Beijing issues a death order, must be found! What exactly is it being used for, and do these people really dare to come out and speak publicly?! Qiqi Baba TALK Episode 999 20261014

This episode mainly discusses the survival pressure faced by the public as local governments pressure people to pay social insurance amid the expanding deficit of China's social security fund. Combining phenomena such as physical stores with zero revenue across various regions, flexible employment workers unable to afford rising social insurance costs, a wave of corporate bankruptcies, and a cliff-like drop in job recruitment wages, it reflects the difficult plight of the lower-class citizens and young people under the current economic downturn.

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When you have saved up a hundred yuan, they will find a way to make the value of that hundred yuan drop to one yuan. That is what they are like.

This is way too ruthless! What is the difference between this and robbery? When will this ever end? I really cannot take it anymore.

The social security system definitely cannot sustain itself; it just hasn't completely burst open yet. In 2025, the deficit reached over two trillion. Coupled with aging and a severely imbalanced newborn ratio—where it used to be four or five people supporting one elderly person, by 2035 and beyond, we will face a situation where one contributor supports one elderly person. According to actuarial forecasts by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, if institutional reforms are not carried out, our urban worker basic old-age insurance is very likely to be depleted around 2035. Therefore, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security now wanting to use big data to track down people who haven't paid social security makes things very clear, doesn't it? No one would think they have so much money they don't know what to do with it and are overflowing with charity, right? During the pandemic, how many people couldn't afford to eat, and countless companies went bankrupt? Did anyone care? Back when the population was large, they enforced family planning, and the scenes were terrifying—forced fines, forced sterilizations, older folks all remember that, right? Later, when everyone stopped having children, they came up with all sorts of policies to encourage people to have more children. It is the same logic: when they had enough money, they didn't care whether you paid or not. Now they suddenly care about you; they must be lacking something again, right? To put it bluntly, how many朝令夕改 (ever-changing) things have they done over the years? Things like delayed retirement, extended contribution periods, and social insurance fees rising every year—they would rather put their minds into this than ever think about changing the income problems, wage arrears, and employment problems of ordinary people. Now they actually care whether you will have security when you grow old? Isn't that bullshit? If everyone had money in their pockets, knowing the good things, wouldn't we pay for them ourselves? Therefore, keeping money in your own hands is the best choice. No matter how much it is, no matter how well they talk, and no matter how well you plan, it can never withstand a sudden change in policy in the future.

I really cannot hold on much longer, my friends. We have no idea how much longer we can endure. Social security fees go up every year, increasing by hundreds each time. It seems we have to make up for back payments this year as well. We haven't paid them yet, and we have no idea how much it will cost. Many people are saying they have already stopped paying. Now they are also talking about mobilizing freelancers and anyone else to actively pay this old-age insurance. If anyone had the conditions to pay, who would stop, right? We run a physical store; look at this, from October 1st until now, our revenue is like this: zero revenue, zero performance.

[Video Clip] Today's task is to go to residents' homes to publicize the urban and rural resident endowment insurance policy, to publicize this urban and rural resident social security policy. Which province are you from?

[Video Clip] Yes.

[Video Clip] The reports can't even go out.

[Video Clip] Don't you have...

[Video Clip] Four thousand five, eight thousand, or it doubles every year.

[Video Clip] Where did I put the money in my phone? Take the two hundred twenty that month.

[Video Clip] Why don't you buy some? What is your reason actually? Are you happy or not? No money! Goodness, you have no money! I will go back and... Now, the Chongqing residents write... write five years at your door, from three hundred to six thousand, totaling five tiers. The more you pay, the more... no matter what, your condition won't disappear, where are you going to pay your personal insurance?

Social security has risen again, and people can barely afford to pay social security soon. I pay it myself, over two thousand a month. I pay Shenzhen's social security, and I can barely afford it anymore, over two thousand, slowly rising from over one thousand to over two thousand, can I survive until retirement?

