Chapter 576 Human Breeding Farm
Although Steve Rogers here does not have the systematic study of struggle experience like the real captain who was transformed by Lin Hao, he is still a veteran who has been on the battlefield and led a team. He has been observing and learning over the past fifty years. It is no longer what it used to be.
So he also knew that an underground organization must adhere to a strict confidentiality system. Some things, such as the organization's program and purpose, can be disclosed to all members, but some things, such as the organization's membership list and secret communication channels, obviously cannot be disclosed to all members.
Rhett came to complain because he was drunk, but he actually had his own little thoughts.
He saw that Steve could enter and leave the "Rockefeller Planet" freely, and it was conceivable that he must have his own transportation channels, so he wanted the captain to do well and take him back to Earth first.
This was not his only idea. Other co-workers who drank together had this idea. As long as Steve dared to speak, others would of course have an excuse to make demands.
Yes, the composition of Steve's current team is so complicated.
A group of immigrants who are just dissatisfied with the consortium but have no courage to jump out and resist with force. How much consciousness can they have without experiencing the test of blood and fire?
The capital consortium is controlled by selfish desires. Do these immigrants who wish for the death of the consortium master also care about themselves first?
Steve also wants to find some energetic young people, but the young immigrants have not yet seen the true face of the capital consortium, and are blinded by the trap of high wages. Who dares to take the risk and come to accompany him in the underground struggle?
As for those immigrants who were bloody and dared to resist with force, they have long since "disappeared" in batches.
The arms giants sell weapons freely in the United States, but they strictly guard against weapons on their own planet, and they would like to install a tracker on even an electric shock rod.
After all, the United States belongs to everyone, and it can no longer be privatized anyway. It is better to make money, but our own planet is our own, how can we allow the little bastards to master weapons?
Steve has no shortage of weapons, but he is still waiting for an opportunity.
Because after more than thirty years, although the immigrants have accumulated a lot of grievances against the capital consortium, it has not yet reached the level of supporting their armed resistance. More immigrants are like Rhett in front of them, and they just want to escape back to the earth and stay away from the consortium. of persecution.
"Don't worry, this won't last long!"
After Steve appeased Red, he continued to use the artificial intelligence Tony had updated for him to invade the Rockefeller family's network and collect the intelligence he wanted.
Over the past fifty years, scientists on earth have naturally been promoting technological progress. In many aspects, they have already caught up with Tony Stark more than fifty years ago. However, Tony is not standing still. He has a Marvel editor. If you have a brain that has been hacked, although this world rejects extraordinary power, it does not reject technology.
What's more, the world itself is still in the Marvel Universe and has not yet transcended.
Tony's genius brain is of course still working, and so is Lin Hao's brain.
Tony Stark still single-handedly suppresses scientists on Earth. In addition, he possesses many alien technology reserves that far exceed the level of Earth's technology. Therefore, even after fifty years, he is still in the mechanical manufacturing industry that he is good at. , electronic engineering and other fields maintain absolute advantages, while the biological sciences field is weak and has been gradually overtaken.
Of course, if this continues, sooner or later he will be completely surpassed.
Because of the uncertainty of genes and the huge population base, sooner or later a new genius brain will be created, just like Einstein and Landau.
Steve was conducting daily intelligence gathering, but unexpectedly an unexpected eavesdropping gave him the opportunity he had been waiting for.
At this moment, the top brass of the Rockefeller family are having an internal meeting.
“Human resources are still a big problem.”
Through the surveillance, Steve saw a Rockefeller family member in a suit presiding over the meeting.
"After these years of fighting, the American population on the old star has dropped to 100 million. They can live very comfortably on the earth, and their desire to immigrate and open up wasteland is getting smaller and smaller."
"According to estimates from the statistics department, over the past thirty years, each of the top ten consortiums has only recruited about 20 million people on average, and the remaining 100 million American people have been divided up by other families and the federal government."
