What did the poor around you teach you?
What did the poor around you teach you? – What?
Don’t pity them. Use them!
Yeah, you heard right.
You must think I’m rich, bad, bad.
No, I’m telling you, even they feel better.
I was also very simple, considering the gift to the poor around me to be a natural matter.
Ten years ago, when my own business started to improve, one of my relatives also started doing business. He was in financial trouble and borrowed 100,000. I was wrong, 100,000, no interest, no guarantees. 100,000, not for five years. In this five-year period, they did not say a word of thanks and never offered me a few days, and they did not even often hide from me. Later, when my parents couldn’t see it, I couldn’t figure out if they were looking at it, or if I felt like I lost a piece of meat. But that look in my eyes, I clearly feel not grateful.
The previous year, as a result of the epidemic, their business had once again experienced difficulties and borrowed $250,000 from me. I looked at them, and I had a hard look, and I knew that if this thing was not handled well, it would probably be empty, that money might not come back, and that the relative might lose it. I then made two demands: one, to borrow them only for one year, which must be returned after one year, and two, to pay interest at 3 per cent per annum, on a monthly basis and on a planned basis for one year. You must think they’re leaving, actually, at first it wasn’t well. And then they figured out, after all, that my conditions were much better than those of the bank, not to mention the private lending. So he answered the request. For the past two years, they have come to me every month to pay interest, to communicate with each other, to talk about business, and slowly, to get used to it. By the time of the one-year time limit, I came to my house with a great deal of gratitude, and I pretended to be reluctantly accepting the request to continue for another year.
Sometimes I wonder, isn’t that a bitch? I don’t think so. Change of scene, I understand. It’s not that the relatives were wrong at first, but I didn’t let them understand from the beginning that I borrowed money from you, and it’s not natural.
I can be nice to you, not because you’re a relative. It’s because I’m nice to you. You should know that.
The same applies to the poor.
My primary school classmate’s kid dropped out of high school and wanted to find a job and let me help arrange it. I was really, really trying to say that I only had a high school degree, but after all, for the sake of my classmates, he had been assigned to a civil office job and paid the same salary as undergraduates. You think he’ll appreciate it? No, I didn’t get any gratitude. Instead, he heard complaints — his son did not get promoted fast enough. It’s hard for me to explain to him that his son is less capable of learning than he is of working. Then his son quit his job, and my primary school classmates basically broke up.
Then I had kids from junior high school, relatives from high school, and asked me to help with the job. I have seen that, to be honest, a very well-qualified child does not need a parent to work for a child. But I think again and again, I just say, “Well, it’s the Human Resources Director’s contact. You let the kids interview first, and then you tell me later. Three interviews were conducted, and almost all three did not meet the personnel recruitment requirements. What can I do? The Human Resources Director’s answer is always to go back. One day, two days, no news. Some parents can’t sit down, and one in three will call me again. I told you, I’ll check with the HR Director. Then I got the HR Director to hire the kid. To be honest, at the grass-roots level, the educational requirements are less rigid, and it has little effect on a staff member ‘ s poor performance. But this friend, in the process, he understood that his child’s work was not taken for granted. I’ve been very close to you so far.
Three years ago, my company had a five-storey office, requiring a cleaning aunt, which was not a big deal, but the company had a budget that worked. I intend to let a relative living in poverty who is currently unemployed at home do it. I want to go and let my wife find this relative. My wife said she went to company XX the day before yesterday to pick up a dress for XX and heard someone at the company saying that the office was looking for an aunty with a confession. Aren’t you busy at home? She came to my house with excitement and lamented the difficulty of life and expressed the need for work and asked if I had a job. My wife reminds me in due time that there’s not a XX job. I pretended to wake up and said that the work company seemed to have plans for someone with domestic experience. I’ll ask tomorrow. In a few days, I’ll tell her. That’s it. I fired the old man. Her family brought a lot of stuff to my house that night.
There’s a lot of things, cases. Let’s not talk about it for three days or three nights.
What do I have to say? I think life is more than that. There are many things that many people would take for granted without being reminded. Just as Wang Sing would think those who did not leave the country were losers. It was not Wang Si that was dumb, but because he had not been reminded of the current situation in China.
I had a friend who had more than once lamented me: how do I buy a half-million-dollar car with such a high annual income? It is difficult for me to explain to him that his life, his understanding, was so simple that he could not understand, because I had an annual income that was much higher than my major shareholders, driving only 1 million cars, and a big brother who was very helpful to my business and driving only 1 million cars. So my best option is around half a million — of course, I’m not in the best position either.
A lot of people — I’m sorry, I’m talking here about poor people who don’t know the real rules of society. For example, the 100,000 I lent to my relatives without interest, and in private loans at least 20,000 a year, and at least a hundred thousand car to mortgage, the problem is that I promised too easily, and they never learned about private loans. Like my primary school friend’s son. He can’t get his education. For example, a relative of my family, who had no experience with domestic work, could not normally have had her turn in that job.
All you have to do is tell them the rules of society, use them, then give them.
A large part of the reason they become poor is their ignorance of social rules.
You can’t make them be confused.
It won’t do them any good.
I don’t know.
Keep your eyes on the road.
