As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

"Since last night, whether it is domestic BAT or foreign BIG, they must have been unable to sleep, from the executives in front of the stage to the shareholders behind them and even the real controllers.

They must all be in meetings, with frequent exchanges of information at various levels.

Since the end of the last century, we have faced an era of middle-class influx. Simply put, the income of the middle class in developed countries no longer leads economic growth.

Not only failed to continue to lead the economic growth, but also lagged behind, and even lagged behind the economic growth significantly.

From American to the Europa League, to the small countries of Neon, Korea, and Lion City in East Asia, there are no exceptions.

The olive-shaped society of the past is no longer sustainable.

This trend has never been reversed in the past 40 years.

After the rise of the industrial revolution, the explosive growth of the middle class after the end of the cold war encountered catastrophic difficulties for the first time.

The expansion of the global division of labor and the technological revolution under the free system have kept the middle class expanding at an accelerated pace.

And why this trend was interrupted around 2000, some advocates of liberal economics believe that it is because Huaguo joined this cycle, and Huaguo blocked the original cycle of middle class expansion.

In simple terms, the previous cycle is:

England came up with new technology (jenny loom) and then their wool spinning/weaving got an absolute advantage.

This freed capitalists to open factories, resulting in the employment of a large number of British workers while reducing labor in other industries.

As a result, the labor force in England was insufficient, and they began to import products from other continents, such as importing food from Australia.

The current income of workers on both sides has increased, and they are no longer just living on the line of food and clothing, and have achieved a preliminary well-off.

This group of people needs other commodities, which stimulates the birth of more technologies.

Then more people were employed, the most basic food and clothing were achieved, and even fixed assets could be purchased.

More and more detailed technical division of labor is produced, and the income/assets of workers can finally achieve long-term surplus.

This led to the birth of financial services, and workers could borrow money—they could pass on the fixed assets left to the next generation, pass them on to the next generation (the debt is also left to them), and enjoy themselves.

Or transfer the cash flow of the asset being used by another person to you for retirement through an arrangement called stock, that is, pension securitization.

They think that such a perfect cycle and perfect global division of labor, because of the joining of Hua Guo around 2000, this cycle was stuck in Hua Guo.

After joining this cycle, the poor in Huaguo obtained job opportunities and money, but their money was confiscated by Huaguo in a form of conspiracy.

In fact, this is a trivial reason, and the essential reason behind it is that it is too easy for capital to make money.

After capitals have tried financial and Internet businesses, the speed of developing new technologies to make money is much slower than that of finance and the Internet.

For capital, the essence of the Internet is actually a financial business.

The essence is not that Huaguo has joined this cycle and led to the downgrade of the middle class, but that it is far more difficult to develop new technologies than before, and it has completely entered the deep water area in research and development.

And the cost of trial and error is extremely high, even if it is a giant, if you invest too much in the wrong route, half of your life will be gone.

Therefore, the most fundamental reason is that labor income is far behind capital gains, and this phenomenon is becoming more and more obvious.

Corresponding to the downgrade of the middle class, the mid-level companies are also downgrade.

This phenomenon began to appear gradually in 2016, after the rise of the mobile Internet wave.

It is even more obvious today that apart from the high-ranking giants and low-level enterprises, there are fewer and fewer forms in the middle.

almost none.

Before the rise of the mobile Internet, e-commerce companies in various subdivisions emerged one after another. At that time, they were still called vertical e-commerce companies.

Only giants can survive, such as Taobao, JD.com and Pinduoduo.

This is true for online e-commerce, as it is for other fields.

The enterprise in the middle feels like a blink of an eye when it dies.

The fundamental logic behind this lies in the integration of resources, and the resource integration capabilities of giants are far stronger than those of medium-sized enterprises.

And why 2016 is a critical node, because at the macroeconomic level, the shrinkage of capital has actually been looming in 2016.

Although the Fed will raise interest rates frequently in 2022.

Whether it is capital or traffic, it is becoming more and more difficult for intermediate companies to obtain.

