Economic Wisdom to Apply in Your Twenties

Chapter 68

Chapter 8, Section 8: Positive Economics Answers to the Ancient Beauty's Poor Life
In ancient times, there was a beautiful girl who was about to get married. The mother told the daughter-in-law: "When you arrive at your husband's house, you must save your private money as much as possible, so as not to be divorced in the future and have nothing to rely on for life." The woman After marrying into her husband's family, she really followed her mother's teachings and worked hard to save private money.One day, the mother-in-law found out that the daughter-in-law had saved a lot of private money, and blamed the daughter-in-law for stealing her husband's money, so she ordered her son to divorce her.The daughter-in-law did not feel any sadness. After returning to her mother's house, she told her mother, "Mother is right! Fortunately, I have saved a lot of private money."

"Ask what love is in the world, and teach life and death!" Although love makes those who live in it feel sweet and sacred, in the eyes of economists, these words are simply dizzy and have no value.In their view, love and marriage are the same as other human behaviors. The main purpose is not to be crazy, to search, and it is not a "promise of life and death", but the necessity of economics.

Beauty is always ill-fated, economists use the principles of game theory to analyze.Generally speaking, beauties are hot targets for men to chase. If there are 10 men chasing at first, beauties will always pick and choose among the 10 men, and make judgments and choices about suitors based on some external information.With the increasing number of chasers, the men also have doubts about the beauty's moral character, and the good men gradually lose confidence and withdraw from the competition one after another.In the game of many men, "bad money drives out good money", the rich and powerful playboy becomes the final winner, and the fate of women is doomed to be miserable.This is why good women can never find good men.

Studies have shown that the incidence of violence in beautiful families is much higher than that of ordinary families.However, in an unfortunate marriage, the man has the first-mover advantage and has a lower exit barrier, while the woman is at an obvious late-movement disadvantage and has an infinitely high exit barrier. ending.Another situation is that beauties rely on their innate beauty resources, "it's better to grow well than to learn well", and give up learning to make progress, but after all, beauty is hard to stay.From the beginning, they can "get" benefits (for example, financial benefits, vanity satisfaction, etc.) from the pursuit of many men. However, when their youth is gone and their youth is gone, what do they use as capital for happiness?

A beautiful woman wanted to know how to get rich, so she posted a post on the financial page of a large online forum in the United States: "I am 24 years old, very beautiful, elegant in conversation, dignified in demeanor, and I want to find a rich man with an annual salary of one million. Lovers. But how can this be done?"

A Wall Street businessman wrote a reply, he said: "My annual salary exceeds one million, which meets your standards, so I am qualified to answer your questions. And here, I can tell you responsibly - from a businessman From the point of view, choosing you is a very bad decision (at least a rich person like me will not choose you). As for the reason, it is very simple.

"Through your description, we can understand that the relationship between a man and a woman is a simple transaction of 'money' and 'appearance': Party A provides a charming appearance, Party B pays, the transaction is equal, and there is no deceit. However, here are A fatal problem. You just have beauty. Over time, beauty will fade, but my money will not decrease.

"To put it more cruelly, from an economic point of view, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. Not only does it depreciate, but it also depreciates at an accelerated rate! You are in your 20s now, and you can still maintain a slim figure in the next ten years. Although your figure may decline slightly every year, your beauty will disappear faster and faster. If it is your only asset, your value will be very worrying after ten years. Therefore, you only want to rely on your beauty to complete this transaction , it is estimated that it is unrealistic, or the transaction will not last too long. Instead of looking for rich people, why don't you think of a way to become rich?"

This anecdote may be able to tell more beautiful girls that although a beautiful appearance is a rare and precious resource for you, if you take beauty too seriously and neglect to cultivate other qualities of yourself, then in the end it will be difficult Escape the fate of "Since ancient times, beauties are too poor to live".Beauty also needs to be supported by self-cultivation and connotation, and the attractiveness of appearance is thin and fragile.If a beautiful person wants to maintain his attractiveness to others, he should strengthen his self-cultivation.Only the beauty that combines the inner richness with the outer appearance is the eternal beauty and can release the eternal brilliance.

Wisdom Pieces: Peerless Beauty
Xi Shi: The first of the four beauties in ancient China, known as "Sinking Fish", was the victim of Fan Li's "beauty trick".She bears the burden of humiliation, promises the country with her body, and seduces the kings of Wu with her beauty. She rebels and rebels.After Gou Jian destroyed Wu, he also lost his word.

Diao Chan: Diao Chan, who has the reputation of "closed moon", puts herself into the mouth of tigers and wolves for the benefit of the overall situation, and uses "serial tricks" to separate Dong and Lu father and son, and staged a scene of historical tragedy. in the power struggle.

Concubine Yang Guifei: "A concubine riding in the world of mortals laughs, and no one knows that it is a lychee." Although the country is beautiful and beautiful, the country is all over the city, and three thousand loves are gathered in one body, but in the Fanyang mutiny and Luoyang fall. The officers and soldiers forced Ma Wei to die. , Achieve a song of eternal regret.

Dong Xiaowan: A talented woman who is well-known in the south of the Yangtze River and has overwhelming skills. Although she is a perfect match with the talented scholar Mao Xiang and is favored by Emperor Shunzhi's three thousand, she cannot escape the tragic fate of dying at the age of 27 after going through all kinds of disasters .

Su Xiaoxiao: A famous courtesan in Qiantang in the Southern Qi Dynasty, born in a prostitute's family. She is good at singing and dancing, and has many talents. She met Ruan Yu, a romantic talent in Xileng, fell in love at first sight, and became a partner. Unfortunately, she was abandoned by Ruan Yu. He died of hemoptysis at the age of nineteen.

Liu Rushi: The first of the Eight Beauties of the Qinhuai River, who loved Song Zhengyu and Chen Zilong, the righteous people in the south of the Yangtze River, suffered setbacks in love and was extremely unhappy.Later, she married Qian Qianyi, the leader of Donglin, and finally ended her life with a white silk to protect the interests of the Qian family's children and grandchildren.

Chen Yuanyuan: With her peerless beauty, men all over the world are attracted to fight for her, causing the country to change color, the emperor star to fall, and the overlord to become a monk.In the present age, Yuxiong is devoted to life, able to change the direction of history, but unable to control his own destiny. In the end, the ancient Buddha with a blue lantern will accompany him for the rest of his life.

(End of this chapter)