At the end of the day, lazy people achieve nothing.

到最後，懶惰的人一無所獲。

Fortunately, in the age of capitalism, the rules of the game are quite different and

所幸的是，在資本主義時代，遊戲規則大不相同，而

you can get super rich even if you have the dumbest idea possible.

即使你有最愚蠢的想法，你也可以獲得超級財富。

Take an example of Alex Tew who figured out a very creative way to pay back his student

以Alex Tew為例，他想出了一個非常有創意的方法來償還他的學生。

debt.

債務。

At first glance, it seems like this idea is so freaking dumb that it would never work

乍一看，這個主意似乎太笨了，根本就不可能成功。

in a million years.

在百萬年內。

Alex realized, making a million dollar isn't as difficult as it seems, all he needed to

亞歷克斯意識到，賺一百萬美元並不像看起來那麼困難，他需要的是

do is to sell 1 dollar product to a million people out of 7 billion that are walking on

做的是把1美元的產品賣給70億人中的一百萬人，而這些人都是在走路的

the face of the hearth.

爐膛的表面。

He created a simple website that consisted of a single page with one million pixels and

他創建了一個簡單的網站，由一個100萬像素的單頁和

decided to sell each pixel for a single dollar.

決定以一元錢的價格出售每個像素。

You get the plan.

你知道計劃。

Buyers could place their images, logos or ads with an option to add a link to their

買家可以放置他們的影像、標識或廣告，並可選擇添加一個鏈接到他們的。

website.

網站。

logoes But you can't do anything with 1 pixel, he

但你不能用一個像素做任何事情，他。

started selling them 10 X 10, with a minimum price of a hundred bucks.

開始賣他們10 X 10，最低價格為100美元。

His first customers were his friends and family since he was raising money to pay back his

他的第一個客戶是他的親朋好友，因為他要籌錢還錢。

student loan.

學生貸款。

I mean, wouldn't you help your friend!

我的意思是，你不會幫助你的朋友嗎？

T Because you have student debt as well.

T因為你也有學生債。

But after the site made over a thousand dollars, it got the attention of the press who started

但網站賺了一千多塊錢後，引起了媒體的注意，他們開始了

writing about it and now everyone wanted a piece of the pie.

寫到這裡，現在每個人都想分一杯羹。

So within the next month, the website earned over 250 dollars.

於是在接下來的一個月內，網站賺了250多元。

The battle for the last 1000 pixels was so fierce that they were auctioned on eBay and

最後1000個像素的爭奪戰非常激烈，它們在eBay上被拍賣，並。

eventually sold for over 38,100 dollars.

最終以38100多元的價格成交。

The million dollar Home Page made over a 1,037,100 in 5 months, helping Alex, not only pay back

百萬美金的主頁在5個月內賺了103.71多萬，幫助Alex，不僅還了

his student debt but make him a millionaire.

他的學生債務，但讓他成為百萬富翁。

what would you say to someone who plans to become a millionaire by winning a lottery!

你會對一個計劃通過中彩票成為百萬富翁的人說些什麼呢!

Idiot! right? because your chances to win a lottery is 1 in 45 million.

白痴！對不對，因為你中彩票的機會是四千五百萬分之一。

T but that's exactly what Joan Ginther did.

T但這正是瓊-金瑟所做的。

She won the lottery in 1993 and earned over 5.4 million dollars.

1993年她中了彩票，賺了540多萬。

and since she has a Stanford Ph.D. in statistics, she did the math and came up with a way to

由於她擁有斯坦福大學的統計學博士學位，她做了數學計算，並提出了一種方法來解決

win the lottery again.

再次贏得彩票。

It sounds like a joke if it was possible to mathematically win the lottery, everyone would

這聽起來像一個笑話，如果它是可能的數學中獎，每個人都會。

do it, T but it seems like she is the only who could

但似乎只有她能做到這一點。

since she managed to win the lottery for another 3 times.

因為她又成功中了3次彩票。

Her next win came after 13 years in 2006 when she won 2 million dollars.

她的下一次勝利是在13年後的2006年，她贏得了200萬美元。

Of course, it's not as big as her first win, LESS SIGN

當然，這沒有她的第一場勝利，LESS SIGN那麼大。

so 2 years later she decided she needs to match her first prize and won another 3 million

所以兩年後，她決定要和她的一等獎相匹配，又中了300萬的獎金

dollars making her total winnings, 10.4 million dollars.

美元，使她的總獎金，1040萬美元。

T that seems like enough money to retire, however

不過，這錢似乎足夠退休了。

not for Joan, she decided she needs another 10 million dollars to never worry about her

瓊就不一樣了，她決定再要一千萬就不用擔心了

bills again.

鈔票再。

In 2010, she won another 10 million dollars and it seems like she has retired since we

2010年，她又贏了1000萬美元，似乎她已經退休了，因為我們。

haven't heard about her again.

沒有聽說過她了。

Before we move to our next hero let me just say that I am not encoring anyone in any way

在我們進入下一個英雄之前，我想說的是，我並不是在為任何人配音。

to spend his or her savings on lottery tickets, what Juan Ginther did is truly unique and

把自己的積蓄花在彩票上，胡安-金瑟所做的事情確實是獨一無二的，也是唯一的。

unbelievable.

難以置信

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however, what you can do is buy a domain for pennies and sell it for millions later on.

然而，你可以做的是用一分錢買一個域名，以後以百萬的價格出售。

I am not sure if that's going to work now but That's exactly what Chris Clark did.

我不知道現在是否還能用，但克里斯-克拉克就是這麼做的。

When he realized that vodka.com was sold for 3 million dollars, he figured out what to

當他意識到伏特加網被賣了300萬美元時，他想出了要

do with the domain he has purchased back in 1994 for just 20 backs.

做的域名，他已經購買了早在1994年僅20回。

What was another source of a liability since he was paying the annual fee to keep the domain,

既然他要交年費保留域名，那另一個責任來源是什麼。

turned Chris into a multi-millionaire overnight!

讓克里斯一夜之間變成了百萬富翁!

He put the domain up for an auction and sold it for 2.6 million dollars.

他把這個域名進行拍賣，以260萬美元的價格成交。

the number of people who got super rich out of ridiculously dumb ideas is way longer than

從荒謬的愚蠢的想法中獲得超級財富的人的數量是遠遠長於

this video could possibly cover, but you get the picture.

這個視頻可能會覆蓋，但你得到的圖片。

if you come across an idea that looks it would never work because it's simply dumb, it might

如果你遇到一個看起來永遠不會成功的想法，因為它只是愚蠢的，它可能是

worth giving it a shot.

值得一試

ANd while you are thinking how to win the lottery this year, how about you give this

當你正在思考如何贏得今年的彩票，你如何給這個。

video a thumbs up and hit that subscribe button, of course, you also can take the extra mile

視頻豎起大拇指，點擊訂閱按鈕，當然，你也可以採取額外的里程。

and click on that bell button.

並點擊那個鈴鐺按鈕。

Anyways, thanks for watching and until next time.

總之，謝謝大家的觀看，下次再來。