A person with no value can’t gain benefits. That’s the harsh truth.

Unless you have temporary instrumental value. Under what circumstances could someone of absolutely zero value become temporarily valuable? By selling out.

You're selling out a monster, though. Monsters are doomed to die anyway. If you don't sell them out, they'll be killed regardless — that's a certainty.

Investors want to prey on retail investors, entrepreneurs want to prey on investors, employees want to prey on entrepreneurs. Why is it always a race to see who sells out first? Because the math model already tells you: whoever sells out first profits, and whoever sells out last gets sold.

As an ordinary person in the absolute sense, your only option is to wait for those around you to make mistakes.

Every day commuting to and from work, running errands, or occasionally working part-time as a Didi driver on the road, whenever you see cars crossing solid lines, running red lights, failing to slow down near schools, or not yielding to pedestrians, you snap a photo and send a notification to the traffic police via your phone. There's a cash reward. Once you get good at it, you can earn an extra 200 yuan per day on average.

You see, by waiting for others to slip up and reporting it, you reap the benefits.

You stay completely law-abiding and leverage the rules themselves to collect rewards. Meanwhile, those who break the rules will eventually pay for their actions — it's inevitable.

That's precisely why many people like to hang the concept of "Shen Du" (vigilance over oneself when alone) on their bedroom walls.