After hearing Gu Kun's words, Ma Feng was silent for a long time.
Gu Kun's attitude was more resolute than he imagined, but it was also more principled and could indeed save some innocent colleagues from putting everyone in danger.
At least Gu Kunming has said that he will not stand in the way of companies that rely on technological strength to adopt business models that can permanently reduce costs. What he wants to deal with is only relying on capital subsidies to falsify and lower the standards of the industry.
Spicy chicken.
Who doesn't know how to burn money? If you don't like it, I will burn it with you. And I can burn money without thinking about the return. After burning it, I would rather the company I launched to burn will die in pieces without leaving any market value. I'm not afraid.
Come and do it.
It’s not like I can’t afford to burn it if I don’t have money.
After sorting out his thoughts, Ma Fengcai argued weakly: "But, regarding Xiao Yang, you can't necessarily say that he just relies on burning money and it's unsustainable, right? I know him a little bit, and there is definitely no technological innovation.
, but business model innovation may not be absent, it is still a bit clever.
For something like a forced shopping group with low or even zero group fees, you really need to burn a lot of initial capital in the early stage. Later, maybe you can really cover all the costs and still make a profit by taking a commission from shopping. Then it is possible to make this
This model will continue forever. It is not the situation you said, where you achieve the number one market share, squeeze out your peers and eliminate competition, then go back to raise prices to harvest consumers. Use your theory just now to appease other people.
Internet entrepreneurs, I’m afraid this cannot be fully justified.”
Gu Kun: "Of course I have to consider all aspects of dealing with him. Just now is just the most important aspect. On the other hand, the business model of shopping groups is originally illegal in Lanfang's relevant system. He wants to deal with him in Lanfang."
He did this on Fang's land and destroyed the atmosphere of our industry. What should I do to him?
Let me go a little deeper: I know what you are worried about. Are you afraid that the world will regard me as the kind of person who looks down on free and cheap, hates free and cheap, just to maintain the high-end luxury local tycoon character? I am not like that
As a person, I work according to occasions, needs and industries.
If there is an Internet e-commerce company today that meets people's basic survival needs, no matter how cheap it is, or because it is really low-cost and allows people to advertise more and share more links, just give me xx for 1 yuan.
, 10 yuan for yy, I won’t interfere.
I know how many poor people there are in China, and I maintain compassion and empathy for these people. They are not the target customers of my luxury and tourism industry, and I don’t want to get involved in their lives. They can live a prosperous life at a low cost, and I
Like every conscientious philanthropist, I will watch them take advantage of them.
In this regard, I have always felt that China's humanistic sentiments are much more pragmatic than those hypocritical hot chickens in Oceania: Those Western dogs in Oceania always put the so-called dignity, expression, etc. in a very high position.
The Chinese people like to put "the right to survival and development first". I have always supported China's pragmatism on this issue.
Therefore, to solve the basic needs of survival and development, you have the ability to get bargains. Even if sometimes they infringe on my intellectual property rights, I will turn a blind eye and admit it.
Just like why in the relevant provisions of China's economic management and public security management, it is necessary to crack down on scalpers when buying train tickets during the Spring Festival? If we follow the logic of the absolute free market in the West, scalpers should be allowed at this time and time should be allowed to be more valuable, but in itself
People who have money but no time can make full transactions with queue scalpers who have time but no money. The one with the highest price for Spring Festival travel train tickets should get it.
But in China, scalpers are going to be cracked down on. I think this is a kind of humanistic concern. It expresses that "the Spring Festival train tickets are so cheap, it is a welfare provided by the country to the people, and it should be tilted towards the poor and those in urgent need."
, so that people who have money but no time cannot buy other people’s time with money. You have to either queue up in person, or since your time is so precious and you don’t want to queue up, then go take a plane.”
When Gu Kun said this, he paused for a moment to let Ma Feng digest some of the humanistic concerns.
Sure enough, Ma Feng had never thought about this problem before. After thinking about it for a while, he still didn't understand: "But, what does this have to do with the low-price travel group you mentioned? There is no such operation as 'not allowing transaction of queuing time' here, right?
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Ma Feng's understanding of Gu Kun's words just now was that "Gu Kun does not support people whose time is valuable spending money to buy other people's queuing time, hard work, and energy when meeting basic survival needs."
Gu Kun shook his head and poured a glass of vodka for both parties: "You are too rigid in the formality. It can also be said that you don't know enough about the tourism industry, so you haven't seen through the essence of the zero-fee group.
I know that even if I strictly crack down on forced shopping behavior and crack down on the kind of forced buying and selling that "you are not allowed to leave the store until you buy a certain amount of money," the low-price group will still be able to maintain its existence, and I believe that it will not take a few years.
This kind of behavior is also prohibited under the laws of your country.
