Chapter 23 Business card = cheating?

For a long time, Hong Kong's "legal system" has created a platform in this society that at least advocates "integrity". The two words "sincerity" and "faith" are connected together. Hong Kong people think that the former belongs to the ontology, and the latter is aimed at the object.The ontology must first be "sincere" to the object in order to exchange for the other party's "faith".Therefore, the relationship between the two, after careful consideration, is actually a bit like a husband and wife. Tat for tat, mutual respect and love, can achieve a beautiful karma.

In Hong Kong, I have always found something very interesting - business cards, although small, they should reflect the whole universe of Hong Kong - Hong Kong public officials, business personnel, service personnel, media personnel, and many, many freelancers all have business cards in their hands. If they were in the Mainland, no one would easily trust each other with just a business card, nor would they trust each other easily. It is expected that the other party will win the trust of oneself with only a business card.However, in Hong Kong, on many occasions, you just take out a small piece of paper from your pocket that can be printed in countless boxes on the street. Hong Kong people believe whatever is printed on it. They never doubt what is proved on the business card. Will your identity, unit and your actual situation be different, or even groundless.

I started to laugh secretly at how "cutely stupid" Hong Kong people are, and a small business card is too easy to make, too easy to fake, and sometimes its reliability is simply zero!But Hong Kong people don't know how to be vigilant.I have been experimenting repeatedly for nearly three years. Every time I go out for interviews, no matter where I go, people ask me who I am?When I said I was a reporter, from China Central Television, what the other party wanted to check was not my press card, but whether I had a business card on me.For many conferences or social activities, the organizers politely ask the reporters to leave a business card so that we can keep in touch in the future. I put one in their silver plate lightly, and they believe it and are satisfied. I don't doubt whether my reporter is a fake.What if the business card I gave to the other party is fake?In case the other party trusts me with just a business card, and my trust in them has been played wantonly from the beginning to the end, when they find out, will they shout that they have been fooled, and it will be too late?

A business card is rampant in Hong Kong, doesn't it mean that it can easily deceive people? Business card = cheating? I came across this equation one day and thought it was fun.Although such an "equation" is extremely absurd and outdated, there are indeed opportunities in Hong Kong.Of course, in order to take advantage of such a loophole, the perpetrator must be able to bear the consequences and pay the price. For a long time, Hong Kong society has been hailed as "the capital of authentic goods". What is "authentic goods"?There are no "fakes". More than a century ago, Hong Kong was just opened as a port. At that time, I had no way of verifying whether there were "fake products" in Hong Kong, but today "no".

For example, today a Hong Kong person opens a mobile phone store. The small boss admits that there are "parallel imports" (mobile phones entered without permission) in his store, but he will never admit that there are "fake products".Hong Kong people are so self-proclaimed, most of their words are consistent with their deeds, because they do not sell "fake goods", and they are not only afraid of driving away repeat customers, but once a rat droppings ruins a pot of good soup, the reputation of the company and the boss will be destroyed. It will be questioned by the regulatory agencies and left with a criminal record.

"Case record" is another "equation" in Hong Kong society. This "equation" was not created by me. Once all fraudulent acts are discovered, there will definitely be "bad records" after the "=". This "bad record" is Like a doctor diagnosing a patient, after reading the test sheet and writing the case, the patient knows what disease he is suffering from, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, or AIDS... Of course, if I were to brag for countless merchants in Hong Kong that "there are no fakes everywhere in Hong Kong", I would not take the risk. In fact, although I have been here for more than two years I didn't buy a single fake thing, but occasionally I saw one or two cases of fake sales being exposed in the media, but the whole society scoffed at this kind of behavior and would never follow suit.

In the summer of 2006, a McDonald's fast food restaurant in Central Hong Kong was found to have hair hidden in the hot biscuits for sale. I guess that McDonald's probably did not have "subjective intent" in this matter, but there was a deviation in operation.However, it was quickly charged by the government's Food and Environmental Hygiene Administration, and then the court made a ruling: McDonald's was sentenced to accept a fine of 6,000 yuan, and at the same time, it had to pay a laboratory fee of 405 Hong Kong dollars to the prosecution. I used to be a reporter in Beijing, holding high the banner of "News Investigative", the ace column of CCTV that specializes in investigative reporting. I have been fighting against various crimes for a long time. The "level" is the lowest in major criminal and economic cases such as crimes committed by law enforcement, law enforcement, and human life.If one ignores history and the objective process of social development, and blindly compares the situation in the Mainland with Hong Kong, then Hong Kong's territory today is undoubtedly much cleaner.However, when a society completes the initial stage of primitive capital accumulation, all kinds of fraud and immoral crimes are the most fertile soil. Once most people have enough food and clothing and the legal system is more complete, businesses will honestly start self-discipline.

I didn't have time to compare Hong Kong's social crime record when the economy started in the 1960s and 1970s with the mainland's social crime record after the 1980s and 1990s. I just saw that today's Hong Kong is economically prosperous, and the entire society is ostracized. Once the case happens, it is very rare—— On August 3, 2006, I finally saw an investigative note published by a local reporter in the "Oriental Daily" in Hong Kong: "Black Factory Exploded Poison Lard for Snack Stall", and was very excited.The reporter went to the New Territories, disguised himself as a buyer, and discovered that someone had quietly opened an illegal lard factory in a remote hill in the New Territories in Hong Kong. At the beginning of the article, he said: "The 'poisonous lard' incident broke out in the Mainland earlier. , causing thousands of people to be poisoned, it is hard to imagine that Hong Kong people have more conscience..."

I read this article with a good eyeball, and I even want to call this reporter friend to meet and have a meal. My mentality is the same as that of a reconnaissance veteran who fought all the way on the same battlefield and was riddled with scars. . In the following article, the reporter described how he "inspected the factory in Zhoutou Village" for several days, and found that the unscrupulous peddler owned a "factory made of iron sheets covering an area of ​​more than 2,000 square feet in a remote place... Every morning at around 10 o'clock, two workers began to take turns putting dozens of pots of fat pig fat from outside on the meat board and chopped them into pieces. Since there is no refrigeration equipment such as refrigerators in the workshop, the pigs in pots The ointment was placed on the ground everywhere, emitting a stench... Then the pork full of flies was fried into buckets of dirty lard, and what was even more disgusting was that the dirty lard was actually used as fried stuffed three treasures (a street snack ), sold to residents in the North District of the New Territories... The neighbors don't know, pick up the three treasures fried with dirty lard, and eat them with relish..."