Spring Festival travel rush is China's annual "liquidity squeeze."

A large number of cattle and horses, like the Year Beast, burst into fireworks and head home, fireworks stop and leave.
Normally, people are treated as production factors, scattered across various cities running models.
But during the Spring Festival, everything is forcibly settled and unified back onto the books.
If the system doesn't crash, it proves that the dispatching capability is truly world-class.
But the problem is: people are not assets; they have emotions.
High-speed rail is essentially a "high-frequency matching system."
China has spent trillions to build the world's strongest matching engine,
but what results from the matching are not trades, but: short videos being broadcast externally + goose-duck voice chat + full-car conference calls.
You think this is a "quality issue"?
No, it's a typical case of: hardware upgraded, but users haven't upgraded.
It's like you put a counterfeit coin,
force it onto a top-tier exchange,
no matter how powerful the matching system is, it can't stop a bunch of people from dumping.
Many people start sitting in business class, saying "It's quiet over there."
In plain words: when public order cannot be guaranteed by rules, price stratification becomes the only option.
This logic is the same everywhere:
Stocks: VIP channels
Exchanges: market makers prioritized
Reality: business class, first class
You're not buying a service,
you're fleeing the crowd.
The most ironic point is:
China is one of the few countries in the world capable of handling the massive traffic of the Spring Festival travel rush,
but also one of the few places that need noise-canceling headphones to survive within top-tier infrastructure.
The essence of business class:
Using money to buy yourself an environment where "others don't speak."
When a society needs to use price to filter for quietness, it fundamentally means the rules have already failed.