Having noodles at a street stall with an older brother worth hundreds of millions, who usually wears Uniqlo and drives an old Audi.

I asked: Big brother, with your level, not posting pictures of yachts and luxury watches on your social media is a bit too much of a loss, isn’t it? He took a bite of his noodles and smiled: You think that’s “showing off,” but in my eyes, that’s called “confessing.”

I was stunned: Confessing? Isn’t that a bit exaggerated? He said: Human society is essentially a jungle where survival resources are extremely scarce. Posting a photo of a luxury watch on social media gets likes, but in the eyes of some, that’s “precise prey marking.” Small-minded people will be thinking about your money, relatives will ask to borrow, competitors will study your financial channels, and even algorithms are calculating how to precisely harvest you.

I asked: What about those who post about their lives every day? He replied: That’s “persona economics.” They need to showcase false prosperity to exchange for some kind of credit or resources. That’s not life; that’s their “means of production.”

I understood: Truly top-tier big shots are extremely ordinary and low-key in real life. Because they no longer need to confirm their value by “being envied by others,” nor do they need to add unnecessary “hunting risks” for themselves.

Being low-key is not about cultivation; it’s the highest form of survival barrier.