Everyone had already said a great deal, covering things like financial economics and international politics.
Lin Qi stayed silent not because he had nothing to say, but because he did not want to speak alongside these people.
Or rather, he wanted to see just how "expert" these international affairs experts really were.
The truth was... difficult to put into words.
When Lin Qi was young, he had attended a class in which a mentor who claimed he could help every student earn a hundred million in a year gave an example.
It was a true story.
He asked everyone how they could sell a pen to someone else at an obviously unreasonable price. This was a classic case in sales, and even more so, an entire field of study.
Many students answered enthusiastically. The internet had not yet taken off back then, so most of their answers were different and barely satisfactory.
In the end, the mentor told them that when he needed to use the pen to sign a more important contract, he would buy it for a thousand yuan, let alone a hundred. Got it? Applause!
Everyone applauded enthusiastically and fiercely, but Lin Qi did not.
The mentor asked him why he was not applauding and whether there was anything he did not understand. Lin Qi told that mentor, who had perhaps never earned a hundred million in his entire life yet claimed he could make everyone there earn a hundred million—
It was not that he had failed to understand anything. His reaction was simply a little slow. Then he began applauding as well.
Everyone was happy.
But that was the last class he ever attended, because it had been complete bullshit.
Many people instinctively created a seller's market so buyers would accept their ideas. Sometimes this