Why is it that the monetization power of classic books is much stronger than money

Author | Left Bank Humanities Bookstore

Source | Confucius old book network APP dynamics

At the banquet, the young president was seated next to him, and the business was mainly for large enterprises. I am an old friend of his father, and I have worked in a public company, and there are more common topics, but one of the topics we have a very different view.

He asked me what I was currently investing in? I said that I collected some old books, and also exchanged some old books for rice oil and salt. He obviously didn't know much about old books and asked me, is there value? There must be value, I told him categorically, that many books were already difficult to reprint. He came to be interested and asked me, can I monetize? Is monetization fast?

I was silent. Although many old books are very valuable, because the value connotation is different from the value of material assets, they either cannot be realized, or they hover at the end of time and space waiting for Zhiyin to meet. In the river of market wealth where time is money and cash is king, those old books are alone outside the bustling bubble, and they are different and lonely. But aren't all rare things so fatalistic? The bustle is always a cheap fashion, blowing like the wind through the clothes of the times, and then there is no trace, but isn't that a more lonely death?

See me silent. He explained that finance is time-centric and needs to keep money flowing quickly and safely in a short period of time, and only in this way can money be kept alive, and stagnation is a failure or loss for investment. I certainly understand his financial interpretation of the value curve of tangible investments in the face of time, money in the face of time that never returns, either let it roll or let it depreciate, the fate of money is like this, as Hamlet said: either new or dead!

But don't classic and rare books keep monetizing over time? Wrong, its ability to monetize is stronger and faster than money, and sometimes just a sentence or a point of view in the book will affect your view of something, thus reversing the direction of your career and even changing the fate of your life. Isn't this the classic book like money rolling in front of time to create wealth for you?

Unfortunately, the spiritual wealth created by classic books cannot be measured by the tangible wealth created by yourself, and under the constraints of the universal law, you can never use the broad limits to calculate the invisible eternity, even the mind, the heart, the morality, and the soul. Therefore, collecting classic books is the time to collect beyond tangible assets, and flipping through classic books is to realize the spiritual wealth that life gives you in the flow of time, so that you can stand up between heaven and earth...

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