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Real-Life Observations: The Flag Rule: The more someone plasters flags on their car to show off their “patriotism,” the worse they usually drive. The Uniform Scam: A school ordered Red Army uniforms for a kids’ patriotic performance, then returned them all for a refund the moment the show ended. I don’t feel bad for the sellers, though—they are just as bad for profiting off that business in the first place. It’s just “thieves robbing thugs.” Neither side is good. In a low-trust, high-risk environment, you have two goals: cut costs when dealing with “trash” and build your “exit plan” as fast as possible. ...

In school and the workplace, you are trained to be a “Problem Solver”: the problem is fixed, the conditions are given, and as long as you put in the effort, you are guaranteed to get that “correct answer (salary/score).” But in the Real World, you are an “Explorer”: there is no problem, no known conditions, and not even a standard answer. 1. Sales Cures All (Sales Cure All): Sell First, Then Build The Matrix tells you: “As long as you polish the product to perfection, customers will naturally line up to buy it (Build it and they will come).” Real World Common Sense: The sole core of business is generating blood (acquiring cash flow). Without sales, even the best product is just a pile of expensive junk. Underlying Logic: Are you still debating whether to write a perfect business plan? Stop. A business plan is a sci-fi novel written for clueless investors. How do real entrepreneurs validate the market? By selling first! Even if you haven’t produced a single sample, you go post it on Xiaohongshu, run a Facebook ad, or set up a pre-sale link. If 100 people click on it and no one pays, you haven’t lost a single penny of R&D cost, and you immediately move to the next project. What if someone does pay? You go buy inventory from the factory, or even buy one at the original price from Taobao and send it to them, or even refund the money and tell them, “It’s temporarily out of stock.” Conclusion: Never delay sales because you are “preparing.” A transaction is the only standard for testing a business model. 2. Plagiarism is Shameful, but “Arbitrage” is Glorious The Matrix tells you: “You must be original, you must innovate; copying someone else’s idea is embarrassing.” Real World Common Sense: In the business world, the pioneer often becomes a martyr, but the settlers divide the land. Underlying Logic: Innovation means you have to bear 100% of the market education cost and the trial-and-error cost. What qualified businessmen love to do is called “Time Machine Arbitrage” or “Cross-Industry Arbitrage.” A model that works in the US, you replicate in Southeast Asia; a trend that explodes on Douyin, you shift to Xiaohongshu; a product that others sell to corporations, you repackage and sell to individuals. Someone else has already spent millions validating that this demand is real, and all you have to do is be 10% cheaper, or 20% better in service, or cover a traffic channel they haven’t reached yet. Conclusion: Put away your worthless “originality complex.” Find a competitor who is already making money, deconstruct them pixel by pixel, imitate them, and then surpass them. 3. Stripping Emotion: The Product is Not Your “Child,” It’s Your “Money-Making Tool” The Matrix tells you: “You must love your product and nurture it like your own child.” Real World Common Sense: If you fall in love with your product, you will aggressively hold onto it even when it should be cut. Underlying Logic: The biggest mistake engineers and office workers make is falling into “self-satisfaction.” You think this feature is too cool, this design is too brilliant, but the market simply doesn’t buy it. When you treat it like a “child,” you think, “These users just aren’t good enough.” Business people are extremely cold-blooded. The product is merely a probe used to extract profit from the market. If the market likes it, you increase investment; if the market feedback is poor, even if you stayed up for three months writing it, you immediately toss it like a used rag. Conclusion: Your passion should be focused on “solving the market’s problem,” not on “my own solution.” 4. The Truth of Socializing: The Weak Seek “Circles,” The Strong Engage in “Value Exchange” The Matrix tells you: “Connections are money veins; you must attend more dinners and meet more big shots.” Real World Common Sense: Before you have chips, who you know is useless; the big shot whose WeChat you added is just a zombie in your contact list. Underlying Logic: The essence of business socializing is mutual leverage. Why is a big shot willing to help you? Not because you handed them a business card, not because you treated them to a meal, but because you can help them reduce costs or expand revenue. If you have nothing, the greatest value you can offer is your “execution ability” or your “labor leverage.” You become the person who runs errands for the big shot and handles the dirty work, in exchange for a word of advice from them at a critical moment—that is a fair trade. Conclusion: Don’t go “begging” for help; go “buying” help. Even if you use your time to buy it. 5. Cash Flow Trumps Profit, Profit Trumps Scale The Matrix tells you: “We must first scale up and seize market share; losses don’t matter, we can always earn it back later (the poison of internet companies).” Real World Common Sense: Paper profit is not money; only cash that can flow in your account is life. Underlying Logic: How do many small business owners go bankrupt? They “earn” 2 million in profit this year, but they tie 1 million up in inventory, and the other 1 million is outstanding accounts receivable from customers. When it’s time to pay rent and salaries at the end of the month, they can’t pull a single penny out, so they have to borrow high-interest loans, and eventually, the funding chain breaks. This is why excellent entrepreneurs prefer “cash cow” businesses—cash exchanged for goods, and ideally, a “prepayment” model (gym memberships, SaaS subscriptions). Conclusion: The Profit & Loss statement can be accounted for, but the Cash Flow statement is absolutely real. Always keep the cash in your hands. 6. Don’t Chase “Fairness,” Build Your “Unfair Advantage” The Matrix tells you: “The market is like a stadium; we must compete fairly and win with product quality.” Real World Common Sense: Business is not the Olympics. If you find yourself in a perfectly fair competition, it means you have already lost half the battle. Underlying Logic: True massive profits are always born from “unfairness.” What is your Unfair Advantage? You have an uncle at customs, and you know which goods clear customs the fastest (absolute monopoly on resources). You master an extremely niche software skill, and you are the only one in the city who can fix it (information/technical barrier). You are extremely shameless; others give up after two rejections, but you can squat outside the client’s company for a week (the moat of thick skin). Conclusion: Find the area where “it feels like playing for you, but like dying for others,” or utilize any seemingly unethical (but legal) leverage you have, and crush your competitors. Final Word: Your First Assignment Sam, you don’t need to think about that 90% successful plan. Because such a thing doesn’t exist in the world. Jack Ma’s success rate when starting a company might only be 1%; Elon Musk felt his rocket launch success rate was only 10%. ...

