In addition, are some young people's wages low just because they are not competent enough?
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First of all, the high cost of living in cities puts great pressure on young people.
The most obvious ones are those "high flyers" who graduated from university in 985,211and then stayed in the first-tier cities. Although they worked very hard from primary school to middle school, they passed the screening challenges of the senior high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination all the way, and achieved a "class jump" for themselves and their families. Many young people have relatively decent and superior work income.
But unfortunately, due to the high cost of living in big cities, the costs of real estate, education, housing and old-age care are rising. Even if some young people have a salary of "10,000 yuan a month", they still feel powerless today when they advocate "consumerism".
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No wonder some netizens scoffed at this expert's one-sided remarks:
"You can say that I am incompetent, but it doesn't mean that all young people are incompetent."
In other words, in the real environment, high-income and low-income college graduates will more or less face the embarrassing dilemma of "making ends meet".
And all this is not just because young people are not capable.
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Secondly, young people's wages are low because of fierce competition.
This is obvious. After all, every employer and boss, faced with the problems of economic benefit and profit cost, will always think of recruiting graduates with higher education under the same conditions, and then pay the theoretical minimum wage on the premise of retaining young people as much as possible.
Then look, what is the employment situation now?
Even masters and doctors from Tsinghua Peking University and famous overseas universities will face great employment pressure after graduation, and even have to "downsize" and compete with domestic non-university graduates for the posts of street office officers or primary and secondary school teachers in coastal cities.
The final result is that although these graduates from prestigious schools were "hired by employers with high salaries" and recruited to grass-roots posts with the gimmick of talent introduction, in less than two years, many benefits, wages and subsidies in high flyers have been reduced.
So can you say that the graduates of these top universities have low salaries because they are not competent enough?
I don't think such a thing can be explained clearly by one or two experts.
Finally, many employers now attach too much importance to the "first degree".
This leads to some young people with strong quality and ability, surrounded by some "nerds", who can't stand out at all.
Imagine that a young man with poor theoretical knowledge can only be admitted to a double-non-college after graduation and apply for a job that emphasizes practice, eloquence and ability. However, in the eyes of employers and interview HR, it is impossible for such a young man with poor academic qualifications but excellent communication skills to successfully enter any enterprise or institution, even if only operators and grassroots personnel are needed.
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In other words, when the employment concept of most employers and business owners always stays at the level of "emphasizing academic qualifications over ability", it is difficult for many young people with real skills, eloquence and courage to enter the actual positions corresponding to their majors, or even work on the assembly line.
Then, even if you are an expert, how can you bear to blame those young people who don't work hard, struggle and lack ability?
Moreover, according to the data released by Zhaopin in 2020, even in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, the "median" wage income is only 6,906 yuan and 6,378 yuan. As for other first-and second-tier cities recognized online, the median wage of young people is below 6000 yuan.
So can you say that all young people's low wages are due to lack of ability?
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In short, many young people's abilities, efforts and income are not directly proportional. In the final analysis, they are the result of the interaction of social economy, employment situation and employment concept. Whenever there is a problem, we must not push the burden and pressure on the new generation of young people.