Zeng Lao obviously knew that Tang Chen had already accepted the consumption concept of spending money to buy services. Although it is largely because of the eyes of others, the service received is real. Even Zeng Lao himself had to go through a long time before he was willing to use his hard-earned hard-earned money to enjoy better services.

To put it another way, it's actually a time-saver. For Zeng Lao, he is not short of money, what he lacks is time. So he'd rather spend a little more money and buy time.

Tang Chen, on the other hand, was the opposite, his previous living environment had made his mind habitually think about how to save money, instead of saving his own time. In the words of the moment, this is where the gap between the thinking of the poor and the thinking of the rich lies. The first obvious characteristic of the poor mindset is their penchant for exchanging time for money. Someone has done a survey that when a super bad movie is watched in the cinema, no more than 30% of people will leave the theater halfway, that is, in the eyes of 65% of people, the value of more than an hour of time will not exceed the ticket price of dozens of yuan.

The time of the poor is not valuable, so they are willing to trade their time for money. People are like this, the more they lack something, the more they will take what they look very lightly about. Because the poor lack of money, they will take money as very important. Compared with the rich, because the poor have a lower earning power per unit of time, although they seem to have the same time as the rich, the efficiency of the use of time is heaven and earth, so time is far less scarce than money for the poor.

Not only that, these "poor" are also stingy with spending money on education and training, stingy with knowledge and information, and stingy with services, and they squander a lot of time without knowing what to do with it. Join in the fun, watch gossip, break hearts for others, and let online advertisers harvest their time.

Thinking is deep-rooted, and it's hard to be aware of the problems in it.

Many old people, although their children have very high incomes and give them a lot of money every month, they still retain the habits of the last century in the era of material scarcity, to save money, to hoard things, afraid that they will be used in the future. These were all strategies they developed to cope with scarcity when they were poor. I am reluctant to throw away useless things at home, and plastic bags, oil drums, and shoe boxes should be hoarded and kept for storage. The clothes I no longer wear are stuffed in the wardrobe, and I am tired enough every time I change seasons, thinking about which relative to give it to, but who wants it in this era?

The "poor man's thinking" is poor, and the purchase of things is simply cheap, and theoretically it is possible to buy more quantity with fewer resources. It's irrational to be excited when you see discount promotions and small gifts, and if you buy one get one free and cheap, you will never consider the high price but more identical and more effective things, and you will feel uncomfortable if you don't take advantage of this advantage. As a result, you will buy a bunch of things that you don't need and take up space, and the next time you go back, you will make the same mistake.

Even if you are rich now and no longer poor, it is difficult to change your habitual thinking. Not only is this the case, but the terrible thing is that this kind of thinking will also influence the next generation.

However, these people are not poor, they are small rich, and they have saved some money, but unfortunately, the "poor people's thinking" has been passed on from generation to generation.

The "rich man's mindset" is the complete opposite: spending money, either for money or enjoyment, and things that don't match either are worth wasting energy. Zeng Lao belonged to this kind of person, and Tang Chen seemed to have just touched the doorway. This seems to be the reason why some people criticize so many nouveau riche in China, in the era of surging wealth, the Chinese seem to be rich, but in fact they are just the first step away from the aristocracy.

Therefore, the current merchants are happy to use the thinking of the Chinese people to do activities. Often throwing a little sweetness can give the product an almost beyond the effect of publicity. Because many people would rather waste their precious time than grab those insignificant gifts. Because the poor mind likes to be free, while the rich mind is happy to pay. By paying, you can quickly occupy high-quality resources, such as scarce goods, professional advice, hiring the best talents, etc., so as to make better money. The result of free is poor quality resources, or too many people divide up limited resources.

It is not terrible for a person to be poor, but what is terrible is that after a long period of poverty, he loses the pursuit of desire and the engine of progress. What's even more terrifying is that this kind of thinking will gradually solidify and form the most harmful poor people's thinking. The essence of the thinking of the poor is not only incapable of analyzing the general trend of social development, but also enjoying themselves in their own small world. In a society like China, where the distribution of resources is seriously deformed, the thinking of the poor can easily be swept to the bottom by the tide of society. Once you become a weak person in society, the thinking of the poor will evolve into the thinking of the weak, and the typical thinking of the weak is that I am weak and reasonable, and he is strong and he conspires. All their failures are caused by social corruption and social injustice, and all the successes of others are either background or good opportunities, without rational ability, only unlimited emotions, and as a result, their world is becoming more and more closed, with fewer and fewer opportunities, and their ability is getting worse and worse, a vicious circle.

In fact, not only the poor and backward environment, but also the fixed interpersonal circle will boil frogs in cold water, making people's horizons more and more narrow, and gradually losing the possibility of progress. There are three sources of human progress: self, others, and the environment. The essence of self-drive is that the world in your mind is big enough, and your coordinates in the world are small enough; relying on others to drive you to progress is nonsense, why should others rely on it? The essence of environmental drive is existential danger and self-esteem humiliation. As long as the environment is not in danger of survival, it is easy to be satisfied, and it is easier to lose the motivation to work hard.

The poor thinking is not the thinking of the "poor", but the thinking of the "once poor".

Thinking of this, Tang Chen seemed to wake up all of a sudden, looked back at the "special passage" of the first-class cabin, and had more insights in his heart: it seemed to be on the same plane, but the time saved was not only on the plane meal?

It's scary to think about it, because it is this difference in "thinking" that makes the gap between the rich and the poor wider and wider.

After all, nothing really good is free.

In other words, the rich spend money to buy first-hand information, and the asymmetry of information will cause the rich to become richer and richer, while the poor will suffer more and more because of the information asymmetry.

Now that Tang Chen has the "information" that the rich want—Feng Shui, then he still has to waste his time, which is too much to say.

"Master Tang, do you want to take a break first?"

Zeng Lao pretended not to know what Tang Chen was thinking, and used words to resolve his embarrassment.

"No need, what are we going to do now?" Tang Chen's learning and application made Zeng Lao feel surprised.

"That'...... Let's go visit a person first, he is my fourth brother, and he is also a well-known figure in Quanzhou. Zeng Lao said with a smile.