Why is this? You can go undercover at the shopping sites of those zero-fee groups, or ask people who have experienced such groups. The essence of their induced shopping is actually achieved by "gradient insult value transactions".
For example, some people in your group may spend extra money to upgrade the standard of the hotel they are staying in, and they may also be generous when shopping. Then the tour guide may treat these guests with extra courtesy, even during group meals.
Spend your own money to add food to these happy-spending guests, treat them to real high-end local delicacies, and even secretly deduct part of the group meal budget to provide extra food for distinguished guests... These are actually nothing, and they are within the scope of legality and reasonableness.
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But what's more? As long as zero-low tour fees exist, verbal insults to people who don't buy things will definitely be inevitable. Whether it's cynicism or direct insults, we must do everything we can to make people who spend money feel welcome and welcome.
Superior to others. This is just like the model of some free online games that may appear in the future——
People who spend money contribute money to support others, and people who don’t spend money help others to support themselves. People who don’t spend money rely on being compared and insulted by people who spend money, looking for a sense of superiority, so as to make those who spend money more.
I am willing to spend money to show off and make up for the wasted travel costs of those who have no money to spend.
Specifically in online games, free players provide killing resources for RMB players, and make RMB players happy by being killed by RMB players like their grandchildren. Specifically in low-price tours, it is through the tour guide's groveling compliments and dialogue to the shoppers.
In order to realize this transaction of dignity value.
Therefore, the question returns to its most essential level: Does the law allow people to conduct commercial transactions and sell their personal dignity? From a civil law perspective, it is obvious that personal dignity is not within the scope of the transaction subject matter of civil acts.
From the perspective of the criminal law, at most, the crime of "insult" is a crime of private prosecution, and no prosecution is ignored. However, this only acknowledges that people can give up pursuing the insult to themselves, and it does not mean that insults can be traded. In fact, we even 'betrayed'
Queuing up by oneself' This level of humble scalping is not allowed, let alone betraying one's personal dignity.
Therefore, I think there is a limit for a person to sell his dignity. This limit is if he only obeys the right for his own survival and development, the minimum necessary needs for survival, I pity them very much.
.Beggars beg in order to survive, and this is protected by law.
But the tourism industry is not "necessary to maintain the right to survive". You will not die if you don't travel, and you won't die if you don't buy luxury goods. This is why it is a crime to make and sell fake goods for the sake of luxury goods. The tourism industry offers zero tour fees.
It will also be illegal in the future.
As long as it is not necessary for survival, people cannot sell their right to personal dignity. The right to personal dignity is lower than the right to survival, but higher than other tradable rights in ordinary civil actions. If it is not necessary for survival, it cannot be sold.
If someone opens up a trading channel for us Chinese to sell our personal dignity in order to make money, it will harm the international image of all citizens and lower the average dignity of the Chinese in the world. As a luxury that elevates the dignity of the Chinese nation in the world
Industry tycoon, I can’t sit idly by and ignore this kind of thing. I will punish you if I see this kind of thing.”
In other words, if you encounter Pin Xixi's kind of subsidies in the future, will Gu Kun kill everyone? That's still not possible.
Because no matter what, it is not a sin to use cheap goods, nor is it a sin to buy cheap goods. Although Pinxixi also has the original sin of "subsidising", a careful analysis of its push technology still has some technological content. Although the subsidies have achieved rapid expansion,
In the long run, many of the things it sells are inherently low-priced and of low quality, but they can indeed be sold so cheaply. This is the real cost advantage of China Manufacturing.
Gu Kun sympathizes with people who cannot afford expensive things and hopes that they can always use cheap things to improve their quality of life despite limited money.
Again, whether Gu Kun can forgive a bargain depends on whether it can be "always so cheap." If you can make it always so cheap, it is not unfair competition in law.
You can't be so cheap "forever", but being so cheap for a period of time just to squeeze out competitors and eliminate competition is something that is not allowed by law, and there is nothing much to say about it.
We cannot say that their behavior was justified from the beginning just because the ugly taxi-hailing gangs of later generations survived the group fight, or because they used a combination of horizontal and vertical methods to temporarily stabilize other players in the circle and realize the profit sharing of the capital bubble.
, that is an unscrupulous view of history, with no sense of right and wrong.
With Gu Kun doing justice for heaven in this life, no one from King Cheng, Lu, or Liu will ever think of a happy death.
What's more, among the five original sins of subsidy, the original sin of online travel companies is the heaviest, because the things they sell are not necessities for survival, and they are not things that will die if you don't sell human dignity - you don't have to pay to take a taxi, but you still have some basic needs.
It is an attribute (although it is not a necessity, because taking a taxi is expensive and you can use public transportation, so taking a taxi is still a bit of a show-off attribute), but travel definitely does not have an attribute that is a necessity for survival.
Gu Kun could not sit idly by and watch someone create a trading platform for the Chinese who sold their personal dignity for non-essential needs.