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They raised a group of cattle and horses, exploiting them generation after generation. Later, they realized that managing everything themselves was too costly, so they designed a smarter set of rules: making the male cattle and horses bear more production, support, and responsibility, while granting the female cattle and horses the power to supervise, select, evaluate, and even make demands of the males. Although the female cattle and horses likewise did not truly control the resources or rules, they began actively upholding the system because they could gain some relative advantages from it,

A young person's life defense formula:
= Build agency + reduce the need to prove yourself + lower vanity + control the urge to consume + reject excessive debt + use leverage cautiously + manage desires → preserve time, attention, cash flow, and the freedom to choose your life.

Someone asked me how to tell whether you truly understand yourself. Look at how strongly you still rely on confiding in others. To a great extent, the urge to confide is an outward manifestation of your having yet to fully explain yourself to yourself.

What is hardship education? It is treating suffering as proof of worth, endurance as morality, rest as shame, sacrifice as nobility, and enjoyment as decadence—ultimately teaching a person not how to live, but how to endure life.

Any probing for information without a reason is hostile. They are not concerned about you, but trying to gain an informational advantage over you; the more they know, the easier it is to judge, exploit, manipulate, and even attack you when necessary. Truly mature people first protect not their secrets, but their own information boundaries.

I came across a sentence saying: If you can breed a herd of obedient wage slaves to extinction, then the ranch has seriously failed. If a system relies for a long time on high housing prices, high education costs, intense labor, fierce competition, and virtually no protections to drain ordinary people, while constantly demanding that they shoulder more social responsibilities, family responsibilities, and childbearing responsibilities, the final result will inevitably be reflected in the population. These domesticated wage slaves may endure poverty, overtime, rat-race competition, and even a g

People generally won’t respect you just because you’re kind. They truly respect you when you have value, principles, boundaries, and the power to choose—and when violating your boundaries comes at a cost. Truly mature relationships rely neither on harshness nor people-pleasing, but on kindness + boundaries + strength + a reward-and-punishment mechanism.

What is an ordinary person? Someone with no capital, limited connections, no resources, no scarce skills, no information advantage, no credit leverage, little social influence, no stable money-making system, no asset-based income, no ability to organize resources, insufficient capital for trial and error, limited access to quality opportunities, limited understanding of rules and markets, no bargaining power, no right to choose, and little ability to mobilize other people’s capital, talent, information, and resources. Therefore, the only path for ordinary people to break through is: learning →

You know what? Marriage and stock trading are basically the same. Being single means holding no position; meeting potential partners and going on blind dates means stock-picking; flirting means watching the market; dating means testing with a small position, and cutting your losses when it’s clearly not a good fit. Deciding to marry means being bullish on the long-term outlook; registering the marriage is going all in; and having children means adding more leverage. When the person you like marries someone else, you’ve missed the boat; borrowing money to get married is margin financing and sec

The most typical exchange misconception among poor people is treating low-cost emotional value as a high-value bargaining chip: after saying a few nice words or expressing support once, they believe they have already paid a sufficient price and naturally deserve other people’s resources, opportunities, and help. This is a manifestation of lacking a sense of value: being unable to accurately judge how much their own contributions are worth, or understand how much other people’s resources are worth.

Many people don’t lack ability; rather, low-value time and wasted time consume too much of their lives.

Common methods known to people who frequently kill: mentally breaking down and inducing the victim to commit suicide, disguising murder as an accident, chronically poisoning the victim over a long period, installing low-frequency noise radiation devices nearby, training animals to cause accidental attacks, and administering unverified vaccines “for your own good.”
The above is for defensive human reference only.

A person’s greatest enemy is not someone who opposes you, but someone who constantly deprives you of your right to choose.

A person’s outward state comes from the resources they truly possess behind the scenes.
Your valuation comes from the growth potential you have yet to realize.
Your composure comes from the cash flow you continuously generate.
Your confidence comes from your genuine profitability.
Your self-assurance comes from fundamentals that trend upward over the long term.
Your patience comes from knowing how much you are truly worth even when the market temporarily undervalues you.
Your freedom of choice comes from always retaining liquidity in your hands.
Your ability to withstand risk comes from never

A subscriber asked me: “Morris, how can I tell whether I have a sense of risk? Let me give you an example: Before doing something, if you can even think through what you might lose after succeeding, then you have a sense of risk. A sense of risk isn’t being afraid of failure; it’s seeing the cost of success.”

In China, the leather jackets, flared trousers, and oversized sunglasses of the 1980s challenged the homogenized collective order (the uniform blue, green, and gray); the denim, long hair, and Hong Kong-Taiwan style of the 1990s challenged conservatism and isolation; the Shamate and non-mainstream styles of the 2000s challenged mainstream society’s definition of a “normal person”; in the 2010s, streetwear brands, AJs, and luxury goods once again began using prices and brand names to prove “who I am”; by the 2020s, more and more people were wearing minimalist, logo-free basics, challenging the

People who were not properly loved as children often have to relearn two things as adults: how to love themselves and how to trust others.

In China, cuju was popular in official circles during the Song dynasty, cricket fighting was popular among Qing dynasty nobles, while badminton and Guandan are favored within the modern establishment.

People who lack agency overestimate themselves in favorable circumstances and underestimate themselves in adversity.