What Is Perspective and Background?

Children of rural families, whose parents are blue-collar workers, are not necessarily without background—it’s just that the next generation abandons or ignores that legacy.

Thirty years ago, in a village, a young man named Xiao Wang moved to a second-tier city to work in home renovation, specializing in plumbing and electrical work.

Because he was eager to learn on the job, his craftsmanship kept improving, and his friendly nature won over everyone who hired him.

Gradually, Xiao Wang got married and had children, becoming Old Wang. Old Wang’s kids grew up to resemble the young Xiao Wang of decades past.

Old Wang would tell Xiao Wang that today’s job market is flooded with college graduates, far outnumbering the white-collar positions available.

If you’re capable of excelling in school, going for a hot major at a top-tier university would be great.

But if you’re not, enrolling in a poor school for an obscure program might just be worse than inheriting your father’s trade and mastering plumbing and electrical work.

Old Wang could help Xiao Wang secure jobs, and he could steer him clear of common pitfalls.

Old Wang knew which suppliers offered the best value and which channels provided reliable materials. As long as his son stayed in the plumbing and electrical trade, he could shield him from采购 scams.

Unfortunately, Xiao Wang didn’t listen to his father. Instead, he enrolled in a second-tier university’s computer science program. After graduating, he joined a small company where the boss kept insisting they were the next big tech giant.

Soon enough, that company shut down.

Xiao Wang continued jumping between jobs, eventually landing a customer service position that consumed his days. When AI普及 hit, that job disappeared too.At that point, Xiao Wang realized his salary was mediocre, his savings were nonexistent, and he had no connections to break into a major tech firm—employers dismissed him due to his modest educational background and spotty work history.

It seemed like his life’s chess game had been played completely haphazardly.

Insight doesn’t materialize out of thin air.

小Wang,if he had stood on his father’s shoulders, he would have discovered that although his dad was merely a plumber-electrician, the trust his father had earned from others—and his knowledge of whom to trust—represented accumulated wisdom.This accumulation itself constitutes insight.

Compared to those without such experience, this became his background.Without it, an outsider would stumble blindly through the industry, encountering rejection at every turn, and would need three decades to build similar expertise.Having a background isn’t only about reaching a certain position—information itself can form the foundation of advantage.

Though the story of Old Wang and Xiao Wang appears regrettable, it’s actually quite common. In capital markets, there are countless people who stick to one trading strategy, make money, then abandon that strategy to venture into unfamiliar territory, betting wildly on market movements with methods they don’t understand, only to lose everything they’ve accumulated over years and give it all back.

Isn’t that another version of Old Wang and Xiao Wang?