Chapter 2031
In a sense, among all human ideals...
Freedom is the easiest ideal to achieve...
Because for most ordinary people, they are actually very free...
For ordinary people, freedom in a relative sense can actually be regarded as a very good experience...
Any ordinary person is basically in a relatively free state after leaving school...
They can do the job they want to do, choose a opposite sex who loves each other and have a love relationship, take a trip that goes on as they wish, and then get married and have children, support their parents, etc...
In a sense, these choices themselves are relatively free, and everyone's choices in life are different, which is because of this freedom...
In fact, the more mature a social system is, the free right to choose is a very important indicator...
In other words, the superior system of the society is and the more mature the system of the society is, the greater the space for choice and freedom will be for a person living in society. They can do anything they are interested in without worrying that they cannot support themselves. There is enough room for survival in any industry to protect the most basic interests of every newcomer...
The current modern society naturally cannot reach such a height, but such a high-level civilized order is also an inevitable direction for current social development...
There is no doubt about this!
In a sense, in the current society, the basic mainstream view is still above the so-called concept of "everything is inferior but reading is high", and this is also the result of the continuous flushing of this concept over thousands of years. In fact, it is indeed true. For most ordinary people, determining their destiny through relatively fair and just college entrance examinations is already a very good result compared to those illusory futures...
The reason is very simple, because the threshold for studying is still lower than other things. Many industries in this world actually require a lot of talent to do well. If you cannot show enough talent and simply have interest, many things will be difficult to achieve. At least for many families, they do not have the capital to let their children spend their time on their interests and hobbies!
In comparison, children of wealthy families can receive more care, so that they can choose things they are really interested in and have a certain talent to do without having to go completely on the mainstream path...
In a sense, everyone is born free...
However, different people have different standards of freedom...
Some people have more choices, while others have less choices, that's all!
In a sense, for most ordinary people, freedom itself is not so out of reach, and it can even be said to be something that everyone has...
In a narrow sense, in this world, there are only a few people who really lose their freedom, namely those prisoners in prisons. Prisoners are imprisoned, and all of them are not free. At least in the perception of the vast majority of people, they are not free...
However, if we say in a broad sense, there are almost no truly free people in this world...
Freedom is always relative, not absolute!
In real society, the most direct manifestation of freedom is money!
Compared to ordinary people, rich people are always relatively free...
To give a simple example, if an ordinary person is angry with his boss, even if he wants to quit his job, he will carefully measure his financial situation and family status. If there are major issues in the family and there are mortgages and car loans to be repaid, then most of them will not have the courage to resign...
Although he has the freedom to resign and not work subjectively, objective conditions will make him extremely low in the probability of making such a choice...
On the contrary, if a rich second generation works, if he is angry and doesn't want to do it, he can choose to resign without any scruples, because economic factors will not restrict their resignation, and it is impossible to restrict it. Of course, in most cases, a rich second generation probably has no chance to be free. Most of the time, if you have angry, they are often angry for others...
There is a saying that is wealthy and powerful. The more wealth you have, the more confidence you have, the more you have, the less willing you have to do things, and the less you will become...
Just like many people who watch live broadcasts, even if they like a game anchor very much and have been following it for several years, they may not have given any gifts of money. This is a normal thing. They may not even understand the rewards of those rich people to the anchor. In fact, many of the people in this part do not want to support the anchor, but their inner reason suppresses their choices...
Only those who are extremely ill-hearted and irrational will reward the remaining salary to those online anchors while eating instant noodles. Most rational viewers will never make such a choice. Although they have such freedom, their own economic and living conditions will also limit their freedom...
In today's society, the most fundamental reason why wealth is the most important criterion for measuring a person's social status is this!
It is often difficult to compare one person's success with another person's success. In different fields, it is also difficult to judge who is more successful...
And there is only one thing that can be judged, that is who is richer!
Yes, who is richer!
Success cannot be compared, but money can be compared...
And through the comparison of wealth, success can naturally be compared...
Excluding wealth earned by illegal or contrary to morality, the more wealth a person earns through legitimate means, the more successful a person is often...
In modern society, the nature of a job itself will no longer become the standard for people to evaluate a person...
The criteria for evaluating a person are often only measured from the perspective of wealth...
