Philosophical Han Li

Han Li got back to his room after seeing Wen Qing off.

He could see her cues but he was simply not prepared for any type of relationship at this time.

One thing was that he still had PTSD over what happened, but it seemed to have become a bad memory at this point after experiencing too much. But it also taught him something. Or, at least that was what he had concluded after learning a lot from the knowledge he got.

He had treated Mengmeng so well, but she still decided to leave him for a bastard like Peng Gang. It was still okay if that was all, but did they have to put him through all that?

Han Li knew that it was unfair to use Mengmeng as the standard through which he viewed all women, but it was also this standard that protected him from bad women.

He could only do this. Who was he going to cry to that he was cheated on and dumped in front of his classmates?

He did not even have friends to speak of. The ones that he thought were on his side were among the crowd that day as they snickered at his pathetic figure. Just to get on Peng Gang's good side, they took the initiative to throw him out.

That was just as well. Han Li would be even more embarrassed if he had to swallow all that and still have to walk out of there like a defeated dog.

All these should have been his driving force. He should have used this and strived to look for Peng Gang for revenge, but Han Li somehow felt like it was unreasonable.

Yeah, they were wrong and should not have done what they did, but in what part of the current society was being right a good thing?

It was okay if you were satisfied with the current standard of living, but there were hardly any people doing things or not doing things because of right and wrong.

Han Li could see himself hiding in a corner and minding his own business were the one who suffered not him but someone else.

Such a mentality was wrong and warped, but society and the economy had done this. It had shaped humans into unfeeling beings who bullied the weak, or beings who were screaming about righteousness on camera, but doing nothing to change the current society.

The more miserable thing however was not the suffering of the masses, but the helplessness of the mighty.

Han Li had once thought that with the current valuation of wealth in the world, there should be more than enough money in the world to deal with most problems, right? Why then would there still be so many problems in the world?

At that time when he was ignorant, he would have said something along the lines of greedy leaders, corrupt officials, or even evil capitalism.

But things were more complicated than that.

He currently had the capacity to help people the way he thought that the rich ought to help the poor, but even if a gun was pointed at him now, he would not do it.

It was not that he did not want to help, but that he couldn't.

The world economy had already integrated itself into every aspect of the world so he could not simply give people money or carelessly meet their needs.

The market needed the majority of society to struggle and go hungry so that things would get done.

Just imagine if everyone had a good house, clean and warm clothes, enough food, and a generally happy life. At that time, who would want to go and work for someone else?

Why would he, Han Li, have endured all the trouble just to save a couple of thousand yuan in the past if he had a warm blanket waiting for him at home?

It was more comfortable to stay at home and stare at shorts the whole day, who would want to move if they didn't have to?

Looking at it from another perspective, what would be the difference between the rich and the poor if they all lived their lives happily?

So what if you have a lot of money? That money held no incentive value to make a chef put the effort to come from his home just to make a delicious meal for some rando to enjoy.

The chef needed to be dissatisfied with his current situation so that they would put in the extra effort to please the rich.

Then, why not help the lowest only and leave the others?

This is a good question for pink-eyed adult babies as it was evident that the world they see is completely different from the real world.

Those at the bottom were the janitors and the mowers. If they suddenly no longer needed to clean and mow lawns, who'd do it? It wouldn't be long before suits were put aside for the more lucrative position of cleaning and mowing that just freed up.

At that time, the economy would collapse and society would become dysfunctional.

This made him helpless. Han Li was not that kind to empower others only for them to reach his level or even surpass him. Well, that was impossible.

That, however, did not mean that there were no ways of helping people. His plan of branding these small stores was not just to help the working class, but also the lower classes.

These classes and levels were not going anywhere soon and instead of wasting time trying to fight a losing battle, Han Li was prepared to do something about it.

Food stamps were working damn fine in other countries, no one said that he could not do the same.

But first, he had to get the government on board.

It was fine if this plan was affecting a few people, but this plan could potentially change the very economic structure of the whole country. That was why he had Lawyer Tian come over.

The specific plan was more complicated, but this was the first thing he wanted to get rid of before anything else. But it had to wait. Such an initiative would cost billions of money that he simply did not have at the moment.

The economy was very responsive and if he abused the overdraft feature on his account, Han Li knew that there would be some severe consequences.

'I think I should start writing a book. If I keep thinking about these philosophical things with nowhere to vent them, I might just start voicing them out.'

"Yeah, that would be bad."

Han Li dried himself as he made his way to the desk. He found out that the bathroom here seemed to make him turn into Socrates or something.