World Domination Begins With Getting a System in a Modern World-Chapter 105: Desires Vs Necessities

After more than an hour of surfing the internet, researching and trying to acquire knowledge, and information, James sighed tiredly and closed the laptop.

Trying to gather information and knowledge from the internet, James realised something. He has been a fool all along. Not exactly a fool but he has been looking at thing the wrong way.

His goal is to build a global empire worth trillions of dollars in AUM, rivalling companies like BlackRock Inc and Vanguard. But he won’t be able to achieve that from the comfort of his home.

Yes, he can control his empire from the comfort of his room but he has to get out to get the job done. He has to socialise, shake hands, fake smiles, fake laughs, network, know the right people, acquire the right information and so many other things.

Just thinking about it alone was already giving him headache but James understood that it needs to be done if he wants to achieve his goal.

Yes, he can just give up on the goal and just enjoy a simple life. Wake up everyday in the sweet, loving hands of those he cares about. He can live everyday causally, enjoying life and his money.

And beautiful thing is that he will never run of money. He now has assets that can bring him a very substantial amount of rebate eligible funds annually and with them, he can just spend an receive rebate.

He can just enjoy his life everyday without any stress or worry, but is that really possible? He was aware that no matter how much he keeps to himself and avoid trouble to the absolute best of his abilities, it will still come looking for him. And it can come in different forms.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be someone targeting him. The world falling apart is trouble. War between countries is trouble. Even with the system and the rebate, economic crashes are troubles.

One might say that James shouldn’t worry about all these as they might never affect him. But that’s the thing, "might".

It’s not absolute, which means it can happen. The US is in a pretty rough spot at the moment, the world as a whole is in a pretty rough spot. And with the way the world is moving and the road it’s heading down, James feels like trouble would be coming for sooner or later.

And even those are to be taken out of consideration due to him being pessimistic and an advertiser doom, qnd gloom, then what about his family’s well-being? Their health.

It is said that money can buy good health care services and other things, but it can’t buy longevity. No matter how much money one has, they can’t buy an extra second of life.

And that is something that even James isn’t an exception to. Maybe with the help of the system and by increasing his stats, he can live very long. But what about those he cares about? What about Patty, Leslie and those close to him?

They don’t have the system and they can’t escape old age and death. And James doesn’t want to be alive and watch them die before him. That is no different than him dying, as life would become meaningless without them by his side.

"Sigh..." He let out a deep breath, as he collapsed back on the chair, looking up at the ceiling.

"Why is the world is so damn complicated?" He muttered.

From now on, James needs to start listing the things he needs and how to work towards achieving them.

He will need a lot of things to achieve his goal and one of them his money, which already has the money and an infinite source of it. The others are exclusive knowledge that will give him leverage, power, access, a loyal army, control in every form and intelligence.

These are the things that he needs badly and he will have to start working towards them. But James was aware that he can’t do it on his own.

He needs someone to teach a total greehorn like him, the ropes. He needs someone to mentor him on the financial world, the world of the elites and how they works.

James won’t be stubborn and say that he can learn this on his own and achieve his goal himself. That’s just him begging to be laughed at.

Gather information from the internet? That’s just stupid. He can only learn so much. Even though James hasn’t gone into financial world yet, he understood one very important thing:

Those actually making money from something would never tell you how they are doing it. And even if they do, they won’t babysit you, but expect you to figure things out on your own.

Also, James was aware that there was no actual information on the internet. Everything there are either disinformation or at best, bare surface level information.

Creating something an empire that huge, even little one, can’t be achieved by a single person. Especially someone like James who literally knows nothing about where he’s venturing into.

It’s for this reason that he needs a mentor to teach him and loyal army to execute his orders, and manage the empire for him.

But first, he has to look for a mentor who can teach him everything he needs to learn. And to do that, he will have to start going out actively.

He can’t meet Patty for this sort of thing as she’s not right person for it. The sort of person he needs is someone who has worked with the ultra rich before. Someone who has worked or managed big names financial organisation.

But getting someone like that isn’t going or be easy. It’s not like he randomly meet them on the road. Even if the heavens smiles on him and he meets such person, how does he convince them?

James has full knowledge of his social skills, which is abysmal. He can barely hold a random conversation with a random stranger

His social battery is extremely weak and he gets tired after a few minutes of interacting with people.

These are things that James has to buildband improve by himself. Increasing his Charisma stat won’t solve the problem.

Unlike what others might think. The Charisma stat doesn’t give him the ability to charm people. It only improves his appearance and others’ perception of him. But that can only go so far. He’s the only one who can fix himself by working on the things he’s lacking.

James sighed as he thought of all these. He can no longer sit down, lazing around and allowing his limitations to control him. It’s time to start working on himself. He must start learning how to behave like the rich. No, he must start learning the true ways of the elite.

"I should probably start with golf. It’s literally the unofficial language of the rich. Who knows? I might meet someone," he muttered.

He sighed once more as he slowly stood up, and left the study. He made his way to his room and when he walked inside, he slipped into his bed.

Covering himself with the duvet that has the softness of a feather, he stared at the ceiling for a few moments, his thoughts straying.

With a smile, he gathered his thoughts and closed his eyes, falling asleep.