People's Daily: The Difference of Just A Little More Effort

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@人民日报: The people who work just a bit harder than you have actually already flung you far away [are actually already far ahead of you]! Good morning!

Comments from Sina Weibo:

蓝枫世纪：

Must work a bit harder!!

J__Ning：

Bullshit.

姜馨一：

Why is it multiplication? Not addition?

杨志鹏__：

Actually, it should use multiplication, not exponentiation.

貳劉孖：

This should be addition, not multiplication, bro.

海滨支行薛天志：

The author’s intelligence has problems.

禅达酒馆儿：

Hahaha, everyone has seen through that it should be addition. Was your mathematics taught by a physical education teacher?

六弦法师：

This story tells us: No matter how hard diaosi work, they’ll never catch up to the tall, rich, and handsome.

奔跑者的守护：

Why is it multiplication and not addition? If it is calculated like this, as long as there is one day where nothing is done–numerical value of 0–then the result of the entire year would be 0? Doesn’t addition (or strictly-speaking weighted algebraic sum) make more sense?

南轩墨兮：

The author’s intelligence series. 1.01 to the 365 power means every day is 101% of the effort of the previous day, which is to say every day is 1% improvement on yesterday. How likely this is everyone can hehe together. As for 0.99 to the 365 power, every day becomes 99% of the previous day. The author believes our brains are all damaged components, each day worse than the previous one. PS: Improving every day would be addition.

贱民1982：

Sigh, just looking for trouble, could you be stupider? Even humanities students have gone through middle school, okay?

老刺猬的天涯：

Bullshit calculation, what should be addition is calculated with multiplication. If so, then 30 years of 0.99 work would be equivalent to not having worked at all…

What do you think? Stupid attempt at inspiration? Or nitpicky netizens?