If I intervened, what consequences would there be?
Whenever people encountered a problem, they often had thoughts like this: What would happen if I did it?
Then they chose to give up. They might regret it at some point in the future—or they might not, because they had chosen the right path.
Mr. Lin Qi's words plunged Patu into deep thought. What would happen if a high-purity, high-yield open-pit Silver Mine were revealed at a time like this? It took him only a few seconds to realize that the price of silver would come crashing down. As long as it was easy to mine, enough silver could easily be refined to flood the market.
Raising prices required a mutual understanding: you wouldn't sell, I wouldn't sell, and none of us would sell. We would simply wait for the price to rise slowly.
But when the market collapsed, no mutual understanding was needed. In the face of disaster, people had no time to think. Instinct would drive them to flee the calamity as quickly as possible.
An avalanche would form, bringing about another plunge in silver prices. Hundreds of millions of futures accounts would be liquidated, and billions in cash would vanish...
At the thought, Patu grew somewhat tense. He clenched his fists, then slowly relaxed them.
"You definitely wouldn't like such a situation. You'd become the person everyone wanted to kill. They wouldn't stop just because they had already done something."
"They'd keep going until the moment you died."
"Don't take the risk, Lin Qi. I know you like taking risks, but my advice is not to set your sights on silver."
"The people who play with futures and Mineral Deposits are different from those well-dressed people you used to see entering and leaving high-end social venues."
He didn't explain