Chapter 30: The Invisible Hand That Fails
A group of people hurried down the hill in three steps and two steps, and at that moment they heard someone arguing in front of them. They were curious to take a look.
"Go away, I didn't hit you. Who can blame you for the car that you overturned?!" said a truck driver in a red jacket with the word 'fresh' printed on it with his hands on his waist
"Such a narrow road, you drive so fast. If it weren't for the sake of avoiding you, how could I have overturned! If I didn't let you lose money, I didn't even apologize, you were really too much!" the white-haired old man said indignantly
"Haha, don't be funny. Oh, I see! You two old guys want to touch a porcelain, and let me be the boss to pay for your rotten vegetables!
"Broken vegetables?!You are the broken vegetables! What kind of organic vegetables are they, obviously I don't know how many pesticides and chemicals have been used, otherwise how can normal vegetables grow so big!" The old lady on the side also shouted excitedly
"That's it, you liars! If you don't have the medicine, would you dare to be like me!" said the white-haired old man as he picked up his own greens and ate them as a salad.
"You two crazy people, get out of the way! I'm too lazy to ignore you, and I'll call the police if you don't go away!" shouted the driver
"You'd better call the police right away, and when the police come, you can easily determine that you were speeding and causing the accident by surveying the brake marks of the two cars on the ground, and you should be fully responsible. If I were to apologize to the two old men right away, it would be much cheaper than the amount on the speeding ticket. Jessica said unhurriedly
"Alright, I was wrong, okay, let me go. The driver reluctantly apologized
Seeing that the other party still retreated somewhat, the old man didn't mean to pursue any further, so he got out of the way. Mike and a few passers-by stepped forward to help the uncle turn the car upside down, and then put the dishes that fell on the side of the road back into the car.
"It's you again, young man. I really don't know how to thank you! Why don't you come to my house and I'll invite you to dinner?" said the old lady excitedly
"No, old man. It's all a gesture, not enough to worry about. Mike said
"Now that the young people in the town have gone out to make money, we are left behind. The outsiders were very indifferent, for fear of getting into trouble. It's really rare to be so enthusiastic like you. We are still so fateful, let's come to the house for a light meal! Although there are no good ingredients, the old woman's home-cooked food is still very authentic. Unless you hate us two old things. The old man carrot and stick persuaded him
A few people saw that it was difficult to resist, and the food was current, so they were not in the fake reserve, from.
"Oops, this potato stew and chicken are so delicious!" Seth sighed as he held the empty bowl
"You've eaten three bowls, you're not afraid of your stomach bursting. Jessica said
"It's okay, it's okay. If you like to eat, eat more, your aunt doesn't have much, it's just a lot of potatoes, hehe. The old lady happily gave Seth another big bowl.
"Yes, you can eat as much as you want, Uncle is full here! Don't feel sorry for Uncle, you can't sell it anyway, and the rest will be fed to the pigs." The old man continued.
After hearing what the uncle said, a group of people looked at the uncle with surprised eyes. The old woman hurriedly rescued the scene and said: "My wife can't speak, everything is fine! don't mind~"
"Organic food should be very marketable now, and the price is quite expensive, why can't it be sold?" Mike asked
"Hey, we old guys don't understand the way of the world today. Those profiteers obviously sell unknown vegetables, but there are many people who buy them. And the vegetables we grow in our own part are not cared for. It's really the smell of wine, and I'm afraid of deep alleys. The old lady sighed helplessly
"Maybe it's because of the relationship between those big companies that keep labeling and advertising to brainwash people. Jessica finished her meal early and chimed in with a glass of water on the side
"Well, I also saw an economist's analysis report in this financial magazine that said this. He believes that we humans are entering an era of mental evolution brought about by the Internet. Just like the damage and pain caused to the pelvis by walking upright when the ape was transformed into a human, we humans receive more than ten times as much information every day in the Internet age as before, but our heads are still the 486 processor. It's easy to choose a good one out of two products, but what if you choose from a hundred, a thousand, or a thousand? Things that used to be easy to distinguish and judge may be inaccessible to people due to the influx of a large amount of intricate information, making it impossible for people to identify, decide, or even make wrong decisions. Most people only notice the first two words of the word 'information explosion' and ignore the power of the word 'explosion'. (This is one of the reasons why many people with a little experience can't understand why today's young people put their privacy on the Internet without restrictions, because while you are constantly sifting through the huge amount of information, you are just a bunch of information that can be deleted in the eyes of others) It is also at this moment when the human brain is full of holes, and whoever occupies the current pitiful brain capacity is like grabbing the catalog of a huge library. Who you want to read and what books you want to read, it's up to you. This is why those large companies and venture capital funds are willing to spend crazy sky-high advertising fees and spare no effort to burn money. Their philosophy is like raising pigs: the upfront investment is not really about making the pigs live a happy life, it is just about the production cost of building pens, barns and feed for the human brain. After what they call 'consumer gods' excludes other competitors, they recoup their costs and profits exponentially (he calls this behavior 'consumer spoiling'). And when people react, they will innocently ask, 'Isn't this your own choice?' Finally, the scholars conclude that the so-called choice they call is the 'wedge option', that is, giving consumers a short-term benefit as bait, so that they unconsciously give up the option of long-term benefits. "Rain, let's say a lot of beans like a bamboo tube.
"What you say is so complicated, I can simply understand that the profiteers have set up a sugar-coated trap, and this trap is still legal and irresistible. Is that what you mean?" Seth asked
"It seems that the invisible hand of the market is no longer invisible... Mike sighed
"Okay, let's not talk about these unhappy ones. The world is so big, who can we ordinary people control? They make their black money, and let's live our clean life. The old man said
"Actually, I don't think anyone else, consumers are very smart, but there is a lack of a collective consciousness between consumers and consumers. When the enterprise grows bigger, there are groups, there are more soldiers, there are more soldiers, there are more workers, there are trade unions, but consumers do not have a collective decision-making mechanism because they are only formed in a temporary transaction, so of course there will be no long-term decision-making. The current consumer association is a kind of post-accident recovery nature, not a forward-looking long-term interest planning organization, at best it can only be regarded as a cerebellum. Mike said slowly
The crowd at the dinner table looked at Mike in unison, feeling as if what he was saying made sense, but they didn't feel very down to date with the times they were familiar with.