Rebirth: Japanese investor

   Chapter 217 The gap between the rich and the poor

   Masayoshi Kishimoto is, after all, a man who has struggled in society. Even if people from the upper class have not seen much, he has met a lot of people from the middle and lower classes.

   Those who swear at every turn, or even do it, are almost always at the bottom of the group. As for people who often have honorifics such as "please" and "sorry" on their mouths, they are often middle class.

   At this moment, Iwasaki Maki didn't hate him, but felt that the sojourn soul in the body in front of him was strange.

   She felt that the person from the other party was completely different from the other people she had come into contact with in the past. She neither tried to please her in every way, nor tried her best to show her ability to navigate the business world.

   "How do you spend your time at home?" Iwasaki Maki was driven by curiosity and wanted to know more about him.

   Masayoshi Kishimoto is of course not stupid enough to say that he is racing, picking up girls...a prostitute. Even if he didn't win the favor of this eldest lady, he couldn't destroy his image.

Masayoshi Kishimoto said calmly: "I read all kinds of books in my spare time. Among them, I prefer serious literature, history, and philosophy. Although literature, history and philosophy are divided into three categories, they are mutually exclusive. There is also a certain correlation and intercommunication.

   There is not a true writer in the world who does not read history and philosophy books over and over again. Otherwise, it will not enlighten a person's wisdom. A person without wisdom cannot be led to think, nor can he write profound things.

The most ironic thing is that whatever writers, philosophers, historians, and sociologists write, the purpose is to enlighten the minds of the middle and lower classes, but they don't appreciate it, and they completely I don't like it, it just hurts my head to look at it.

   They have to be amused to death. For ordinary people, such things as history, literature and philosophy are simply useless, and even regarded as pretending, after all, they can neither eat nor drink, nor can they be used for money.

   On the contrary, people in the middle and upper classes have a soft spot for this. One is getting dumber and the other is getting smarter. As a result, you have a huge sense of superiority in your heart, and it is useless to talk to those who do not understand.

   No matter how much you say, they won't understand. It is exactly what Confucius said, the people can let it go, but can't let it know. "

   "Nothing, that's all you imagined. At least, I didn't think about it like you said." Iwasaki Maki returned to her normal state, duplicitous.

   "Okay! I took the initiative to admit that I was dirty." Kishimoto Masayoshi smiled meaningfully.

   It is not that he is not clear that among the upper class, let alone the top class, there are no people who have not been taught literature and philosophy since childhood.

   Even if there is no systematic ancient philosophy like China, someone will be invited to teach their children the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism at home.

   Even if it is not used to take the imperial examinations, it is all to benefit children for life and open the door to wisdom. In a sense, they see themselves as humans, not monkeys, and the biggest difference between humans and monkeys, spiritual things.

  The people at the bottom have not even obtained a basic satisfaction from material things. They are always worried about paying various bills in their heads. How can they pursue spiritual things?

   They are too busy to have their hands empty, their bodies are exhausted, their heads do not want to move, just to be able to live well. American writer Barbara Allen Rick's "My Life at the Bottom" is a good illustration of everything?

  It is almost impossible for the poor to turn over. Not only that, Kishimoto naturally thought that with the further intensification of globalization, the gap between the rich and the poor will become wider and wider.

  The 26 richest people in the world have more wealth than the other 3.6 billion poorest people. In a way, that means half of the people on the planet are inferior to those 26 people.

  Why the rich get richer and the poor poorer? The reason is actually very simple. The distribution of wealth is like a champagne tower built up high.

  When the champagne is poured, it must start from the top. When the top glass overflows, the next layer will be able to fill the glass with champagne.

   So, the layers are facing down like this. The thing that champagne represents wealth or resources can't fill every glass. The further down the glass is, the less or even no champagne is in it.

   Even if the base at the bottom is the largest, it will not be more allocated to champagne because of this. The rules are changed not from top to bottom, but from bottom to top. After all, the person who pours champagne is at the top level.

  If the glass on the top layer is getting bigger and bigger, it means that more and more champagne will be filled. The shrinking and shrinking middle class stems from this.

   They got less champagne than in the past, so they had to compete fiercely internally, so that some were eliminated and reduced to the bottom class.

  Kishimoto Masayoshi inevitably remembered that he had read "The Rich: The Rise of the Global Super Nouveau and the Fall of Others" written by Christia Freeland in his previous life.

   Today, under the impact of market and technological innovation, unprecedented wealth has been generated, and there have never been so many wealth owners in human history.

The meaning of    "rich" has changed significantly. The rise of these top wealthy classes and the role they play in society is growing.

   The biggest income gap in society does not exist between the rich 1% and the remaining 99%, but exists between the richest 0.1% and 1%.

   They have become a new generation of global super-rich with rapid asset expansion, leaving the so-called rich people far behind.

   They love British public schools and do philanthropy without a low profile. Their own important ideas are their own creation rather than a mantle.

"Thinking is the most valuable thing for a person. What is the difference between a person who doesn't think and a monkey? No matter how painful thinking is, it is full of fun for people. Do you think I am right?" Iwasaki Maki said coldly .

   "You are right, and I am wrong. Who let the right to speak in your hands?" Kishimoto Masayoshi smiled.

   He certainly knew the importance of the right to speak. However, this was not what he thought in his mind at the moment, but he was thinking of benefiting him for a lifetime, and he particularly admired "Xunzi's Twenty-third Evil Nature" from the Confucian Xunzi.

  Kishimoto's thought is more inclined to Xunzi's theory. In his view, there is logic, not like Mencius' slanderous words; and there is argumentation, not like Mencius's bullshit. In marked contrast to Mencius, he defined human nature.

  Xunzi has developed Confucianism. On the issue of human nature, he advocates the theory of evil nature, advocates that human nature is evil, denies the moral concept of innate talent, and emphasizes the influence of acquired environment and education on people.

   His theory is often compared by later generations with Mencius' "Theory of Good Nature". Xunzi also made a considerable contribution to the rearrangement of Confucian classics.

   "We are just discussing, not the right to speak is in my hands." Iwasaki Maki defended.

   Her greatest interest at the moment is to know why he is a socialist as a capitalist. Even if there isn't any competition in it, it can't dispel her curiosity.

   (end of this chapter)