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I returned to my house after completing my schedule for the day and lay in bed. I closed my eyes and tossed around for two hours, but I couldn’t sleep. Instead, it became harder to sleep as time passed.
I went outside to get some fresh air, but it was colder than I thought, and there was nowhere to go. So I had no choice but to go to the underground chapel. It was about two in the morning at that time.
“What the? You’re not sleeping?”
My uncle was reading a book in his usual place. I was wondering what kind of book it was, so I checked. As expected, it was a book about money. He was a very consistent person.
"Is that another economic book? We have a lot of money now. What’s the point of reading that?"
“That’s not right. If we have money, we should think about putting that money to work.”
“What if you end up losing money again?”
“Would you not go fishing just because you’re afraid of worms? There is always a risk to return.”
His words were not completely wrong. Uncle continued, "And you have to put money to work. If you leave it alone, it’ll slowly lose value."
"What are you talking about?"
“The amount of money remains the same, but prices go up every year.” Uncle shrugged his shoulders and said it as if it were an obvious fact. His explanation was not very clear, so I didn’t know exactly what he was trying to say, but I vaguely understood.
My uncle continued to drone on about money for a few minutes after that. It was some random rabble about supply and demand.
“—Thus, in conclusion! The source of the money can be obfuscated. In technical terms, it’s called money laundering.”
His lecture initially started with macroeconomics...
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