Small businesses can barely make ends meet by cutting expenditure, and giants can rely on low financing costs and their own advantages to increase income and reduce expenditure.

Enterprises in the middle can't do it.

The real estate companies in Huaguo have died in the past few years because of the private enterprises in the middle, and none of the large enterprises have died, even if they survived.

But yesterday's press conference of Kechuangbiology will change all this. Except for me, you will all be reduced to middle-level enterprises.

All the original advantages will be subverted.

Taking Goose Factory as an example, the traffic moat you built by relying on WeChat and QQ has no effect in the virtual world.

The user relationship network you built is also useless in the virtual world.

The only advantage of Goose Factory is its employees and the cash flow lying on the books.

The moat was directly blown away by a nuclear bomb from the science and technology innovation.

The same is true for Byte and Taobao.

In the new era, these giants have been reduced to middle-level enterprises due to the dimensionality reduction of science and technology innovation.

Let us wait and see who can break through and get the new era ticket again, and who will be degraded.

In addition, if any students who work in Kechuang Biology see my Weibo, then congratulations, you have already got the first-class ticket of the new era.

Being in a rising monopoly company is really no different from sitting in the wind and waiting to send you to the sky.

From IBM to Microsoft to Apple, being an employee of them in the early days is tantamount to lying down and winning. "

A big V in finance and economics posted a long Weibo on Weibo the night before to analyze why the U.S. stock market plummeted.

He has actually touched the core essence of the U.S. stock market crash-the re-pricing of assets.

Lei Jun was very touched after seeing this Weibo, because he has done many similar enterprises.

To put it bluntly, Joyo.com back then was an enterprise at the middle level, and then it was killed.

Not only Excellence, but also Cheetah and Vancl.

He is very afraid that the greatest effort in his life - rice, will be killed in the new era.

Although it is common for companies to fail, companies that can become evergreens are rare.

To be able to persist in becoming a large enterprise for a hundred years or more, most of them develop in many ways.

Only in this way can we have a stronger ability to resist risks.

That is, the disaster recovery concept in the computer concept.

Like Nokia, after the mobile phone business is sold, it can still survive on the communication business.

If Nokia only develops the mobile phone business because of its prosperity in the mobile phone field, it will be gone long ago.

Lei Jun also learned a lesson from it, so that after the rice mobile phone did a good job, he went to the rice department store and then the rice car.

The core purpose is to create a complete ecology, and improving the ability to resist risks is also one of the purposes.

"The transmission of cold air to everyone here is not to make you feel scared, but to give everyone a sense of urgency and realize that rice may go out of business at any time.

This is something that I can foresee is very likely to happen in the future.

The white sphere in my hand is the virtual reality device of Kechuang Bio. "Lei Jun picked up the virtual reality life body beside him, and then raised it in his hand and said.

Because Lei Jun's tone was too serious, none of the executives and middle managers present dared to whisper to each other. Everyone just looked up at the virtual reality device in Lei Jun's hand.

All eyes were on Lei Jun's hands.

"The relationship between Mr. Lei and Mr. Zheng is really extraordinary, and they can actually get the real thing first-hand."

"Relying on the relationship between Mr. Lei and Mr. Zheng, Rice can also get a share in the virtual reality world, just like the science and technology innovation of the future, when Rice became a shareholder."

"I don't know how the virtual reality equipment is going to work.

Why does the virtual reality device in Mr. Lei's hand look a bit strange, neither plastic nor metal. "

Various thoughts flashed through the minds of the participants present.

Most people's thoughts are a bit similar to the famous saying: I feel relieved when I see ** such a hooligan.

What they think is that seeing Lei Jun and Zheng Li have such a good relationship makes me feel relieved.

"Let's take it in your hands and experience it first. Everyone can take a maximum of five seconds. Everyone can look at it and touch it."

After speaking, Lei Jun handed the white sphere in his hand to Lin Bin beside him.

The participants present couldn't contain their emotions.

"What? Why does it feel like skin!"

"I didn't see the chip at all, so the virtual reality device of Kechuang Biology is a biological device?"

"It looks like, what kind of black technology is Kechuangbio?"

