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马斯克谈赚钱的本质

信息差才是财富的关键

People often think of money

人们总是认为 

as having power in and up itself

财富就等同于至高无上的权利 

It does not

事实却并非如此 

Money is information

财富在本质上是一种信息 

and it does not have power in and of itself

财富本身并没有权利

 Applying the physics tools of

用物理学当中的 

thinking about things in the limit is helpful

极限思维来举例就很好理解了

 If you are stranded on a tropical island

假设你现在身处一个热带孤岛 

you have $1 trillion

就算你有一万亿美金 

Useless

也不过是一堆废纸 

There's no resource allocation

因为孤岛上没有任何可以置换的资源 

Money is a resource for resource allocation

财富不过是用来资源分配的数据库

 but there's no resources allocate except yourself

但当没有任何资源可以分配时

 So money is useless

财富就毫无用处 

If you're stranded around desert island with no food

再比如你现在困在沙漠但是却没有食物

 all the bitcoin in the world

即使你拥有全世界的比特币 

will not stop you from starving

你也还是会挨饿 

So I just think of money as a

所以我始终将财富看做是一种 

database for resource allocation

分配资源的数据库

 across time and space

跨越时间和空间来分配资源

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