Introduction: After Master Chi completed Ten Tiers of Human Existence last year, it sparked endless discussion and spread widely. For the first time, people realized that the differences between life’s tiers are not purely about material wealth — the true dividing line lies in the knowledge and mastery of unspoken rules that most people never have access to.
Later, due to its overwhelming reach, Master Chi was compelled to take it down, archiving it within a private community. Now, a year later, the time feels right to put pen to paper once more — to map out the people at each level in this era, writing more where more is due and making necessary adjustments where needed.
This time, however, Master Chi aims to use a more nuanced yet sharper lens to revisit — from C-1 through C-7 — the landscape of each life tier and the key details worth noting.
Once you’ve read it through, you’ll naturally discover that there are so many insights here that, without these pointed words of guidance, you would never grasp them in your lifetime.
Take today’s middle class, for example. Why do the vast majority feel like they’ve pushed themselves to the absolute limit, yet still can’t achieve financial freedom?
It’s not insufficient effort. It’s not insufficient drive. It’s simply that they’ve never positioned themselves as participants in the era’s dividends — they stand woodenly on the sidelines as spectators.
How do you become a participant? By aligning your role, perspective, approach, and knowledge with the level you’re trying to reach. Unfortunately, most people can’t do this — because they have no way of knowing how the world operates at higher tiers.
This Celestial Revelation is the life manual that will teach you how to climb that ladder, step by step.
C-1: The Common People
Annual income between 50,000 and 300,000 RMB. Almost universally holding non-management, minor functional positions.
Clerks. Workers. Small white-collar workers. Small blue-collar workers. In short — inconsequential bit players.
Some among them may dress brilliantly and on-trend. Others may appear to possess quite solid logic and reasoning ability. But all of this amounts to minor added value with little real worth — at their core, they remain the common people.
Put simply, they are the most utterly ordinary group you will ever lay eyes on.
Characteristics: No single word can fully capture them — because simple-minded, slow-witted, good-natured, cowardly, and greedy are words that fit them all at once.
Their understanding of life and circumstance is so naïve that they can never make a sound major life decision.
Their grasp of opportunity and resources is so sluggish that, short of sheer luck, they have almost no chance of turning their fortunes around.
Their temperament is good-natured yet spineless — unless pushed to the very edge, they rarely stand up to defend their own interests.
And yet they are greedy. Which is why every era’s schemes, large and small, reliably skim away their hard-earned money.
What is the fatal shortcoming of the common people? Not “laziness,” as many accuse — but the inertia rooted deep within them. Inertia means that no matter how exhausted the body, they will never think of ways to change their circumstances. They simply accept whatever comes and go with the flow.
This is why in your entire life, you will never encounter a single common person who is racking their brains trying to build something meaningful in their career. Most drift along making life choices by default, then spend a lifetime accommodating and compromising.
Dissatisfied? That’s just talk. Rarely does it ever translate into real action.
As for the kind of knowledge that could genuinely transform their lives — they won’t spend the energy learning it. To them, the stock market is just another form of gambling. Real estate is merely a synonym for savings and shelter. They’ve never deeply studied either.