Assuming your father-in-law is the chairman of a listed company, you would definitely be cautious in your attitude, and the gifts you give would be high-end cigarettes, alcohol, tea, plants, and antiques. If he were a farmer, you would treat him casually, giving him ordinary gifts like milk, peanut oil, or regular health products.
We treat our own people this way, let alone others.
People are inherently self-interested. They pursue profit and are selfish. Everything people do is for themselves.
Maybe someone will say, no, who sacrifices themselves for others, like jumping into a river to save someone, or getting killed while saving someone.
What I want to say is that, first of all, anything can find an extreme counterexample, and there’s a situation where this is more often the case: the people involved did not anticipate their own death.
Assuming when he is doing this seemingly selfless act, heaven clearly tells you that you will definitely die. After you die, your children will become a single-parent family, your parents will have no one to take care of them in their old age, and your children will suffer due to a lack of survival resources.
So I ask you, are you still willing to sacrifice yourself to fulfill others?
If you say, even if my father-in-law is a high-ranking official, I would treat him like a farmer in my eyes, then there's only one possibility.
It's just that you are not worth it; he treats you differently, you've been brushed off from his resource layer, and there was never a trading market between you.
So in this world, there is fundamentally no such thing as being treated fairly.
Everyone understands the optimization of resource allocation; whoever is impressive gets more resources from me, and those who are not, I simply give them nothing.
The rules of the self-media platform are the same; whoever has good content, I will recommend, and for fans, I will follow and like those whose content provides value to me.
What was said above is a bit too much. I meant to say something smaller.
To speak of smaller matters, I believe everyone understands how to seek profit and avoid harm.
One of my classmates went to a banquet, and when he came back, he told me he was seated at the same table as a relative, which was his uncle's wife.
He said after eating, his aunt packed all the leftover dishes and drinks from their table and the adjacent table to take home.
If we are eating out and can't finish the meal, packing it up to take home is viewed as thrift and not wasting food, which is considered normal behavior.
At a banquet, seeing nice dishes, I packed up all the leftovers to take home. Although this leftover food would eventually be disposed of.
However, he and those around him unconsciously think this woman is not normal for doing such things, being made fun of and ridiculed.
At this moment, he definitely has a sense of distinction towards his aunt and has started to treat her differently. If he doesn't take a stance on his views, other relatives will think he is just as foolish as his aunt.
This distinction must be based on the fact that her aunt is just an ordinary person living not so well, and he certainly cannot obtain the resources he needs from her. That's why he said this to me. He just wouldn't think of it himself.
However, that classmate often tells me that I am very casual about money, that I don’t take it seriously and am indifferent. I am very open-minded. I won’t treat someone differently just because they are wealthy, nor will I look down on someone who is poor and down on their luck.
I don't think so, because based on his belief that his aunt is foolish, it makes me believe he is also part of the human market. He aligns with human nature.
So every time someone says to me, I actually don’t care much about money. I think it’s pointless to continue the conversation.
I often say that one must be sincere; only by being sincere to one’s inner thoughts can one be sincere to others.
The path of utmost sincerity can be lethal.
When you sincerely do anything, it is straightforward, without internal conflict or entanglement. You will move forward resolutely. If you deceive yourself, it will eventually lead to disaster.
Buddhism says all beings are equal; humans should treat each other without distinction, but that is Buddha. Buddha is not human, and we are not Buddha, so we cannot do it.
However, I want to say that Buddha is actually deceiving you.
If Buddha treats someone who burns three incense sticks a day and someone who burns one stick a year equally, would Buddha treat them differently? If he doesn't treat them differently, then it means the world has no Buddha, and if he does treat them differently, then Buddha is lying.
If Buddha treats all equally regardless of circumstances, how can he survive, and why does he still need offerings?
If Buddha is desireless and ungrasping, not fighting for offerings, then why do people build temples and sculpt golden statues?
Then there is only one reasonable explanation: Buddha and humans, like everyone else, will treat differently.
In the novel 'The Deer and the Cauldron', the Emperor Shunzhi received good treatment when he went to become a monk, and Wei Xiaobao also received good treatment upon becoming a monk.
Yang Guo at the Quanzhen Sect had to chop wood, cook, be scolded, and beaten.
Yang Guo from the Ancient Tomb Sect must give Xiao Longnu emotional value and survive solely on her beauty and abundant emotional value.
Then can you still say everyone is treated equally? A more reasonable explanation is that it’s all a deception to make you feel a bit more comfortable, so that you don't feel inferior. Because society needs stable development, maintaining inequality with the lie of equality is the best means. Because elites don't need to believe, it's enough that the majority do.
The fundamental reason we do this is that we have to consider survival issues.
Our resources, emotions, and attention are extremely limited.
The biggest difference between mature and immature people is knowing how to allocate their resources. Where to spend money, who to give good emotions to, and where to focus their attention.
So we see that truly mature and worldly people often appear indifferent and calm.
A few days ago, a high school classmate called me, insisting that I go eat with her and our high school classmates.
I said I need to get a tooth extraction tomorrow, and she said to change the day. I said I'm going to travel the world another day. She said to wait for my return.
I was at my wit's end; I said going to eat has no meaning, I have social anxiety. He said socializing definitely has meaning.
I said, I can't make money. She said socializing is also part of life.
I really have no way out; I said: mainly, there's no value in it.
She hasn't replied to me; I guess she won't reach out to me anymore.
The reason I don't go is simple: I barely spoke to him in high school, and we had no basic friendship.
Doing this thing makes no sense at all. I can't even trigger random plots.
I am still trying hard to level up; I can't even clear one dungeon. What else should I do?
Assuming there was a prior bond with the classmates at dinner, or one of them is a successful live streamer or doing well in the crypto world, then I would definitely go.
We will definitely treat others differently or be treated differently due to appearance, knowledge, wealth, and manner of speaking.
You can reflect on this.
When you were in school, you definitely would be willing to buy drinks and send breakfast to good-looking, high-achieving classmates, but wouldn't care about ugly, poorly performing classmates.
This matter is essentially a market principle.
Differential treatment is a rule that no one can change, and there's no need to criticize it.
Just like after you experience market harvesting, you would invest your limited money into BTC, not into other people's promoted air coins.
This indicates that your thinking has matured.
Come on, I am Xiao Qi, a sincere wish for you to get rich in the crypto world.
Continuously monitoring BTC, ETH, BNB.
Bulls have their strategies, and bears have their ways of playing.
Xiao Qi won't lead fans to liquidation, nor will I blindly open positions.
It's all about seeking victory steadily, advancing step by step. Those who want to reap the benefits should follow Xiao Qi's lead!