"Since China started the interstellar era, it has been difficult for us to absorb Chinese immigrants, and other countries on the earth also have other choices."
"Currently, the number of immigrants under the control of the Rockefeller family has just reached 27.55 million. This number, placed on the four habitable planets under our control, can only support one or two cities each."
"China has built at least ten cities on each of the fifteen livable planets they control, and their population has achieved healthy growth."
Half a century after the people of Earth entered the interstellar era, everyone realized that without a large population base, they simply could not support a healthy development of interstellar civilization.
Just like the Rockefeller family, although they control four habitable planets and dozens of mineral planets, they appear to be very vain because of the lack of population.
There are only one or two cities on each habitable planet, and there is only one mine on the mineral planet to mine the main mineral resources. Even the names are "Coal Star", "Iron Star", and "Copper Star". "Star" looks extremely arrogant, but in fact he is full of helplessness.
Such a planet is not so much occupied by the Rockefeller family as it is a dog peed on it and self-righteously marked its territory.
Right now, the people on Earth are busy developing wastelands, but once the pace of exploring new habitable planets slows down and all habitable planets in nearby star fields are found, competition and even war will inevitably break out.
In the past few decades, their ten major consortiums have had many conflicts over the competition for mineral planets rich in gold mines, rare earths and other resources.
It is conceivable that once all habitable planets in the nearby star field are found by the people on earth, war will follow.
After all, a habitable planet is an absolutely non-renewable resource.
With a growth cycle of billions of years, people on earth don’t think they can wait for the next batch.
With the current layout of only a few cities on each planet, how can we deal with interstellar wars?
On the livable planet controlled by China, many cities have been built and populated according to the planetary defense strategy. Each city has millions or even tens of millions of people, and the average population on each planet is over 100 million.
Every planet is well managed and has long been preparing for the interstellar war that is likely to occur in the future.
Although the United States has an advantage in the number of habitable planets that are decentralized and controlled, it is weak everywhere. If there is a war in the future, China's spacecraft can land in deserted areas, and they cannot even lay out an orbital interception network.
But the American consortium, which is aware of this serious problem, can no longer hold together for warmth.
The ten major financial groups all have their own territories. Who is willing to dedicate themselves to other people’s planets?
If there really is a fight, it would be good enough not to take the opportunity to add insult to injury!
"Why has China's population doubled in the past fifty years?" asked a slightly younger Rockefeller in the conference room.
The elder Rockefeller didn't expect that he would ask such a stupid question, and he didn't know how to answer it for a while.
In the end, his father didn't want him to continue to be embarrassed, so he gave him a hard look.
"We can't learn from their methods." The man presiding over the meeting said indifferently.
The reason why the population of this large eastern country has doubled in fifty years is of course because the existing system has relatively restricted the selfish desires of noble families and brought better welfare benefits to ordinary people.
As income increases and life pressure decreases, ordinary citizens naturally have the desire to have more children.
Just like the passionate years, the people who overthrew the mountains burst out with a strong desire to reproduce. In just over 20 years, the population doubled from 400 million to 800 million.
Of course, the American capital consortium cannot learn from this, because it requires them to relax their exploitation of the bottom class.
It seems that as long as they have a little long-term vision and a little more conscience, they can get rich returns.
However, the capital consortium driven by selfish desires can only be united when it comes to grabbing meat to eat. If they are asked to share part of the meat, there will be many problems!
Which family has the most?
Although there is a lot of money, there are also a lot of people!
Ordinary people can't afford to live or support themselves, so why should they worry about this?
Especially for a large family like the Rockefellers that has lasted for two hundred years, how many collateral branches does it have?
Most of these tribesmen have transferred from the earth to their home planet in the past thirty years, and control three cities, eighteen market towns, and hundreds of mines and breeding farms on the main star.
If the big shot at the top wants to eat meat, the little guy below has to follow suit and drink some soup, right?