In the past, people had different perceptions of different jobs and divided different jobs into three classes. What kind of jobs are the upper class, what kind of jobs are the middle class, and which people are the last class are all clearly divided...
This way of measuring will not change because of income, but simply because of the nature of work. Just like in the past, the older generation's perception of actors is actually the so-called actors. The social status in society is often very low. Most of the time, actors are objects exploited by their bosses and playthings in the upper class. Even if they become celebrities, they are just a bigger money tree. If an actor wants to be truly free and truly become a famous artist, he often has to work for his boss for ten or twenty years or even longer to obtain independent performance qualifications...
Of course, in modern society, the role played by actors is actually not much different from the past...
The vast majority of actors are actually still the agency companies behind them and the money tree in the hands of performing arts companies. For those agency companies and performing arts companies, the artists who signed contracts with them are essentially not humans, but just human-shaped products. They use various means to increase the value of the products, and then let the products continue to participate in various exposures and performances to enhance the value of the products in people's eyes, and then constantly sell these products to one person after another who needs them. Some people need the faces of these stars, some people need the fame of these stars, and some people need the bodies of these stars. These things are all things that can be sold for performing arts companies or agency companies...
Most of the income they can earn is handed over to the company and left to them, usually only a relatively small amount of income. If actors cannot accept such distribution or cannot accept potential rules in the entertainment industry, then what awaits them is refrigeration and ban...
If an artist wants to turn over and become the master, he usually only needs to wait until the initial harsh contract expires before he can break out of the contract and get a much better contract to regain a new treatment...
In fact, many famous performing arts agency companies have so-called overlord contracts. This kind of contract controls on new artists can be said to be extremely harsh. Basically, this kind of contract exists, and there is no difference between the ancient type of body selling contract...
During this stage, artists are almost unable to refuse any requests made by performing arts companies, otherwise they will often have to bear liquidated damages like astronomical figures. Especially in South Korea, there are many rules and regulations that restrict artists. The first thing many artists need to do after becoming famous is to sue their company and seek ways to terminate the contract...
Some vicious scandals are often breeding under this system...
Only after completely breaking away from their first overlord contract and accumulating a certain amount of popularity can the artist be considered to be able to obtain wealth income that matches his own value. Of course, this process is actually very complicated, because when an entertainment company realizes that an artist becomes famous, they will immediately try to retain the artist in various ways, and there will be various means, either light or dark, and artists can truly gain freedom only if they can survive this stage...
At this stage, the status between agents and artists will be reversed. For young artists who have just debuted, agents can actually determine their destiny to a large extent. It can be said that for new artists, veteran agents are guardians like parents, and they can largely determine the development direction of an artist. For big-name stars, agents are actually equivalent to the role of housekeepers and servants...
In fact, the first thing most artists do after becoming famous and breaking out of the contract is to change their agents. The reason is that this is the truth...
Generally speaking, after obtaining an excellent contract, artists will have a huge wealth compared to ordinary people. With the connections accumulated in the entertainment industry and wealth, they will often open their own entertainment agency as soon as possible, and then start signing new people by themselves and creating and cultivating new people. At this time, artists will change from being migrant workers to bosses, and their social status will truly change...
Until this time, they were truly turning over and becoming masters, and they had the confidence to reject some potential rules in the entertainment industry, and could even use the power of the media to serve themselves...
In fact, from the nature of work alone, there is no difference between the celebrity artists in modern society and the actors of the past. Most of the time, they are all playthings of those who are superiors in power. For real superiors in power, only one thought can make them fall into a state of doom...
However, the social status of celebrities in the current society is much higher than in the past. Many young people even regard becoming celebrities as their life goal...
The reason is nothing more than that of the wealth that stars have is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people...
Even celebrities who are strictly bound by contracts, even under the influence of overbearing terms, an artist's income will be much higher than that of many white-collar workers in companies. As for the freedom of becoming famous, the wealth and social resources they have will become even larger...
And this is precisely one of the reasons why many people are eager for celebrity lives!
It’s like there’s a female guest in a blind date program that she would rather sit in a BMW than laugh on her bike…
The reason is that...
However, celebrities are not so easy to be a celebrity. The ultimate result of most people who have a star dream is to lose everything and become a salted fish on the roadside...
Chapter completed!