宋圭武观点93:现代市场社会文明制造了一种假富形态
现代市场社会文明制造了一种假富形态。现代市场社会文明的核心支撑是技术的进步。技术的不断进步也推进了文明的不断升级换代。但技术进步更多是改变了财富的形式。比如,马车变成了汽车、高铁、飞机等,平房变成了楼房等,土路变成了高速公路等,还有,人们也有了以前没有的手机、电视、网络等新交流工具等。而财富形式的改变,更多是减少了一个人在同一件事情上所花费的劳动时间。比如,汽车减少了人们用于交通的时间,手机加快了人与人联系的速度,机器人减少了人的劳动量等。
但财富形式的改变是不是减少了人们劳动时间的总量,未必。古代人未必比现代人更忙碌。比如,手机就耗费了大量人的时间,汽车也是。现代文明中的技术进步,一方面,在减少一个人的劳动时间,另一方面,也在增加一个人的劳动时间。
另一个问题是,虽然财富的形式改变了,但是不是真的财富就增加了?值得思考。比如,若财富真的增加了,为什么有手机、电视、汽车的人,养不起更多的孩子?是孩子重要,还是手机、电视、汽车等更重要?有的甚至连一个孩子都养活不起,或者要养活两个就已经很困难。按理说,人类的财富,第一需要满足的是人类的遗传本能,因为种的延续,是任何动植物生命进化的第一本能。但为什么人类的第一需求会被压抑?而古人的许多家庭,却能养活许多孩子,为什么?其实,现代市场社会文明更多制造了一种虚假的富裕,或更多制造了一种异化的富裕。
制造虚假富裕的三大祸首是资本、技术、权力。资本、技术、权力,三大老虎,通过自由市场工具,借助垄断手段,实现了对弱势群体和弱势产业领域价值的最大侵蚀。一是机器排挤普通劳动者,使普通劳动者成为市场竞争的多余者,成为价值被侵蚀的对象。二是生产者侵蚀消费者利益。比如,一部手机,可能生产者只需要一个小时的劳动就能生产出来,但需要消费者付出一个月的劳动收入。同时,技术进步所提供的便利性,这种便利性也让个体在满足自身短期消费欢愉的同时,忘记了自身失去长期利益的痛苦。三是权力所有者为自己制定高报酬规则,侵蚀非权力所有者的价值。四是农业的价值受到严重侵蚀。农业是市场弱势产业,面对市场竞争,由于自身产业的弱势特点,农业成为大工业榨取剩余价值的对象。五是小生产受到大生产的价值侵蚀。尤其是具有垄断地位的生产者,更是市场强势,使众多小生产生存艰难,甚至面临大面积破产的边缘。六是技术垄断产业侵蚀非技术垄断产业价值。
同时,现代市场社会文明所形成的制度文化体系,也使资本、技术、权力三者对弱势群体和弱势产业的价值侵蚀固化和合法化以及合理化。
资本、技术、权力,三大老虎,通过对弱势群体和弱势产业领域价值的最大侵蚀,最终形成了一小组极端富裕者。而这些极端富裕者,在养育后代方面,具有最大自由最大能力,只有他们才可以养育很多孩子。而大多数人只得到假富形态,这里虽然大多数人有了汽车、住房等,但这些所谓的财富,多是以货币价格形式存在,而货币价格本身就有虚拟的成分,因为标价是可以变化的,与真实的财富还是有区别的,而且对普通老百姓而言,他们消费这些高档东西越多,价值被侵蚀必然越严重,自身必然会越贫困,会越养不起孩子。这里需要注意的是,富人虽然在高档消费的过程中,也受到价值侵蚀,但自身侵蚀别人的价值更多,所以,只有少数很富有的人,才真正有能力进行奢侈消费。
总之,现代市场社会文明所导致的财富结果是:只有很小一部分人才是真正的富人,大多数人是假富人,这些人只是戴一顶富人的帽子。甚至有些人假富人也不是,假帽子也没有,如街头流浪汉等。
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Song Guiwu's Viewpoint 93: Modern market society civilization has created a form of false wealth
Modern market society civilization has created a form of false wealth.The core support of modern market society civilization is technological progress.The continuous progress of technology has also promoted the continuous upgrading of civilization.But technological progress has more changed the form of wealth.For example, horse-drawn carriage has become a car, high-speed rail, airplane, etc., bungalow has become a building, etc., dirt road has become a highway, etc., and people have new communication tools such as mobile phones, television, the Internet and so on that they did not have before.And the change of the form of wealth has more reduced the labor time a person spends on the same thing.For example, cars have reduced the time people spend on transportation, mobile phones have accelerated the speed of human-to-human contact, robots have reduced the amount of human labor, etc.But whether the change of the form of wealth has reduced the total amount of people's labor time is not necessarily.Ancient people are not necessarily busier than modern people.For example, mobile phones have consumed a lot of people's time, as well as cars.The technological progress in modern civilization, on the one hand, reduces a person's labor time, on the other hand, it also increases a person's labor time.Another question is that although the form of wealth has changed, but not the real wealth has increased?It is worth thinking about. For example, if the wealth really increased, why do people with mobile phones, TVs and cars cannot afford to have more children?Is it the children that are important, or is it the mobile phones, TVs and cars that are more important?Some people cannot even afford to feed one child, or it is very difficult to feed two children.In theory, the first need to be satisfied by human wealth is the