Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3071 The Price of Awakening

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "When those factories in the south recruit workers, they also have educational requirements. If you have never worked in the manufacturing industry, you may not know that even the assembly line workers at Foxconn have educational requirements."

"What degree?" Zhang Chaoyang was a little bit unbelievable. How could the education level in China be so high? "Don't assembly line workers do repetitive work?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It is because of the repetitive work that there is an educational requirement, it must be a high school degree or below."

"what?"

Zhang Chaoyang was slightly stunned.

Zhou Buqi said: "If you are a primary school student or a junior high school student, you can get a job as a worker. If you are a high school student, or even a college student, they won't hire you at all! They will directly block you at the level of academic qualifications!"

Zhang Chaoyang laughed and said, "Reverse academic qualifications!"

Zhou Buqi said, "I run the campus network and I know that many college students go to work in factories during the summer vacation. They dare not say that they are college students. They all say that they just left home before graduating from junior high school. After playing games for a few years, their families don't want to sign them, so they have no choice but to work in factories. Only then will they hire you."

Zhang Chaoyang thought for a moment and said slowly, "It's true. Some people would rather do a lot of repetitive work every day than learn some craft or technology. They think learning is too tiring and they can't bear the hard work. Some people are better at learning, but it's difficult for them to accept doing some repetitive and mechanical things. That will make people depressed."

Zhou Buqi said: "Isn't this the current division of labor model in China? It's the difference between regular employees and outsourced employees. One type is good at continuous learning, continuous exploration, and continuous improvement, while the other type is good at constantly repeating some assembly line work."

“So what does Google say?”

Zhang Chaoyang was very surprised by this.

Google is the benchmark in the technology industry!

But listening to this guy's theory, it seems that Google's employment model is not quite appropriate.

Zhou Buqi said: "Google's model is not good. Its innovation and research capabilities are first-class. As a large company of this scale, its innovation capabilities are no worse than those of startups. This is the advantage of Google's human resources model of only recruiting outstanding talents. But the disadvantages are also obvious, that is, its operational capabilities are not enough, and its judgment of products is too elitist, making it difficult to popularize them."

Zhang Chaoyang pointed at him and said with a smile: "Are you floating?"

Zhou Buqi doesn't think so. "Innovation is 0 to 1. Google is the best at this. Ziweixing International has a team that focuses on Google every day to study their newly released products. In this regard, Google is really a role model. However, for a product to be successful, it is not enough to just go from 0 to 1. It also needs to develop from 1 to 100. Google's innovative products are amazing at the 0-1 stage. But they quickly wither at the 1-100 stage."

Zhang Chaoyang said "hmm".

Zhou Buqi said: "Just like Google+, cloud computing, smart wearable devices, and the now very popular autonomous driving system, they will all be in trouble in the future. 0-1 requires innovation and the talents of top talents. 1-100 is different. Once the product enters the operation stage, it requires a lot of repetitive work, continuous iteration and maintenance. If we only look at the operation of the product, the domestic Internet is really invincible. Even a company like Sohu is stronger than Amazon."

"What kind of comparison is this?"

Zhang Chaoyang's face turned dark.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Sohu's response is fast. Sohu has never had any problems in terms of operations, right? Amazon has too many problems. Moreover, even if there is a problem, it can be solved quickly here in China. Even if it is two or three in the morning, people can be organized to fix it immediately. Amazon can't do that. They don't have this ability."

Zhang Chaoyang, a veteran Internet entrepreneur who studied in the United States, found it somewhat difficult to accept, "According to your theory, the working ability of top talents is not as good as that of ordinary people?"

"That's right!" Zhou Buqi snorted. "You ask Sohu's chief technology officer to compete with a fresh college graduate in writing some basic code and see who writes better? You ask college students and junior high school graduates to work on the assembly line and see who has better work performance?"

Zhang Chaoyang sighed, "This is the price of awakening!"

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Here comes the value again." This is the adverse effect of reading.

It will change a person's attitude towards things ideologically.

The Zhou family used to run a mountain products business, which was very large in the 1990s. During this process, they had to visit many rural areas in Northeast China, so they were very familiar with the rural conditions.

If a person has been farming since childhood and has never read thousands of books or traveled thousands of miles, he will not feel how hard farming is or how low the income is.

got used to.

So I accepted it.

If a person has studied in college or worked in the south, it would be very difficult for him to return to his hometown to work as a farmer. You can't even tie him up with a rope. Because he has been to big cities, seen the world, and met many rich people, his mindset has changed, and it is difficult for him to accept the old farming lifestyle. Even if you force him to pick up farm tools and do farm work, he will be like a lost soul, and it is impossible for him to calm down and do farm work well.

Therefore, there were three governance strategies in ancient times: one was the household registration system, one was the system of keeping the people ignorant, and one was the system of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce. The household registration system restricted actions, the system of keeping the people ignorant restricted thoughts, and the system of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce restricted choices, which allowed the common people to farm and pay taxes honestly, not cause trouble for the court, and contribute to the royal family.

Zhang Chaoyang said: "Behavior comes from motivation, and motivation comes from thought."

Zhou Buqi said: "There still has to be a division of labor. A capable person may not be able to do all the work. It's not a limitation of ability, but a resistance of thought. If you have a peaceful mind and don't have so many messy thoughts, it will be easier to get things done."

Zhang Chaoyang smiled and said, "Hearing what you said, I also want to recruit a group of outsourced employees!"

Lao Zhang is a good man.

In addition, Sohu's labor demand is not large and there are no outsourced employees within Sohu.

Zhou Buqi curled his lips and said, "That's not necessary. Sohu doesn't have any high-tech projects or innovative products. There is no need to distinguish between regular employees and outsourced employees. All outsourced employees can be regular employees of Sohu."

Zhang Chaoyang was despised by him again and said angrily: "Stop talking nonsense. Sohu Video is doing very well now! It is one of the top three domestic video products! The online copyright of "The Voice of China" is very competitive, but I bought it!"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "That must be intentional by Jieyu Media to give you face. IQiyi is backed by Baidu, and Youku has also been acquired by Alibaba. What can you use to compete with them?"

"How about..." Zhang Chaoyang glanced at him and suddenly had an idea, "How about I split the video business out? Just like I split the game business out from Sohu."

"What do you mean?"

Zhou Buqi is very alert.

After being spun off from Sohu, Changyou has now become Boss Zhou's direct industry and has achieved remarkable success.

Zhang Chaoyang said with a smile: "Let's split Sohu Video off and have Ziweixing invest in it. Let's do this together!"

“Using Sohu’s brand?”

"if not?"

"Forget it!" Zhou Buqi would not be fooled. "The streaming media industry is still very immature in China. If you enter the market now, you will suffer losses every year. Ziweixing has gone public, so we must save money and not invest blindly."