Chapter 008: Heaven Deserves Death
Tsk, Mr. Xiaobai, Wang Fang is intoxicated by the myth of the future podcast star that he has dug up. It's a pity, it's a pity, Mr. Bai is reluctant to sacrifice the hue, otherwise it will definitely be popular, now, it's very good to hear, but in this world where there are many mediocre people, who really cares about the Joseph Needham problem, what is the origin of China?
Mr. Bai seemed to be very satisfied with the episode he recorded, saying, "I feel like I have changed from a vase to blue and white porcelain in an instant, and I am tall." β
Wang Fang: "Yo, do you still know that blue and white porcelain is tall and tall, do you know the five famous kilns?" Ru kiln, Guan kiln, Ge kiln, Jun kiln and ...... Visit the kiln. β
Teacher Bai: "233333! Not serious! β
Wang Fang casually sent an old joke of Guo Degang to Bai Ling on WeChat, regardless of whether she had heard it or not, and then stared at the mobile phone screen in a daze, thinking about what to do in the future?
Anyway, you can't do cold programs anymore, he once did some physics-related thinking, and attached a bunch of formulas to make PPT for the audience to download, although it is said to be some elementary math formulas, but the audience hula ran away, this kind of thing must not happen again, with the help of such a big baby as Mr. Bai, it is at least promising to make a very popular program, well, yes, it should be at the level of this "Needham problem", ordinary people can understand it.
Mr. Ma Weidu is a funny and erudite local tyrant, and when he is really bored, Wang Fang will also listen to his talk show, and watch the little old man show off his priceless antique show that makes the audience drool and envy and hate. This Joseph Needham problem Wang Zhan had heard about it a long time ago, but he didn't take it to heart, because let him pass the past things, anyway, China has lagged behind since modern history, which is a fait accompli.
As for Mr. Ma, he mainly believes that the Chinese do not attach importance to intellectual property rights and do not have the spirit of craftsmanship, and he also contacted the Chinese people to go to Japan to shop for the sea. At that time, Wang Zhan felt that something was wrong, and this did not seem to be the essential reason for China's backwardness and beating. After a little thought, he established his own point of view, geographical determinism.
Intellectual property protection is a good thing, and Mr. Ma knows that the British have patent law, so Watt can make a lot of money after improving the steam engine and promote the industrialization of the whole of Britain. However, the earliest patent law was not made by the British, but by the Republic of Venice before Italy appeared on the Italian Peninsula, a set of laws made by a maritime trade civilization, and the British were no strangers to the Republic of Venice, thinking that they borrowed the wisdom of the Venetian merchants.
What is hidden behind Britain's patent law is the exchange between Western civilizations and the intimacy of geopolitics, and the ancient civilizations of the Far East have never even heard of it, and there is still such a system for protecting intangible assets in the world. Because in the eyes of ordinary people, this kind of patent is an unreasonable monopoly.
Only a mentally ill commercial civilization like the Republic of Venice would think that intangible things are also valuable, which is an advance in the understanding of value, which will bring great economic progress, and since people realize that intangible things are profitable, they will naturally devote themselves to labor in this field, which greatly expands the boundaries of the economy.
In ancient China, writing books was not profitable, only those guys who printed books made money, you say, an ordinary person, if it wasn't for his hobby "just happy", how could he bother to tinker with a book? The one who prints the books can only sell the four books and the five classics every day. Therefore, the cultural industry in ancient China was extremely scarce, and no one noticed that writing books could become an industry for thousands of years.
It is not surprising that the "stacked beam arch" bridge construction method invented in the Song Dynasty invented by Mr. Gao Xiaosong in the original version of "Qingming Riverside Map" was once lost, the architect is a trickster, anyway, he can't make money by writing the technology into a book, let alone applying for a patent for a technology, why should I make a wedding dress for others? The invention is invented, and the lost is lost.
What's worse is that people still have to have a source of economic income, not that you can "just be happy", if you don't make money by writing books, you write a fart, go out and move bricks, otherwise it will be broken, and the female ticket will run away with others.
