You are a young man.

Chapter (1)

There are a few children who need a little advance explanation.

The first one is about the title. About two years ago, I wrote a book called "The Young Drunkard." It was about alcohol, alcoholics, and people who loved alcohol. The book was unexpectedly successful and became very popular.

It turns out that if you write about love, young people are interested, if you write about football, sports fans like it, and if you write about alcohol, alcohol lovers like it. Judging by the popularity of these books, you can guess how many alcoholics we have.

Likewise, in the era of the market economy, there are certainly many people who are interested in economics. If we look at economics, we will think about how it will be. The topic is not new. About 10 years ago, I wrote a book called 'About a Friend', which featured a very successful and very clever person in the business. (The protagonist in that book, my friend Sein Taung, is also likely to be reused in some way in the content I am writing now .)

Why do people work and do business? | If we provide the conditions for livelihood, it is to grow and prosper. The main requirement for these things to happen is money. Money was also called `Asapya' in the past. The term `Asapya' is poetic. It is an old word, but it is still modern and sweet to hear. And it should also rhyme with the word `Yamaka'.

"Yamaka Lulin" is a polite way to refer to an alcoholic, while "Asa Pa Lulin" is a subtle way to refer to a businessman.

If you say that the book was deliberately created to attract people's attention while riding on the success of The Young Drunkard, I admit that it is true. It was because they wanted people to immediately know that it was a book like The Young Drunkard.

Some readers prefer to read stories. They like a lot of dialogue. They don't like a novel, a short story, or an essay (they don't know what kind of book it is). Those readers might buy a novel, rent it, and read it, thinking, "I don't know what it's about." That's why I put this title in advance to warn you that it's a book that will not be as good as a drunkard's book (if you want to avoid it, you can avoid it).

Another thing is, okay, since I'm going to write about economics, before people ask me how much I understand about economics, let's ask myself first.

I passed 10th grade with science as a subject, so I had no connection to economics. I took philosophy at university, so I had no connection to economics. Working

I am a writer. I have never traded. I have never been a merchant, I have never done any business.

I used to do book publishing. This was also a hobby. It wasn't for profit, it was just to cover my college expenses. I chose the books I wanted to publish without considering the profit and loss, and after a while I lost my money and couldn't continue.

Anyway, I am not a businessman, but there are business people around me. From small and medium-sized entrepreneurs such as tobacco sellers, grocery stores, department stores, mini markets, car brokers, real estate agents, taxi drivers, rickshaw owners, video karaoke parlors, to big businessmen who earn hundreds of thousands of baht. There are also business people among my friends. I can ask them about it.

And I often read business magazines and journals such as Khanna, Myanmar Daily, Advertisement and Shopping Guide, and Market, so I am a bit familiar with business matters.

A writer should be able to write about various subjects and topics, even if they are not very practical. Even if they are not practical, they should be readable. Economics, politics, health, science, culture, etc. Similarly, history cannot be ignored. Medicine | Knowledge should also be acquired. Vindhya and Payoga cannot be left out. Gambira and Veda Yatra should also be studied. At least, one should be able to read the Maha Boktai Aho. (This does not mean that one day one will write a book called Yatra Lu Lin.)

Business magazines feature experts writing articles. They conduct interviews and discussions about business. In fact, economists and businesspeople are not the same. They are just people who are involved in business, but (to put it bluntly) there is a difference like strategy and tactics.

Businessmen are practical people. They don't need to have business degrees. Some of the people who run small businesses are not even literate. There are people who run big businesses and are successful, who don't even have a 10th grade education, and who don't speak any English (and some don't even speak Burmese very well).

They learned and practiced in life. They learned from personal experiences. Sometimes, an economic theory they have invented and laid down is so brilliant that even great economists are amazed. In fact, economics is a science that has been based on the trading and commerce that has existed since the beginning of history.

That's why it's not necessary to study economics in business, only practice is important. It's also said that work will go your way. When doing business, success comes from the three elements of luck, intelligence, and diligence. If you add knowledge to these, it will be even greater.

Even if you work in international competition, if you don't have ' knowledge ', you will face loss.

This is where the role of economists comes in. They are not self-made businessmen. They are not just people who get rich every time they are called economists. They study economics, they do research. They analyze, they evaluate. They develop theories, they give advice, they make predictions.

Should we believe everything they say?

It's not something to blindly believe, but it's important to note that they are more knowledgeable than you, and that they have given you some very respectful advice.

Back when land prices were so high and there was a boom in sales, economists warned that this was only temporary, that demand was fake. I read this and told a friend who was a land trader. He said, "How can I believe a guy like me? Now he has land that he bought at a high price and is worthless, and he doesn't know what to do with it."

When the housing industry was booming, it was true that the housing industry was profitable and profitable quickly. But it was too risky. It was too dangerous. If it failed, it would be painful. You shouldn't do everything in a vacuum. You should only do it in manufacturing (especially in the agricultural and livestock sectors). And I know they were right. So, aren't they wrong? Of course they are.

After the price of cars rose sharply, car prices suddenly became unreasonable and people predicted that the car market would collapse soon. They said this, and soon after, car prices doubled or tripled again, and there were times when the price went up and down.

There are different opinions among scholars. Some reject inflation, some accept it. Some want to limit inflation. Some want to leave it as it is.

Sometimes, no expert can predict a sudden downturn, something that has threatened the global economy since the Asian financial crisis.

L says that events are happening so fast that even before a theory is formulated, the world situation changes so suddenly that the theory becomes outdated before it is even formulated. The actual changes are already happening, and the theory is just running away from it.

- When it's said that even economists are wrong, it's not wrong, so can a writer like me, who is neither an economist nor a successful businessman, write about economics?

In fact, the content I will write is not business education. It is not a guide to growth. It is not a treatise. It is not a guarantee that if you read this article and start a business, you will succeed and grow.

I am just presenting what I have experienced, read, thought, and felt about economics. Some ideas may not be consistent with the statements of experts. They may also be practical. They may also be presented from a different perspective. Sometimes economics is an article, sometimes an essay, and sometimes a novel.

Anyway, for someone like me to write about business would be like a dark-skinned teacher Aung Maung selling white-skinned thanaka, or a white-headed teacher Maung Moe Thu producing black hair dye.

Once upon a time, the great scientist Edison conducted numerous experiments to invent an electric device, but he was unsuccessful. Yet, he still learned valuable lessons from them. He

"I have discovered about 1,000 types of materials that do not conduct electricity."

It was announced.

It's the same now. If you want to brag after reading my post, "We've found some useless, useless information about success and growth," then read on.

With respect

You are beautiful.