Chapter 574 The Fangs of Capital
Even if human civilization one day enters the interstellar world, the social system is unlikely to undergo earth-shaking changes in a short period of time, because the vested interest classes are already familiar with the existing rules, and they must be the first to benefit from the benefits of the times.
You can eat meat without doing anything, so why make any random changes?
What if something is really changed?
Wouldn’t it be impossible to keep our identity as Huang Guizhou today? Then why grab meat to eat?
Therefore, the two major interstellar countries in the east and west of this world have continued the past system and entered the interstellar era, carrying out interstellar development.
The only difference lies in whether the conditions provided for immigrants are favorable and how long these favorable conditions can last.
Tony Stark didn't go to Lin Hao's funeral hall to dance, not because he was afraid of waking up Lin Hao, who was suspended from death, but because he also encountered something.
The noble families on the other side of the ocean endured for fifty years before showing their fangs, but the conglomerate families in the United States never concealed their fangs from the beginning.
At that time, because only one habitable planet, "New America", was discovered, major American consortiums joined forces to develop it and share interstellar resources.
But as the Chinese broke into the sea of stars with their star maps, the people on earth found that they seemed to have suddenly arrived from the desolate shallow water area to the resource-rich deep water area. There were actually a large number of planets suitable for human habitation within a thousand light years around.
Some require certain modifications, and some can be directly lived in.
There are countless desolate planets that contain the resources needed for human civilization. These uninhabitable desolate planets have all become mines for people on earth.
Mining equipment has evolved from manual machines to semi-automatic to fully automatic. Mining efficiency has become higher and higher, but the situation of miners has become worse and worse.
Habitable planets are constantly being discovered, and the American conglomerate family naturally has the idea of monopolizing an entire planet.
Their aboveboard legislation determines the legality of private planets.
It is stipulated that as long as all citizens discover a habitable planet, they can enjoy 10% ownership of the planet.
Once this law was promulgated, astronomy departments in all universities around the world became the most popular major on the planet, bar none!
This move has indeed greatly promoted the enthusiasm of people on earth to explore the universe, and has actually achieved some positive results, with a large number of habitable planets being discovered.
But soon, the Americans discovered that their desire to be the "ball owner" was not easy to realize.
Because all necessary means of transportation such as spaceships are monopolized, ordinary people are neither qualified nor have the financial resources to purchase them.
While the capital consortium sells space observation equipment at low prices, it also firmly monopolizes spacecraft and strictly controls the entire process of each spacecraft from leaving the factory to scrapping, and even parts are strictly guarded.
Its purpose is self-evident.
Can gentlemen watch helplessly as a lucky guy discovers a livable planet and is reborn, jeopardizing his own status a few years later?
If you discover a new habitable planet, the capital consortium can legally grant the discoverer one-tenth of the ownership.
But developing a wild planet requires labor, right? Need mechanical equipment?
Could these things appear out of thin air on a brand new planet?
In the end, we have to rely on transportation channels monopolized by capital consortia.
On the surface, you own one-tenth of a planet, but what can a piece of wasteland be used for?
Ordinary people may not even be able to afford a few spaceship tickets, so what can they use to develop it?
Taking your family to live a life where men farm and women weave?
However, a planet suitable for human survival must also be suitable for the reproduction of other creatures. There are many crises on the wild planet. Inexperienced ordinary people taking their whole families there will either enjoy happiness or die.
The capital consortium is eager to have a few more fools like this so that they can logically receive one-tenth of the land after their entire family dies.
Therefore, the capital consortium very thoughtfully saw the plight of ordinary people and provided another plan: cooperative development.
The two parties set up a development company to jointly develop this new planet. The discoverer enjoys one-tenth of the company's original equity, but basically can only receive dividends and cannot participate in management.
In order to control more planets, the consortium family offers more attractive conditions outside the federal government. The American Federation only provides one-tenth of the share in the law, but they propose a higher share ratio, tempting the discoverers to Give them the coordinates of the newly discovered planet. However, this kind of private transaction is basically gambling on the conscience of capitalists. You can kill someone just for a mere antique, let alone an entire livable planet?
Since the promulgation of this law, too many people who claimed to have discovered new planets have mysteriously disappeared and have never been heard from again.
After this kind of scandal was exposed several times, the lucky discoverer no longer dared to gamble on the conscience of the capitalists, and instead announced the planet coordinates to the federal government through public channels.
Under open channels, the federal government at least cannot engage in the business of killing people and selling goods.
This law issued by the United States has indeed promoted the continuous discovery of new habitable planets, but it cannot be denied that there are still some discoverers who have been holding on to the coordinates, fantasizing about getting a spaceship, secretly developing it, and thus fully owning a planet. .
Human greed is a disguised driving force for civilization and progress.
As the first person on Earth to conquer spaceship manufacturing technology, Tony Stark and his Stark Industries have been frequently visited by various commercial spies, mercenaries, and killers over the years.
Obviously, they all hope to kidnap him back and interrogate him about all the spacecraft manufacturing technology.
After all, other technicians don’t know as comprehensively as he does. If a big tree attracts attention, how can there be as much benefit from tying other engineers as tying him?
"Here we go again..." Seeing the prompt from artificial intelligence Elise, Tony's face was full of helplessness.
Over the years, his energy has been hindered by these endless adventurers, and even the supervision of capital consortia has been relaxed a lot. Members of the "Interstellar Development Foundation" even deliberately indulged these people and secretly provided them with Tony's information, which caused confusion. He was very annoyed.
"This is a war. Their counterattack against you has already begun. It is still very slight now and will only become more intense in the future."
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Seeing his dilemma, Steve Rogers on the other end of the video had no idea.
"Are you going to continue?"
For half a century, Tony Stark found himself like a fool scooping out floods. He tried to regulate the behavior of the capital consortium, but the scandals Steve discovered one after another continued to shake his confidence.
Just like the classic line in "Tea House": Improve, improve, the more you change, the cooler it gets, the cooler it gets!
"..." Tony was silent for a long time, still speaking harshly: "I haven't been defeated yet!"
Fifty years later, he is much less determined than he was fifty years ago, with only unwillingness and pride at play.
"Okay, I'll prepare for the war in the future." Steve, who has been watching for more than fifty years, has gradually given up on luck.
At this moment, he is on the "Rockefeller Star", which is more than 130 light-years away from the earth. From the name, you can tell that this is the planet controlled by the Rockefeller family, and it is also the star they selected as the family's main star.
In the past half century, the top ten financial groups in the United States have successively moved most of their power from the earth to their chosen main stars, officially opening the era of interstellar hegemony.
Since they have never encountered aliens, when conflicts between the top ten financial groups are difficult to eliminate, they are not afraid to use force to solve problems. In order to snatch scarce resources, many conflicts and even firefights of different scales have broken out.
However, this is not the most painful thing that the immigrants have encountered. After all, the current conflicts all occur on remote resource stars, far away from ordinary people's lives.
The top ten consortiums also maintained rational restraint and did not expand the conflict. The senior officials did not care about the death of people in the frontline conflict. They went along with the reception and took care of the singing and dancing.
The biggest crisis comes from the daily lives of immigrants.
"What's going on? Why have the prices of meat gone up again?"
"I heard that the breeding farm outside the city was attacked by wild beasts and suffered heavy losses."
"Then it can't be increased by 50% in one go, right? My son's school just raised the tuition last month. If it continues to increase like this, will it be difficult for us to survive?"
“If I had known better, I shouldn’t have come to Rockefeller Star in the first place!”
(End of chapter)