Everyone has received their bills, right? October's social security is going up in price again. Not only is it rising, but you also have to make retroactive payments from January to September. When will this ever end? I calculated it, and now for Tier 1 social security in Shenzhen, non-Shenzhen residents also have to pay around two thousand yuan, and Tier 2 is one thousand six. Back then, it was just two or three hundred yuan. Now the economic climate is so bad, social security keeps rising, and small businesses keep collapsing.

Beijing gave a strict order that they must be found! What on earth are these used for? Do these people really dare to come out and speak publicly?! Qi Qi Ba Ba TALK Episode 999 20261014. When will this end?

Good.

Using all methods to find you, wholeheartedly just to help you. You hand over the money first, I'll take charge of your retirement. Horizontal scroll: wipe them all out completely.

If big data really filters them out and turns it into grass-roots assessment tasks, that would be too terrifying. Phone calls urging, door-to-door persuasion, these tactics might all appear. But the problem is, for people with the most unstable incomes, it's not that they don't want to take responsibility for the future; it's that life today is simply too tight. Wanting to make them join the insurance relying purely on mobilization is useless. Attention villagers, this year's endowment insurance...

[Video Clip] You must pay the money quickly, putting money in the bank is not as good as putting it into your... social security account.

[Video Clip] This.

[Video Clip] How much to take? Two liang and it arrives.

[Video Clip] Did you pay your endowment insurance?

[Video Clip] I haven't.

[Video Clip] Why aren't you getting up? How old are you?

[Video Clip] I've never paid it.

[Video Clip] Let me publicize the policy for you, you must pay your endowment insurance now. If you pay two thousand, the government's annual subsidy is another two hundred, so with a base of twenty-two hundred, you can receive four hundred twenty-seven, how much money do you get in a year? Over five thousand, isn't that better than saving in the bank? No, two thousand, three thousand. You need three thousand, and how much do you get in the end? After reaching sixty years old, it's five hundred thirty-five a month.

Nearly three months for flexible employment personnel, even if you find them, what's the use? My monthly salary is three thousand five, four thousand five, and you ask me to pay—for example, social security in Guangzhou and Shenzhen now is roughly around two thousand yuan, and for flexible employment it's slightly lower, but it still takes over a thousand. Even if you find them, what can you do? It's equivalent to painstaking efforts to find a dairy cow, only to find that the cow's milk isn't even enough for its own calf. You find them and want to milk them, can you squeeze any out? What gets squeezed out will definitely be blood and tears. Therefore, I believe that finding people who haven't paid social security has no meaning in itself. Helping them find jobs, finding ways to make a living, finding methods to increase their income—that is the effective truth.

[Video Clip] Folks, everyone attention, this year's urban and rural resident endowment insurance has started collection. From Liangbei to Shangxinyuan, there are accidents making it hard to find.

National subsidy seven hundred, if we don't pay, wouldn't the state save seven hundred? Why don't we pay? Village cadres are anxious, school teachers are anxious, can anyone explain this?

If you don't even have money, why the hell are you paying social security? Focus on living in the present first. You can barely afford to eat, yet you're thinking about retirement decades from now? Can you at least cover next month's mortgage and car payments first? We pay social security thinking it's a protective amulet, but when you have no money to pay it, it's practically a death warrant. Filling your stomach comes first; that's the only truth. Everything else is secondary.

Social security is such a huge burden. It's over 1,800 yuan every month. In Hangzhou, it goes up once a year, starting every July. For an average person, after 1,800 is deducted, what's left is just enough for basic living expenses—the kind of state where you're not quite starving to death, but you're never full. There is absolutely no extra money left.

Shenzhen, I love you so much. But why does social security have to rise to over 1,900 yuan? Shenzhen, don't you know that there are ordinary people like us, at the bottom of society? Are you trying to drive all of us 'human cattle and horses' out of Shenzhen? Only keeping the high-end elites, is that it?

