——写给正在努力生活的普通人
文/HuSir
这几年，很多人都有一种说不出来的体会：只要事情办的进度稍微慢一点，心里就慌；只要工作不稳定，就会睡不着觉；只要停下奋斗的脚步，就害怕以后没饭吃。近期大洋国发通知要求农村各级政府要采取措施防止农民工集体返乡滞留，可那些原本为了躲避农业劳作外出城市打工的人回乡后又能有什么能力去务农谋生呢？
在新的历史时期，劳动力市场已经发生了巨大变化，单纯靠体力和重复性劳动谋生的这些人已逐渐被人工智能替代，他们何去何从实际上是整个社会需要反思的问题，而不是单纯的“围追堵截”。再往远处想一下，类似的情况在各个城市中也将持续出现。目前的快递员、外卖员和网约车司机也面临着被无人驾驶工具替代的情况。
无论是农村出来打工的人，还是开网约车、骑外卖的城市劳动者，大家都有同样的感觉——好像时代在往前跑，但我们却越来越不知道未来在哪里。很多人责怪自己本事不够、没机会、没背景。
但真相远比你以为的更深：我们这一代人，被放在了一个“需要工具，不需要人”的发展模式里。过去几十年，农民工进城修路、建房、造城市。他们用自己的青春，把一个个空地变成高楼，把城市从无到有撑起来。可当经济转型、房地产停滞、自动化时代来临时，人突然发现：自己最熟悉的那点力气、那点本事，被时代轻飘飘地一句话抛在身后。他们想回农村，却发现土地不够、产业单一、生活成本高；留在城市，又发现机会越来越少。谁考虑过他们老了之后怎么办？几乎没人。
然后，这种情况现在也发生在城市的打工人身上。今天看起来外卖骑手每天很忙、网约车司机订单不断，但我们都知道：自动驾驶、无人机配送、智能仓储一旦普及，几千万靠平台维持生活的人，会在一夜之间发现——以前那条熟悉的路走不下去了。农民工曾经如此，城市蓝领正在成为下一批“无处安放的人”。
为什么会这样？不是因为大家不努力，也不是因为谁天生命苦。根源在于：我们从小没有被当“有灵、有思想、有自由的人”来培养，而是被训练成“听话、能用、能替换的工具”。工具的命运是什么？用得着的时候拼命用，用不着的时候悄悄放一边。
人之所以痛苦，是因为被当成工具，却渴望活得像人。但我要告诉你：你不是工具。你有灵。每个人心里都有一小部分地方，是不会被时代、平台、工厂夺走的。那是人的良知、人的爱、人的尊严、人的判断力。基督徒称它为“神给的灵”。它让一个人即使在最苦的时候，也还能坚持、还能分辨、还能向着光走。这几年太多人觉得自己被丢在角落里，被社会遗忘，被时代淘汰。但你要知道：时代可以忽略人，制度可以忽略人，可是神从来不会忽略任何一个人。你今天的辛苦，祂看得见。你心里那一点点撑着不倒的力量，不是凭空来的。你之所以还能坚持到今天，是因为你不是一台机器。你有灵，你有尊严，你有选择未来的能力。现在的你可能不懂技术、不懂趋势，不知道路在哪里。但你至少可以做一件事——不要再把自己的命运交给制度、平台和别人安排的路。
从问“为什么”开始，从停下来想一想自己真正想走哪条路开始，从不再盲从开始，从重新找回一点点内心的自由开始。自由不是别人给的，也不是社会给的。自由是灵给你的，是上帝赋予人的最初礼物。一个活在灵里的人，不会轻易被时代吞掉。
愿你在这个时代里，不再只是为了活下去而奔跑，愿你能看见自己真正的价值，愿你知道：当世界把你当成工具时，上帝仍然把你当成祂的孩子。你不是无路可走，你只是第一次真正要学会——为自己走路。
Why Are the Leeks of Oceania Increasingly Afraid of the Future?
