「Guide to Human Wealth」
·People can never get rich by selling their time. Whether you are a doctor or a lawyer, you can earn hundreds of dollars or thousands of RMB per hour. This is a simple arithmetic problem. People only have 24 hours a day. Even if you use a calculator to calculate all the time you can sell in the second half of your life, you still cannot become "rich".
·There are many different variations of selling time. For example, although self-employed people/freelancers have escaped the fate of providing surplus value to employers, they bear the market risks and fluctuations of cases themselves. The workflow cannot be automated. In essence, they still sell their personal time. Where does time come from? They sacrifice health and sleep.
·No matter what your title is, what famous place you work in, how much benefits you have, or how expensive your suit is, as long as someone tells you when and where you need to be, you are still a slave. If you are already a big boss and have to attend several meetings every day, then you have become a slave to your own career.
·Meetings are meaningless
·Money is actually blown by the wind. For most successful people who are self-reliant, the process of "getting rich" itself is just a few years, but they have worked hard for many years in advance. However, it will not blow to office workers, because even if it blows, office workers have no time to bend down to pick up money, because their time has been sold out for the monthly fixed income. For a tenant farmer, you can't bend down to pick up money falling from the sky, because you are bending down to dig the ground.
·Humanity has been away from the gold standard for a long time. "Money" is just a symbol. Today's money is worthless when taken back to primitive society. This symbol is only meaningful among people who believe in it. There is no money independent of the "human social network". Money is the sum of relationships between people, and wealth is a mark of the "work" done by an individual to other individuals in society.
·The entire human economy is moving towards virtualization, and it started a long time ago. People used to buy DVDs not for the disc itself, but for the content on it. Now with the development of the Internet, the distribution and delivery of "content" has become extremely convenient and normal.
Any process of getting rich from scratch can be summarized as a process of "providing products that other members of society want but have not been able to obtain." This is always highly related to human desires. All popular products are carriers of certain desires.If you satisfy the desires of others and make them feel good, they will give back to you.
· Almost nothing in the world is linear. There are "effect amplifiers" in all fields. Doing twice the work at a certain stage/time/field will get a hundred times the return. There are always few things that are really important. If you haven't found a certain "effect amplifier", there is one, and everyone has it, that is "spending time on important things". Ten minutes of watching short videos and ten minutes of exercise are also ten minutes, but the utility is completely different.
· The cyber age will reverse many marks left by the industrial age, such as the 8-hour work system, collective labor, clocking in, three meals a day, corporate employment system, and pensions. The industrial age needs to erase individual characteristics and ideas, invest in collective labor, and accumulate surpluses. The cyber age will liberate individual characteristics, or individual characteristics themselves will be the key to profitability. It is difficult for people to be moved by standardized cold industrial products, but people will be moved by another human being.
·People will need to work for more years because human life expectancy has been extended. Youth, middle age, and old age have all been extended, and the possibilities have also been extended. This generation of humans will probably live to 110 years old, and career changes will become more frequent.
·The track in the cyber age is infinite, because the boundaries between "content" and "product" are blurred, and content can be infinite. As long as you add a little new trick, it will be new again.
·Wealth is not a "zero-sum game", which means that if you need to make a sum of money, you must harm others for this sum of money. This is the thinking after the upper limit of productivity was fixed in the gold standard farming era.
·Population is actually the biggest factor affecting wealth, because wealth itself is actually equivalent to a voting behavior of other social individuals. The creation and establishment of wealth are just a game between people. If the population itself no longer exists, it means that there will be no listeners for music, no audiences for movies, no fans for stars, no consumers for products, and no students for training. Without people themselves, the market will no longer exist, and everything will naturally wither.
All resources on Earth come from the sun. Plants, animals, and coal are all different forms of solar energy. The sun's radiation to the Earth in one day is equivalent to the energy of 508.5 billion tons of coal fully burned. This energy can be used by more than 7 billion people in the world for 24 years.
·The best evidence that the total amount of human wealth is increasing is the increase in the number of obese people. Because human fat is also a kind of solar energy, energy goes from the sun to plants and animals, and then to the human body. The increase in the number of obese people indicates that there is an overall surplus.
·Neither "economic upswing" nor "economic downswing" is an objective reality, it is just a collective illusion, because economic operations depend on "expectations", and "expectations" are actually just a psychological feeling of people. From this perspective, the more pessimistic people are, the more downward they are. The more optimistic people are, the more upward they are. Everything is just a mood.