Damn it! Another price hike! Oh my, the base for social security in Xiamen goes up every year; it's getting to the point where I can't afford it. The latest news is that the minimum social security contribution in Xiamen has risen from 1,486 to 1,620. That's an increase of 134 yuan, almost a 10% hike. Sigh, the general environment has been bad these past two years, and now the burden of social security is even heavier.

Yesterday, IELTS exams were cancelled on a large scale across many parts of the country. Some students' scores might be invalidated, and it's hard to find available test slots later. Why were they cancelled? The reason remains unknown to this day.

What a bunch of amateurs, a total amateur operation. It really feels like the sky is falling today. A bunch of students told me theirs were cancelled. They were on their way to the exam when it was cancelled. They had even printed out their admission tickets. The exam was scheduled for the afternoon, and they just announced it was cancelled that morning.

Since they can force us to pay social security, can't they also force a two-day weekend? Can't they also force an eight-hour workday? If everyone had a two-day weekend and an eight-hour workday, wouldn't that mean a company or a factory would have to hire more workers to complete the same quality and volume of work? And wouldn't that mean our employment pressure could be eased? Similarly, if workers had more rest time and more spare cash, they could go out shopping, eating, and spending. Wouldn't that boost our domestic demand? And if domestic demand is boosted, wouldn't that in turn feed back into businesses? That would be a positive, virtuous cycle. Some might say that if everyone had a two-day weekend and an eight-hour workday, it would increase the pressure on businesses, and they would go bankrupt. Damn it, let them go bankrupt then! If they can't even handle that much pressure, then such a business is useless anyway, and we're better off without it. If this business can't make it, there are plenty of other bosses who can. You can't just keep grinding the people without grinding the businesses, right?

This year, I've thought about it, looking back, we really haven't spent any money. I haven't had a haircut, and yours was done at home; we didn't spend a dime. When we buy clothes, we buy them online for 10, 20, 30, or 40 yuan, and we can't even afford to buy many. As for food, we just make do.

Yeah.

And it's under these circumstances that we've only managed to save 20,000.

To sum it up, finding a job is just too hard right now! I came to this city because of a listed company, but I didn't pass the interview. I stayed in a youth hostel for a week, and eventually ended up at a company with a salary of 1,500. My roommate also came to this city, but he couldn't even get his resume submitted. When I went for the interview, the HR said they had already received hundreds of resumes for a 1,500 yuan monthly salary. And they even said that people in their 30s were applying for this job. I thought, 1,500 yuan? The employment environment is just too tough right now! And I only chose this 1,500 yuan job because I couldn't get into any other company, yet even for 1,500, there's so much competition. I've been working for two weeks now, and it's August. My roommate is applying again, and I'm acting as an undercover agent inside. Someone is about to quit, but when he went to apply, the salary had dropped from 1,500 to 800. Because even when it was 1,500, HR thought the salary was low, but they still received hundreds of resumes. Since so many people are fighting for it, they just cut the salary to 800 this time. My roommate might not even get in. I'm truly defeated. Is the employment environment really this terrible? I just want to lie flat.

Goodness! Life is really hard for the people at the bottom. Either you're delivering food or you're working the assembly line in a factory, trading your own body for a meager income—and that income is only just enough to survive. It feels like ordinary people are living as if they're in hell, like life has no hope, repeating the same days over and over again. It truly feels like living in hell.

I hope our spotlight focuses more on the ordinary people at the bottom, and that all of our attention turns more toward the common folk. As for how much the national GDP rises, how much it grows each year? The common people don't feel much from those numbers. Which billionaire is worth a trillion, or ten billion? Who is the richest person in China? Who is the richest person in Asia? Who is the richest person in the world? None of that has anything to do with the common people. What matters most to the ordinary people is their actual lived experience: Can they live and work in peace and contentment? Is there a stable income? Is there a good job? Can they run a decent business? Stop worrying about money, and let the common people live a good life. I think this is the only thing everyone should focus on.

