Rising Through Finance

The book on monopolies was a bit better; it showed off your business and technology skills and was very satisfying. Now it's all about data and exploiting people.

Finance cannot create wealth; it only creates the illusion of increased wealth.

What I'd really like to see are shows about how to grow and expand a company, how technology changes people's lives, and how to develop one's hometown.

Staying in your comfort zone and never venturing out, always so skilled at stock trading—what's the point? It's all virtual. If you were America, you could become a global stock market superpower, but without real power to back it up, could you? Absolutely not. The earlier books were alright, but you still write about mixing technology, still focusing on stock trading.

After reading two books this year, I went to look at some of my previous books and was shocked. How could my writing style and thinking have changed so much in just two years?

Author, each book you've written is more and more utter nonsense than the last.

Where's the technology? I'm asking you, where's the technology? All you do is speculate on stocks every day. 😅

The first book was actually quite good, but the second one just made me think the characters were foolish and rich. It gave me a kind of aversion to stupidity. Did all those big shots in the time-traveling scenario already know they were going to succeed? The Ningde section was truly mind-boggling; the mobile phone company essentially had two veto powers…

Why do authors like writing about the stock market so much?

Books that treat money and feelings as trivial are more likely to flop; in fact, that's a high probability.