The third hurdle of capitalism is that it will eventually kill consumption power.
This is the answer to the question you asked the narrator.
Because the wealth a person can accumulate can be nearly infinite, but the wealth that can be consumed is limited.
For example, if a rich person eats Australian lobster every day, he or she will eat 365 meals a year. If a rich person buys a Mercedes-Benz every day, he or she will buy 365 Mercedes-Benz a year. Rich people buy one piece of Armani every day, which means they only buy 365 pieces of Armani a year. A rich person can earn billions a year, but what he can use for normal consumption is only a few hundred million a year at most. Therefore, we want to let the rich put the remaining money into market circulation through consumption. , is almost impossible. Have you seen Tomato Rich Man? The rich spend more and more money, but the speed of spending money cannot keep up with the speed of automatic multiplication of money.
Wealth is meaningless if it cannot be circulated. A piece of paper money is only money when it is circulated. If it is placed in a warehouse, it is just a piece of paper.
Of course, the emphasis here is on the way of consumption. The way rich people's money flows into the market is generally through investment, but how can a rich person who can amass so much wealth have any worse brains than ordinary people. If it is worse, it will not be his turn to become a rich man.
Capital is inherently monopolistic, and the rich are not stupid. This leads to the fact that even if the rich put their wealth into the market, in most cases, the rich end up taking away more money from the market with profits. wealth. Then they invested more and took away even more. While others are getting poorer.
This cycle continues endlessly until the poor man is drained of his last copper.
At that time, if capital can have strong enough force to ensure the safety of its own property, then a situation will arise: you will have to pay the capitalists to even breathe, because even the air of public property has been privatized by capital.
It was under this circumstance that socialism was proposed.
Here is another interesting example. What kind of person has a lot of wealth, but may not have a mind worthy of this wealth?
Yes, that's what you think, that's the rich second generation.
Do you know what the wealthy second generation are most afraid of?
Remember what I said about the way rich people’s wealth flows into the market? Yes, they are afraid that the rich second generation will invest blindly!
A truly rich person doesn't care about having children lying flat on his back, living a luxurious life, spending a lot of money, and having a cloud of beautiful women, because no matter how he spends it, he will never be able to spend it all in a few lifetimes.
But the truly rich people are afraid that the second generation of rich people will be diligent and invest. The problem is that they don’t care if they have the ability, but they are afraid that billions will be wasted. Look at Principal Wang, even a young model in the Tiantian Club is just a drop in the bucket to Lao Wang. Once he invests, he will lose billions.
Therefore, it is useless to encourage the rich to consume. We must encourage the second generation of rich people to invest. Only in this way will it be possible for "one whale to fall and all things to flourish." If there are more positions at the top, won't there be opportunities for the people below?
Of course, this is just a joke, but everyone who understands understands the truth, and those who don’t understand will understand it in the future.
In fact, in the early days of capitalism, it still stimulated consumption, but with the completion of the Matthew Effect, big capital will slowly kill consumption power. Because the rich are making more and faster money, there is less and less wealth left for the common people to earn.
So can rich people overspend? Of course it is possible. Rich people can eat a lobster and throw away a lobster, but it seems that it is not enough to revitalize the lobster market. Moreover, the media will start to make trouble. The rich are extravagant and wasteful, and the wealthy families are stinking of wine and meat. The wealthy people who are clean and self-sufficient will definitely not do this.
If the rich buy 100,000 Australian dragons every day, then the lobster market will indeed come to life. But if the rich can't finish the 100,000 Australian dragons by themselves, what will happen to the rest?
Is it dumped? Isn't that just the practice of pouring milk abroad? Once it's done, the rich may be ready to take to the street lights when social trends change in the future.
Why not throw it away? If everything is given to the common people, wouldn't that mean wealth is shared? So what did the rich do after working so hard to earn so much money? How about making less profit from the beginning and sharing it with everyone?
Finally, from a higher perspective, as far as capital is concerned, every capitalist is nothing more than a puppet of capital.
How to understand this sentence?
That is, when a rich person enters the path of capital, he has only one task in the capital environment, which is to continuously make money and expand his capital. Because in this Matthew Effect environment, if your capital grows slowly, it will be eaten up by large capital that grows fast. The era of big fish fighting each other is coming, so the overspending behavior of the rich itself is contrary to capital. If he does this, capital will abandon him and other capitalists will take his place.
In order to survive, you will not find a dead end by yourself.
So this is why capitalism doesn't work.
We don’t know whether socialism will work or not, but the road to capitalism will ultimately fail to overcome these three hurdles.
Capitalism is a dead end.
And once it comes to an end, it may not be practical to pay for every breath. It is more likely to be a series of economic crises, or a world war, where the world system collapses, millions of people die, freeing up living space, and future generations start anew.
The cycle begins again and again. This corresponds to the opening sentence of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms":
"The general trend of the world is that if it stays together for a long time, it will break up, and if it stays divided for a long time, it will unite."
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Finally, let me explain one more question, that is, when Ye Feng and Yog-Sothoth fought for the last time, it was clear that Yog-Sothoth's special move made Ye Feng unable to hit him. So why did Ye Feng's Crescent Sky Slash finally kill him? Where is Yog-Sothoth?
Yog-Sothoth can reach the peak of the eighth level. Under normal circumstances, no one in the world can be his opponent, but that move is extremely time-consuming and easy to be interrupted, so the fundamentals of Yog-Sothoth's unique move are The purpose is to buy time to "charge up and complete", not just to avoid enemy attacks.
When the charge is completed, all the bells and whistles will be meaningless in the face of the absolute power of Yog-Sothoth. So after charging up, he no longer had to avoid Ye Feng's interruptions. He only needed to blast Ye Feng to the ground.
One of the iron laws of combat is that when the enemy attacks you, it proves that you can attack the opponent.
Under normal circumstances, Ye Feng would definitely die, but unfortunately Ye Feng was in "Class Two".
As for why Ye Feng's Crescent Sky Slash does not attack in advance, it is not because he is afraid of being dodged by the opponent's special move. It is because of the absolute suppression of Ye Feng's tenth dimension power. At this moment, Ye Feng is the absolute power, and Yog-Sothoth is the only one. It's all fancy. If Ye Feng really makes a move in advance, Yog-Sothoth will die.
The reason why Ye Feng waited for him, as mentioned earlier, was because he let Ye Feng see the red leaves. Ye Feng wanted to repay the other party, so he wanted to defeat the other party head-on.
That's all!
