How's it going? I just have a thick skin. Why? Go ahead and have fun. "

Others quoted the life feeling left by the old professor in "Tuesday and Murray" before his death:

"They lived in a hurry and didn't find the meaning of life, so they were busy looking for it. They have a new car, a new house and a new job. But later I found out that these things were empty, so I rushed again. "

"Our culture is teaching something wrong. You should establish your own small culture. I'm not asking you to ignore every rule of this society. For example, I won't run naked or run a red light. I can abide by the law in such a small matter. But on the big issues-how to think and how to judge-you have to choose for yourself. You can't let a person or any society make decisions for you. "

Li Luxiu finally got off work! What about you? /Weibo

It is worth learning to "build your own small culture". Because one of the reasons for involution lies in the increasingly convergent values and evaluation system. Everyone believes that you must win at the starting line. If you don't succeed, you don't deserve to be a man. If you don't have a house or a car, you will be a loser (remember Yang li Ping's attack that "the biggest failure of a woman is that she has no children"). Under the shaping of this value concept, a person becomes what society expects him (her) to be, not what he (she) wants to be.

If everyone can establish their own small culture-including personality, hobbies, specialties, skills, personal brands and so on. The cultural ecology of the whole society will become rich and colorful, and the choice of life will be more diversified. Not everyone has to run for success. In other words, you have the freedom to "roll" and I have the freedom not to "roll", which is just right.

Author | Peach sauce

Original title | "Rollback" begins with refusing to go with the flow.

First published in the 586th issue of New Weekly.

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