Otherwise, is my surname "Rockefeller" worthy of me?
As a result, the superiors set the tax rate at one-tenth, and after increasing the tax rate, the subordinates dared to receive five-tenths. Of course, the methods will be relatively subtle and the wealth will be recovered in various ways.
For example, if the family members in charge of the breeding farm are short of money, they can find any excuse to increase the price of meat, and immigrants will foot the bill anyway.
Everyone is eating meat and drinking soup, and are happy. You want us to give up these gray incomes with just one sentence?
Why?
If you have the ability, the big shots above you should give up their extravagant lives and set an example!
This...this doesn't cost this man's life!
How can a master who has been accustomed to fine clothes and fine food since childhood endure such hardship?
Therefore, this kind of family model of interstellar development cannot benefit the people at all. A family that has the ability to enter the interstellar era must not be just a small family with a simple structure, and must take into account the feelings of the people of the side clans.
But they are connected by blood and cannot even learn from the state machine. Even if something goes wrong, it is just three drinks as a penalty.
Especially in the current situation where there are still a lot of resources to be developed, it is impossible for the big family to be ruthless enough to rectify it.
Otherwise, people's hearts will be scattered and it will be difficult to lead the team.
In the pioneering era, if we didn’t rely on blood relatives, how could we rely on outsiders?
On Earth, larger family businesses still encounter such problems, let alone on an extraterrestrial planet without other supervisory forces?
The model of giving benefits to the people and thus promoting the natural growth of the population simply does not work on a planet dominated by large families.
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“Then we can only increase investment in research and development of artificial intelligence and fully automatic production lines.”
Faced with the shortage of human resources, the Rockefeller family made the same choice as the United States in reality, trying to replace manpower with machines.
It's just that in reality, the old America is short of cheap labor, and even Rockefeller here is short of it.
In fact, they are essentially pursuing cheap labor.
"Of course this is a good idea, but the demand for outstanding talents will be greater!" The man hosting the meeting sighed: "For such talents, money has no attraction..."
Because in this fiercely competitive era of large-scale development, the two major systems of the East and the West, and all powerful groups that can enter outer space, are frantically competing for talents.
If there is a psychological upper limit to the vicious bidding for ordinary immigrants, there is no upper limit for the competition for talents. All parties dare to apply for any conditions, and it depends on whether you have the talent.
After fighting for half a century, the Rockefeller family still could not gain an overwhelming advantage. The number of talents they attracted within a period of time had a relatively fixed value.
"At this point, Stark Industries has a greater advantage than our families..." As he said this, the Rockefeller couldn't help but cursed: "Damn Tony Stark!"
"Then how about we increase investment in basic education and cultivate talents ourselves? As long as the base is large, there will always be talents emerging..."
The stupid young man just now once again put forward constructive suggestions, but was interrupted by his father without any surprise.
"Shut up!"
This unlucky kid, doesn’t he know that the education industry is in charge of his own family? I didn’t know that your school on the main star just raised the tuition fees a few days ago?
If you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are, how many people behind our backs will eat together!
In the interstellar development, the population that can play a greater role is certainly not illiterate and must have a certain knowledge reserve.
When it comes to cultivating a large base of educated youth, the great Eastern countries have achieved higher results than the American consortium!
The large Eastern countries that continued the original system did not abandon compulsory education and invested heavily in subsidies to educate the new population.
Capital consortia cannot do this.
They can allow members of their own family to attend school for free due to blood ties, but they still have to charge high tuition fees for other immigrants and turn the school into a business.
Not only that, they also brought America's "fine traditions" to the planet they control.
For example, the school allows students to take advantage of the situation, and teachers do not care about classroom discipline at all.
For another example, the teacher will only read what is taught in class and will not teach useful tips, but will leave these skills in the cram school he holds after class. If the students want to learn, they have to pay a high tuition fee.