Seeing the value of intangible assets is the special ability of commercial civilization, and it is also the case in the financial field, the stock market invented by the Dutch is to reflect the value of intangible tomorrow in the form of bills today, which is another leap forward in the economic boundary.
Why did Wang Fangyi emphasize that Mr. Bai must sacrifice hue if he wants fire? Because the big names of Western commercial civilization are already summing up what the next intangible economy is, there is a saying that "attention" is the ultimate form of economic value.
Large-scale production will make the necessities of life in the entire human world cheaper and cheaper, before, do you dare to imagine that a full-featured "super device" will be bought at a price of 499 and can still be put in your pocket? Thinking of this, Wang Fang couldn't help but glance back at the child who was playing with red rice.
"Let's go, let's go outside for a walk, play with our phones every day, don't look bad at it." Wang Fang felt that he should have a sense of responsibility that Uncle Wang should have, and he couldn't let the bear child play with his health.
"No, I'm having fun!" Ni Hong was coquettish.
Wang Zhan waited until he was KO before snatching the phone over, and said sternly: "You have to rest your eyes!" β
Ni Hong said angrily: "You are becoming more and more like my father, I hate it!" β
WANG FANG TOUCHED HIS HEAD AND SAID, "DON'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ME, I DON'T WANT A BEAR CHILD, I'M NOT THE OLD KING NEXT DOOR, I REALLY HOPE YOUR MOTHER WILL COME BACK SOON, HOW CAN THIS GIRL HOLD IT SO MUCH......"
The child was angry, and Wang Bang had an idea: "Eh, I'll buy you a soccer ball, there is a small football field in the community, the turf is not bad, how about we go there for recreation?" β
If you don't agree, you have to agree, Wang Fang took Ni Hong, like dog slaves to walk the dogs, and took the children out for a walk every day, especially today is the weekend, there is such a full day of tossing time.
After having children, Wang Fang found that his social circle was really much bigger, first he had to go to the kindergarten often, and he became familiar with Teacher Li and Teacher Bai.
People asked, "What about your child?" β
Wang said, "No, my colleague's, come to my house for a few days." β
You see, that's where it comes in.
After chatting a few words without a pair, Wang Zhan returned to his thoughts just now, continuing the idea that the real economy will inevitably decline. In addition to electronic devices, let's take a look at other necessities in life.
Yes, the next episode of the program will be called "Why should the real economy die?" Why does the intangible economy stand in the yellow sky? "What a coquettish name.
In order to record podcasts, Wang Fang sent the entry-level products of TASCAM, the world's first-line recording equipment brand that he spent 600 to buy, to Mr. Bai's home to further improve the quality of the podcast programs belonging to the two of them. Don't look at the tens of thousands of high-end equipment of other people's radio stations at every turn, but Wang Zhan found that his 600 yuan TASCAM effect is not inferior to the tens of thousands of equipment of others, tsk, this is probably a proof that the real economy deserves to die, and the casual electronic equipment is close to the top equipment in terms of quality.
Have you heard that many talk show celebrities have used Canon Invincible Rabbit as a substitute for professional cameras? Did you know that the fate of digital cameras is similar to that of dinosaurs? Because the camera of the mobile phone is becoming more and more powerful, it also throws the camera 8 alleys in portability.
Although he was writing, Wang Zhan seemed to hear Mr. Bai's voice that made the straight man's feet soft ringing in his ears:
[Dear, do you know? Genetically modified soybean oil and rapeseed oil are sold for 30 yuan a barrel, and the so-called green organic oil is 60, 80, and 100 at every turn, but is the genetically modified oil actually healthier and more environmentally friendly? Did you know that BMW's top-of-the-line engine is actually more powerful than Bentley, Rolls-Royce or something? Also, the best mobile phones in the world are not those luxury phones with diamonds or gold wrapped in gold, but mass consumer goods, iPhones.
If you don't like Apple mobile phones, you can also choose from a variety of Android flagships, which are also better than the so-called luxury phones, and are getting better every year, cheaper and more beautiful every year.
When you hear the news: India's Tata is negotiating the purchase of Europe's largest steel company, Wow, Monkey Saile. Wrong. This is simply because this industry is no longer profitable, and the real economy and raw material economy represented by steel will become less and less profitable.
