Pyramids solve what Yoshisuke Aikawa, the founder of the Nissan group in pre-war Japan, once called the “capitalist’s quandary”: how to raise money from outsiders without ceding control.

“金字塔”解决了日本二战前尼桑集团的创始人Yoshisuke Aikawa曾讲的“资本家的困境”：如何不用放弃控制权就能从外部筹集资金。

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The classic example is pre-World War II Germany where the government literally printed money to pay it bills.

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