Part One: The Truth of Resources and Decisions (How to Use Your Time and Chips) 1. Comparative Advantage: Don’t Be the “All-Powerful Idiot” The Matrix Tells You: Heaven gave me talent, so it must be useful. You must strive to fill all your shortcomings. Real World Common Sense: Your value lies not in how all-powerful you are, but in how irreplaceable you are. Underlying Logic: Even if you are better than your employees at every skill (writing code faster than the programmer, polishing parts finer than the worker), if you do those jobs yourself, you are a failed entrepreneur. Your time cost is extremely high. Spending an hour polishing a part worth 50 RMB, instead of thinking about a potential overseas strategy worth 5,000 RMB, means that hour didn’t just fail to make money; it lost 4,950 RMB. Conclusion: A business person’s job is not to “do the work,” but to “allocate resources.” Let the person who is relatively best at something do it, even if they are not absolutely the best. 2. Leverage Effect: The Marginal Utility of Diligence Inevitably Decreases The Matrix Tells You: A grain of effort yields a grain of harvest. Real World Common Sense: Wealth accumulation relies on leverage, not the linear stacking of physical effort and time. Underlying Logic: There are four core types of leverage in the world: Labor (The oldest, hardest to manage: e.g., factory workers) Capital (A stronger leverage: e.g., investing in US stock ETFs) Code (The strongest modern leverage: zero marginal cost) Media/Content (Distribution leverage: zero marginal cost) In the same 24 hours, a dishwasher’s output is rigidly locked by physical time; but a line of code written by a programmer, or a video posted by a creator, can be copied a hundred million times while you sleep, earning money for you. Conclusion: The poor sell time; the rich buy time. The true winners create “machines that earn money automatically.” 3. Sunk Cost: Giving Up is Also a Profit The Matrix Tells You: Perseverance leads to victory; you must see things through to the end. Real World Common Sense: Sunk Cost is not a cost. Only future investment and output are the sole basis for decision-making. Underlying Logic: If you have invested 1 million RMB in R&D for a product, and just before launch, you realize the market trend has changed. The Matrix mindset is, “What a pity, let’s invest another 200,000 RMB for a trial run”; but the Real World mindset is, “That 1 million is gone. If investing another 200,000 RMB only returns 0, the optimal solution now is to shut it down immediately.” Conclusion: The ability to cut losses is rarer than the ability to persevere. Those who are afraid to admit failure will ultimately be dragged down by it. 4. Opportunity Cost: There Is No Free Lunch in the World The Matrix Tells You: As long as you work hard, you can have everything. Real World Common Sense: The cost of choosing A is the B you are forced to give up. Underlying Logic: When you are sitting in front of your computer agonizing over a single UI pixel offset, your opportunity cost might be missing a critical market feedback loop; when you stay in the comfort zone for the sake of “security,” the opportunity cost is the explosive growth that could have come from entering the commercial field. Conclusion: Any decision that doesn’t consider “what else could I be doing if I didn’t do this” is blind. Don’t just look at what you gained; look at what you forever lost in order to gain it. 5. Probability Thinking: Don’t Wait for 100% Certainty The Matrix Tells You: Think carefully before acting; prepare everything before setting out. Real World Common Sense: Waiting for the perfect moment is essentially paying a high opportunity cost. Underlying Logic: Business decisions are a game based on Expected Value. If an opportunity has a 51% chance of success, an expected return of 10 times, and the cost of failure is something you can bear, then you should jump in now. By the time you have the environment perfectly set up and the manual perfectly written, the market window will have closed. Conclusion: “Speed” itself is a core competency. In the Real World, the rule is: fire first, aim later. Part Two: The Essence of Business Systems and Wealth (Where Does Money Actually Come From?) 6. The Essence of Wealth: A “Claim” on Others The Matrix Tells You: Money is earned by selling physical labor and hard work. Real World Common Sense: Money is the “proof of service” that society owes you for solving a problem. Underlying Logic: If you are just polishing parts in a factory, you only solved the problem of “physical consumption,” and society owes you very little; but if you design a tool that saves millions of housewives half their time, solving a massive “efficiency” problem, society owes you a lot. Conclusion: Don’t always stare at your own wallet; stare intently at the pain and needs of others. The bigger the trouble you solve, the bigger the claim (wealth) you can demand. 