Let's set it up, Robin Li, Jack Ma and other local tyrants are all good at cooking, okay, will they spend a few hours a day cooking for themselves? Or do you spend your time thinking about your company's plans for the next five years? The answer is obvious. This is the significance of the international division of labour. The developed countries of the West are not fools, and will give up their money-making industries to the second and third worlds.
It is impossible for the third world to forcibly enter the money-making industry, you can't beat others, you are not an opponent to fight technology, and it is the fate of the third world enterprise to engage in the unprofitable industry that others don't want.
Even the second world can't force it up, otherwise it will end badly. A good example of this is Japan. Of course, most people think of Japan as the first world, but compared to the United States, Japan is actually the second world. As you know, the Japanese economy has been stagnant for a long time. Since the Nikkei index was halved in the early 90s, it has been a small thirty years, known as the "Heisei Great Depression". Why is that?
The book "Currency Wars" is often complained about, and we also join in the fun. According to the view of "Currency War", the Heisei Great Depression was because the Japanese government was fooled by the United States imperialism, and together with Britain, West Germany, France and Italy, it signed the "Plaza Accord" with the United States to make its currency appreciate, and as a result, exports were hit hard, and then the economy collapsed.
You can already hear the strong ridicule in my tone, are the governments of England, West Germany, France, and Italy as fools as the Japanese government? Yes, they are fools, government officials are fools, but no matter how stupid they are, won't they hit the brakes when they find that the exit is not good?
For politicians, tearing up treaties, changing policies, and seeing the wind is like inviting guests to dinner, and it is very natural and familiar to them, and they do not immediately abandon the Plaza Accord when they find that the general situation is not good?
Obviously, it is impossible for these five exporting countries to prevent their currencies from appreciating, why? Because the big brother of the United States has been determined to devalue the dollar in order to solve the trade deficit, the big brother has never failed to do what he says.
The U.S. guΓ² square agreement to let the governments of the five countries lead the trend of exchange rates is a friendly gesture, have you ever seen Soros politely sell the Thai currency? The U.S. government has a lot of energy or Soros has a lot of energy. The Federal Reserve is the world's central bank, and he has 100 means to depreciate the dollar, and the earthlings can't stop it, and the government takes the first shot, but it is the way to lose the least, and the first institution to know the trend, whether it is the government or an individual, must benefit.
One of the most common ways to appreciate the dollar is the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, this thing is a huge bombshell in international capital, once thrown out, international capital must escape, the opposite operation is the international hot money poured into the markets of various countries, no matter which one it is, it is a process of capital and the whole family to pack up the soft and large, if the action is too big, it will often be the chaos of the father can not find the mother, the mother can not find the baby and the debt relationship pushes and tramples on each other.
At this time, the stupid government officials began to do it, Thailand was particularly welcoming international hot money before the outbreak of the financial crisis, the most typical feature is that the short-term interest rate is very high, and the favorite thing of the tour capital, this is the night of the capital.
What happens when the hot money comes? It's all invested in the real estate industry. Because the appreciation of real estate is quite obvious when the economy grows, and every time there is an economic bubble, real estate is the hardest hit area, which shows that the capitalists all over the world lack imagination and have a virtue. There is a figurative term for this investment in real estate: the skyscraper curse. After your skyscraper is built, it's basically time for the bubble to burst, the capital to run away, and then the building is empty and no one is renting.
Before the end of Thailand's economy, economist Paul Krugman published an article criticizing the Asian economic miracle, saying that the growth of "total factor productivity" was actually very small. As everyone knows, a few years before the collapse of the little dragons and little tigers, Japan had already staged this farce of overinvestment as it was.
On the eve of the Heisei Great Depression, the "Heisei Great Boom" was still prevalent. Is it possible that real estate in Japan is so hot that the value of real estate in Tokyo alone is higher than that of the entire United States? This is all due to the fact that the Japanese government adopted quantitative easing immediately after the Plaza Accord in an attempt to forcibly stimulate Japan's economic growth through government investment.
