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Xi: Welfare has raised a group of “lazy people”, China will not do this.

China, like the neoliberal US government , is not a friend of people fighting for a fairer world. Xi’s article published in the official media outlet “Qiushi”: (Chinese Original, see the translation at the end) 正确认识和把握我国发展重大理论和实践问题 进入新发展阶段,我国发展内外环境发生深刻变化,面临许多新的重大问题,需要正确认识和把握。这里,我重点讲几个问题。    第一个问题:正确认识和把握实现共同富裕的战略目标和实践途径。“国之称富者,在乎丰民。”财富的创造和分配是各国都面对的重大问题。一些西方国家在社会财富不断增长的同时长期存在贫富悬殊、两极分化。有的拉美国家收入不算高,但分配差距很大。在我国社会主义制度下,既要不断解放和发展社会生产力,不断创造和积累社会财富,又要防止两极分化,切实推动人的全面发展、全体人民共同富裕取得更为明显的实质性进展。过去我们是低收入水平下的平均主义,改革开放后一部分地区、一部分人先富起来了,同时收入差距也逐步拉大,一些财富不当聚集给经济社会健康运行带来了风险挑战。    共同富裕是中国特色社会主义的本质要求。共同富裕路子应当怎么走?我们正在进行探索。实现共同富裕的目标,首先要通过全国人民共同奋斗把“蛋糕”做大做好,然后通过合理的制度安排正确处理增长和分配关系,把“蛋糕”切好分好。这是一个长期的历史过程,我们要创造条件、完善制度,稳步朝着这个目标迈进。    要在推动高质量发展中强化就业优先导向。就业是民生之本。要提高经济增长的就业带动力,不断促进就业量的扩大和质的提升。要支持中小微企业发展,发挥其就业主渠道作用。要吸取一些西方国家经济“脱实向虚”的教训,不断壮大实体经济,创造更多高质量就业岗位。要加大人力资本投入,提升教育质量,加强职业教育和技能培训,提高劳动者素质,更好适应高质量发展需要,切实防范规模性失业风险。    要发挥分配的功能和作用。要处理好效率和公平关系,构建初次分配、再分配、三次分配协调配套的基础性制度安排。要坚持按劳分配为主体,提高劳动报酬在初次分配中的比重,完善按要素分配政策。要发挥再分配的调节作用,加大税收、社保、转移支付等的调节力度,提高精准性。要发挥好第三次分配作用,引导、支持有意愿有能力的企业和社会群体积极参与公益慈善事业,但不能搞道德绑架式“逼捐”。    要完善公共服务政策制度体系。促进共同富裕,不能搞“福利主义”那一套。当年一些拉美国家搞民粹主义,高福利养了一批“懒人”和不劳而获者,结果国家财政不堪重负,落入“中等收入陷阱”,长期不能自拔。福利待遇上去了就下不来了,搞超出能力的“福利主义”是不可持续的,必然会带来严重的经济和政治问题!我们要坚持尽力而为、量力而行,重在提升公共服务水平,在教育、医疗、养老、住房等人民群众最关心的领域精准提供基本公共服务,兜住困难群众基本生活底线,不吊高胃口、不空头许诺。    第二个问题:正确认识和把握资本的特性和行为规律。马克思、恩格斯没有设想社会主义条件下可以搞市场经济,当然也就无法预见社会主义国家如何对待资本。列宁、斯大林虽然领导了苏联社会主义建设,但当时苏联实行的是高度集中的计划经济体制,基本上没有遇到大规模资本问题。搞社会主义市场经济是我们党的一个伟大创造。既然是社会主义市场经济,就必然会产生各种形态的资本。资本主义社会的资本和社会主义社会的资本固然有很多不同,但资本都是要追逐利润的。“合天下之众者财,理天下之财者法。”我们要探索如何在社会主义市场经济条件下发挥资本的积极作用,同时有效控制资本的消极作用。近年来,由于认识不足、监管缺位,我国一些领域出现资本无序扩张,肆意操纵,牟取暴利。这就要求规范资本行为,趋利避害,既不让“资本大鳄”恣意妄为,又要发挥资本作为生产要素的功能。