<Aaron Side Story Episode 33>
4. Those who crave power for themselves (4)
500 million year button.
Aaron widened his eyes at the unfamiliar word.
“They say that just press the button and it will give you money. Doing nothing. Just click and deposit instantly.”
“Are there treasures like that on Earth?”
earth.
I only know the fact that the game masters are from the planet and various trivial information.
I don’t know much about that world.
“Instead, the moment you press it, your mind will be consumed by this space, and you will have to spend 500 million years there. You don’t have to eat and you don’t need to sleep. We will spend 500 million years quietly in this space.”
the boy continued.
“And after 500 million years, memories from this space are erased, and they return to their original place. His hands are full of money! How is it, interesting?”
It’s a button that gives you money when you press it.
Instead, there is a premise that you have to spend 500 million years in this space, but after you return, the memory disappears.
If so, is the machine making money for free?
Aaron didn’t answer right away.
“But let’s say there is a person in front of the 500 million year button. It’s a simple thought experiment. That person… … .”
The boy continued.
A 500 million year button that gives you money just by pressing it, but requires you to spend eternity in this space.
A man stands in front of the button.
The man needed money.
A lot.
But the man did not have the talent to earn as much money as he wanted.
A mediocre job doesn’t get you the kind of money you want.
He started a business dozens of times but failed, and as a result, he realized that he had no talent for any business.
Same goes for anything else.
The man had a great, great need for money, but the talent for making it was really, hopelessly lacking.
There is a 500 million year button in front of such a pathetic man.
“How much money does the man need?”
“If you work hard, you will earn a living. But he’s not satisfied. wishing and wishing Not on Earth money is power Call it capitalism.”
capitalism.
It was said that the current Earth is a system that blindly believes in money.
With the power of money, anything is possible.
You can even buy happiness.
If money doesn’t work, your money isn’t enough.
He said that this way of thinking is prevalent.
There, wealth was more valuable than power plus violence, that is, a measure of human strength.
In other words, wealth is the same as the strength of its existence.
“How much do you want? If it’s really urgent, I’ll have to press it.”
If a man is poor or has a family to support, he will press.
How much money will you be satisfied with?
I don’t even know the amount that comes out when I press it once in the first place.
The boy smiled and explained.
‘Ten million won?’
In Taoni, it was about the salary a knight would receive for working for one month.
When I said that, I could understand.
‘It’s not a small amount of money.’
If you press 10 times, if you use it sparingly, you can use it for living expenses with Nina for nearly 10 years.
“Master, the words haven’t continued since a while ago. If you don’t know how much a man wants, it doesn’t matter.”
“Isn’t there such a thing as a fixed amount?”
“yes?”
“The man just needs money. for no reason.”
“Is there any reason?”
nonsense.
Money is just a means.
Like being rich and having fun.
Live comfortably and happily with your family.
Use it to achieve a dream or goal you want.
You write it like this
Do you need money for no reason at all?
what is that guy
“Are you kidding me? But I can’t help it. Actually, he is.”
“… … .”
“So the madman just presses the button. They hit it like they would break their fingers, tap-dance on top, and dance wildly.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“However, 500 million years is not easy. You know how frightening the passage of time is, right?”
Aaron knows thoroughly.
My heart was twisted to the extent that I had spent 50 years in an empty world.
But if you say 500 million years like that.
Truly, eternity, eternity.
You can’t even die there, you have to pass the time with your eyes open.
“There is nothing in this space. 500 million years of being alive there. You can’t stop thinking, and you can’t give up halfway through.”
No matter how you pass the time, that endurance will not exceed 100 years.
The rest will have no choice but to leave it to the passing years.
That’s 500 million years.
“I don’t want to press.”
“why? It’s a memory I’ll forget anyway.”
“I do not know. What will happen to me when I press the button. Will I spend 500 million years in this space? Or will you take the money casually?”
isn’t it a draw?
If you catch the latter, you win.
You can get money without any risk.
But if you get caught in the former… … You will taste the true inferno.
‘500 million years.’
Ten million won is a lot of money.
But it was never enough to take that risk.
Spending 500 million years alone in a remote place was a punishment worse than being tortured and killed hundreds of times.
“But the man presses. Go on, go on.”
“That is foolish.”
“yes. Besides, this button has some tricks.”
“Cheating?”
“It is said that memories after 500 million years are forgotten, but they do not disappear at all. The memories of 500 million years definitely exist. You just can’t remember.”
“How do you know?”
“Because I’ve experienced it.”
“… … .”
“The more you press the button, the more forgotten memories pile up and invade your unconscious. Then, suddenly, I recall the scene at that time. In the end, it will be ‘unforgettable’.”
Aaron opened his mouth.
The master said with a single smile.
“And one more. The kid who spent 500 million years in that cartoon realized the truth of the universe, but she didn’t have anything like that? Fools remain fools even after a billion years. You don’t become a genius simply by spending 500 million years. Do you know what that means?”
The boy looked at Aaron and said.
“What do you think? this man He’s still pushing the button.”
“… … .”
“Of course, even before the man, there were some idiots in front of the 500 million year button. After a few taps, they realized it was a trap and backed away. Or keep pushing and go crazy.”
Push the button and go crazy
How do you feel?
The sensation of suddenly flooding my brain with 500 million years of memories.
A world of capitalism in which wealth is replaced by strength.
A man stands in front of a button that makes money by pressing it.
The man presses the button forever.
He earned more than enough money in his lifetime.
That’s a huge sum of money to build a few buildings on.
Still press
After sorting out the situation with the accumulated money, keep pressing.
he knows
The fact that there is no other way to make money other than this.
Even if you live as an ordinary office worker, the money you can earn is limited.
The real rich people of this world.
