Just when everyone at the scene was shocked by Li Mu's lofty ideals, Li Mu took a sip of water and said with great devotion:
"The reason why human science and technology will develop forward is nothing more than three huge factors: profit, war and dreams."
“The enlightenment of modern technology comes from the Industrial Revolution, and the driving force of the Industrial Revolution is business owners’ pursuit of greater profits;”
“Nuclear technology, which brings new clean energy to all mankind, originated from the huge push for weapons technology during World War II;”
"The rocket technology that helps humans launch satellites and explore the moon and other celestial bodies also originated from World War II;"
"The Wright brothers built airplanes and enabled humans to fly, relying on the dream of flying in their hearts."
"In this peaceful era, as entrepreneurs, we have already made too many efforts to pursue profits. Now it is time to work hard for our dreams!"
For Li Mu, if you don't do something like exploring Mars, you have to do it. If you want to do it, you must make it happen.
It doesn’t matter even if this project requires hundreds of billions of dollars. After all, this kind of investment is like paying off a mortgage. Spread over twenty years of investment, the pressure is not great.
As long as we can send people to Mars in our lifetime, it will be considered accomplished.
From then on, I am like Armstrong, and I can be regarded as setting a great precedent for mankind. In the future, a hundred years from now, in addition to leaving several companies and entrepreneurial stories to the world, I can also leave a legacy to mankind. For such a feat, I believe that even hundreds of years later, I will still be remembered by the world.
Li Mu is not just seeking fame, but he believes that after a person has solved his material and spiritual needs throughout his life, his level will naturally rise to the next stage.
When you have money that you can't spend no matter how much you want, how to use this wealth becomes an issue before you.
He now owns several large-scale companies, among which Makino Technology has even expanded its business to the whole world. He has also invested in many potential companies, and will easily be worth more than a trillion US dollars in the future.
But, how can we spend all one trillion US dollars
It makes no sense to talk about buying one million houses or hundreds or thousands of large passenger planes. No rich person will spend such money.
For Li Mu, buying a house in every place he likes in the world is nothing more than ten villas. Even if he buys mountains, islands, seas, and land, how much can he spend
As for airplanes, aren’t one or two enough? If that's not enough, three or four are always enough, right
Other luxury goods are no longer luxury goods but garbage in the face of trillions of dollars of wealth.
In proportion, a $100,000 super limited edition Hermès is nothing more than one ten millionth of the total wealth.
Buying a Hermès like this is like a multi-millionaire spending one dollar to buy a lollipop. This kind of thing cannot be considered a luxury product.
So, what to do with the rest of the money
There are two ways to do conventional operations. First, inherit it to future generations.
Like those rich people in Hong Kong and the United States, they spend a large amount of money to establish a fund for their descendants to ensure that each descendant can get a large amount of living expenses from the fund every month. With more funds, global diversification By allocating funds and then adding strict restrictions on the use of funds, as long as the global economy does not collapse as a whole, it can basically be maintained until the extinction of mankind. However, Li Mu does not want to do this. He hopes that his descendants can be self-reliant on the basis he has built. If such a good basic plan can still afford food, then such descendants deserve to live a hard life;
Second, donate everything to charity.
Of course, there is no problem with donating money, but charity is about teaching people how to fish, rather than teaching people how to fish. I have never seen that rich man just hand out tens of billions and distribute them to the poor all over the world with a wave of his hand. It is more about taking money. To donate to education, medical care, create more jobs, and stimulate the economy of backward areas, so charity also requires a lot of energy, step by step like starting a business, and it is impossible to use all the money to do it Charity.
Therefore, you can plan the third way in advance now: do something important that will last forever.
Elon Musk also thinks the same way. He is even more extreme than Li Mu and is willing to risk all his wealth on this matter.
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Soon, Li Mu’s decision to explore and immigrate to Mars shocked the whole world.
Before him, no rich man had publicly made any bold statements about space.
As soon as Li Mu opened his mouth, he spent at least 10 billion US dollars to support the realization of this project, which really shocked the ordinary people.
For a time, media all over the world were reporting on Li Mu’s space dream, and Li Mu himself announced on his Weibo Twitter that he would officially recruit space partners from all over the world.
In his words, this project may not bring huge cash returns to investors, but it is indeed an extremely meaningful event that can even go down in history.
For those wealthy people with a net worth of "billion dollars", the pressure to participate in the wave is not great.
Li Mu will not let them spend money in vain. As long as the pledged funds are more than 10 million US dollars, the entire Mars immigration project will be continuously exposed, which will also have a better publicity effect on the investors themselves.
What Li Mu didn't expect was that the first person to follow up on his investment and immigration project to Mars was Google's Larry Page.
Larry Page immediately announced on his Weibo Twitter that he would invest US$1 billion in the Mars immigration plan over the next 20 years.
Ever since he was brutally tortured by Li Mu, Larry Page has regarded him as his idol in life. After seeing Li Mu's press conference, his first thought was: Damn, that's awesome! I want to participate in such an awesome thing!
Now Google's stock price is rising at a gratifying rate, and with Li Mu escorting it, in the future Google will definitely have no rivals in other markets except the Chinese market. Therefore, in the future, its worth will be at least tens of billions of dollars, or even tens of billions of dollars, or 1 billion. The commitment to US dollars can be said to be relatively cautious. If economic conditions permit in the future, I will continue to make additional purchases.
Li Mu's business partners also followed suit. At Wanying Real Estate, Song Liang, Chen Ze, and Wei Lan decided to use 20% of their personal income in the next 20 years to support the Mars immigration plan. Li Mu only wanted 10%.
As for Makino Technology, Leader Lei, Senior Brother Liu and other senior executives also signed investment agreements based on a 10% ratio.
When they were making decisions, Li Mu repeatedly explained that he would not impose or require anything like this. Don't feel like you have voted. Everyone should also express their opinions. It all depends on their own situation and ideas. If you really want to vote, you can vote again.
However, the feedback he received was that everyone was excited about the project.
Even if you can’t see the project you invest in succeeding in your lifetime, everyone is still willing to give it a try!
(End of chapter)