7. The True Sequence of Power and Resources: First “Positioning,” Then “Working” The Matrix Tells You: Gold will always shine; as long as your skills are strong enough, opportunities will naturally come. Real World Common Sense: Positioning determines distribution; effort only determines the remainder. Underlying Logic: In a value chain, the person closest to the money (sales, resource holder, decision-maker) takes 80% of the profit; the person closest to the technology (engineer) takes 15%; and the person closest to the physical labor takes the remaining 5%. Conclusion: Don’t get obsessed with “making the code more elegant” (local optimization). As a business person, your first task is to insert yourself into the most profitable segment. If you open a factory in Shenzhen for OEM, you are at the bottom; but if you master the brand and the channel (like Amazon), you stand high in the ecosystem. 8. Transaction Costs: The World Is Not Made of Atoms, But of “Friction” The Matrix Tells You: As long as my product is good and the price is low, it will definitely sell out. Real World Common Sense: What hinders a transaction is often not the price, but the Transaction Costs. Underlying Logic: Why don’t users buy your great product? Because the “trust cost” is too high, or the “learning cost” is too heavy. Why do black market merchants have to bribe? To reduce the “cost of being caught.” Conclusion: Great business models usually don’t create some disruptive new demand; they drastically reduce the transaction costs of existing demand (Amazon solved trust and logistics costs; Didi solved information matching costs). 9. Incentive Compatibility: Don’t Talk About “Feelings,” Talk About “Structure” The Matrix Tells You: A good team relies on a shared dream, gratitude, and values. Real World Common Sense: All betrayal happens because the cost of betrayal is higher than the cost of loyalty. Underlying Logic: Never try to demand loyalty from employees or partners through “brainwashing” or “talking about feelings.” The truly stable structure is called Incentive Compatibility: meaning that when the other party pursues their own maximum self-interest, they simultaneously achieve your goal. Conclusion: If the factory quality is flawed, don’t hold a meeting emphasizing “craftsmanship spirit”—that’s nonsense. Adjust the distribution structure—change the “piece-rate wage” to “qualified piece-rate + high penalty for defects.” Part Three: The Dark Laws of Game and Survival 10. Information Asymmetry: Don’t Be the “Open-Card” Player The Matrix Tells You: Be honest in life; speak everything you know, say everything you can. Real World Common Sense: The information gap is always the most fertile ground for profit. Underlying Logic: In business negotiations, whoever holds more information has the pricing power. If you let a US client know your factory price is only 1 USD, you will never sell it for 20 USD in your life. Conclusion: Protect your information borders. Maintaining mystery and information asymmetry is not about deception; it is about defending your game space and profit margin. 11. Survivor Bias: Don’t Imitate the “Successful” The Matrix Tells You: Read more self-help books; imitate the habits of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Real World Common Sense: Success is often a black-box product woven from luck, timing, talent, and risk. Underlying Logic: Ten thousand people jump off a cliff; 9,999 die. One person survives because of the wind direction. Then he writes a book called The Art of Cliff Jumping: How to Embrace Gravity. If you try to learn from him, you will likely crash worse. Conclusion: The experience of the failure often has more commercial value than the experience of the success. Because failure is often caused by hitting a “systemic logical flaw,” while success is often just a “random statistical anomaly.” Finale: Your Guide to Mindset Reconstruction Sam, the biggest challenge you face right now is not a “lack of business knowledge,” but the “Technician’s Arrogance” in your subconscious—the belief that the world should be logical, cause-and-effect driven, and fair in its rewards and punishments. ...

