The most profound thing I feel after reading it is that the difference in the cost of making mistakes between the poor and the rich is too great.
Let's first look at the comparison between Armond, the hotel manager, and Shane, the son of Ma Bao:
Regarding booking the wrong room for the guest, the manager chose to lie + smile to appease, instead of apologizing honestly, did the manager make a mistake?
Guilty
Is this a big mistake?
not big
As a mini-series with only six episodes, at the beginning, he took the time to let the manager repeatedly explain to trainee the reason for his actions to set up the plot: he is not narrow-minded or bad-tempered, he just chooses based on his long-term experience He took a trick that he thought was the safest and would satisfy the guests. Fundamentally, what he safeguarded was actually the interests of the hotel.
So you could even say he just made a choice, not a mistake. The reason why he got bigger and bigger was because he happened to meet such a true master.
So what were the consequences of his mistake? A rich man lost his job with a phone call. Judging from his dejected performance, losing his job should have been a huge blow to him.
Then let's take a look at Ma Baonan again:
Did he make a mistake?
Guilty
Is this a big mistake?
Manslaughter is no small mistake for anyone.
So what is the consequence of this error?
Without any consequences, he boarded the plane and went home the next day.
In fact, this conclusion is worth considering. It stands to reason that he has had so many conflicts with the manager, his wife Rachel and masseuse Belinda are witnesses. He took a knife and hacked to death the manager in a closed space with no witnesses and no cameras. For the police, he should be a little suspicious anyway, right?
However, it seems that he has not encountered any trouble so far, so he just left.
What if the roles were reversed? The manager accidentally hacked him to death, will the police really not control the manager as a major suspect?
For another comparison, the middle-class young black woman Paula, as the person who instigated the crime of the Hawaiian brother, is not at fault less than the Hawaiian brother, right? (How to judge the judgment of abetting crime in US law will not be discussed here)
Not to mention the cover-up of her friends and brother in Hawaii, the police are not curious about how the younger brother got the secret that only the family knew? Or do you think the other party is a decent and rich person and hasn't looked into it for a long time?
A thousand words are still a sentence, as a poor man, please do not make mistakes.
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