Chapter 33: Noble and Cheap
Suddenly I want to discuss what is expensive and cheap? After hesitating for a long time, my brain didn't seem to be able to move, as if I couldn't even settle down on an accurate concept.
Rationalize your thinking. Let's take things first, expensive refers to the price or value, this thing is rare and very useful, then this thing belongs to valuables, or perhaps, the use is not big but the price is very high, it can also be described by expensive words.
Gold is a precious metal because it has a high price, and iron is a base metal because it is very low. Embroidery needles are very useful, but they are inexpensive, and they cannot be turned into valuables by their function.
Some low-priced products can be said to be cheap, and if they have no practical use, they are waste.
To sum up, for things, according to scarcity and universality, the price of scarce is often high, and if it can still have practical use, it will be more valuable; If scarcity is poor, common and widespread, the price will be low, and if there is no practical use, it will be even more cheap.
Is it true of people? Because of a certain particularity, this person becomes valuable, with this value positioning his identity becomes noble, if he can also come in handy, this person is even more noble and rare, in the same way, if a person is mediocre and inactive, the value will be very small, and if it is useless, he will be even more low.
When I was thinking like this, I suddenly remembered the news I saw in a certain year, a ragged man went to the bank to make a deposit, and the staff began to ignore his existence, and as a result, he successively transported several bags of his own sacks of change in, and he became a big customer, because the position required the staff to be thoughtful to the key customers, so several staff members came to serve him and began to count RMB.
In my impression, the beggar should be a lowly person, but he hit me with a big shave in the ears with practical actions, he is very rich, and he can use money and wealth to make his own
"Expensive" sets off, but he doesn't seem to be of much use to this society, right? I don't understand, is this kind of professional beggar a noble or a slut?
Think about it, what do you say when the seven aunts and eight aunts in the family want to show off that they have a child worth showing off?
Working in such and such a place (decent), how much or more the monthly salary is (the fact of showing off). Is it any different for a beggar to show off his capital and give money?
Except that the work seems unseemly. Speaking of cheap words, people with real talents and real learning have a hard time before they have the ambition, not only others say that he is cheap, but he is proud of his boasting
"Poverty cannot be moved". I felt like I had fallen into a misunderstanding and my mind was confused. Where is the cognitive error?
Or simply treat it with a trick of Rippy, say
"There is no distinction between high and low, all men are created equal." This sentence is very self-deceptive, whoever believes will lose.
Rich people don't care about so-called equality, they can exchange money for everything they want,
The "poor eggs" will be particularly eager to obtain equality, and their eyes are always fixed on the convenience obtained by the rich, thinking that where the bottom line of equality is, they want to enjoy the same treatment as the rich, or even higher than their treatment to be called equality.
Later, I heard someone express the opinion that the beggar is actually a businessman and a performance artist, and they kneel on the street corner of the city to lose their dignity, and they are actually peddling
"Compassion", when the passers-by are attracted by their performances, and are moved by their compassion overflowing, they willingly pay out of their pockets, in fact, buy the beggar's goods, and everyone leaves satisfied, thinking that they are helpful, that they are a good person who does good deeds without leaving a name...... Would it be easy for you to come to such a conclusion without the help of a beggar, even if it was a flash of thought that moved you to do almsgiving?
When you think about it this way, it doesn't seem to be that incomprehensible feeling. Anyone who can make money, including beggars, liars, thieves, etc., who are not recognized, the most controversial, are demanding their own wages from the whole society in their own way, they are just lucky to get immoral wealth, and their behavior is despicable, and they are not recognized by everyone, so they are not nobles.
Or maybe the difference between high and low, just exists in people's own minds to their own cognition, when you are poor, your mind still does not think about the past to ask for help from others, still feel that your hands can create enough wealth people are not poor, you take advantage of a few mountains of gold and silver, when you need to use money, the first thing that comes to mind is how not to use your own pocket, to be able to reach out from others to come, so that you accumulate more, always feel that you are not enough, then he is still poor!
If you look at life according to this line of thought, it seems more reasonable and not to be confused, and when you see the overstretched and unseated minister, you are in awe, and you are not jealous when you see the beggar who wears gold and silver.