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Let me tell you a story first. The story happened in a village where people don't like to eat bananas, but there is a large kiwi fruit orchard here. The villagers here make a living by growing kiwi fruit. Merchants from other places saw this opportunity and deliberately came here to create demand, claiming to the village chief that they would purchase a large number of bananas. After that, the purchase price was different every day, 10 yuan today, 11 yuan tomorrow, 12 yuan the day after tomorrow... and the amount of bananas purchased every day is increasing, which is called "making something out of nothing" in business. By gradually raising the price, the merchants established an inertial thinking in the hearts of the villagers, making them believe that the price of bananas will continue to rise. As a result, the villagers rushed to buy bananas, hoping to get the difference after the price rises.

However, the merchant was not trying to sell bananas, but to use cheap bananas to raise the price in exchange for more kiwis. He found that some villagers wanted to buy bananas but had no money, so he offered to lend them money. The villagers mistakenly believed that the price of bananas would continue to rise, and they all mortgaged their kiwis at a discount to the merchant to borrow money to buy more bananas. The merchant did not need to work hard, but instead became the villagers' biggest creditor. He obtained a lot of kiwis at a low price, and exchanged very cheap bananas for expensive kiwis. Before the villagers paid off the loan, the ownership of these bananas remained in the hands of the merchant, and he could make money from both sides. This is "waiting for the villagers to work while they are at ease."

As time went by, some villagers began to doubt the true value of bananas and felt that they were not a necessity. In order to maintain the value of bananas, merchants gave them other value attributes, such as telling young girls in the village that a person who couldn't even afford bananas didn't deserve love. As a result, those who didn't buy bananas began to feel inferior, bound by secular concepts, and dared not have other ideas. This is also the emotion of MEME.

The villagers speculate on low-priced bananas in exchange for high-priced kiwis. The villagers mortgage the kiwis to the merchants and borrow money back, which is called a mortgage loan. The merchants can also mortgage the money owed by the villagers, which is called a loan re-mortgage. In this way, the risk is transferred to others, and the merchants cash out and leave again.

When the price of bananas fell, many villagers who held large quantities of bananas immediately became nervous and angry, because many villagers had bought at high prices and could not repay their loans. The bananas were auctioned off, and bananas that previously cost twenty yuan could now be bought for a dozen yuan, or even lower. At this time, merchants entered the market three times with funds to buy at the bottom.

So the merchant had a large number of bananas in his hands again. He knew that it was basically impossible to sell them as before, so he cried again and wanted the villagers to help him. The villagers were also studying it, so the merchant quickly packaged the non-performing bananas in your hands and sold them to private equity fund managers at at least double the price. So the merchant cashed out for the third time and left.

Bananas are $APE. People who own APE are all big dog dealers. $MEME speculation is that dog dealers create demand for bananas and money-making effects in one place, while the villagers’ kiwis are USD and other valuable currencies. Can you guess who the villagers are?

The twists and turns of participating in speculation is a process of continuously pushing up prices, all for the purpose of cashing out in different ways.

Gouzhuang reform creates demand: By creating a sense of scarcity and demand, the merchant successfully created demand for bananas among the villagers, demonstrating business acumen in creating something out of nothing.

MEME hype and APE manipulation psychology: Taking advantage of the greed and inertial thinking in human nature, businessmen guided villagers to participate in banana trading, reflecting the common psychological manipulation techniques in the investment market.

Accumulate chips in advance Insider trading and follow the trend: By forging insider information, merchants and assistants induce villagers to make a blind final sprint.

This story warns us that in the business world, demand does not always arise naturally, but is sometimes carefully manufactured. This is true for MEME and VC reform. There is nothing new under the sun, and the human world is just one PONZI after another!