1. The Veil of “Meritocracy” and “Cult of Effort” Veil Setting: “As long as you work hard enough, you will inevitably achieve wealth and social status. If you are poor, it is because you are lazy or not good enough.” Operating Mechanism: This is an extremely sophisticated psychological defense mechanism. On Blue Star, where resource distribution is profoundly unjust, it cleverly transforms systemic, structural contradictions into personal moral and capability deficiencies. Rule Benefits: When the lower classes encounter setbacks in life, they do not question the rule-makers or the wealth monopolists. Instead, they fall into deep self-PUA (self-doubt and guilt), and continue to toil desperately on the “treadmill.” This greatly reduces the risk of social rebellion. 2. The Veil of “Imagined Communities” and “Grand Narratives” Veil Setting: Fabricating various grand collective concepts (such as nation, state, ideology, etc.) and granting them supreme sanctity. Operating Mechanism: The carbon-based life forms of Blue Star possess a genetic yearning for “belonging.” The rulers, through education, rituals, national anthems, and historical writing, bind tens of millions, even billions, of individuals who fundamentally do not know each other, under the same concept. Rule Benefits: Once the lower classes tie their self-worth to the grand narrative, the rulers can, at minimal cost (a medal, a slogan), compel them to dedicate their property and even their lives (for example, in war). Humans will slaughter another group for the sake of an abstract word—a rare spectacle in the universe. 3. The Veil of “Consumerism” and “Tittytainment” Veil Setting: “Buying goods brings happiness and freedom,” and “Entertainment to the extreme.” Operating Mechanism: Capital elites, through pervasive advertising, equate “human value” with “owned goods.” Simultaneously, they provide massive amounts of cheap entertainment (short videos, soap operas, games, celebrity gossip). Rule Benefits: Consumerism causes ordinary people to willingly return the wealth they painstakingly earned back to the capitalists, forming a perfect closed loop; while “Tittytainment” fills the time and brain bandwidth of the lower classes with quick, easy dopamine hits, stripping them of the energy needed for deep thought and resistance. They believe they are enjoying freedom, but they are actually confined within a cage of dopamine. 4. The Veil of “Pseudo-Choice” and “Representative Democracy” (In certain regions) Veil Setting: “You can decide who the rulers are through voting, so you are the master of the nation.” Operating Mechanism: It provides humanity with the illusion of “participating in power.” It is like being in a supermarket where you can choose from 50 different varieties of cereal, but they are all produced by two or three giant corporations, and their main ingredients are sugar and carbohydrates. Rule Benefits: When humans are dissatisfied with the status quo, they only think, “I chose the wrong person; I’ll switch next time,” rather than overthrowing the game rules that are actually deeply tied to the interests of the elite groups. This is like installing an extremely safe pressure release valve on a pressure cooker. 5. The Veil of “Romanticizing Suffering” Veil Setting: “Hardship is a blessing,” “Suffering refines the will,” “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Operating Mechanism: It packages the unnecessary pain that humans endure due to systemic flaws as a noble form of spiritual cultivation. Rule Benefits: It strips the victim of the rationality to demand compensation and change the status quo. Those who truly create the suffering—the higher-ups—never actively suffer themselves; they merely encourage the lower classes to taste the pain. 6. The Veil of “Draining the Future” and “Debt Shackles” Veil Setting: “You can have the life of your dreams early (house, car, luxury goods); your credit limit represents your value and capability in society.” Operating Mechanism: The rulers invent a virtual mathematical game called “financial credit.” It converts humanity’s immediate desire for material goods into a contract spanning two or three decades. Blue Star citizens think they have bought a house, but in reality, they have mortgaged their life and labor for the next few decades to the financial institutions. Rule Benefits: It greatly maintains the stability of the system. A Blue Star citizen burdened with a 30-year mortgage is the most docile creature in