Everyone is voting for the world

Buying high-rise apartments above the 50th floor, taking out forced loans to buy at high prices, watching trashy movies, buying garbage stocks, buying into junk stocks at the peak, buying worthless altcoins.

Everyone is casting their vote for this world.

High-rise residential buildings above 50 floors like these shouldn’t even exist; trashy movies, garbage stocks, and junk coins deserve to be thrown in the trash—they shouldn’t exist either. But it is precisely because countless people pay for them that they have a chance to survive. It is because a portion of people are willing to pay that they exist in this world.

Therefore, people will also suffer the consequences.

When an avalanche happens, not a single snowflake is innocent.

When Duan Yongping felt there was no future staying in Beijing, he ran to the south. When his boss at Xiaobawang didn’t fulfill the promised equity, he decisively left and started BBK on his own.

When survival isn’t suitable, just leave—move somewhere else.

If Duan Yongping had been in Guiyang, I think it’s highly unlikely he would have bought an apartment in Huaguoyuan; he would have left decisively for somewhere else.

If he had been born in Hong Kong and couldn’t afford a home, he most likely would have run to the mainland.

If someone is born in Hong Kong, can’t afford a house, and works like a beast of burden all their life just to buy a tiny piece of land, then no matter how tragic their fate is, it’s hardly worth sympathy.

Of course, Hong Kong capitalists are despicable for artificially controlling the land supply, but it’s the countless worker ants who add bricks to the wall of unreasonable housing prices—they collectively create this deformed world, so no one there is truly innocent.

If a place is wrong, if a company is wrong, and you still choose to stay there, then you are paying for the creation of this distorted world and fully deserve the suffering that comes with it.

Unless it’s a scam compound in northern Myanmar, where your movements are controlled, in most situations, in most places, people have the power to choose—they can decide where to go.

If you keep suffering and still refuse to leave, then sorry, you are part of the reason this world of suffering exists.

So even though I am a tiny individual and my power is insignificant compared to those big figures, I must be vigilant about my actions, my choices, my words and deeds. Even if my power is minimal, my choices are still part of shaping this world. I don’t care what others do or choose—I can only control my own choices and make sure my choices don’t become a vote for a deformed, trashy world.