这是一个不容回避的重大政治和经济问题。    实际工作中,要抓好以下几点。要为资本设置“红绿灯”。“红绿灯”适用于道路上行驶的所有交通工具,对待资本也一样,各类资本都不能横冲直撞。要防止有些资本野蛮生长。要反垄断、反暴利、反天价、反恶意炒作、反不正当竞争。要依法加强对资本的有效监管。社会主义市场经济是法治经济,资本活动要依法进行。遏制资本无序扩张,不是不要资本,而是要资本有序发展。相关法律法规不健全的要抓紧完善,已有法律法规的要严格执法监管。要支持和引导资本规范健康发展。要坚持和完善社会主义基本经济制度,毫不动摇巩固和发展公有制经济,毫不动摇鼓励、支持、引导非公有制经济发展,促进非公有制经济健康发展和非公有制经济人士健康成长。    第三个问题:正确认识和把握初级产品供给保障。对我们这样一个大国来说,保障好初级产品供给是一个重大的战略性问题。必须加强战略谋划,及早作出调整,确保供给安全。    要坚持节约优先。“取之有制、用之有节则裕,取之无制、用之不节则乏。”要实施全面节约战略,推进各领域节约行动。在生产领域,要推进资源全面节约、集约、循环利用,降低单位产品能耗物耗,加快制造业技术改造,提高投入产出效率。在消费领域,要增强全民节约意识,倡导简约适度、绿色低碳的生活方式,反对奢侈浪费和过度消费,深入开展“光盘”等粮食节约行动,广泛开展创建绿色机关、绿色家庭、绿色社区、绿色出行等行动。    要增强国内资源生产保障能力。要加大勘查力度,实施新一轮找矿突破战略行动,提高海洋资源、矿产资源开发保护水平。要明确重要能源资源国内生产自给的战略底线,发挥国有企业支撑托底作用,加快油气等资源先进开采技术开发应用。要加强国家战略物资储备制度建设,在关键时刻发挥保底线的调节作用。要推行垃圾分类和资源化,扩大国内固体废弃物的使用,加快构建废弃物循环利用体系。 要优化海外资源保障能力。要以互利共赢的方式充分利用国际国内两个市场、两种资源,在有效防范对外投资风险的前提下加强同有关国家的能源资源合作,扩大海外优质资源权益。    这里,我要特别强调农产品供给安全问题。从最新的国土调查结果看,耕地面积还在减少,一些地方的基本农田不种粮食种果树,或者其他高附加值作物。我反复讲,中国人的饭碗任何时候都要牢牢端在自己手中,我们的饭碗应该主要装中国粮。要把提高农业综合生产能力放在更加突出的位置,持续推进高标准农田建设,深入实施种业振兴行动,提高农机装备水平,保障种粮农民合理收益,确保口粮绝对安全、谷物基本自给,提高油料、大豆产能和自给率。    第四个问题:正确认识和把握防范化解重大风险。上世纪90年代以来,我国有效应对了亚洲金融危机、国际金融危机、新冠肺炎疫情等重大考验。现在,我国经济金融领域风险隐患很多,但总体可控。要坚持底线思维。古人说:“祸几始作,当杜其萌;疾证方形,当绝其根。”我们要发挥好党的领导和我国社会主义制度优势,见微知著,抓早抓小,着力避免发生重大风险或危机。    前一阶段,我们有效处置了影子银行风险、互联网金融风险。同时,也要看到,新的风险仍在发生,“黑天鹅”、“灰犀牛”事件不断。分析这些现象,有几个重要原因。一是长期累积的结果。“三期叠加”影响还没有结束,前期风险仍要消化。二是监管能力和制度缺陷。对金融机构公司治理问题严重失察,金融监管能力和水平不适应。对地方债务管理松弛,有的地方变相违规举债,债务负担持续增加。三是借债人野蛮行为。一些大企业盲目冲动,非理性多元化扩张,过度依赖金融杠杆,产业资本过度进入金融行业。一些股东和实际控制人违法违规经营管理金融企业,存在内部人控制、大股东操纵,财务造假,大肆挪用资金。四是官商勾结和腐败行为。一些金融机构负责人和政府官员失职渎职、贪污腐败、中饱私囊,慷国家之慨,造成重大损失。五是经济周期变化。经济增速下行使原本隐藏的各类风险水落石出,局部风险引发系统风险的概率加大,以企业资不抵债为特征的风险突出。    下一步,要继续按照稳定大局、统筹协调、分类施策、精准拆弹的基本方针,抓好风险处置工作。要依法合规,加强金融法治建设,探索建立定期修法制度。要压实责任,“谁家孩子谁抱”,压实地方党政同责,负责属地维稳和化解风险;压实金融监管、行业主管、纪检监察等部门责任,按照各自职责推动风险化解;压实企业自救主体责任,制定可行的风险化解方案。