Song Guiwu’s opinion 63: Luxury and thrift coexist, is also a kind of equilibrium of rural society consumption


  宋圭武观点63:奢侈与节俭并存,也是乡土社会消费的一种均衡

  个人认为,奢侈与节俭并存,也是乡土社会消费的一种均衡。比如,一些农民,平时省吃俭用,很节俭,很抠门,但在一些个别消费上则很奢侈,甚至奢侈得不是一般。这关键要看是一次性消费,还是多次消费。若属于一次性消费范畴,则可能存在奢侈大方的行为,但对于多次消费的情况,肯定是节俭的,因为有收入约束限制。而一次性奢侈消费,对农民而言,满足了两方面的需求。一是投资需求。因为农民的奢侈性消费,仔细分析,多是带有投资目的的,比如请客办事,或是花在装饰自己门面方面的消费等,而纯粹的奢侈性消费,则较少。二是消费需求。通过个别奢侈性消费,也是对平时自己节省行为的一种心理补偿。因为一个人长期节俭,必然也是对奢华消费的长期压抑,这客观需要有释放的机会,以此达到一种心理平衡。所以,乡土社会存在的平时节俭与偶尔奢侈的消费行为,其实也是一种均衡。

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  Song Guiwu's opinion 63: Luxury and thrift coexist, is also a kind of equilibrium of rural society consumption

  Personally, I think that luxury and thrift coexist, is also a kind of equilibrium of rural society consumption.For example, some farmers, usually very frugal, very thrifty, very stingy, but in some individual consumption is very extravagant, even extravagant not general.The key is to see if it is a one-time consumption, or multiple consumption.If it belongs to the category of one-time consumption, there may be extravagant behavior, but for multiple consumption, it is certainly frugal, because there are income constraints.And one-time luxury consumption, for farmers, meets two aspects of demand.One is investment demand.Because farmers' luxury consumption, careful analysis, is mostly with investment purposes, such as entertaining guests, or spending on decoration of their facade, and pure luxury consumption, is less.The second is consumption demand.Through individual luxury consumption, it is also a kind of psychological compensation for their usual thrift behavior.Because a person's long-term thrift is also a long-term repression of luxury consumption, which objectively needs to have a release opportunity, so as to achieve a psychological balance.Therefore, the existence of rural society at ordinary times thrift and occasionally luxury consumption behavior, is actually a kind of equilibrium.OK, thank you, thank you.