My son just started primary school, in order to let him feel the charm of nature, I sometimes guide him to observe ants. Children naturally have no mercy, they either touch them or step on them.
Sometimes I try to see the world from the perspective of an ant. To an ant, a weak child is not something it can fight against, and it can only be manipulated by others. I came from the countryside, and for a long time my mentality was the same as that of an ant, and I could only be manipulated by the world.
This mentality will breed an idea in my subconscious mind, that is, for this powerful world, for the capital that can manipulate it, there is no loophole for people like me to exploit.
All my relatives are from the countryside. None of them has ever done business, and no one has ever taught me how to do business. So I told myself that so many experienced people either lost money or went bankrupt in business, and I would definitely be worse off than them.
When a friend tells you about a money-making opportunity, you will think, how can someone in this industry not know about such an obvious opportunity? There must be some barriers that you don’t know about.
Too many such thoughts are castrating myself...
It wasn't until a close friend took me to do a gray market project that I changed my mind. This project was to arrange a broadcaster at the scene of a sports game, and then make an advantage bet on the spinach handicap based on the real-time voice information he provided on the scene. If it weren't for my close friend, I wouldn't have tried it myself if other people had told me about it. I would definitely subconsciously think that the handicap is calculated by the top actuaries, who have more player data than ordinary people, and the bosses behind them can even influence the game. How can ordinary people have a chance of winning against them? But this project did last for many years, and later I was thinking, why don't these big bosses solve this problem. The conclusion is: they can't solve it completely.
As I began to reflect, I realized that there are many loopholes in this world. The reason is that this world is a world of multiple indicators, and there are conflicts between different indicators, so there is no perfect solution at all!
The Communist Party wants the dictatorship of the proletariat, but for the sake of economic development, it can only compromise and allow capitalism to grow.
The management of the train station wants people to buy tickets before entering the station and getting on the train, but the safety gate of the passage is to avoid pinching people, so you can squeeze in as long as you follow the person in front of you closely. Once on the train, the train cannot stop at will, so it can only accept your ticket.
The parking lot exit gate has the same loophole. As long as you put the front of your car under it before the barrier is completely lowered, the safety mechanism will force it to open for you.
Even when "God" created such a perfect creature as human beings, he had to leave many loopholes. For example, the male excretory system and reproductive system are shared, which makes it easy to get infected; the respiratory tract and esophagus are connected, which makes it easy to choke; a big head makes people smarter, but a small pelvis leads to premature birth, etc.
I certainly don't agree with exploiting loopholes to harm others. But it is obvious that those who control wealth and are political trendsetters have more or less exploited loopholes in the world on their early road to success. In other words, it is because they discovered the loopholes in the world and exploited them that they have achieved achievements that ordinary people cannot even dream of.