Subtitle of this chapter: Fame can be won, but reputation cannot be destroyed!

Our Master Yuan crossed his legs, raised his hand and looked at his watch, and said unconsciously: "It's only 40,000 yuan? It's not at 10 in the afternoon now, it's still very early!"

At this time, Miss Helen Brown also said with a puzzled look on her face, "I'm alas, 40,000 is really a lot."

Our Master Yuan felt a little excited. This man and a woman were white... Well, the white friend was really good to him. He could have seen that if these two guys hadn't deliberately delayed and slowed down, how could it be that there would be only 40,000 US dollars now?

Are there any good people among white people? You can’t become the kind of racist who only looks at skin color. Or is it a great man right? To unite all the forces that can be united!

Thinking of this, Yuan Yan suddenly looked at Mr. John McCall, who had been watching the fun.

"Hmph!" John McCall, who had never left, looked at him and snorted coldly, "It's useless to persuade you. This guy did it on purpose. I want to see if the final amount will reach 400,000."

Wow, this guy really should have united, and it turned out that I did it on purpose.

Yuan Yan suddenly gave a thumbs up and said, "We Cialis have a proverb: The person who knows you best is your enemy. Look, is our lawyer who knows me."

Mr. McCall said with a sarcastic smile: "Yes, Mr. Yuan is right. I can see why you did this."

"Oh." Master Yuan, who had increased his interest, asked, "Then tell me, what is the purpose of my doing this?"

“potlatch!”

When I heard the word John said, a layman in economics like Miss Brown was naturally not sure, but the students of Stern Academy present all had a slight expression.

Potlatch is translated into Chinese as a gift gift in winter. In fact, it is the original origin of the custom of Westerners to exchange gifts on Christmas, and the Oriental people to send red envelopes. At the same time, it is also an academic term, that is, "a feast for prosperity".

Strictly speaking, this should be the category of anthropological research, but it is also a very strange economic behavior in some human societies. This custom is most prevalent in the Nordic Vikings, Eskimos, North American Indians and the snowy plateaus in China.

Showing off wealth is common in human history, but if this behavior becomes a custom and is done regularly, it will seem very weird. However, some nations have such weird customs.

At such banquets, the host invites guests from all directions, deliberately destroying a large amount of personal property in front of the guests and generously giving gifts. For example, there is such a description in the ancient British epic "Beowulf", where the tribal leader smashes gold and silver utensils, puts textiles and fish oil, and piles up the entire house with precious food and fuel for the Nordic people, and then burns it.

This system seems to be a simple waste, a childish waste, and the result of "delusional and arrogant personality". Just like our Master Yuan, he inexplicably put forward a very harsh bet on himself and accepted huge bets.

In fact, it has its own profound meaning. From an economic perspective, this is the ruler's active adjustment of the distribution of social property. In the ignorant period, humans discovered that the implementation of a high welfare social system may not be a good thing for the entire tribe or state. Especially in a jungle society, civilians with a lot of wealth will lose their fighting spirit and motivation, so they took such extreme measures.

Of course, there is also an original function of praising wealth feasts.

"potlatch...hahaha... exchange wealth for reputation." Yuan Yan suddenly laughed, "Mr. McCall, I really want to look at you with admiration!"

John shrugged and said, "Isn't it? Although I don't know how to pay the compensation after you lose, but today in Nyu, no, who doesn't know that there is a crazy Chinese like you in New York? Even if you file for bankruptcy, your reputation will finally be earned."

Our Master Yuan thought to himself, this guy is really smart, no wonder he can get a New York State lawyer license. Once he is not blinded by jealousy, he will immediately see that he is seeking fame.

I want this little brother!

From the beginning, he made up his mind that he had to gain a certain degree of reputation in the academic world first, and it would be best to gain a wave of reputation in this way now, and then start publishing literary works, especially popular novels.

In fact, the "Chocolate of Love" he revised is no longer a romance novel in the pure sense, it contains anti-war and anti-religious humanitarian care; "Di Gong Case" can be said to be an orthodox historical novel with the skin of a detective novel; and "Fifty Shades of Gray"... he never thought of publishing it with his real name.

Mr. John McCall’s bet was really sleepy and someone gave him a pillow. The timing was so good. So he did not resent his "love rival" at all, but was grateful from the bottom of his heart.

This is because, whether in the East or the West, popular novel writers are very low-level, probably a little better than actors and movie stars.

For example, Gong Baiyu, a martial arts novelist from the Republic of China period, once said, "I am unwilling to write articles." He also said, "These boring words can be published and there is a market for disposal. This is a shame for the literary world in North China today, and I am not responsible."

The shame of the literary world... This is how everyone regards their works in martial arts novels!

Although he lived a good life through martial arts novels, he was not only ashamed of his martial arts creation, but even looked very contemptuous. He felt that he was a famous flower falling and his soul broke into a blue bridge. He felt deeply disappointed Mr. Lu Xun's ardent expectations for him, and felt that he had no face to see Lu Xun again, so he automatically cut off contact.

After talking about the East, let’s talk about the West. The mainstream literary circles disdained the horror novel masters like Master Ai Craftsmanship. Not to mention this "Father of Cthulhu", even Edgar Allan Poe, who has a much higher literary status than him, will still be poor all his life.

Allan Poe is the originator of mystery novels and science fiction novels, a pioneer of short stories, and a representative of romanticism. However, because he was born into a popular novel, he has never been accepted by mainstream American society.

Simply put, Yuan Yanshu's idea is like this. A master of political economy... Well, a very well-known master wrote popular novels out of his interest, which was that he was versatile and unconstrained; while an ordinary intellectual did such a depravity in order to make a living was to degenerate. In the eyes of cultural people at that time, it was probably similar to the ladies who took the initiative to go into business.

In a relatively open capitalist society like the United States, which is "everything is about money", the problem is not very big. But when he returned to China, a doctor studying in the United States who was famous for his political economy work such as "socialism", and a fake foreigner who came back to write the vulgar novel "lewdness and stealing". The Chinese people's evaluation of the two must be a world-class difference.

His principle is: reputation can be won, but personality cannot be destroyed.

Yuan Yan, who came to her senses, suddenly said with a smile: "John, I'll lend you auspicious words!"
Chapter completed!