Chapter 60: Education and Being Moved

After washing up and lying in bed, Liu Yue said helplessly, "The people who come to these gatherings might be a lot of perverts and lunatics, but in the future they're all going to inherit the family business."

"So with this kind of occasion, as long as it's not truly unacceptable, when you should go, you still have to go."

"Like Shen Jiajia — she usually won't come to attend, but she'll have a gift delivered."

"Still, her own birthday party ends up becoming a place for everyone to have fun."

Sighing again, Liu Yue draped herself over Shen Mo and complained, "You know, today what they played wasn't even that over the top."

"The most over-the-top one was at a villa complex on a small island abroad."

"I went once, drank a bottle of cola, and left."

"Especially outrageous."

"The only good news is, this group of people pays."

Shen Mo shook his head, indicating he didn't understand — he wasn't someone with particularly strong desires, nor was he mentally twisted, and he couldn't comprehend how these rich people played.

Even less could he understand their perverted behavior.

"Aren't they afraid of karmic retribution?"

【Just like in those romance novels — those who wrong their wives will find no wealth entering their doors, and in the end end up with their families ruined and everyone dead.】

Liu Yue hugged Shen Mo and said softly, "Some people are."

"That's also why this circle has its constant turnover."

"Some people don't, because they have a special way of smoothing things over."

Shen Mo's brow twitched — a special way of smoothing things over?

【It can't be sending people to meet King Yama, can it.】

Liu Yue laughed out loud: "Don't misunderstand — it's not violence, it's simply using money to smooth things over."

"Scumbags like Sun Zhichao, who ruin people and then don't even pay them, leaving them with nowhere to vent and burying the seeds of disaster, are the minority."

"Most of them use money to smooth things over — slap a 'greedy for money' label on the other party, and leave themselves a way out."

Shen Mo understood.

Basically the type where I pay out the money, you put in the effort, I buy happiness with money, you trade pain for money, and the deal is done.

Maybe it was because he now had money himself, but Shen Mo still couldn't understand this way of thinking.

Liu Yue murmured, "But I still hate it."

"If I weren't born into this circle, where everyone going back and forth dealing with each other is beneficial for future cooperation, I wouldn't want to hang out with them either."

Liu Yue spoke very sincerely, but there was nothing to be done about it — after all, the ones holding the resources were those second-generation heirs.

Liu Yue had also tried in the past to support some entrepreneurs, deal with them, and try not to cooperate with the second-generation heirs.

But the ending was — once a poor person suddenly gets rich, nine and a half out of ten are scumbags.

The ones who abandon their wives and children, then turn around and marry a young new wife.

The ones who make their ex-wife leave the marriage with nothing.

The ones who enjoy their wife's companionship while building the business together, yet complain that their wife is only suited to endure hardship.

Many, many of them.

And then they play even more wildly than those second-generation heirs.

At the very least, these second-generation heirs won't ruin people completely.

Those poor people who suddenly got rich and got exposed to these games — they really will ruin people completely.

Liu Yue had personally seen a self-made rich man who got rich from poverty ruin a secretary to the point she could no longer have children.

And the ending was also very miserable — the secretary killed him, and the company went bankrupt.

So this is a world of comparing who's worse, and it's just helpless.

This topic piqued Shen Mo's interest, and Liu Yue began to rant to him about just how trashy this world of comparing who's worse really is.

"Hubby, do you know why Zhou Yue's family's chain of hotels has always done pretty well, while a lot of private hotels go under really fast?"

Shen Mo shook his head — he really didn't know. Liu Yue sighed softly: "The root cause comes down to one point — a lot of private hotel owners simply don't treat their guests or employees like people."

"When Zhou Yue and I privately invested in hotels, we went to inspect some of them — the owners of some private hotels docked employees' holidays and wages in all sorts of ways."

"Triple wages on statutory holidays, and work injury compensation — these three points, none of them could be met."

"So a lot of hotel employees are listless, have zero sense of responsibility toward the hotel, and their biggest thought is just to muddle through one day at a time."

"You crack down on hygiene — I'm too tired, I quit. You crack down on efficiency — I'm too tired, I quit."

"So at this point, Zhou Yue's family's hotel only needs to properly comply with the Labor Law, and that alone guarantees employee loyalty."

"Whether it's cracking down on hygiene or efficiency, employees will follow along for the sake of the money."

【Holy shit, all I can say is outrageous.】

【So that's it — the way for a company to guarantee loyalty is this simple?】

Shen Mo wanted to die — really, he really wanted to die.

This world is just too much of a shabby troupe, isn't it.

Liu Yue sighed softly and said: "A similar situation exists with chain restaurants."

"Do you know that grilled fish place on the market called Shujiang Fish?"

"That's one I invested in."

"The taste, well, pretty average — no real pros or cons."

"That owner just grabbed onto one thing — giving money to employees, visibly giving money."

"He set a daily revenue target — hit it and the bonus is paid out that same day. Not much: ten yuan per regular employee, twenty for shift leaders, thirty for store managers, commissions calculated separately."

"Statutory holidays, triple wages, full work injury compensation, employee meals done to a decent standard — and then that chain grilled fish place replicated to a hundred stores in five years, of which over forty had monthly revenue in the millions and annual profit in the tens of millions."

"The rest were also around monthly revenue of seven or eight hundred thousand."

"The annual net revenue is seven or eight hundred million."

"We've boiled our experience down to one principle: pay enough, and the employees will literally work themselves to death for you."

"When employees can see real money, they have loyalty. Whatever orders we give, they'll fight to the death to carry them out."

【So in the end, this world really is just a race to the bottom.】

Shen Mo wept inside.

Infinitely grateful that he was lucky enough never to have taken the wage-slave path, never to have run into those slave-driver bosses.

Liu Yue sighed again and said helplessly, "Actually, one big reason a lot of companies don't survive has a lot to do with the boss's mindset."

"Some bosses always want to play tricks, just like those livestream hawkers who got banned."

"They always think the common people are fools, the officials are fools, the employees are fools, and only they're the smart ones, only they're gods — cheating and cutting corners will never catch up with them."

"Then the first-generation boss muddles through, passes that mindset to the second-generation boss, and the second generation crashes the whole thing."

【That explanation is pretty spot-on.】

Liu Yue glanced at Shen Mo, felt she'd said enough, then snuggled up against him and fell asleep — she'd been exhausted lately too.

She said so much mainly because she was afraid Shen Mo, having made money from "Sheep Eat Sheep," would start thinking he was heaven's chosen, stop treating people at the bottom as people, and start playing tricks.

Put plainly, she was afraid Shen Mo would get a big head.

The next day, Liu Yue still didn't choose to go with Shen Mo to Baiyin Game Company.

The reason was…

"Husband, you're not young anymore either — you need to learn to make your own decisions."

"As long as you haven't gone out for loan-shark debt, haven't made wild investments, haven't gotten into shady stuff, your wife here can hold down the fort."

Shen Mo was touched.

(End of chapter)