Hardcore crisis

August 11, 2016.

Location: Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.

The city of Jakarta, as the capital of Indonesia, is undoubtedly a city with a strong contrast between tradition and modernity, rich and poor, just like Rio in Brazil and New Delhi in India. At first glance, it is a modern city made of high-rise buildings made of reinforced concrete. However, from high altitude Looking down, you can see tile-roofed houses and slums in slums everywhere mixed in with the towering buildings. Asphalt avenues intersect with ordinary bluestone alleys. From splendid high-end hotels to stinking slums, from clean From tidy high-tech areas to noisy and crowded villages, from the well-dressed upper class to the poor with dirty bare feet, from the table full of delicious food that can be tasted to the garbage discarded on the food picking ground, heaven and hell are close at hand, and people are close to each other. The gap between them is vast.

Here, the advantages of wealth and power have reached a peak, and they can easily determine a person's status and dominate a person's future destiny.

As a "rich and wealthy" company, the most famous technology multinational company "Hardcore Inc" this year has located its Asian headquarters in Jakarta. The Jakarta government has provided extremely favorable tax policies and conveniences, which are generally required by hardcore technology companies. , the Jakarta government will go all out to make proper arrangements. Especially after a hard-core technology company established one of its production and assembly plants in Jakarta, providing more than 6,000 jobs in Jakarta, the government became even more enthusiastic.

Of course, much of this enthusiasm comes from political donations to senior figures.

The reason why Lu Yuan likes countries like Indonesia, India, and Africa so much is that wealth and power can do things beyond the legal meaning in these countries. He clearly understands that as long as he is powerful, he will not kill people even in such countries. It’s not a difficult thing. High-level government officials and pirates collude with each other. Even on independent islands far away from the center of the country, there are many migrant workers from the Philippines, Africa, Myanmar and other places. They are oppressed into slaves and do hard work day and night. Work, but not even a penny of income. Compared to these slave owners, Ivy, who had previously been a pirate, was really "kind".

This is also a chaotic world that white-collar workers and golden-collar workers in modern cities cannot imagine sitting in clean and bright offices, drinking tea and tasting coffee.

Avandi didn't expect that much. He got up before dawn, cleaned up and took a cold shower. He carefully put on this valuable suit, adjusted his tie in the mirror, and nodded with satisfaction.

As he walked downstairs, he heard his mother calling him: "Aiwandi, do you want breakfast?"

"Didn't I say it? I don't have to have breakfast here anymore."

Aiwandi said impatiently, and then a look of pride appeared on his face: "I have been promoted, just watch, I will let you move out of here and find a new house in a short time."

"Really, brother, is what you said true?"

Aiwandi's younger sister, only seven years old, with bare feet and wearing clothes from her sister's childhood, immediately turned around and looked at him excitedly when she heard Aiwandi's words.

"Of course, when have I told lies?"

Avandi glared at his sister, dissatisfied that she was doubting what he said.

The monthly income of a driver in Jakarta is about 4 million rupees, which is equivalent to about 300 U.S. dollars. But that is a taxi driver in the city center. The average salary is only 3 million rupees, and the average salary of a domestic servant is only about 100 U.S. dollars a month. The poor people living in the slums earn less than US$30 a month from hard work.

But this low income does not mean that prices in Jakarta are very low.

Avandi has long wanted to rent an apartment and move her family into it. It was still a dream in college, but it was just a dream. That kind of staggering apartment rent scares every college student.

The monthly rent for a house with three bedrooms and one living room is as high as US$1,300 to US$1,700 per month, not including property management fees! Even if you successfully graduate from college and are surprisingly lucky enough to join a large local company, your monthly salary will be twice that of a taxi driver, which is only US$600, which is far from enough to pay the rent of an apartment.

This is really terrible.

For many of his classmates in college, this is basically a dream. Maybe after working for twenty years, they can buy a house in the suburbs, but if they want to buy a house in the city center, most people simply can’t. Such wishful thinking. That is something that upper-class people should consider, not something that lower-class poor people like them should consider. What's more, for this kind of ordinary community college, the most likely possibility after graduation is to enter a factory and become an ordinary worker. You can only be an ordinary worker for the rest of your life. Being able to buy and eat mangoes once every six months is the greatest pleasure.

Damn it, my country is obviously rich in mangoes, but one kilogram of mangoes costs 100,000 rupees, a total of 7 US dollars, which most people cannot afford. Even for ordinary fruits, the price is not much different.

When Avandi was in college, he was angry about it, but after entering society, within just six months, all his unwillingness and anger subsided, and he even felt desperate.

In this society and this country, poverty is the biggest original sin. No matter how unwilling he is, it has nothing to do with the upper class. However, the numb lower class people have long been accustomed to it and take it for granted.

After despair, Aiwandi suddenly realized that there was only one way to change this desperate fate, and that was knowledge!

As long as he has knowledge, he can change this terrible fate.

Every day and night, Aiwandi started to learn programming technology like crazy. He worked hard to make money during the day, and used the money he earned to buy second-hand books to study at night. In practice, he tried his best to intern in some black Internet cafes. In the end, he used very low For the price, I bought a very old laptop and started studying like crazy.

He persisted in this kind of life for a full year and a half, and it also brought him huge rewards.

A few months ago, when he cautiously participated in the local job fair of a hard-core technology company for the first time, he turned out to be only ten successful candidates among more than 3,000 applicants.

Avandi was ecstatic, so excited that he almost suffocated. He could hardly believe that he had succeeded.

However, after Aiwandi was extremely excited, it still did not reach the level of swelling.

Only after he joined a hard-core technology company did he learn that hard-core technology companies recruit local employees just to cope with the government's foreign enterprise policy and just to cope with the situation. The real core employees of hard-core technology companies are mostly top talents from Europe, the United States, China, Japan, South Korea and other countries. He can only come in because of the government's policy that foreign companies must recruit local people.

This can be seen from the fact that he only has a junior software engineer level of LV1.

However, even at this level, his salary reached an after-tax income of US$1,100, and he really turned around.

Aiwandi is a person who is never satisfied. When his whole family was shocked and unbelievable by the salary, he still did not give up studying. On the contrary, with better study conditions, he did everything except work. Time is spent studying.

There are no other social activities, I never go to invitations from colleagues, I don’t look for a girlfriend, I only study. His attitude towards learning even earned him the title of "Study Madman Aiwandi". The other nine colleagues who came in with him also began to dislike his behavior. They often ridiculed and refused to cooperate with the work, which was the best way to deal with Aiwandi.

pity……

Aiwandi wanted to laugh. His hard work of silently enduring for several months finally paid off.

Yesterday, the company issued a personnel order directly. Avandi Abubakar was transferred to the suburban company headquarters and no longer worked in the external office in the city center.

Level increased to LV2.

Although he has not reached the level of an intermediate software engineer, according to David, a person from the United States who he often studies with, he is recommended because he does not have the lazy habits of ordinary locals, and his ideas are very spiritual. Work should be done at corporate headquarters in the suburbs. (To be continued ~^~)