Chapter 791: Treating Money Like Your Own Life

Seeing that Sakai Rie was silent for a long time, Kishimoto Masayoshi said again without haste, “If God lets me make a new choice, whether to be a rich man or a poor man, I would choose to be a rich man without hesitation.”

“You see money as your life, don’t you!” Sakai Rie blurted out.

“That’s right, I’m a money-grubber. Not to mention once, even if it were ten thousand times, I would only choose to be rich without hesitation.

Do you really think that the lives of the poor are like what is portrayed in some movies and TV dramas, although we are poor, we are happy and joyful.

People’s happiness and joy are based on the foundation of money. Not having money will give rise to a sense of inferiority, great economic and life pressure, and irritability.

Poor children, even at a very young age, tend to have a problem that is not present in the upper middle class. They don’t think they will live a long life, they are very pessimistic, some of them think they will only live to be twenty and will be satisfied if they live past thirty.

This is not even in poor and war-torn countries, but even in capitalist developed countries like Japan, where the general environment of social security is quite good.” Masayoshi Kishimoto spoke eloquently.

“Because Japan is a big suicide country, what’s so strange. There are some people among the Japanese who will choose to commit suicide whenever they are a little less than desirable.

The reason why we Japanese speak so politely, unlike Americans who are so direct, is that we are afraid that we might accidentally irritate or hurt someone, and then something terrible will happen.

In the company, there are office workers who have been criticized by their supervisors, and when they cannot think straight, they choose to end their lives by committing suicide.

It’s not like such a thing is a good rare thing anymore. It happens every year.” Sakai Rie offered her dissenting opinion saying.

“Since you mentioned America, I’ll give you the poor people of America. Whether it’s Japan’s poor or America’s poor, the essence is the same above all.

Do you think that the American poor don’t have the Japanese poor children who think that they won’t be able to live a long life? They do.

There have been studies in the United States that have shown why poor children don’t study as hard as they should. There is a genetic theory that they are born genetically inferior and are born stupid.

I don’t totally deny that there is such a reason. However, I am more inclined to think that the environment in which they live is bad. The places where poor people live tend to be filled with evil.

Like animals in nature, they are constantly in danger, unable to concentrate fully, and need to keep an eye out for unexpected things that might happen around them.

Over time, even in an extremely safe environment, can not be fully engaged. Moreover, many people have grown up seeing people around them either being shot or going to jail.

People are poor and short of ambition, there is less of a long-term plan for the future. Even if there is, it will only stay in the mouth above, completely did not put a star half of the actual action.

Tomorrow is very good, the day after tomorrow is even better, the poor in today can not live. There is no point in telling the poor about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. They are completely unable to listen to it.

The worst thing about being poor is the despair, not the hope, of the future. The lives of the poor are not only uninteresting, but they are also like walking corpses without souls.

Otherwise, why would they be so keen to get rich overnight? It is from the bottom of their hearts that they want to get rid of this poor and destitute living environment.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said with vigor.

Sakai Rie couldn’t hear it and said, “When you talk about poor Americans, those are all blacks and Latinos. The white people in the mainstream of American society wouldn’t look like the one you’re talking about.”

“Whites live more pessimistic and desperate lives than blacks, Latinos. It’s the blacks who are the most poor and joyful, relatively speaking, in this case.” Justice Kishimoto wasn’t taking her at her word.

He had read a book called “The Lament of the Hillbillies” in his previous life. The book was called Hillbillies, and it did not refer to American farmers who were engaged in agricultural production.

In fact, only 2% of the country’s population is involved in agriculture. The rednecks that the book’s title refers to are white working class Americans.

After America’s manufacturing industry relocated out of the country and the industry upgraded and transformed, those manufacturing cities that America was once so proud of are declining day by day.

Manufacturing factories have been relocated by capitalists one after another to places with low labor costs like Southeast Asia, South Asia, and mainland China.

American workers will surely lose their jobs. After they lose their jobs, they live on what little relief the government gives them, filled with anger and depression and distrust of the elite.

They can hardly escape from such a dead cycle for generations, and the children of the workers are still destined to be workers only, which makes the American capitalists look down upon and despise the American workers in their hearts. Such words have also been confirmed by Cao Dewang himself.

The Hillbilly’s Lament has some similarities with the long novel The Grapes of Wrath by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck.

The difference lies in the fact that Lamentations of a Hillbilly is about American workers, while The Grapes of Wrath is about American farmers.

The former is written in the form of an author’s biography of three generations of his own family’s personal experience, which spans a larger period of time. By the author’s own generation there was a turnaround and the so-called American dream was realized.

Everything written in the book was seen and experienced by him. The author himself admits that he was one of the lucky few who were able to graduate from Yale University, one of the world’s best institutions of learning.

The latter depicts the story of a large number of farmers who went bankrupt and fled during the economic panic of the 1930s in the United States, reflecting a thrilling picture of social struggle.

The novel is full of the blood, tears, indignation, and struggles of American farmers. The work also won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

“You must be making up stories to fool me again?” Sakai Rie’s main reason for not believing it is still because of her own preconceived notions about some orthodox educational books or movies reacting to some of the good things about the United States.

When blacks are poor, it’s because they’re inherently lazy and stupid. White people are poor because they are naturally lazy and stupid. They all work hard, etc.

Justice Kishimoto shrugged his shoulders and said, “If you believe it, you believe it, but if you don’t, you don’t believe it. Anyway, you will never run out of money to spend in your life. As for our son, he was born rich.”