Some songs sing well, and life can be compared to the waves on the sea, sometimes rising and sometimes falling. However, the stock market and life are the same. When everything is at its peak, who can calmly accept stock prices or net worth?
"Partners" describes the life changes of senior executives who were laid off from a shipbuilding company in the United States during the 2008 financial tsunami. Everyone has a famous car and a luxury house, but since he is committed to the company and the skin is not there, how will Mao be attached? Seeing him rising from a tall building, seeing him banqueting guests, seeing his building collapsed...This movie speaks of the cruelty of the second half of this sad life.
Han Han once made a metaphor. He was preparing to sing at KTV, but the song was cut. The so-called tragic second half of life is almost like this. But what was even worse was that not only the song was cut, but it was also kicked out of the KTV.
Ben Affleck, the youngest of the three protagonists, is still playing golf and is full of confidence waiting for a promotion. The two old executives are busy with work, cheating in hotels, or showing their faces at events. It not only shows the pride and satisfaction of successful people, but also shows the vigorous vitality of mainstream society.
But after being unemployed, the sadness in the second half was different.
One way out of the two old executives was suicide, and the other was to raise funds to restore the suspended factory and arrange for the old department that was dismissed by the factory to go to work.
If these two people are more extreme, the first protagonist played by Ben Affleck reflects the situation of most people-unable to pay the mortgage, unable to pay for the children to participate in activities, sell the car... The greatest helplessness comes from being rejected. A 37-year-old man has nowhere to sell himself. This sense of frustration and powerlessness is enough to swallow everything. In the end, I had to send someone under the fence to do manual work with my despised brother carpenter to make ends meet.
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002, Professor Kahneman of Princeton University in the United States, discovered an interesting psychological phenomenon: People feel quite different about the same amount of loss and profit. To put it simply, the unpleasant feeling brought by losing 10 yuan is much stronger than the pleasant feeling brought by picking up 10 yuan. For example, when a person raises his salary, he may not care about anything, but if he is asked to reduce his salary, the problem arises.
Therefore, compared with the lower-level people, the successful people will live even worse in the second half of their sad life. Because people care more about what they once possessed and lost. The columnist "Who, Who and Who" of FT Chinese Network once wrote an article "Post-Success Era", which fully described the embarrassing situation of many people's success.
What is the value of people?
Is the monthly salary paid into the salary card? Or how many people smile and praise you? Or what is the general title?
Both, and neither.
Saying yes is because those things really bring you glory and a high-quality life; saying no, because even if those things are lost, it does not mean that you have no value.
In the face of the depression of the great age, the sorrow of the old and helpless can kill a person, in fact, because of the fear of losing one's own value.
I have heard a radio show where the theme of Liang Dong and Wu Bofan’s "Winter Wu Relativity" is "The Awkward Post-70s". What I’m talking about is that the post-70s actually have a good opportunity. The relative competition is not so fierce. They have caught up with the rise of the Internet. Most of them have decent jobs and income. However, due to premature abandonment of learning and progress, they were gradually eliminated in the subsequent competition. In fact, this is the disregard and damage to one's own value.
In dealing with the "mid-life crisis", Munger's "Poor Charlie Collection" and Cicero's "On Old Age" recommended by its author and Franklin's autobiography have benefited me a lot. If there is another big bull market, we should be more sober than when we were in the stock market at 6000. People can acquire knowledge through reading, think to gain wisdom, and make friends to sharpen their character, but human experience cannot be replaced by anything else.
Of course, including pain, including the second half of this sad life. In any case, people are actually dealing with unprecedented crises.
In fact, compared with success, suffering seems to be the essence of life.
Finally, the poster of this movie is very interesting. Two people are looking at each other while walking a tightrope, and a group of people in suits and leather shoes are peering. Is that their higher level? Is that the more successful person? If so, they are actually even more sad.
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