With such a good deal, everyone is busy making money. Now you say that you want to improve the educational environment, increase basic education subsidies, and cut off your family's financial path. Who is willing to agree?
The United States on earth can directly attract well-educated college students from all over the world, so it can avoid large investments in basic education.
In this era of fierce competition, where are the students from Beiqing who are rushing to study on their planet?
"This won't work, that won't work either..." Leng Touqing was scolded one after another, and his anger surged, and he shouted directly: "Just lock up all immigrants and have children!"
"Asshole!" The old man next to him raised his hand and was about to slap him.
A Rockefeller sitting opposite the father and son lit up: "Kerry's words inspired me!"
"Tell me, what suggestions do you have?" This was just a brainstorming session, and the man presiding over the meeting was eager to hear more suggestions.
"It is true that they can be forced to have children, but it is not to lock them up, but to make them have no other hope in life except to have children..."
After secretly eavesdropping on this, Steve's eyes suddenly became sharp.
Just listen to this Rockefeller continue to speak: "The main factors that affect the fertility rate are the following: high pressure in life, high cost of children's education, and high education level of women, which reduces the desire to have children."
"These factors are actually intrinsically linked, but they are not absolute."
"With the high pressure of life and the high cost of educating children, do we definitely not want to have children? Then why do Indians still have children without any scruples?"
"Because the status of women in India is not high, most women are even illiterate!" The dumb guy across the conference table finally said something that would not be scolded by his father.
"That's right, so if we want to completely solve the population problem, we can actually learn from India and artificially create a 'human breeding farm' on every planet!"
"We can continue to increase the living pressure of immigrants, and move immigrants who cannot support themselves and become bankrupt to 'human breeding farms', regardless of gender."
After saying this, the man smiled: "Of course, beautiful women have more value and are scarce resources. There is no need to give them to failed men in the 'breeding farms'."
"In a few years, the men and women in this 'breeding farm', in addition to doing menial jobs, will only have the pleasure of making humans when they return home, just like the slums in India."
"As long as we ensure the basic sanitary and medical conditions of the 'breeding farms', we can obtain a steady stream of new people just like raising livestock in captivity."
The Rockefeller who put forward the opinion became more and more inspired as he spoke, and he continued to improve his ideas as he spoke.
"In addition, in order to give these lowly animals some hope, we can open some science and education programs so that newborns in the 'breeding farms' can test their IQs. Those newborns with high IQs can emerge from them, and we can provide them with Scholarships or student loans”
"Of course, beauty pageants like the one in Poland are indispensable! After all, no matter how ugly the parents are, it is possible to give birth to beautiful embryos. This is the magic of human genes!"
"Hey hey hey..." A man's laughter sounded in the conference room.
"As long as we persist, the 'human breeding farm' can not only provide us with a steady stream of cheap labor, but also provide us with geniuses and beauties emerging from genetic mutations."
"In the future, as long as the population base of the 'breeding farms' grows larger and larger, geniuses will slowly become a new cheap labor force and form a group of middle class."
"There is no need to worry about the pressure that overpopulation will put on the environment. As long as the sanitary and medical conditions of the 'breeding farms' are slightly reduced, the excess population can be eliminated like the 'swine fever'."
"Genius!" The man who presided over the meeting praised Rockefeller for the suggestion: "What a genius suggestion!"
This proposal not only prevents them from reducing the exploitation of immigrants or increasing investment in basic education, but encourages them to be more aggressive, and in the future it can solve the problem of cheap labor and talent shortages in one fell swoop.
It really suits their taste!
After all, the people in the "human farm" are just like the people in the slums, who have lost all hope in life.
If you work hard to have more children, if you give birth to a genius or a beautiful woman, you can change the fate of the family. This probability is actually higher than getting rich through hard work.
The Rockefeller family does not even implement the caste system and gives equal opportunities to "animals". It is so kind-hearted!
(End of chapter)