b.Capital - Generations Game

 

You asked:   How did you get capital?

You know you have asked a rather difficult question or rather a sensitive question. If you ever find a straight answer from the internet, it is not going to be useful to you. Ordinarily, I would have just brushed the question off by saying it was all hot air from a lunatic old guy. I was just talking cock. Nothing was real. But, you have helped others and you do have a tender heart to help those who are weak around you, you have therefore accumulated good karma points. Hence, it would be extremely bad of me to brush you straight off. But, at the same time, I can't tell you things that are not meant for the leaky internet.

Maybe I tell you something fundamental, so that you can get an idea on how does it all begin?

Generations Game

Immigration always starts from the fact that the immigrant is unhappy with his/her home country for whatever the reason. He then tries for fairer shores. There are two possible ways. One is he is a young and strong 20yo, but penniless lad. Or two, he is an old guy in his 30-60s with a family.

First case:   The young lad being young and penniless (I am not discussing the young and strong, with a good family background; immigration for them tends to be a matter of choice.) Like my father, he came to his fairer shores in his 20s alone. Being penniless and uneducated, he worked at all things, but after about 30 years of trying and learning, he will found things that he likes to do. He will grow his little wealth. I classified him as a true 1st generation. His 2nd generation, born local, will have adequate education and contacts from young to merge with the locals and be counted as one of them. Very seldomly, this 2nd generation will want to be a musician or doctor. He tends to be more practical, as he has experienced great hardship when he was younger. He can't ask for toys that other locals play. He is a young lad of little means. He will grow up humbly and knowing the value of money from a very tender age. He will work hard and take his time to perfect his hunting skill. Indeed he has all the time in the world. He will grow beyond what his 1st generation can achieve. He will then raise his 3rd generation with ease. The 3rd generation and all his subsequent generations will enjoy the comfort of abundant contacts, blood support and wealth. By the 4th-5th generations, he will sire his first doctor or musician. The reason is simple:   The next generation felt so secure that he will want to achieve the finer things in life, like a doctoring degree or learning music at the age of 3 to soothe his soul.

Second case:    The older guy with the burden of the family, even with money, tends to do very badly initially. He will bring along bad habits he acquired back from his ex-home country. If he is rich, bad, bad, bad news. The first thing he dabbles would be starting a business in the new home country. He will burn bad. I classify him as a zeroth (or 0.5th) generation. After the initial failures, he will grow humble and a little ex-home country missing. He will start to do odd jobs to pay bills. He has a whole family to feed. I have seen too many examples. His off-springs are classified as 1.5th generation. Why? He is not without support, his entire family is here with him. Being younger, he will merge quite well into the environment. His hard-work and education also win him some admirers. He will frequently top his class. He will try his best to win respect and recognition because he knows he needs that break. Luck is not allowed here. He too, by the 4th-5th generations, will sire his first doctor or musician.

A common example:   Once upon a time, there was this fucken old guy, he was either the 3rd or 4th or 5th generation, people called him a Baba. He can't even speak a word of Chinese. He was well-educated due to his father's connections and worked hard to marry into the hongchos of the day. Of course, with money, he enjoyed meteorically rise in power. We can't compare with him, he is many generations ahead in the Generations Game. We are immigrants from another previous place, we are the rolling stones that gathered no moss.

Of course, there will be exceptions to every case I quoted. But, these exceptions are rather few and far apart. The majority do fall in place. 

Speeding Up
Naturally your question is meant to ask if you could speed up this process. The problem is most people don't think hard enough. They wait for people around them to teach and guide them. There is not a chance in the world that you would be spoon-fed. Any spoon-feeding is bad for you. It is like trying to learn riding a bicycle with helper wheels. You can't really ride properly. Learn to let go the clutches. You will grow fastest.

If you think hard enough and search your inner soul, you can even harness the air around you to do your bidding. You just have to think really hard. In fact, there are enough things here already to tell you the proper way to think. These essays are meant for my next generations to read when I finally passed on. There is no falsehood if you are my heir; pure falsehood if you are not my heir. But, like in all public key systems, you are only holder of the public key, you still need the private key to open the lock. This private key I will leave it to my heir(s).

Way Ahead
Maybe you can start by thinking about what are the things you can do when 8 out of 10 chaps out there can't do? Use this starting point as your cash flow. Then invest your earnings into things that your heir(s) can inherit to smoothen their entry into this world. Be that unmoving rock, you will start to gather moss. Don't be too quick to spend that money you make in luxuries. 

The choice of immigration location is important. It is frequently perceived to be young, fresh and afford great opportunities for those who are weak. 

Don't punch above your weight. I want you to understand relatively where you are now and work from there. There is no shame in being behind. You have to just wait for your turn. It is after all the great Generations Game. When you finally make it, pay it forward, don't be that fucken old guy. It is not worth burning any good karma points you have accumulated thus far.

I wish you well ... in metta ...