It’s not just about the upper class, but the rich who rule the business world scrape in tens of billions of won a day just by breathing.
In just one day, they earn as much as a few normal people do in a lifetime.
The balance between labor income and capital income has already been reversed long ago.
Let’s say there’s an ambitious talent here.
He studied hard during his school days and entered a prestigious university.
Even there, he did not stop his efforts and earned credits, and entered a large company, so to speak, and achieved excellent and clear results.
So, can he rise to the top of society as he wishes?
no.
That’s not enough.
If you do well, you can rise to a high position in a large company and gain honor, but it is far from being truly rich.
So he resigns and prepares for business.
A talented man, he made money by making his business successful, and established himself as the president of a well-known venture company.
It has become possible to live with hundreds of billions of personal assets.
However, the man standing in front of the button is not looking for an ending like that.
That’s not enough.
That’s not really ‘rich’.
not billions
not hundreds of billions
Not even a few hundred billion.
Are you satisfied with earning a trillion units?
This is an amount that is difficult to roll unless it is the president of a country or a company.
but not satisfied
Article 10.
Article 100.
1000 trillion.
More than that.
The amount a man desires is not fixed.
because you are constantly wishing
Because his greed never ends.
That’s why you can press it.
The rest of pressing the button too much.
The man’s mental strength has reached its limit.
Accumulated years did not allow him to forget.
Now he has to make money while vividly feeling 500 million years without forgetting the past.
Still, it doesn’t stop.
Because he wants endlessly.
You don’t make money to get something.
I don’t make money because I want to buy happiness.
It is earning to make money.
truly.
If that heart is true in a pure sense.
Is 500 million years a logarithmic number?
Here’s the perfect and easier way to make money than anything else.
so it can withstand
With a pure heart, needing nothing else and wanting only money, he can pass the years.
If there had been even the slightest impurity mixed in his desire for money, he would have gone mad long ago.
A full heart that wants only one thing.
I can’t stand it if it’s not pure.
“… … .”
The boy wore a short quadruped.
“Let’s not tackle trivial things. For example, if money piles up that much, I wonder if the source will be questioned. Just say that I cheated with the magic of the button.”
“… … .”
“So, how are you?”
The master is looking at himself and demanding an answer.
Aaron thought for a while before answering.
“That person is out of his mind.”
“why?”
“Money is there to spend, but it’s strange to collect it to save.”
The means turned into ends.
“There are actually quite a few people like this, right? They say it’s a miser.”
“It is completely different. I’ve met quite a few people like that.”
Aaron also met many wealthy people in the city while living as a merchant.
Among them, to put it badly, there were a few people who were called the dead of money.
“For them, money is a means of expressing their value. The more money you collect, the higher your value. Therefore, money becomes a means of value to them.”
“Ohh. You had that point of view.”
“Are men like that too? Are you saving money to increase your value? Is it like this?”
Some perverse people are obsessed with wealth, considering it happiness.
Still, money was a means to them.
It is a means to happiness, not an end in itself.
‘Pure longing.’
If so, that man must be different.
I just collect because I want to raise money.
Not to be happy, not to increase value.
just collect
collect money for no reason
In a real sense, we collect to gather.
‘What is this madman?’
It is not a human way of thinking.
However, if it were not for this explanation, the man’s behavior could not be understood.
How much money will the man have to save to stop pressing?
The answer is.
‘It doesn’t stop forever.’
until it ceases to exist.
Indeed, if the heart is pure, he never stops pressing.
The amount doesn’t matter from the start.
Because the purpose is to collect.
“… … .”
That man may have the appearance of a human male, but he is no longer human.
A collection of tenacity and madness that mimics the human form.
Even the hand that presses the button does not belong to you.
The master who controls him is not his own mind, but pure desire itself.
A man’s body can be seen as a medium for that desire.
He is human but not human.
A ghost possessed by something, just a shadow.
“okay? who the man is.”
“Are you the person in the story?”
“I don’t notice. Are you pretending not to know? Or do you really not know At this point, do you even know?”
The back gets cold.
Aaron looked at his hand.
I saw a hand wrapped in bandages.
“On Earth, money is power, so you can think of it the other way around here.”
Power rules everything here.
even himself
Aaron has long believed that if you don’t have power, you will be unhappy.
“Here you are. The one who is still pushing the button.”
“… … .”
“If, over a long period of time, you have lost all reason to be strong, but continue to pursue it… … .”
A memory of one day came to mind.
It was the scene that I recalled just two days ago, right before I lost consciousness.
There the young man was talking to the boy.
your own dreams.
There is no reason to be strong against young people anymore.
If I had hoped to reunite with my family, I would have had to return when the second gate opened.
But the young man did not return.
The young man’s talent was limited.
Even after hundreds and thousands of years of hard work, it could not become stronger.
Just as an ant cannot become an elephant even if it lives for thousands of years.
Still don’t give up
if.
If a similar button appeared in front of the young man’s eyes, what would he do?
If so, how many times will you press it?
“okay.”
Aaron muttered.
You don’t have to imagine.
Because the results are already here.
His bandaged hands trembled.
It must have been made of bones and meat.
However, it is visible in Aaron’s eyes.
It shakes.
His blackened hands trembled, leaving behind an afterimage.
An ominous shadow rose from the fingertips.
“Come out to the clearing in two days.”
said the boy.
I couldn’t see the expression.
“Prove that your dream was pure.”
“How can I prove it?”
“Here you are. that guy The child who casually obtained what you madly wished for.”
do you mean waiting?
The man who had been blessed by the god of talent since birth, was like a piece of trash with no talent at all.
“I won’t be there, but remember. I have always been with you.”
The boy smiled.
“Show him. your dreams.”
Took.
The master patted the young man on the back.
and walked out of the room.
