Chapter 549 Principles
Masayoshi Kishimoto returned home from work, and as soon as he entered the main house he saw Meiling Sakai sitting alone on top of the long sofa in the large living room looking a bit bored.
“Welcome home.” Sakai Misuzu looked over at him and blurted out.
Masayoshi Kishimoto felt that there was something strange about the words coming out of her mouth. He casually asked, “Where’s your sister?”
“My sister is in the kitchen preparing dinner. Brother Justice, there was a terrorist attack on New York in the United States.” Sakai Meiling waved her right hand towards him, signaling him to come over and sit down and said.
“What does it have to do with you if New York, USA suffered a terrorist attack or not?” Masayoshi Kishimoto said bluntly as he walked towards her.
“How is it not relevant? I remember that you have quite a few investments and assets in the United States. This will inevitably cause you to suffer some losses.
Are you planning to fly over to the US for a related processing job? Can you bring me along? I want to follow you around and learn properly.” Sakai Meiling said seriously.
Masayoshi Kishimoto sat down on the side beside her and said, “My investments in the United States are mainly focused on San Francisco, not New York. Even if indirectly there will be some negative impacts due to the terrorist attacks, it’s still very limited.
Losses or profits on the investment books fluctuate up and down to a certain extent, which is normal. This is not so bad that I have to fly to the United States personally. You are studying well at this stage, practicing is for later.”
Sakai Meiling blinked at him and said, “You can’t be lying to me with that? Are you really not worried in your heart?”
“What am I lying to you for? What do I have to worry about in my heart. Next, even if the U.S. will take military action against the terrorists, it won’t be me going to the battlefield.
In my opinion, it’s just that the United States has another reason to go to war with a foreign country. The United States has an exceptionally good reason this time.
The people who should be worried are the families of the American soldiers who will be sent to war, and the innocent people who will be living in the areas that will be hit by the American military.
What kind of people are in the military? It’s not like you didn’t know that the Japanese were drafted and sent to the front lines of the war in World War II. Now, it’s the same.
People with money in Afghanistan are running away with their families as soon as they know about this. Once the war breaks out, it is the common people who will always suffer.
Countless wars have proved that the casualties of innocent people are far greater than those of soldiers. They can’t run away even if they want to.
Who let them have no money and no access? In order to survive, how many people are not forced to become soldiers?” Justice Kishimoto calmly said.
“Brother Justice, you’re talking about one aspect. However, another aspect is the emergence of opportunities. Could it be that you wouldn’t want to utilize such an opportunity to profit from it?” Sakai Meiling said thoughtfully.
“I am neither an arms dealer nor a weapons broker. All along, my investments have not been in these fields, and they will not be in the future.
American steel king Andrew Carnegie once resorted to armed suppression of workers’ strikes as well, but he also did business on principle, that is, he didn’t sell the steel he produced to those who made tanks, cannons, and other murderous weapons.
He devoted himself to philanthropy in his later years, donating almost all of his fortune.” Justice Kishimoto showed an attitude of doing something and not doing anything. One wouldn’t be able to be anything less than a do-gooder for the sake of money.
“It’s not like you have to sell weapons to make money. It’s also possible to make money by selling food and other scarce goods to war-torn places!” Sakai Meiling said bluntly.
“You’re not going to give up your life.” Justice Kishimoto laughed.
Sakai Misuzu didn’t just say it casually, but really had such an idea. Although she also knew that selling food and other life-scarce supplies to war-torn lands was not an easy thing to do, it was highly profitable. High risk, high reward.
“Brother Justice, from the perspective of economics, morality can be completely ruled out. Marx said within Capital that as soon as there is a proper profit, capital is emboldened.
If there is 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; with 20% profit, it is active; with 50% profit, it is desperate;
With 100 percent profit it dares to trample on all earthly laws; with 300 percent profit it dares to commit any crime, even at the risk of hanging.
The profits from dumping life’s scarce materials like food to war-torn lands will surely exceed 100% profit.” Sakai Mirei presented her own theoretical basis saying.
“You make a good point. However, what you said is just theory. Just because something is theoretical doesn’t mean it’s practical. Having a life to earn does not necessarily mean that you can have a life to spend.
What’s more, it’s extremely difficult to do what you said. What you say is a large commodity, which means it is more, occupy space, transportation also exists above the inconvenience.
Even a thousand tons of grain would require fifty large trucks with a capacity of twenty tons. Selling grain and other scarce goods to war-torn places means that in that place is the primitive state of the law of the jungle, chaos and disorganization.
You also have to find credible buyers first. In the process of transportation, it is not unlikely that you will be robbed by the armed forces, bandits, starving people and so on.
Even if you’ve got it all worked out, there’s still the most important part, the method of trade. Dollars, yen, gold, diamonds, you want that kind.
And how do you bring it back? Even if you safely bring all the money back to Japan, once the news leaks out, the police department, the Tokyo District Attorney’s office, etc. will definitely come after you.
You don’t have the permission and authorization of the Japanese government, and to engage in this kind of business in the dark is a crime, or a felony. I can think of at least one charge of smuggling for you.
Add to that a random offense of endangering national security, and you’ll be in particular trouble. Moreover, if you are able to bring substances to a war-torn land, there is no guarantee that you won’t forge all kinds of customs clearance documents, pay bribes, and other such things.
If you really want to be seriously pursued for your crimes, even if you don’t get sentenced to death by the judge, you’ll have to sit through the bottom of a prison cell.” Masayoshi Kishimoto was purely chatting with her.
Sakai Mirei was a freshman who studied economics, but her studies were all theoretical. She wouldn’t be able to think as much as Masayoshi Kishimoto.
She would just start talking about it on her own, without even thinking about the actual problems she might encounter. Even when they do, they think simply. And are these problems solvable by oneself?
It is never easy for a person to make something happen. That is the need to step by step to smooth out the process of every problem encountered, just as playing the game need to fight small monsters all the way through, until finally see the big boss.