Chapter 1043: Start Smashing the Golden Egg
Xiao Peng looked at this comment with a bit of helplessness. He spent a thousand yuan on just this piece of nonsense? You really are such a pain in the ass!
But after seeing the ID clearly, Xiao Peng was helpless: "Hey, buddy, before, when the barrage was constantly scrolling, I ignored you and didn't want to pay attention to you. Now that you've spent money, it seems that I won't pay attention to you. But you are free now, why don't you call me if you want to?"
It turned out that the person who was speaking was Zhao Shanhe, who used to sell counterfeit shoes.
Zhao Shanhe got anxious after hearing this: "How dare you mention the phone? How many phone numbers have you changed? You haven't changed your maritime satellite phone, but you have to be on the ship, right? Oh, you were on the ship when you were live streaming, but how could I have the nerve to call you then?"
Xiao Peng coughed twice and said, "I'm busy, how are you doing lately? Forget it, why don't you just call me? It's cheaper to call me than to talk like this!"
"Hey, isn't it just money?" Zhao Shanhe added another comment: "Anyway, no one knows who I am, so I just ignore those who send me private messages! I learned this from you. I sent you private messages, but you ignored me!"
Xiao Peng said helplessly, "Why read private messages? Those who send me private messages are either asking for money or cursing at me. I haven't read them for a long time. I didn't hate the rich when I was poor, but now I find that there are so many people who do. Then I figured it out. Many poor people think that the rich are making money from them. Is it really a good thing for everyone to be poor together and not make money from each other? Although the rich make money from the common people, they also fill market gaps and provide convenience for the common people! Not only do they have no vision for the market and the ability to fill gaps, but they also only hate others. Those who hate the rich have the typical weak thinking logic."
"Well said!" Zhao Shanhe's comments came in. As soon as one comment was finished, another one came in: "Wow, three words for a thousand yuan! That's much more expensive than the telegram back then!"
Xiao Peng's face was filled with black lines. These two sentences of your nonsense cost two thousand yuan. However, Zhao Shanhe was not short of money, so Xiao Peng didn't say anything.
He was about to speak when Zhao Shanhe barged in with another comment: "Brother Xiao, my career is starting to take off! From now on, I'll cover the clothing for everyone on your ship! Where are you now? I'll go talk to you!"
Xiao Peng burst out laughing.
This Zhao Shanhe is really a good businessman, he's the one who thinks three steps ahead. He's planning to advertise for himself! Why did he spend so much money to get to know me back then? Wasn't it for his own career?
"Okay, okay, no problem!" Xiao Peng said nothing more: "Call me later and let's get together when you have time!"
He's using his own abilities to develop himself! Why should he be wrong? As the book "Social Exchange Theory" says: Any interpersonal relationship is essentially an exchange relationship.
In this world, apart from family and close friends, if a person has no exchange value, he will definitely be despised.
In real life, there is a type of people who are particularly obsessed with the "theory of connections". They think that connections are needed for everything, and that if they know more powerful people, one day they will be promoted and soar to the sky.
But what is the reality? If you don’t have enough strength, those so-called “connections” are actually worthless!
Zhao Shanhe spent so much money to get to know me, including spending money to support me now. To put it bluntly, isn’t it still an exchange of value?
Xiao Peng didn't intend to continue the discussion, but Zhao Shanhe responded with another comment: "Dude, you've been tormented enough by the online trolls! Paying for comments is one thing, it might make your livestream quieter, but it's bound to spark countless debates online."
Xiao Peng sighed after reading it and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. After all, this is the internet."
He lit a cigarette and said slowly, "What's the internet's greatest feature? Isn't it its anonymity? And as for humans, as long as we remain anonymous, the dark side of human nature can erupt. I remember Plato told a story in The Republic about a shepherd who got a ring that made him invisible. So what did the kind shepherd do after becoming invisible? He slept with the queen and killed the king. Because he was invisible, he could avoid responsibility, and the dark side of human nature was unleashed."
"The internet is the same. Because of its anonymity, all the dark emotions deep within people are released, making them particularly argumentative, indulging their natural urges and their ignorant passions—'ignorance is fearlessness.' The less knowledgeable a person is, the more they possess a strange courage and a strange sense of pride. The less knowledgeable they are, the more absolute their beliefs become—they have never heard any opposing viewpoints! The idiom 'Yerlang arrogance' captures the nature of the ignorant and the argumentative. Then arguments devolve into verbal attacks. You've noticed that online trolls often lack logic, and this question captures the essence of the problem: what they call debate is often just bickering. Does bickering require logic? That's called 'argumentation'!"
"Look at the trolls I encounter during my livestreams. They keep using catchphrases like 'unpatriotic,' 'rich and unkind,' 'grave robbers and grave diggers' to attack me. They're all just people who lack independent thinking!"
"To all those angry but speechless trolls in the livestream, you should thank me! I'm telling you, the internet is not a lawless place! Your language could potentially lead to criminal offenses and administrative liability! Attacking someone's reputation constitutes insult or defamation! Minor offenses include ten days of detention, while serious offenses constitute insult and defamation, punishable by up to three years in prison! What does 'serious' mean? Five hundred reposts or tens of thousands of hits! I'm telling all those media outlets and self-media outlets in China! You made up stories about me, and I didn't contact you because I hadn't returned to China! I'm giving you a spoiler: something big is going to happen when I return to Europe! This is also a warning to those fabricating stories."
Zhao Shanhe sent another comment: "Damn, man, you've been tormented by these trolls for so long! I just said one thing, and you're nagging so much?"
Chen Zetao, who was standing beside him, became a little nervous after hearing what Xiao Peng said: "Brother Xiao, what are you going to do?"
Xiao Peng didn't answer his question directly. Instead, he put out his cigarette and stood up. "Chatting time is over! Time to start 'smashing the golden eggs'! Hua Chong, get your men to arrange those Buddha statues and then give me a hammer! I want to smash them one by one!"
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