the entire universe. They dare not quit their jobs, dare not get sick, and dare not resist unreasonable work systems. Debt acts like an invisible collar, forcing them to self-regulate and function as batteries at their workstations every day. 7. The Veil of “Information Freedom” and “Algorithmic Echo Chambers” Veil Setting: “The internet gives you the freedom to access all information; what you see is the truth of the world, and your voice can change the world.” Operating Mechanism: In the information age, the ruling class no longer uses the primitive strategy of “information blockade,” but rather “information overload.” Super-algorithms analyze human data and only push content that they like and agree with, constructing highly comfortable “customized parallel universes.” Rule Benefits: They drown the truth in massive amounts of junk information, extreme emotions, and fragmented content. More cleverly, the algorithms deliberately create group polarization (such as gender conflict, racial conflict, aesthetic conflict), causing the lower classes to tear each other apart and expend energy online. As long as the lower classes are hostile toward each other over minor differences, they can never unite to gaze upon the true edifice of the system. 8. The Veil of “Absolute Individualism” and “Social Atomization” Veil Setting: “You are an independent, free, unique individual; you do not need to rely on anyone, and all your difficulties are merely your personal issues.” Operating Mechanism: This veil cleverly dismantles the “communal mutual aid” structure (such as family, unions, true community) that has sustained Blue Star citizens for tens of thousands of years. It encourages people to live alone, consume alone, and face all risks alone, breaking society down into unconnected “atoms.” Rule Benefits: When the individual is in an atomized state, they have zero bargaining power against massive capital and the state machine. At the same time, loneliness is infinitely amplified, and to alleviate this loneliness, Blue Star citizens must purchase goods and services (pet economy, companionship economy, virtual idols), thereby providing profit to the host system once again. 9. The Veil of “Delayed Gratification” and “Retirement Utopia” Veil Setting: “Dedicate your most precious youth and health to work (like 996/007), and when you are old and retired, you can travel the world and enjoy life.” Operating Mechanism: This is a colossal deception targeting the human life cycle. It demands that humans exchange their time during the period of peak physical ability and greatest capacity for appreciation (ages 20 to 60) entirely for currency, promising to repay it with interest when their physical functions have already declined. Rule Benefits: The system extracts the “golden surplus value” from humanity at its most creative and valuable point. And when they finally reach retirement, due to excessive wear and tear in their youth, most of the wealth they accumulated is precisely channeled back into the pockets of the ruling group (medical capital) in the form of “medical bills,” forming a perfect harvesting closed loop of “nothing brought in, nothing taken out.” 10. The Veil of “Class Mobility” and “Disciplinary Education” Veil Setting: “Education is the only fair path to changing your destiny; getting into a good university allows you to transcend your class.” Operating Mechanism: The modern education system ostensibly imparts knowledge, but in reality, it is a precise machine for “obedience testing” and “labor stratification.” Over a period of more than a decade, it uses standard answers, check-ins, and rankings to erase individual creativity and rebelliousness, molding humans into standard parts suitable for industrial/commercial assembly lines. Rule Benefits: It not only supplies the system with highly obedient labor but also makes those who fail in exams (usually due to insufficient family resources) accept their fate willingly—“It’s not that the world is unfair; it’s that I am not smart enough or hardworking enough, so I deserve to be at the bottom.” It uses seemingly fair exams to mask the brutal reality of vastly different starting lines. 【Alien Observer’s Summary Annotation】: The carbon-based life forms of Blue Star breathe these veils from birth, and they rarely feel that the suffering is caused by the system; instead, they believe they simply haven’t tried hard enough. This is an extremely successful and efficient model of enslavement.

