Manabu Tauchi: Who Is Your Money For?
Subtitle: The 'Mysteries of Money' and 'How Society Works' That My Boss Taught Me
Writing the details would be a spoiler, so if you are interested, I highly recommend picking it up.
There is no point in everyone saving money
About two generations ago, people would make osechi ryori for the New Year and eat it as preserved food until the holiday period ended.
This was so everyone could rest, and it is said that 'there is no point in walking through a shopping district clutching a wad of bills' during the New Year.
If there are no people working, no matter how many bills someone has, they cannot obtain anything.
A means to happiness
There are people who are desperate to get money and increase their wealth.
That is correct in its own way.
It is a reality that in a capitalist world, it has become difficult for those without money (regardless of whether they have it now) to start anything.
However, money is originally just a 'concept,' and no matter how much you collect concepts, you cannot become happy.
Even if you collect a lot, it is just a thing.
Money is a means to become happy.
In capitalism, when someone who has money (regardless of whether they have it now) uses that money, someone (including themselves) becomes happy.
I want people to use it with that feeling in mind.
This is a book with that kind of message.
Come to think of it
In a few minutes of speaking at TED, President Uematsu of Uematsu Electric
showed a picture of a Ferrari or a Lamborghini or something,
and said, 'You can't get this because you have money. It's because there are people who made it for you.'
he said.
Indeed, money is a means to become happy.