From the moment human civilization was born, an IQ tax has been generated. What is an IQ tax is simply "to spend wrong money to buy useless things".
Women are big taxpayers, and weight loss and beauty are the most significant bonus areas. On a certain treasure, there is a dazzling array of weight-loss products that claim to lose weight without dieting, exercise, and lying down; on a certain red book, there is no way you can think of it, but you can’t do it. The online class "Teach you how to marry a wealthy man" and "Teach you how to marry a rich man", no matter how it is revealed, there are always people who are eager to sign up. The male "tax-paying" bonus area is mainly concentrated in emotional traps and success studies. While purchasing the "Earn It One Hundred Million First" premium class; while sending a real red envelope to the "girlfriend" who only talks about feelings but never meet, buy a set of "How to Keep Her Heart" by the emotional tutor by the way.
Today we are living in an era where everyone can be "taxed", but it is more or less the difference. Why do you want to ask? In one word, it is "fear". Someone has summarized the three laws of "tax collection": children are afraid of stupidity, women are afraid of ugliness, and men are afraid of poverty. In fact, one more thing needs to be added: the elderly are afraid of old age. In ancient times, Emperor Qin Shihuang refined the elixir of immortality, and now there are health products with cowhide blowing to the sky. Especially after entering the Internet age, IQ tax payment is even more varied.
To be afraid of stupidity, ugliness, poverty, and old age is the nature of human beings. There is nothing wrong with it, but when it comes to the point of "paying taxes", the reasons go beyond nature and are much more complicated.
This is "greed". For example, with a strong sense of curiosity and a mentality of getting something for nothing, the seller will produce words that satisfy your illusions, which will easily make you empty your pockets. The second is "blind". Lack of independent thinking ability, believing what others say, and not knowing how to distinguish, is very easy to be led into a well-arranged trap. The third is "urgency." It is especially reflected in young people who are new parents, for fear that there will be a slight slack in the investment in their children. Sometimes because I am too anxious to think, I just listen and believe. Before, a young mother spent thousands of yuan to sign up for a "sleep training" course at a private institution that was not certified by the National Health and Family Planning Commission. As a result, the 6-month-old baby died in the training.
People are drifting in the rivers and lakes, how can they not be knifed. Paying IQ tax, waste a small amount of money, you should spend money to buy happiness; waste a lot of money, or even be deceived to die, but you will lose a lot.
How to "avoid tax"? First of all, you have to know that all products are just business.
The basic point of all business logic is the relationship between supply and demand. In order to meet the demand, the product will be packaged to fit the demand extremely. When you are driven by the "greedy", "blind" and "urgent" mentality, it will be difficult for your eyes to find the loopholes and unreasonable places. If there is a good thing tailored for you, take the initiative to come to you, don't rush up, weigh it first.
How to weigh it, the key is to improve cognition. The fundamental reason why I pay IQ tax is not understood. In the Internet age, information is convenient and channels are diversified, and most of them are learning opportunities. It’s okay if you want to live forever and be young and beautiful, but don’t go to the doctor in a hurry, look up more information online, read more books, and ask others more often. Ask yourself: Can you really achieve your goal? Is the cost of consumption controllable? When the brain has a reserve of knowledge and the ability of thinking has reached a certain level, no one will be able to fool you easily anymore.
Not only to improve cognition, but also to restrain "anxiety." In the era of Internet big data, the excess of information is a problem that all of us have to face. Many deliberately amplified anxieties have also given birth to the IQ tax market. In fact, the nature of anxiety is not only due to the powerful impact we feel to change, but also to our acceptance of ourselves in our hearts. This is the ultimate homework that everyone learns both inside and outside of life.
Guidance and education are good recipes. If you want to help your family members avoid taxation, instead of complaining and ridiculing, it is better to explain patiently, guide carefully, and effectively inspire rational thinking, then "tax evasion" is not far away.