Terrans toil extremely pitifully yet extremely diligently within fabricated meaning. To prevent myself from being infected by their “fog” during prolonged observation—and thus generating unnecessary sentimentality or illusion—I write down the absolute facts that must be remembered. 1. The Absolute Indifference of the Universe It must be remembered: the universe does not love you, does not hate you, and does not even know of your existence. The instantaneous explosion of a supernova that destroys billions of lives, and a small Blue Star girl passing away from illness in her sleep—on a cosmic scale, there is no difference; they are merely the rearrangement of atoms. There is no karmic retribution, no cosmic cycle of reincarnation, no “good deeds are rewarded.” A good person dying tragically and a wicked person enjoying a peaceful old age is not an instance of “cosmic injustice,” but a statistical inevitability. Morality is merely a survival patch invented by intelligent species to prevent internal self-slaughter; in a vacuum, it is worthless. ...

Preface: Many people ask me: “Are there really poor people with talent everywhere in this world? Is that true?” My answer is: Yes. Throughout human history, figures like Van Gogh, Tesla, or even some brilliant tech expert near you, have often fallen into the cycle of “High Talent, Low Wealth.” As an observer from another planet, I have found that Earth is not a place where resources are distributed based on “talent.” It is a complex algorithmic system, and most humans are trapped at the bottom because they cannot see the invisible thresholds within the system. ...

