As a person, we always think that it should be a combination of rationality and emotion. If a person is really just like a rational person, no matter what he wants to pursue an optimization, it is the assumption that economists use to establish economic theories. If there is such a person in life, it will really be incomprehensible.
And Paul Getty, the world's richest man played by the old man Christopher Plummer, seems to be such a person.
In his eyes, nothing in the world is priceless, everything has a price, but sometimes you don't know what its price is.
He seemed to be a rational man with little emotion. He never called his son, never gave him a present on his birthday.
The gift he gave to the grandson he met for the first time was a tourist souvenir, but it was said to be an antique that could sell for 1.2 million.
In order to buy a tourist souvenir, he can spend an hour from $19 to $11.
In order to save a few bucks, he would rather wash his own clothes than go to the laundry.
He installed a public phone in his home just to prevent guests from using his home phone.
At this time, you may be able to understand a little bit, why when he heard that his grandson was kidnapped, his reaction was that he would not pay any ransom.
Of course, this may be his strategy.
He believes that anything can be negotiated, and $17 million is definitely not a good option. What he wants to find is the optimal option. And he seemed to believe that as long as he wouldn't pay, his grandson would be fine.
However, most of the world is not like him.
The kidnapper will protect his grandson secretly out of compassion; his ex-daughter-in-law will try his best to rescue his son; even the agent he sent finally can't bear to force him to pay the ransom and leave he.
These plots make one see a stubborn, indifferent, extremely mean-spirited rich man.
However, he is not without merit.
As the richest man in the world, he is not swallowed up by desire, and his self-discipline is also the reason why he is the richest man. As he said, when a person gets richer and richer, he becomes more and more free, and this kind of ecstasy freedom often destroys himself, his family, and his relatives.
Of course, desire is also a kind of emotion.
He resisted desire with reason, but also with emotion.
Just as he worries about a kidnapping directed and acted by Sun Tzu in order to steal money from him, he wonders if all feelings serve the same purpose.
Therefore, he desires affection, but is far from affection. So he can only murmur to the famously painted baby, just because the world of things is so consistent and will never fail him.
If there are such people in the world, it must be both terrible and pitiful.
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