Why is there a spring of knowledge payment in China?

First of all, what is knowledge payment? In fact, the knowledge payment mentioned here is not in the traditional sense. Traditional knowledge payment is generally to spend money on training, pay for remedial lessons and so on. The knowledge payment here refers to the paid knowledge question answering service based on the Internet, which is different from the familiar free question answering service. Baidu Know, Zhihu and other well-known Q&A platforms are common Q&A platforms. Users can ask their own questions and communicate with netizens on these platforms. Netizens provide answers to questioners for free according to their own knowledge, and knowledge payment is similar to this model, except that the questioner needs to pay for the answers of the respondents.

Why is knowledge payment so popular in China? This should start with the concept of people. In China after the reform and opening up, people pay attention to development, which means that everything is money-oriented. After all, what China really needed at that time was economic development. But after decades of development, the level of our people began to improve. People begin to pay attention to the development of material, and also need the enrichment and support of knowledge. Today, with the rapid development of the Internet, many people are beginning to realize their lack of knowledge reserves. At first, I was looking for knowledge. However, it is not that people don't have the knowledge they need, but that it is really difficult to find what they need from the massive data. Therefore, in the Internet information ocean full of rubbish, truly valuable information is absolutely scarce, and knowledge (systematic and organized high-quality information) still exists in individual brains, far from being effectively tapped and utilized. Driven by the market economy, knowledge paid products came into being.

Another reason for the popularity of knowledge payment is that knowledge payment can really meet people's demand for knowledge. Many knowledge paid products are launched by professionals in the industry and some institutions. Compared with previous netizens, sharing knowledge is obviously more professional and targeted. Moreover, due to the accelerated pace of life, it is really difficult for many professionals to have time to provide some knowledge that everyone needs for free, so knowledge payment is very in line with the needs of current life and market.

In short, paying for knowledge is by no means a bad thing. It can help people who need knowledge to get professional answers quickly, and those who provide knowledge become more willing to give up their high-quality knowledge after being paid, and finally form an atmosphere in which knowledge is money.