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The currency reform was designed to punish people who used these markets and, more specifically, to make sure that they did not become too wealthy or powerful enough to threaten the regime. Keeping them poor was safer. Black markets are not the whole story. People in North Korea also keep their savings in wons because there are few banks in Korea, and they are all owned by the government. In effect, the government used the currency reform to expropriate much of people’s savings.

Books also undermine the power of those who control oral knowledge, since they make that knowledge readily available to anyone who can master literacy. This threatened to undermine the existing status quo, where knowledge was controlled by elites. The Ottoman sultans and religious establishment feared the creative destruction that would result. Their solution was to forbid printing.

the institutional structure that creates market failures will also prevent implementation of interventions to improve incentives at the micro level. Attempting to engineer prosperity without confronting the root cause of the problems—extractive institutions and the politics that keeps them in place—is unlikely to bear fruit.

the ability of those who dominate extractive institutions to benefit greatly at the expense of the rest of society implies that political power under extractive institutions is highly coveted, making many groups and individuals fight to obtain it. As a consequence, there will be powerful forces pushing societies under extractive institutions toward political instability.

Marx’s vision was a system that would generate prosperity under more humane conditions and without inequality. Lenin and his Communist Party were inspired by Marx, but the practice could not have been more different from the theory.

这么严密的控制其实就是为了维护皇权。可是我们知道，天底下没有一种制度是可以“永垂不朽”的，任何一种基于皇权安全的设置，都不可能让统治者完全放心，也不可能消除皇权面临的一切威胁。这也就是两千多年来中国一直是治极生乱、乱极生治，分久必合、合久必分的原因

坦白讲，我常说我们是典型的想做A，但做成了B，后来在C上成功，有可能在D上变得伟大。这句话的本质逻辑是：成与不成跟事有关系，但是也没有关系。当年大家对我们的评判和分析，认为我们值不值得投资，好或不好，都是基于事。比如之前报道分析为什么我们的格子铺很火爆或者格子铺的问题是什么，但是对我来讲，只要我们团队还在，我们一直在成长、一直在学习，就没有问题，因为我们现在做的事早就不是格子铺了。2010年的泡泡玛特，跟2012年、2016年、2020年或者2025年的泡泡玛特都不一样。重要的是找到真正优秀的团队或者志同道合的人，然后大家会根据世界的变化去改变

我们的成功不是盲盒的成功，而是商业和艺术平衡的成功。艺术是追求独特的，但商业是追求普遍的，这是一个矛盾，而我们做的事情是尽量做到平衡