"This should be developed by Zheng Li again. It's too scary. Is he still human?"

Regarding the launch of virtual reality life forms by Science and Technology Creation, Huaguo's official attitude is that it can be promoted, but it is best not to reveal your identity.

In other words, everyone can guess, but Zheng Li or Kechuang Biology had better not admit it.

Just guess whatever you want, just like guessing Wang Mang is a time traveler on the Internet.

For things that cannot be explained by science, the best way is not to explain them.

"Fuck! This black technology is too dark"

"How do you charge it? I don't see the charging port."

"It should be the same as the biological storage server we bought, relying on nutrient solution."

"There is indeed no gap. It should be a biological device. What is the technical principle behind this? Can signal transmission be achieved between organisms?"

The experts in charge of the technical level feel reluctant to part with it after getting it in their hands.

"How do you use this? You can't wear it on your head either."

Lei Jun waited for the virtual reality device to return to his hands, and then the participants below became quiet again before continuing:
"Shocking, isn't it?
I was on a business trip during this time to help Kechuangbiology test their virtual reality equipment. "

This is what Huaguo officials told Lei Jun to say to the outside world.

After all, an entrepreneur of Lei Jun's level has been missing for about a month.

During this period, Lei Jun was only asked to report his family's safety.

Therefore, during this month, there have been various rumors in foreign media.

"I was just as shocked when I was testing.

It's a pity that this virtual reality device is bound to my brain, otherwise I would really like to let you try it. "

"I can tell everyone that this virtual reality device is a living organism, and the way to use it is very simple, just put it next to you.

Then you will automatically enter the virtual world.

Your brain's nerve signals will be matched with the virtual reality device, which will provide the five senses you need.

I can clearly tell you that the virtual reality world of science and technology creation creatures is very close to the real world in terms of perception. "

"Whether it's smell, taste or touch, there is at least 90.00% authenticity."

"In a situation like this, do people still need cell phones? Do people still need cars? Do people still need computers?

The two core businesses of Rice, Rice Mobile and Rice Car, are no longer needed in the virtual world. How can we support such a 3-person enterprise?
The 3 people do not include outsourced employees. "

"I have been thinking about this question since I started to experience the virtual reality equipment of Kechuangbiology.

What are we going to live on?

I have been thinking about it for a month, but I have never thought of a good way. "

"Today's meeting is held in the hope of brainstorming, and everyone will think together.

I hope that the wisdom between us can burst into sparks.

Everyone speaks freely, each of you has something to say, just press the button in front of you to speak.

If you speak well, there will be additional rewards.

The answer that satisfies me the most is that I may let you take full responsibility for the strategic transformation of Rice Group. "

Lei Jun is not only the founder and chairman of Rice Group, but also the founder of Kingsoft.

It's just that he is more worried about rice than Jinshan.

Because even in the virtual world, people still have office needs, and Kingsoft's core WPS can still be transplanted to the virtual world.

There will always be a need for software.

The only thing that can kill PPT is artificial intelligence.

And after artificial intelligence has reached this point, Jinshan can't resist even if it wants to resist.

And the crisis of rice in the virtual reality world is just around the corner.

"I think we can cooperate with Kechuangbio to build FutureOS in a similar way.

Even if it is a virtual world, someone still needs to build it.

We can cooperate with Kechuangbio in this field. "

This is path dependence. I think that in the virtual reality world, rice's experience in the field of mobile phone systems will be needed.

Before the middle management could finish speaking, Lei Jun interrupted:
"First of all, don't talk about whether this method is feasible, who will talk to Zheng Dong of Kechuang Bio?
Virtual reality is coming, Microsoft, Apple, Google, who doesn't want to build a system for Kechuangbio?

Regardless of foreign countries, who would not want to domestic Goose Factory, Ali and Byte?

Why should Kechuang Biotech choose us?

The advantages of MIUI alone are not enough for us to eat this cake.

My friendship with Zheng Dong is not enough for him to hand over the virtual world system to Rice. "

Lei Jun still doesn't know that the construction of the virtual world does not require programmers at all.