Yao Ming And The Meter Reader

Some people are convinced of some income gaps, but others are intolerant.

This reminds policymakers to adjust the income gap, pay more attention to the consistency and fairness of the system, and eliminate the unfair distribution factors in the income gap.

"What a high income!"

"It's a golden day!"

Not long ago, the agency announced the income ranking of sports stars, and Yao Ming topped the list with the annual income of hundreds of millions.

There may be a glimmer of admiration for Yao Ming's high salary. Maybe young people dream of developing like Yao Ming in the future, but few people feel unbalanced about it. Even who can not hear him say, "why did he make so much money that I earn so little?"

Another information about income has caused much dissatisfaction.

The audit department found that in a highly monopolized power company in Shandong, the annual income of its meter reading workers can reach 100 thousand yuan.

Is the "meter reading worker" high technical requirements and irreplaceable?

Is such a shortage of talent and demand exceeds supply?

The survey shows that this is not the reason, but that the enterprise obtains a high profit by monopolizing the position and gives money to employees.

In this enterprise, even if engaged in the simplest meter reading, sending and receiving work, the income is not low.

"It's not because of Monopoly!"

"We don't need to bother to learn anything, so we can get into a monopolistic business."

Some people complain about being ridiculed.

There are many differences between the income of hundreds of millions of people and the annual salary of 100 thousand. The former has not brought about the discussion on the income gap.

Income gap is a normal phenomenon in the market economy.

In particular, wage income is, to a certain extent, the embodiment of labor prices.

Those with higher technical content and more complicated labor work tend to have higher prices in the labor market, just as doctors and lawyers are not too low in any country.

Market supply and demand will also make some very short positions very high, just like Yao Ming is sure to get high pay, like in recent years, the southeast coast annual salary of 200 thousand recruited senior technicians.

This kind of income gap is usually not considered improper, but it will guide the labor force to pay attention to learning knowledge, study technology, and consciously close to the urgent needs of the society.

People feel unfair is often another gap, that is, the gap caused by unreasonable institutional arrangements.

"Meter reading workers" and senior technicians also have high salaries.

Ordinary laborers can make themselves become senior technicians who earn high salaries by learning skills.

Monopoly enterprises have a high threshold, so that workers can copy the meter well and quickly and accurately. If they can not enter the monopolistic enterprise, they can only be disappointed.

After years of development, China's labor market has reached a high level.

However, there are still two kinds of employment mechanisms and two kinds of income systems in parallel in some areas, resulting in unreasonable income disparity.

Some industries, restricting competition, bring about high profits and high income.

In some institutions, the salaries of the staffing staff are constantly rising, and the staffing is not good enough.

Some enterprises only sign a labor contract with a small number of employees, and a large number of employees use the form of labor export. Although the same work is done, the income of the labor workers is quite different from that of the formal workers.

In the past few years, two kinds of pension systems for employees and employees of institutions have led to a significantly lower pension for retirees.

For some of the gaps, people are convinced, some are hard to tolerate.

This reminds the relevant policy makers to intervene in the income gap, and can not simply focus on the reduction of high income or low income. More attention should be paid to the consistency and fairness of the system, so as to eliminate the unfair distribution factors in the income gap so as to seek sustainable economic development and social harmony.