— For ordinary people trying to live their lives
By HuSir
Over the past few years, many people have felt something difficult to put into words: the moment anything takes a little longer than expected, panic sets in. The moment a job becomes unstable, sleep becomes impossible. The moment they stop hustling, they fear there will be no food on the table tomorrow. Recently, the government of Oceania issued a directive requiring rural authorities at every level to take measures to prevent migrant workers from collectively returning to and lingering in their home villages. But here’s the question: those who originally fled agricultural toil to seek work in the cities — what skills do they even have to farm and make a living if they go back?
In this new era, the labor market has undergone seismic shifts. Those who once survived on physical strength and repetitive manual labor are now being steadily replaced by artificial intelligence. Where they go from here is, in truth, a question the entire society must reckon with — not a problem to be managed through mere containment and obstruction. Zoom out a little further, and the same pattern will keep unfolding across every city. The delivery couriers, food riders, and ride-hailing drivers of today are already staring down the barrel of replacement by driverless vehicles.
Whether it’s the rural migrant laborers or the urban gig workers driving for ride-hailing apps and delivering takeout, everyone shares the same sinking feeling — as though the era is racing forward, but we have less and less idea where our own future lies. Many people blame themselves: not skilled enough, no connections, no advantages. But the truth cuts far deeper than that. Our generation has been slotted into a model of development that needs tools, not people.
Over the past several decades, migrant workers poured into the cities to pave roads, construct buildings, and build the urban world from the ground up. They spent their youth turning empty lots into skyscrapers, raising entire cities out of nothing. Yet when the economy pivoted, when real estate ground to a halt, when the age of automation arrived, they suddenly discovered: that strength they knew so well, those skills they had relied on — all of it was discarded by the era with an offhand wave. They thought about returning to the countryside, only to find there wasn’t enough land, industry was too narrow, and the cost of living was still high. Stay in the city, and the opportunities kept shrinking. Who ever stopped to think about what happens to them in old age? Almost no one.
And now, the same thing is happening to urban laborers. Today, food delivery riders look busy, ride-hailing drivers see a constant stream of orders. But we all know: once autonomous driving, drone delivery, and intelligent warehousing reach scale, tens of millions of people who depend on platforms to survive will wake up overnight and discover — the familiar path they once walked has simply ended beneath their feet. What happened to the migrant workers is now happening to the urban blue-collar workforce: they are becoming the next generation of people with no place to belong.
Why does this happen? It isn’t because people aren’t working hard enough, nor because anyone is destined for misery. The root cause is this: from childhood, we were never raised as “people with a spirit, with thought, with freedom.” We were trained to be tools — obedient, usable, replaceable. And what is the fate of a tool? Use it relentlessly when you need it; quietly set it aside when you don’t.
What makes human beings suffer is being treated as tools while longing to live as human beings.
But I want to tell you: you are not a tool. You have a spirit. There is a small place inside every person’s heart that cannot be taken away by any era, any platform, any factory. It is the human conscience, the human capacity for love, human dignity, and the human power of judgment. Christians call it “the spirit given by God.” It is what allows a person, even in the bitterest circumstances, to keep enduring, to keep discerning, to keep walking toward the light.
These past few years, too many people have felt discarded in a corner — forgotten by society, left behind by the age. But you should know: an era can overlook a person. A system can overlook a person. But God never overlooks anyone. He sees the hardship you are enduring today. That small, unyielding strength still holding you upright — it does not come from nowhere. The reason you have been able to hold on until now is that you are not a machine.
You have a spirit. You have dignity. You have the capacity to choose your future.
Right now, you may not understand technology. You may not grasp the trends. You may not know which road to take. But there is at least one thing you can do — stop handing your destiny over to the system, to the platforms, to paths laid out by others.
Start by asking “why.” Start by pausing to think about which road you genuinely want to walk. Start by refusing to follow blindly. Start by reclaiming a sliver of inner freedom. Freedom is not handed out by others, nor conferred by society. Freedom is given by the spirit — it is the original gift God bestowed upon humanity. A person who lives in the spirit will not be so easily swallowed by the age.
May you, in this era, no longer run merely to stay alive. May you come to see your true worth. May you know this: when the world treats you as a tool, God still calls you His child. You are not out of road. You are simply, for the first time, truly learning — to walk for yourself.