When You Lack Resources, You Must Learn to Fake It
Life's a stage, and it all comes down to your performance. If you refuse to play anything outside your natural type, you won't get roles, and opportunities will never come your way.
Life's a stage, and it all comes down to your performance. If you refuse to play anything outside your natural type, you won't get roles, and opportunities will never come your way.
No one has ever summarized the social strata of a county-level city so comprehensively — it basically explains in full why people leave their hometowns.
When the mother's side is weak, one becomes a merchant; when the father is strong, one becomes a minister; when the family line is prestigious, one stays in the hometown; when the family is poor, one ventures abroad.
The keyword is display.
What we call success: making some money (doing something), being known,
the time before Spring Festival and National Day, because you can buy something to show off.
People at different stages pursue different kinds of success (showing off). Finding this point is the market.
In *The Great Dye House*, Chen Liuzi swindled the other party out of 300,000 bolts of cloth, then gave it away to beggars—each receiving just one foot to use as a headscarf. That move ruined their “Yu Meiren” brand. How could wealthy madams in the Republican era possibly make qipaos from cloth used by beggars? Meanwhile, his “Feihu” brand stepped in and seized their market share.