Today, the editor saw heartbreaking news: a driver, Xiao Zhixin, was fined 20,000 yuan and took his own medicine.
Xiao Zhixin's story undoubtedly tore up once again the bloody fact that society is hidden under the illusion of prosperity: countless so-called "bottom people" still do not have the dignity they deserve or the respect that others should give.
At the same time, it tells us why China, which has become the world's second-largest economy, is still a developing country: we have lost too many countries to the guarantee of human dignity.
1. Wealth limits my imagination
Xiao Zhixin's story is very simple, simple to heartbreaking.
On Feb. 7, 2018, eight days before the Lunar New year's Eve, driver Xiao Zhixin drank a large bottle of dichlorvos in a conference room of the Xiangyang City Transportation Bureau and died after the rescue failed.
Xiao Zhixin's brother said his brother was caught by passenger transport law enforcement officials while pulling guests near the railway station, and the car was detained and received a penalty notice of 20,000 yuan.
Twenty thousand yuan, for a wealthy class, is just a famous watch, a few luxury brand leather bags;
For a middle-class family, it is only a month or two of household income;
However, for Xiao Zhixin as a "bottom person", this is his income for half a year.
People familiar with the matter said, Xiao Zhixin repeatedly found passenger law enforcement authorities to negotiate fines, but no results.
It may be said that Xiao Zhixin is in his prime, and why would he not want to go to an impasse?
In fact, it was not money, but poverty, that forced him to die.
Zhihu once had a hot answer, "what moments do you find rich limits your imagination?"
Unlike many respondents in the building who enumerate how their boss or "tuhao" friends around him make a fuss about their life, one of the respondents released two pictures of an old man who was photographed at a certain event as an old man in a puppet costume:
(photo source: Zhihu)
The respondent wrote: "the old man's hair is white, his pink clothes and his bark-like face do not match, and even look a little funny." -.
But who can laugh?
If it wasn't forced by life, who would wear a heavy doll suit to earn that poor little money?
If there is no last resort, who does not want to have a grandchild at such an age, sharing heaven and earth?
But in the adult world, how can there be an easy word?
"some people have done their best just to live."
Another respondent posted a news: the child had lost subway tickets due to carelessness, and her mother was so anxious and angry that she could even beat him in full view because she earned only 900 yuan a month.
Compared to the old man who went out to work for a few dollars, and the mother who lost control over the subway ticket for a few dollars, we knew how happy we were all the time, who had always called ourselves "poor".
2. "only live without dignity."
A while ago, a truck driver crying video unexpectedly hit the Internet.
The driver said he just woke up from a sleep in the truck and found that all the oil in his car had been stolen.
The truck was all he owned. It was bought with a loan of $4.5 million, and each moonlight loan had to be paid back to more than 10,000.
Trucks are the only way to make a living for the whole family. Children go to school, parents get sick, families eat and dress, and they all depend on this truck.
He slept less than four hours a day, rested more than one in the morning, woke up at five in the morning, and in order to earn more money, he hasn't been home for a long time.
The money obtained through this intensity of work is hollowed out at a time by the "oil rat" (the illegal person who steals gasoline for profit).
The tall man, in front of the camera sobbing, "I am reluctant to return home, is it easy to drive a truck in order to run around to earn a lot of money?" Do you have any conscience? "
In this society, there are many people living at the bottom, like Xiao Zhixin, like the truck driver, live without dignity.
3. It's society that gives them dignity.
After reading so many heavy stories, one might ask, can't these people get the dignity they deserve?
In fact, it is not others who deprive them of their dignity, but we who live with them in a society.
Once there was this story:
A girl gets in a taxi, but the driver asks her carefully to "wait" because he hasn't eaten all day and he has low blood sugar.
The kind girl then went to the newspaper kiosk to help the driver buy bread and water, and then back, the driver's eyes wet, say thank you.
For the little girl, a loaf of bread, a glass of water, may be just a dozen dollars; For the driver, however, it was his own hard-earned money after he had taken a few trips, paid the rent to the taxi company, and paid the gas bill.
What the little girl may not know is that the driver cried not because of what she did, but because she gave the driver dignity.
As the old saying goes, "Don't give up doing good, even if it doesn't matter." in fact, with every subtle move, we can give dignity to the lower class.
First rich people have begun to brush luxury stores, then rich people, but can not bear the loss of 20, 000 yuan.
In this society, we often fail to see the life of the people of the lower class.
So someone said this: immigration, is the most reliable life insurance.
This leads to the next topic. Why did Australia attract so many Chinese here? 1.21 million of the Chinese chose to come here.
4. In Australia, you can live here with dignity.
The social welfare policies of the two countries are very different because of their national conditions.
Australia: the purpose of my social insurance is to protect every citizen.
Australia is one of the earliest countries in the world to implement a social welfare system, and as early as 1910, the social security system began to be established.
Australia is also one of the best social welfare countries in the world, with new immigrants receiving benefits such as free health care and parental allowances.
At present, a fairly perfect social welfare network has covered all parts of the country, Australia has a wide range of social welfare, is a typical welfare society.
Australia's social security allowance covers all aspects of human life: child support, special assistance, unemployment benefits, childbirth allowance, study allowance, sickness and disability allowance, remote area allowance, widows' allowance, care allowance …
As long as they are living in Australia, they have the right to live in dignity in this society, without worrying about the education of their children, the elderly's old age, and their lives tomorrow.
It is certain that in Australia, no one can survive for $20,000.