NOVEL WEB Chapter 1055 Wealth_2
The safe house in front of Joe Ga, with an internal space of 10 meters by 10 meters, is made entirely of titanium alloy, requiring at least 170 cubic meters of titanium alloy to complete.
A cubic meter of titanium alloy weighs about 5 tons, meaning this safe house alone is worth 42.5 million US Dollars in scrap. Four identical safe houses would cost 170 million US Dollars, and considering processing fees and such, it can't be built for less than 250 million US Dollars.
In Joe's eyes, rather than spending this money to build a safe house akin to an iron coffin, it's better to purchase a dozen missiles to place on the roof and in the yard. That's exactly what he did, and it barely cost him anything.
While calculating, Joe Ga used the Omnipotent Toolbox to 'consume' one complex locking component after another through the heavy door. In less than a few minutes, a crisp sound echoed from within the interior of this so-called impregnable safe house door...
Joe Ga contentedly turned the doorknob, retracting nine thick bolts from the three sides of the door, then forcefully pulled it open...
During the scan, Joe Ga knew Anon Talan wasn't here...
Pushing the door open with force, Joe Ga stepped inside the safe house, gazing at the wall illuminated by the emergency lights, he couldn't help but praise...
"Amber Palace"
This palace that should only appear in legend was now right before Joe's eyes.
Anon Talan had constructed this legendary palace within the safe house, placing a large number of artworks inside in accordance with the original form of Tsarist Russia.
From paintings to sculptures, from gold to jewelry, from agate to jade, these were all early-traveled antiques.
The most bizarre thing was, there was actually a big stack of anonymous bonds issued by the Swiss Bank after World War II.
This thing was not as Joe Ga imagined...
A bond the size of an A4 sheet, printed with a complex watermark, with the words 1 million on it...
But that's not all, the bond was also accompanied by a stack of coupon-sized slips with bond information.
The holder of the anonymous bond could tear off a coupon each time to go to the bank to exchange for that year's interest.
At that time, Swiss Bank opened the green light for funds worldwide to attract investments and offered high-interest rates.
The bonds Joe Ga found, totaling four stacks and 400 sheets, had coupons showing a 10% annual interest.
This meant that the Swiss Bank bonds totaling 400 million US Dollars generated 40 million US Dollars in interest every year.
After the American Government initiated lawsuits against Swiss Bank in 2007 about concealed property and tax evasion, Swiss Bank settled it with 780 million US Dollars. The value of these anonymous bonds was discounted since their security was challenged.
However, this certainly wouldn't stop that old man Anon Talan from cashing in on the interest!
The old man fully embodied the wisdom of wealth distribution...
Jewish bankers are notoriously shrewd, and they know how to allocate wealth.
In addition to the circulating capital assets outside, they also have gold, jewelry, art, and bonds, these hard currencies, to ensure they have the ability to stand up again no matter what troubles they encounter.
During World War II, the little mustached man in Germany killed too many Jews and confiscated a large amount of wealth. But after World War II, Jews were able to quickly rise again, thanks to their allocation of their own assets and their dedication to money...
These people once didn't even have a country of their own, so the financial concept passed down from generation to generation seems particularly cold-blooded, because people without a country don't need to take responsibility for society. If they can't stay here, they can go somewhere else.
Every nationality has its good and bad people, and Jews are no different!
But financialization and decentralization naturally amplify the 'evil' in individual capital, and once this capital grows up, it forms institutional exploitation under a unique political system.
The moment the concept of money and capital, along with the Washington Consensus privatizing everything, became an iron rule, this world naturally became stratified.
Upper, middle, and lower three classes!
The upper class sets the game rules, making you work hard to level up, and then when you reach the middle class, an invisible ceiling is placed above you...
Ensuring the upward path from lower to middle class, then using the rules to trample the easiest middle class.
The more active the capital in a country, the more obvious this phenomenon is.
Housing, cars, education, medical care, luxury goods, asset accumulation, and most importantly, luck...
The front few have drained most of the financial resources and energy of the middle class. A small number can excel, but without luck, breaking through the ceiling is still impossible.
The positions above are limited!
Just like the majority of company bosses will be kind to the bottom employees but very harsh to middle and senior managers.
The best way for middle-class people to move up is to make a career in a field that the upper class hasn't seen clearly, creating new interests; otherwise, it's difficult to be accepted by the upper class.
The explosion of the Internet around the millennium was a track those upper-class people couldn't understand in the past.
When they discovered it, those internet heroes had already taken shape. The smart thing to do then was to absorb them, then invest, buy shares, and share in the profits.
Joe Ga isn't an internet hero. He's one of the few who, engaged in a 'traditional industry' that involves heavy assets, carved out a path of blood during the time when the financial order was being reconstructed after World War II.
Joe Ga patiently packed everything in this 'treasury' into the Omnipotent Toolbox, not even leaving behind those regularly shaped amber bricks.
While cleaning up, Joe Ga found a few ancient Chinese artworks in the corner of the safe house, which even he, as an outsider, thought were very precious...
A few paintings and calligraphies, a Buddha statue that didn't seem to be much, some ceramic pieces that looked a bit old, and a somewhat inconspicuous piece of jade.
Each of these items had a piece of documentation beneath them. However, Joe Ga lacked enthusiasm for antiques, and he didn't have time to look through them one by one.
A person like Anon Talan wouldn't collect fake goods. The fact that these things are here indicates their value.
Joe Ga respectfully collected these relics from his homeland. Then, he suddenly found that the black stone skin on the back of the antique jade began to rapidly decompose, and again there was a fluctuation inside the Omnipotent Toolbox...
"FUCK! Such good luck?"
Joe Ga looked at the changes within the Omnipotent Toolbox in disbelief. He blinked, happily shifted focus to prevent himself from getting distracted...
He left behind a super-large shaped charge inside the safe house, which was an enlarged version of the torpedo warhead he used to bomb the Halliburton executives in New York back in the day...
Then casually scattered some scraps of paper and precious metals on the ground, along with six incendiary shells made of thermite, for creating a convincing scene after the explosion.
After finishing everything, Joe Ga moved to the position of a small door inside, finished unlocking it, looked at the dark passage, grinned, and said, "Wait for me, I'm coming for you!"