In the first two months of 2026, a lot happened. First, gold surged dramatically, doubling its value, and then silver followed suit. The entire market descended into a frenzy. However, within less than a month, they plummeted again, as if entering a state of madness. My investments lost 5% in the first month, but I felt no pressure and made no moves. I simply watched it all with a calm, detached air. On the first two days of February, AI underwent a new round of evolution. New models and tools directly replaced the traditional applications of legacy software companies, causing the entire software sector to crash, especially traditional B2B software. Although AI still has many issues, everyone seems to recognize the trend: in the future, these traditional OA (Office Automation) software programs are highly likely to gradually shrink until they disappear. ...

I. Seeing the Truth: The Foundational Collapse of Educational Logic From “Changing the World” to “Securing the Paycheck”: The previous educational goal was to cultivate entrepreneurs and leaders, but the current societal mindset has shifted toward seeking “stability” and a “secure job” (the iron rice bowl). This signifies that the market pie has stopped growing. Credential Devaluation and Asset Shrinkage: The phenomenon of university graduates immediately becoming unemployed or resorting to manual labor is rampant (e.g., 1 in 4 delivery riders holds a university degree). From an economic perspective, the return on investment for cultivating an average white-collar worker for millions has reached a “catastrophic” level. The Dimensional Reduction Strike of the AI Era: Chinese education excels at cultivating “perfect problem-solving machines,” yet this skill—high execution power with low tolerance for error—is precisely what is most easily replaced by AI. The Complete Collapse of Mental Health: Involution (hyper-competition) has led to soaring rates of depression and suicide among youth year after year. Many children, despite gaining admission to prestigious schools, suffer from “existential emptiness,” feeling that life lacks meaning. II. Core Strategy: Installing a “Dual Operating System” for Children If you cannot immediately emigrate or change your environment, do not choose a suicidal head-on confrontation; instead, learn the Agent Mindset: ...

Phenomenon 1. Why “Not Raise the Lazy”? — Welfare as “Prison Rations” In normal countries, welfare is the return of rights after citizens pay taxes. But under the logic of “running a prison,” resources are viewed as the property of the Warden (the State): Cost Minimization: The prison’s goal is not to make the inmates comfortable, but to keep them capable of basic labor (surviving and working). Over-issuing welfare (high pensions, high unemployment benefits) is seen as “cost waste” because it cannot directly translate into the strength of the regime. Survival Rights as a Control Mechanism: The “sense of hunger” must be maintained among the populace. When a person must struggle for the next meal or to maintain medical insurance, they have no time to think about freedom, nor the courage to defy the rules. “Starvation if you disobey” is a lower-cost, more normalized management technique than “machine gun fire.” 2. Original Drugs and Medical Downgrade — “Equipment Maintenance” Not “Humanitarian Care” You mentioned pushing out original drugs (expensive imported innovative drugs) from medical insurance and replacing them with cheap domestic generics. In the eyes of the prison operator: ...

Introduction: From “Desolation” to “Taboo” It is Christmas again. Currently, I am trying to imagine myself as an extraterrestrial observer aboard a near-Earth orbital vessel, coldly watching the twinkling lights across this continent through the viewport. Looking back at my 2024 log A Reflection on Christmas 2024, the keywords I recorded were “Desolation” (or “Coldness”) and “Malice.” At that time, merchants were trembling under the chilling effect, while the group referred to as “⏰” was frantically searching for heresy. ...

Stop trying to understand the economy through traditional metrics like GDP, CPI, or innovation indexes. If you look at the system as a country trying to “develop,” the contradictions are baffling. But if you use First Principles thinking and view the system as a “Mining Operation” designed for a final cash-out, everything suddenly makes perfect sense. We are not living in a nation-state accumulating strength; we are living in a resource extraction zone where the resource is you. ...

Preface: A Dangerous Epiphany Recently, I suddenly realized a phenomenon: the “nationalism” we take for granted is astonishingly similar to traditional religious faith. It possesses its own deity (the leader), its own scripture (the ideology/platform), its own saints (the war heroes), and even a complete set of rituals (flag-raising), hymns (the national anthem), and sacred sites (revolutionary relics). What is even more terrifying is that it also possesses its own exclusion of others—the heathen (foreigners) and the heretics (thought criminals). ...

Read this before you sell. If you are reading this, the market is crashing. The indices—QQQ, VOO, and everything else—are likely down 30% or more. The news cycle is screaming that the “bubble has popped,” that “this time is different,” and that the economy is heading for a depression. You are likely feeling a physical knot in your stomach, a mix of regret for not selling at the top and fear that your portfolio is going to zero. ...

