Question: In 1986, pork cost $1.21 per catty. Now, pork costs $12.00 per catty. Which one is more expensive?

In the 1980s, pork was sold hung up and pulled one by one. Now, pork is sold on a board and cut piece by piece.

In 1986, when I worked as a laborer in a construction team, my monthly salary was 100 yuan, but this 100 yuan was quite a lot, and the highest salary for working in a factory was less than 100 yuan. One hundred yuan is about seventy or eighty yuan.

Nowadays, the minimum wage for a brick-moving worker in the construction team is 150 yuan a day, and they can earn 4500 yuan a month! But this is not the highest wage. Workers in our private rolling mills here can earn more than 300 for twelve hours a day, and over 10,000 per month.

In 1986, it cost five cents to buy a sesame seed cake at a food stall. Earning three yuan a day could buy sixty sesame seed pancakes, which could feed four people for a day. Nowadays, the price of sesame cakes is one yuan and a half, or seventy-five cents each. If you earn one hundred and fifty cents a day, you can buy two hundred sesame cakes, which can feed fifteen people for a day.

In 1986, the price of pork was 1.2 yuan per catty. If you earn three yuan a day, you can only buy two and a half catties of pork. Now, the price of pork is 12 yuan per catty. If you work with bricks, you can earn 100 yuan a day. Five, but this one hundred and fifty can buy twelve and a half pounds of pork! When I worked a day in 1986, I could only buy a fraction of what I can get now, two and a half kilograms. Those ten kilograms of pork were picked up for free.

Based on the value of daily labor between the past and the present, compared with the price of pork in the two periods, which one is more expensive?

That’s five times cheaper today than before.

It is said that as things become more expensive, money becomes less valuable, but compared with creation and consumption, labor is more valuable and prices are cheaper.

Before answering this question, let me recall my happy life when I was a child. I was born in the countryside. Although life in the countryside was very simple at that time, everyone's living standards were similar at that time. The gap between the rich and the poor was not as big as it is now, and the pressure of life was not as great as it is now. The adults were busy at home doing farm work, and the children were happy. I go to school and help my family with some farm work after school. It’s so happy for the family to be together.

Back to the problem itself. In 1986, pork was indeed not expensive, costing about 1.2 yuan per pound. At that time, the family would eat meat once a week and thought it was so delicious.

Pork now costs about 12 yuan per pound, which is ten times higher than in 1986. From the perspective of the laws of social development, this is very normal. It has been 35 years, and this kind of price control is already quite good.

Compared with other daily necessities such as houses and vegetables, pork is the best to control.

Let me use a set of living data to compare: Residents’ income

In 1986, at that time, residents’ income was only a few hundred yuan a month. A net income of one thousand yuan is considered very good.

Now, our average monthly salary should be around 4,000 yuan, which means that after a year, we can have at least tens of thousands of yuan in net income.

In the past 35 years, residents’ income has increased dozens of times. This growth rate is much higher than that of pork. Residents' quality of life

In 1986, our life was relatively simple, and everyone felt that the happiness index was higher. However, it was all a kind of "poor happiness", and other people's spare time life was very monotonous. The adults work hard during the day and sit at home chatting or playing cards at night. Children just play in the mud, there is no TV or other forms of entertainment.

At that time, it was quite luxurious to have a meal of pork. Even if you did, you would only eat a few pieces, and you would not dare to eat too much.

It would be very rare to get a new outfit during the Chinese New Year.

Things are different now. All kinds of life are very rich, everyone's work is relatively easy, the level of intelligence is also very good, and people's entertainment and leisure methods are also rich and diverse.

Things are different now. Pork can be eaten at any time, and it is enough.

In summary, pork cost 1.2 yuan per catty in 1986 and now costs 12 yuan per catty. Which one is more expensive?

I think that the price of pork in 1986 and the price of pork now are not comparable in terms of price itself. If we insist on comparison, I think this exactly shows that the development of our country's society has produced Huge progress, which cannot be separated from the correct leadership of the party, the policy of the people being the masters of the country, the policy of reform and opening up, and the spirit of hard work of the people across the country.

Therefore, we now live in a happy society and we should cherish it even more.

In 1986, wheat and rice cost less than 30 cents per kilogram. Almost 5 kilograms of grain could buy 1 kilogram of pork. Now grain (before processing) only costs a little more than 1 yuan, which is about 30 or 40 cents per kilogram. , so one pound of pork costs nearly 10 pounds of grain. From this point of view, the price of pork has increased. If calculated based on the wages at that time, the monthly salary of an ordinary worker in 1986 was more than 40 yuan, and the monthly salary was only enough to buy more than 30 pounds of pork. Now the average worker Their wages are between 4,000 and 5,000 yuan, enough to buy 400 to 500 kilograms of pork, which shows that the price of pork has dropped! Only one tenth of the original! well! Farmer! But there are no pure farmers anymore. Except for the old and infirm, the young people are part-time workers and part-farmers or have completely left the land. Therefore, the gap between workers and peasants is almost invisible at present!