要强化能力建设,提升监管科技水平,补齐监管短板,加强金融监管干部队伍建设。要有充足资源,抓紧设立金融稳定保障基金,发挥存款保险制度和行业保障基金在风险处置中的作用,研究制定促进金融机构兼并收购和化解不良资产的支持政策。地方要主动盘活存量资产,化解风险。企业股东要首先承担风险损失,直至股本清零。要各方广泛配合,金融业建立一体化风险处置机制,充分授权,统筹协调,提高跨市场跨行业统筹应对能力。    对一些房地产企业的风险要格外重视。各地要切实担起责任、强化监管,守住不发生系统性风险的底线,保持房地产市场平稳健康发展。    第五个问题:正确认识和把握碳达峰碳中和。推进碳达峰碳中和是党中央经过深思熟虑作出的重大战略决策,是我们对国际社会的庄严承诺,也是推动高质量发展的内在要求。近来在实际工作中出现一些问题,有的搞“碳冲锋”,有的搞“一刀切”、运动式“减碳”,甚至出现“拉闸限电”现象,这些都不符合党中央要求。绿色低碳发展是经济社会发展全面转型的复杂工程和长期任务,能源结构、产业结构调整不可能一蹴而就,更不能脱离实际。如果传统能源逐步退出不是建立在新能源安全可靠的替代基础上,就会对经济发展和社会稳定造成冲击。减污降碳是经济结构调整的有机组成部分,要先立后破、通盘谋划。 我在中央财经委员会第九次会议上对“双碳”工作作了全面部署,强调要坚持全国统筹、节约优先、双轮驱动、内外畅通、防范风险的原则。党中央已经出台做好碳达峰碳中和工作的意见,批准了碳达峰行动方案。实现碳达峰碳中和目标要坚定不移,但不可能毕其功于一役,要坚持稳中求进,逐步实现。要立足国情,以煤为主是我们的基本国情,实现碳达峰必须立足这个实际。在抓好煤炭清洁高效利用的同时,加快煤电机组灵活性改造,发展可再生能源,推动煤炭和新能源优化组合,增加新能源消纳能力。要狠抓绿色低碳技术攻关,加快先进技术推广应用。要科学考核,完善能耗“双控”制度,创造条件尽早实现能耗“双控”向碳排放总量和强度“双控”转变,加快形成减污降碳的激励约束机制。各地区各有关部门要统筹做好“双控”、“双碳”工作,防止简单层层分解。要确保能源供应,实现多目标平衡,多渠道增加能源供应,大企业特别是国有企业要带头保供稳价,决不允许再次发生大面积“拉闸限电”这类重大事件。要深入推动能源革命,促进能源消费、供给、技术、体制改革,加强国际合作,加快建设能源强国。 Put this entire article into google translate if you wish. I’ll extract the core bit: We cannot engage in “welfarism”. When some Latin American countries engaged in populism, the high welfare there support a number of “lazy people” and many who do not work yet still get paid, the result is that the country's finances are overwhelmed, falling into the “middle-income trap”, and failed to pull themselves out in the long run. Welfare benefits, once went up, will not…

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Tips for those struggling to find work in this capitalist hell?

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It amazes me how I’m visibly in a depression brain fog but my supervisor thinks poking me will make it go away.

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