genetic instinct of human beings, because the continuation of the species is the first instinct of the evolution of any animal or plant life.But why can the first need of human beings be suppressed?And many families of ancient people can feed many children, why?In fact, the modern market society has created more false wealth, or more alienated wealth.The three major culprits of false wealth are capital, technology and power.Capital, technology and power, the three tigers, through the free market tools, with the help of monopoly means, have realized the greatest erosion of the value of vulnerable groups and vulnerable industries.One is that machines crowd out ordinary workers, making ordinary workers redundant in market competition and the object of value erosion.The second is that producers erode consumer interests.For example, a mobile phone may only need one hour of labor to produce, but requires consumers to pay a month's labor income. At the same time, the convenience provided by technological progress also makes individuals forget the pain of losing long-term interests while satisfying their own short-term consumption pleasure.Third, the power owners make high remuneration rules for themselves, eroding the value of non-power owners.Fourth, the value of agriculture is seriously eroded.Agriculture is a vulnerable industry in the market. In the face of market competition, due to the weak characteristics of its own industry, agriculture has become the object of large industries to extract surplus value.Fifth, small production is eroded by the value of large production.Especially the producers with monopoly status are strong in the market, making many small production difficult to survive, and even facing the edge of large-scale bankruptcy.Sixth, the value of non-technological monopoly industry is eroded by the technology monopoly industry.At the same time, the institutional and cultural system formed by the modern market social civilization also solidifies, legalizes and rationalizes the value erosion of capital, technology and power on vulnerable groups and vulnerable industries.Capital, technology and power, the three tigers, through the greatest erosion of the value of vulnerable groups and vulnerable industries, eventually form a small group of extremely rich people.And these extremely rich people have the greatest freedom and ability in raising their offspring, and only they can raise many children. And most people only get false rich form, here although most people have cars, housing, etc., but these so-called wealth, mostly in the form of money price, and money price itself has virtual components, because the price can change, and real wealth or is different, and for ordinary people, they consume these high-end things more, the value is erosion is bound to be more serious, they will be more poor, they will not be able to afford to raise their children.It should be noted that although the rich in the process of high-end consumption, but also by the erosion of value, but their erosion of others' value more, so only a few very rich people, can really afford to luxury consumption. In short, the result of wealth caused by modern market society civilization is: only a small part of the talent is really rich, most people are false rich, these people just wear a rich man's hat.Even some people are not false rich, fake hat is not, such as street tramps. OK, thank you, thank you.