What is necessary to earn money? Not to stoop to being a person who falls for “easy money.”

To be clear, there's no such thing as 'easy money'.

Even if there were, it would either be a temporary trend that doesn't last, or you'd have to take a big risk yourself first.

In the former case, like solar power a few years ago, right? That was when you could sell electricity. The investment boom in solar power ended in a few years, though.

However, I think many people made money during that period.

The latter is investment.

Buy something that will increase in price in the future when it's cheap, sell it when the price goes up, and make a lot of money quickly.

Roughly, there are only about those two methods.

But the method of catching trends to make money doesn't provide continuous income. Moreover, once it's over, you have to keep looking for new trends again.

That's a lot of work.

Putting effort into creating a system that you know will soon become unusable.

It feels like a waste.

Investment might not require much effort to some extent, but it inherently requires risk. Without taking big risks, you won't get big returns.

Behind 'easy money' are various troublesome implications.

If it were me, I wouldn't bother chasing trends because it's too much hassle.

I want to put my effort into creating a system that, once built, will bring in income for a long time.

Investment is absolutely important, but I do it in combination with business.

However, creating a system to make money easily later, that I can do.

But creating a system is by no means easy.

After much effort, hard work, and steadily building a system, only then will you finally start to receive stable income over a long period.

Building a system takes a fair amount of time.

However, in the end, people who earn stable income and live a comfortable life are those who have steadily built systems from an early stage.

Furthermore, once one system is built, they don't just settle for that one system, but continue to build two or three more systems.

They diversify their income sources.

Occasionally, some of these systems are sold, leading to significant earnings.

In any case, it's always the people who have steadily built up systems who ultimately get what they want.

Furthermore, once they earn from a system, they allocate a certain percentage to investment.

They set their own rules, and strictly adhere to the boundary of how much to invest and how much not to, and then invest.

If you want to earn easily, start putting in the effort now.

Start steadily building systems now, and begin accumulating from the earliest possible stage.

And know that with a 'want to earn' mindset, you won't even be able to build a system.

Because you won't be able to grasp people's needs.

If all you think about is exploiting others, then in most cases, you will be excluded as something dangerous.

Occasionally, some people do earn with a 'want to earn' mindset, but they achieve it through methods that sacrifice many for the profit of a few, which is completely detrimental to society.

Certainly, they say good things in words, but 'a mountain of corpses behind the scenes' is a more fitting description.

I don't like that.

Or perhaps, someone who completely controls their emotions and actions, and can thoroughly meet customer needs? Though such people are rare.

What's more, such people tend to start spending the money they earn on consumption that isn't very valuable.

Since they acquire wealth without knowing how to use money, it's quickly depleted, and they tend to use it quite wastefully.

That's why people who make a lot of money quickly often perish just as fast.

Because they play in ways that deserve contempt… from our values' perspective.

There must be more tasteful ways to play, you know.

And in the end, after coming full circle, you realize that the mindset of 'making a big hit that solves the world's problems' is the closest to 'success'.

Because it's closest to the customer's needs.

That's why when I meet people who say 'I want to make money,' I think, 'Ah… something is very wrong.'

It's full of mistakes.

And 'easily' is out of the question.

Looking back now, I believe that because I started with the mindset of 'wanting to solve the world's problems' from the beginning, I was able to commercialize and sell businesses at an early stage.

The idea of making money easily either doesn't exist, or if it does, it's either temporary or requires significant risk.

Therefore, I recommend you start steadily building systems right now, while thinking about 'how to make the world a better place' and 'how to solve problems'.