If you can't find a job, you can go pick up trash! Just pick a few high-end residential compounds, neighborhoods with expensive housing prices, and stake out that territory. But you have to be early; usually by 4 o'clock, someone has already left with a full three-wheeled cart. If you go then, it's already too late. Even though nationwide every trash can now has an owner, they can't be there all the time! You just need to time the gaps right, and it's still pretty profitable. Besides, the nicer the residential compound, the easier it is to hit a legendary drop. What does that mean?

The sky has truly fallen! My wife and I are both 32 this year, and our baby is 8 months old. Ever since giving birth, my wife has been a stay-at-home mom. As for me, after the October 1st holiday, the industry was completely wiped out, which is basically being unemployed, right? Right now, neither of us has any income, nor any savings, and what's even scarier is that we still have a mortgage and other loans.

Everyone knows what the Life-and-Death Talisman is, right? You've all seen those ancient TV dramas, right? Ah, to make a person serve them better, they plant a Life-and-Death Talisman in their body to control them, and at a certain time, they give them a bit of the antidote so they stay alive and can keep working hard for them. In our current lives, hey, doesn't it look just like our monthly salary? That miserable bit of money you earn, doesn't it look like a Life-and-Death Talisman?

"Honey, give me 10,000 yuan."

"Mhm."

"What for?"

"Well, I'm going to pay my social insurance, aren't I?"

You guys still pay social insurance? Oh my god! You guys have to retire at 55 or 65, and by your 70s you're gone—just to collect those five years of retirement pension? You still think you're going to live into your 80s? Go take a walk in the park when you have time, and see how many men in their 80s there are. Isn't it all old women?

Hey, wait, what you're saying actually makes sense! Oh my god!

Right now, stop constantly nagging young people about not getting married, not buying cars, and not buying houses. Go look at the current job market; buy a car and a house? Fuck, just staying alive is a problem for me, alright? I've been looking for over ten days, and last night I was truly driven to a mental breakdown looking for work. I found a job yesterday, and how much was the base salary? It'll scare you to death to hear it: 1,300. I almost thought I had time-traveled, traveled to a world where global currency depreciated 10,000 times, and me—

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I'm seriously begging you, okay? Even ancient slaves weren't this cheap, right?

Everyone keeps advising young people to be motivated. It's not that we lack motivation; it's that we truly cannot afford to be tossed around anymore! After working for so many years, we've only saved that tiny bit of money. You tell me to be motivated, to go out and take a gamble? I can't win. I really can't win, and by then I might end up with not even a bone left. Nowadays, it's an era where the success of one general is built upon ten thousand withered bones. What are we even doing? Ah, no, nowadays telling me to be motivated is no different from telling me to go gamble. It's two sides of the same coin: success or failure, there is no middle ground. Anyone who advises you to be motivated right now—well, forget it, just block them.

Uh, what is the social security money actually used for? Um, is it really used to secure the retirement of the people? Ah, I think we really need to ask those people in Beijing: you push people to this kind of state, forcing them to pay social security, and now you are just madly forcing them. In the future, they will come up with even more tactics, and friends can just wait and see. Go and consult your conscience—though I know that bunch of people probably don't have a conscience, you at least have a heart, right? Ah, just look down at yourself. Can you even see that black thing anymore? Your hearts... the money is what you grabbed, and the spending is what you spent. Originally, the people bought insurance for their own retirement, but now? Ah, there's a deficit, there's a problem, and they still have to fill it themselves. Then let me ask you: why hand this money over to you? Alright, that is all for this episode. If you would like to support me, please join the member channel. I especially hope to chat properly with friends during member-only live streams. The schedule announcement for the latest member live stream has already been posted in the community. Friends who haven't seen it yet, remember to go take a look, it's happening in the next couple of days. So that's our content for this episode, see you next time.