Besides, most of the tycoons here are hidden very deeply, and if you go in with leverage, you might get fleeced... Ah, Eric, we can't be too greedy.
Money is a good thing, but we only need to earn those that come with controllable risks. Over the years, I've seen too many people richer than me go bankrupt.
Is it because they're not smart enough?
No, it's because they're too greedy!"
Geweil: Old Deng, who are you scolding?
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Although the rulers would vehemently deny it, but through all the rhetoric and narrative, the underlying logic of power is — only by silencing the disobedient can authority be enforced.
It's just that the method of silencing is not exactly uniform, especially regarding how to execute the killing.
Some choose to torment to death, but others believe that mere killing is too economically unvaluable — they would turn the bodies into soap. The bravest of all choose not to kill but to, accurately speaking, destroy the spirit.
