Recently, I have been playing the Monopoly game at night, countless times. There are only two outcomes: one is that a person builds many houses, earns all the money from another person, leaving one extremely rich and the other extremely poor; the other outcome is that both people build many houses, trying hard to earn each other's money, but they are both on the brink of bankruptcy. The first one to go bankrupt loses, and the game ends.
Now, thinking about it, this is really similar to our reality. When we start running around for our own survival, we are also trying hard to put others' money into our own pockets, just that this method must be legal. Therefore, after some time, those who don't guard their wallets well have less and less money, while those who have accumulated a lot of money have more and more. Thus, we find that the wealth gap is getting wider and wider.
When we all have a bit of money, we all think about making some investments to earn more money from others so that we can become richer. Today you invest in building hotels, tomorrow I invest in building inns, both thinking that when others come to stay the next day, we can earn their money. And we spare no expense to upgrade hotels and inns to earn even more money from others. As a result, there are more and more hotels and inns in our cities, becoming more and more beautiful, but our money is getting less and less because we have invested all our money into hotels and inns. Moreover, while we rack our brains to earn more money from others, others are also finding ways to earn more money from us. The city is becoming more and more beautiful, but we are becoming more and more tired.
Our happiness index is getting lower and lower. Do we have to return to the primitive state to regain happiness? I think not. The modern city has already provided us with better hardware, offering more convenience and better conditions. However, when we enjoy these conveniences and conditions, we have to pay too high a price. If we can enjoy these conveniences and conditions at a lower cost, our happiness can still be fully regained. This means that our money needs to be more valuable. How to make our money more valuable? If the government can provide more subsidies to hotels and inns, schools and hospitals, in other words, if the government provides more welfare to us, we can fully pay a smaller price for life, which makes our money more valuable. I think this is also the reason why the dollar is more valuable than the RMB. What skills does the government have to provide more welfare? This still depends on a strong national strength, and national strength is a kind of ability. Science and technology is the best way to enhance this ability. Science and technology can create money and national strength. Of course, so-called creation is nothing more than transferring money from other countries to our own country. Everything talks about balance; if there is more here, there will naturally be less somewhere else. In reality, such transfers are mostly achieved through science and technology. Therefore, we still need to develop science and technology. "Science and technology is the primary productive force," absolutely correct.
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