Saigon rain and Saigon people

I quote here a short paragraph about the sale and purchase transaction, from the article of journalist Hoang Hai Van: “Adam Smith, the father of economics, said that a transaction between two partners voluntarily, it will not happen. unless both parties believe it is in their interests. It is a “buy and sell” agreement that any ordinary citizen can understand. It is this “consensus to buy and sell” that makes the beauty of the price.

What is more beautiful than when two people buy and sell… a rain? Please read carefully the closing sentence of the poem “Rain in Saigon”:

“hey, how much do you pay for that rain

Find the difference and go to the pub“

Saigonese often say “how much” instead of “how much”. When “two people sit and watch the rain” as the name of a short story by Saigon writer Trang The Hy, such a strange transaction is entirely possible. One person, possibly inspired, bought… this strangely beautiful first rain of the season from some strange Saigonese, and when hiding in the rain with an unknown friend, he tried to “seduce” him to see if he saw it. beautiful rain and want to… buy that rain?

This is a purely economic transaction, for both buying and selling, in accordance with the market theory of Adam Smith, the seller is willing to try, if the partner is interested, will discuss the price further. I guess, when the person who bought the other rain paid to have that rain, he was very innocent, and the amount to pay was not large, for example, only 50,000 VND, according to the price of 1992. If he bought it, he had to find his own person. can resell, make the difference. I think, the difference will not be big, buy 50,000 VND, then sell 100,000 VND, profit 50,000 VND, that’s all. For what? Letting “my brothers go to the pub”, simple but fun to do. I think, if it were me, when I had that offer, I would say “OK”. I bought a beautiful rain, beautiful even when the rain stopped, only losing 50,000 VND, the other 50,000 “profit”, the two brothers pulled into the sidewalk pub, finished.

In short, I only lost 50,000 VND, got the whole rain of Saigon, and got the whole drink. As for his partner, he got the same thing, but he “conserved capital” because he lost nothing and got a drink. Both buyers and sellers believe that they are profitable, the transaction must be successful.

I will talk about the personality of Saigon people on the occasion of the story of buying and selling the first rain of this season, on another occasion…