What is the original sin of the plutocrat?

From Mu Zheng in the past to Zhou Zhengyi today, how many rich people have been meteors and short-lived? ! When people look back and look at the history of some of them, they realize that the gold mining process of the rich people is not always so sunny. As a result, people began to ask the question of the "original sin" of China's wealthy people.

The author believes that this is indeed a question worth asking, but the eyes should not only focus on these rich people, but should go past them and seriously take a look at the institutional environment in which they grew up.

In the early stage of primitive capitalist accumulation, the norms of the market economy were also seriously lacking, and the accumulation of capital was completely detached from the logic of the market, such as forced labor, land enclosures, slave hunting and piracy, as well as the forcible seizure of public property and robbery by power. The difficult process of legalization of the early capitalist owners was in fact a blatant process of money laundering, and the whole society tacitly knew it, but all the capitalist countries that had grown up through this "barbaric" era were silent about this period of history and could not bear to repeat it. Therefore, some countries with relatively late capitalist accumulation have tried their best to avoid repeating this history, such as the Asian Tigers, who have put the market into the track of rule of law from the very beginning, established democratic politics as a strong support for economic development, and strictly enforced the law to eliminate any illegal speculation that does not follow the logic of the market in the process of capital accumulation, and established an honest and trustworthy development environment for the whole society with honest and honest operation.

It is in this institutional environment that the plutocrats have become capitalists in a dignified manner amid the rapid growth of the country's tax revenues.

On the other hand, the so-called "primitive accumulation" that some people have understated a few years ago, under the condition that the system is extremely unprepared, we only rely on the emancipation of the mind again and again to encourage bold "crossing the river by feeling the stones", the legal system has not been established, action is the first step, and we have not yet understood what capital is, but the incentive concept of "grabbing money is a good man" has become a general recognition in society. Power rent-seeking, cunning and reckless seizure, as long as a signboard of reform is hung, the big cake of state-owned assets can be arbitrarily divided.

In a society that does not pay attention to rules, it is impossible for people who follow rules to get rich, and if you want to get rich, you can't talk about rules. So, who dares to disobey the rules? Of course, it is those whose venture capital is less than the profit that can be lost.

If you have studied for many years, or have a stable career, have a stable life, or have a considerable period of interest expectations in your current position, and this interest will definitely belong to you under normal circumstances, then for you, it is obvious that the risk cost is too high to abandon these existing interests and expected benefits to devote yourself to the disorderly market struggle, so you usually do not act rashly. But those who are not highly educated, whose jobs are unstable, and who have no expected benefits, and who are even eliminated and neglected by the order, obviously have no confidence in getting rich according to the rules, but it is precisely the disorderly market that gives them the opportunity to realize their dreams, and once they gain a firm foothold in the disorderly market, they will continue to use disorderly ways and means to develop a larger market.