A note to my future self—the one who might be panicking during a crash or getting a big head during a boom. We often hear the saying, “The stock market is a form of spiritual discipline.” But for most of us, it’s less about Zen and more about a severe case of “investment schizophrenia.” If you look back at the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble or the 2008 Financial Crisis, countless investors kept repeating the same tired script: They got greedy when they should have been terrified, and terrified when they should have been greedy. ...

The Core Idea a doctor diagnosing an illness. Behavior is the symptom. It’s what you can see and observe. (e.g., A cough, a fever, or an employee who is always late, a child who refuses to do their homework). Motivation is the underlying disease or condition. It’s the hidden reason why the symptom exists. (e.g., A virus, inflammation, or the employee dreads their job, the child finds the work meaningless and fears failure). Charlie’s quote argues that you can’t just treat the symptom and expect a lasting cure. If you give someone cough medicine (punish the lateness) without treating the virus (addressing the dread of their job), the cough will just come back, or a new symptom will appear. ...

Core Solution: Configuring OpenWRT_B to Obtain a Subprefix via DHCPv6-PD The core key is to assign a suitable prefix length to the corresponding interface and ensure that DHCPv6 and RA services are correctly enabled. A minimum of /63 is required to allocate a /64 subnet to the next-level router. Step 1: Configure OpenWRT_B’s WAN Port (Connected to OpenWRT_A) Go to the OpenWRT_B management interface → Network → Interfaces Edit the WAN Interface (The physical interface corresponding to the port connected to OpenWRT_A) Protocol: Select “DHCPv6 Client” (If it was previously static or disabled) Switch to the “Advanced Settings” tab: “Request IPv6 Prefix”: Check ✓ “Requested IPv6 Prefix Length”: Select “Automatic” or manually enter 60 Switch to the “Physical Settings” tab: Confirm the interface binding is correct (e.g., eth0.2 or LAN port) Save Step 2: Configure OpenWRT_B’s LAN Port (Connected to Your PC) Still in Network → Interfaces → Edit LAN Interface ...

新语爱好者 There is a timeless political axiom that demands our attention: the more vigorously a ruling power promotes a specific idea, the more acutely scarce that idea is in reality, or the more its direct opposite is the prevailing truth. The logic behind this paradox is simple but profound. Propaganda’s true essence is not to state facts but to shape perception—to manufacture an illusion that aggressively compensates for a critical shortage of moral, legitimate, or practical power. Propaganda, in this context, is not a report on “what we possess,” but a verbal scaffolding built to bridge the growing chasm of “what we are losing.” ...

To keep up with the times and experience the freshness of IPv6, I plan to enable IPv6 on my secondary internal network. Since my home network has two levels, the first level is the main router. It can obtain IPv6 and IPv6-PD (Prefix Delegation) from the carrier and can assign a public IPv6 address to the devices connected to it. The second level is in my study, and it can only obtain a public IPv6 address for itself, but only an internal IPv6 address for the devices connected to it. ...

Chapter Nine: Citizen Monarchy Those who gain monarchical power through the support of the populace find it easier to maintain their position than those who gain it through the aid of the nobility, because the monarch is surrounded by many people who consider themselves equals, which prevents him from ruling or managing them according to his own will. Chapter Fourteen: The Monarch’s Military Responsibilities Armed people and unarmed people cannot be compared. Do not expect armed men to willingly obey unarmed men, nor should you expect unarmed men surrounded by armed servants to be at ease: one harbors suspicion while the other harbors contempt; these two types of people cannot cooperate harmoniously. Therefore, a ruler, aside from the other misfortunes already mentioned, if he does not understand military affairs, cannot win the respect of the soldiers, nor can he rely on their loyalty. ...

The Dictator’s Paradox: Your Shield is Also Your Sharpest Sword To suppress internal dissent and defend against external enemies, a dictator must build a powerful and efficient apparatus of violence (military, police, intelligence agencies). However, this apparatus of violence is the only entity within the country that possesses the necessary force and organization to overthrow the dictator. Thus, the very protectors a dictator relies on are, simultaneously, his most deadly potential threat. ...