If I ask you a question now: How can ordinary people achieve financial freedom?

How would you answer?

Answer: hard work, diligence, compound interest, ability, passion, mission, luck...

Are these really important? Will you work harder than the workers on the construction site? Will you be more diligent than the delivery boy? Those small business owners have both ability and passion, but they always complain about the bad environment. Why is that?

I want to do a thought experiment to answer this question.

If you traveled back in time 20 years ago, what would you choose to do to become rich?

No need to guess: buy a house! If you don’t have money to borrow money and use leverage to buy a house, it’s best to use Ou Shen’s 2N rule, two houses a year, maintain the leverage ratio, and directly jump across several classes.

Is there another way? Yes! In 2005, seeing the Internet economy and the information age as the future, I directly bought Tencent's stock, which has increased thousands of times since its listing.

Finally, the smart people came. You are all younger brothers. In 2011, I directly bought 10,000 Bitcoins. The future is a decentralized society, and Bitcoin is the gold that everyone wants.

Okay, wake up, it’s time to get up and move bricks. Don't lie down.

Back to the present, although the past is in the past, we cannot go back to the past. So in real life, has anyone made the asset selection I just mentioned?

There really is, obviously. Oushen is the representative of real estate. Early employees of Tencent can get stocks, and teacher Li Xiaolai participated in the social experiment of BTC. Then after participating, he rested on the assets he owned. Wealth will follow.

Let’s not talk about whether they are lucky. Let’s think about why doing this is 10,000 times more efficient than working hard. What is the reason behind this that causes such a huge gap? After others make a choice, they can just lie down. Then you are free. I always feel like there is some secret behind this.

Houses, stocks, cryptocurrencies.

These things are awesome. Why are they awesome? Because wealth and capital are flowing inward, why continue to flow inward, even if there is no way to stop it. What's this?

I thought: trend!

Lei Jun said: If you stand in the right place, even a pig can fly. After so many years of entrepreneurship, I have learned four words: go with the flow.

When you discover a trend, you just need to follow the trend, and you will be swept up by the potential energy of the economy behind the trend. Let's move in this direction together. Then unknowingly, trend compound interest becomes the friend of time, and the gap becomes wider and wider. Wealth will follow.

In real life, there is no ability to predict the future. The trend is not so obvious to ordinary people. We have no way of knowing whether Shanghai's housing prices will keep rising? Where will Tencent be able to influence society in the future? And whether our cryptocurrency will go to zero.

Let’s think about it again: how do we define a trend? What is a trend? How does it relate to money?

Baidu’s explanation: Trend refers to the development trend of things.

It is related to money, which is the direction of people's economic activities. Funds flow (finance) to places where their value can be better exerted.

The development trend of things can be understood as the direction of movement of objects. How do objects move? It takes force to push. What is the ubiquitous universal force in this world?

gravitational! gravity!

It’s too late to explain physical gravity here. Let’s look at the huge gravitational potential energy brought about by economic gravity.

——That is, the economic manifestation of the trend.

For example: urbanization

The characteristic of big cities is that there are more people in them, and then people will divide their work into more and more detailed ones. The division of labor will bring about improvements in efficiency, and public services such as medical care, education, and transportation will become more and more complete. The more people there are, the more people will work. There will be more other businesses willing to enter this city to provide people with services and products, further bringing more employment opportunities and entrepreneurial opportunities....

This will attract more people to develop in big cities. More commerce, economy, and transactions bring more wealth, and people settle in big cities with their wealth. Finally, the wealth flows to the rising scarce real estate (representing property rights in big cities).

For example: Tencent

In the online multilateral economic market of the Internet, Tencent initially had a basic online user base through QQ and WeChat. People formed more social relationships, and more people were attracted to the online community by the people in front of them. The people in front attracted the people behind them, and they communicated, played games, entertained, and socialized here. More human activities were online, and corresponding economic activities continued to take place on the Tencent platform.

At the same time, it can accommodate more users, bring more businesses and commercial activities, and the economic activities here can be carried out more efficiently. In the end, part of the value was captured by Tencent, and funds continued to flow into the rising Tencent stocks (representing Tencent's property rights).

Let’s talk about digital economy again

In real cities, interests and values ​​are gradually being distributed. The Internet has helped people break through geographical boundaries and form a new economy in the virtual environment. Tencent's user participation has contributed to Tencent's large market value, but users have not enjoyed it. Every bit of your own virtual digital property rights.

The users become thinner, but the platform becomes fatter.

Gravity continues to flow, and we have come to the digital age, the web3 economy, and the metaverse (an online parallel world economy).

The gravity here is that with Bitcoin, you have complete control. No one can take it away, and no one can dilute it. I have the sovereignty of my wealth and can trade and circulate more freely. I also hope that more people will own and transfer it. By using it, everyone will have better transaction circulation, and at the same time, the value of scarce Bitcoin will become more and more prominent. Bitcoin is the gold of the digital world. More and more people want to come to the digital world and have asset rights that can be freely circulated.

With Ethereum, people can freely trade, borrow, play games, and have entertainment in the digital country of Ethereum. More economic activities occur in Ethereum, and more value is captured by the token Ethereum. Owning Ethereum means owning the property rights of the most prosperous country in the digital world.

Having a digital game pass means that you have more property rights in this digital economy. If more people are active in this economy, more value and funds will be deposited in the pass that represents the game property rights.

There is also more ownership of economies in the digital world, where there will be more economic activities in the future and more and more people will be active. There will be greater gravitational potential energy here.

This is a revolution in the digital economy, an inevitable trend driven by gravitational potential energy

If you could see it, would you first come in and own your own digital property right now?

I'm not sure how long it will take for this to fully happen, but since I'm on the right side of the trend, I don't mind trying.

Now there is an opportunity to enter the digital world very early and own property rights. I want to come in first and take a look.

Of course, if I fall asleep lying down, please don't try to wake me up. The digital world is just as wonderful as the dream world.

End, all of the above is just dream talk.

That's it, Dyor.

Author of this article: Chad, Twitter @chad1997y; Editor: Gemini, Twitter @Gemini0x17