What Does “Mou Shen” Mean? Planning How to Secure a Living

It’s about building an ecosystem and carving out a niche within it.

It’s about forming a new vested interest group — a community of stakeholders with skin in the game around whatever you’re trying to build.

Once something is tied to people’s personal interests, it can be driven forward relentlessly.

Without assets, there’s no staying power. When someone lacks money, they can’t practice long-term thinking. The poorer they are, the more impatient they become — every retail investor on earth acts this way, which is why they remain easy targets. It’s unrealistic to expect such people to sustain a collective force capable of challenging the elites.

People without money have only one real use: they’re effective at short-term disruption. Their specialty is ensuring no one makes money — not that they themselves can sustainably make money.