However, the reality is cruel: Japan's economy cannot accommodate too much stimulus quantitative easing, Japan's most important electronics industry is facing fierce competition from emerging countries such as South Korea, and Japan's star companies are frequently making stupid moves. First of all, Sony wanted to continue to monopolize the music walkman market with a strange player after the Walkman, but because of the closure of the standard, it was not recognized by the market.
Japanese display companies are also trying to monopolize the new generation of display technology with their own plasma TVs,They are full of confidence,However,South Korea to Samsung and LG as the representative of the company earlier than the Japanese companies to grasp the advantages of LCD in miniaturization,Although the display clarity at that time was still lagging behind the plasma imaging technology,But on behalf of the future direction,Japanese companies are wrongγ
Behind the LCD is OLED technology, Japanese companies have not caught up, to date, representing the future of OLED technology shipments are 90% of the Samsung control, you can see how bad Japanese companies have failed in this regard.
There are many examples of Japanese companies losing competition in the semiconductor industry, and the leader of flash memory technology is also Samsung, with a market share of more than 40%. In the era of traditional black and white electricity, the sun is setting, and in terms of emerging computer technology, Toshiba invented the first laptop, however, what kind of market is this?
Everyone knows that there are only two places in a PC that make the most money, CPU and operating system, one is controlled by the big brother Intel in the United States, and the other is controlled by the big brother Microsoft. When the Japanese clamored for another "Pearl Harbor sneak attack" in the computer age, did they ever think that the largest profits of the most important industry were controlled by two American companies?
In this case, it is ridiculous to rely on Tokyo's unnatural land prices to catch up with the United States, but what will unimaginative capital do when it is in excess? can only continue to invest in real estate. The strictest mistake made by the Japanese government after the Plaza Accord was quantitative easing, and the stupidest of the five fools of the Plaza Accord was Japan, and Britain, France, Germany, and Italy were not as miserable as him.
Obviously, if the company is in a situation in the competition, it is useless to have too much capital, so it is necessary to review whether the policy is too left, whether there is a problem with the lifelong system of its own employees, etc., but Japan has not done so.
In the final analysis, it is still decided by geopolitical affairs, although Japan wants to break away from Asia and join Europe, after all, it is still an Asian country, and Britain, France, and Germany, among the five fools, basically now have a per capita GDP of more than 10,000 US dollars in Japan, so they understand the importance of the modern enterprise system and keep up with the pace of the big brother of the US imperialists, which is not far behind.
The ambition of Japan's star companies is often to create a market and swallow it in one bite, leaving no scum for others, which is obviously impossible, and even the United States knows that it is impossible to do it, but Japanese companies always think about it.
I don't know how many outstanding young people in Japan wasted their youth in the Haitian feast where Tokyo's land prices surpassed those of the United States, but in short, the state-led economy and the system of suppressing competition among enterprises and talent have been proven to fail by Japan's practice. This great island nation put on a tragic show of its own evolution on his small island.
South Korea is actually very similar to Japan, and the countries of the Far East are very similar, Samsung launched its own A-series mobile phones, and put aside Android to make its own independent operating system, which shows that they also want to be on top and become citizens of the first world, and it is conceivable that they will repeat the mistakes of Japan.
Western technology investors don't quite recognize Samsung, a guy who eats everything in the industrial chain, and is also a competitor in the mobile phone industry, but where there is a little reliable supplier, they will not choose Samsung's CPU and screen, when HTC gave birth to a son to Google, which was a big hit worldwide, and suddenly Samsung's ALOMED screen was cut off, which is a bloody lesson.
Samsung's CPU is also facing the competitive advantage of Taiwanese manufacturers, TSMC is said to have received all the orders for the next generation of Apple mobile phones, which is very rare, and it feels like Apple, a first-world citizen, is beginning to suppress Samsung.
The competition for Android mobile phones is very fierce, Samsung's shipments have been cut in half, and Koreans never dreamed that domestic smartphones still have a business model such as pre-installed software to subsidize mobile phones. The competition in the entire smartphone industry is also very fierce, and even the first-world Apple is feeling a chill, because even their business growth rate has almost reached the limit, and maybe in the next fiscal quarter, Apple's growth rate will be negative.