Chapter 411 Improving People's Livelihood
Although Purficott didn't pay too much attention to her luxurious life, the huge difference in life between her and ordinary people still made her very concerned.
This is not only related to whether her rule is stable, but also whether the northern plan she has formulated can be smoothly implemented.
The people's living difficulties mean that they need to spend more energy and income on maintaining daily living expenses. In this way, their energy and investment in construction will be reduced, and at the same time, Reduce labor efficiency.
Let me ask, is a person with three meals a day, no worries about food and clothing, and a generous income highly motivated to work? Or is a person who has two meals a day, is hungry and cold, and whose income cannot even support his family highly motivated to work?
The answer is of course self-evident. If you want a horse to run but don't eat grass, such a good thing is impossible. Moreover, if you want a horse to run fast, you really can't eat grass, but eat fried food. Soybeans and refined food are better than what humans eat.
Switching to the workers, that is to say, Purficott needs to ensure that the workers can have enough food and clothing, and at the same time, the income can support their families. It is best that there is still a little surplus in the income to improve their lives. This is The most perfect state.
It is easy to understand why workers should be fed and clothed. After all, in the extremely cold apocalypse, it will really kill people if they don’t have enough food and clothing.
In order to protect the precious population that he had finally saved, Purficott could not let them suffer from hunger and cold.
As for income... Although after the end of the world, she can adopt a rationing system and simply stop paying workers, the rationing system also pays labor remuneration, but the form of payment has changed.
Just like the bill period she experienced in her childhood before time travel, money was not used at that time but various bills were used. This is actually a general equivalent in disguise, it is also labor remuneration.
So money is not the key, but the labor remuneration obtained from labor, which can support the family.
As for leaving a balance for workers to improve their lives, this is actually another management technique that promotes their enthusiasm for labor.
Because for the workers at the bottom, if the remuneration they receive for their hard work every month is only enough to support their families and fill their stomachs, then their lives will undoubtedly not change. Good hope.
This will cause the workers at the bottom to lose hope in life and lose the motivation to achieve a better life. At the same time, they will not want to work hard at work.
And having money can improve his life, which means that his life can become better and better, which will give him more enthusiasm to work hard and make himself and his family's life better and better.
At the same time, this part of consumption can also stimulate domestic demand, activate the market, promote the development of all walks of life, and make the overall economy show an upward trend.
So Purfico sometimes doesn’t understand why capitalists want to exploit workers’ labor remuneration as much as possible when they are squeezing workers’ labor power and surplus value to the maximum.
How can workers buy the goods they produce when they have no money in their pockets? You can’t possibly sell all your products to the wealthy middle class and upper-class nobility, right?
The boss who really makes money will let the workers produce what he needs, and then pay a little more when paying wages so that the workers can afford to buy what he produces. This forms a cycle. The factory has orders and the workers have It’s a win-win situation when you can increase your income and improve your life.
The kind of factory owners and capitalists who would rather donate money to charity than raise wages for their workers can only be described as short-sighted in Purficott's eyes.
Of course, it is also possible that he feels that the products he produces are simply not affordable for his workers, so he simply does not increase wages for his workers to ensure that he maximizes his profits. But this was a foolish move in Purficott's eyes, as his workers would become more and more resentful.
Although some people may always think that "if you don't do it, Palu will do it", but Palu will also choose the boss and working environment. After all, entering the factory to screw screws is not welcome. , if not forced by life, who would be willing to do a purely hard work like driving screws?
At least Purficott herself is not willing to do this kind of job. Maybe she will choose this kind of job when life forces her. But as soon as there is an opportunity to change, she will change her job immediately.
Workers do not change jobs because the cost of changing jobs is too high and they cannot afford it.
If the worker really feels that the loss of continuing to work is greater than the cost of changing his job, then the worker will often change his job without hesitation.
Perfect himself thought this way, and one can only imagine what the workers at the bottom would think.
This also makes Purficott need to think more about how to improve the lives of the people at the bottom and improve their quality of life, so as to make the social structure of the North more stable.
When she was imagining these ideas, the first thing she thought of was naturally the thermos that she had thought of when she was observing the public sentiment. This thing is really a necessity for ordinary people. Before heating became popular, it It is of great significance and effect to ordinary people.
So Purficott did not hesitate and quickly ordered the establishment of a new factory. While producing thermos kettles, it also produced another type of heater that burned charcoal directly inside.
Both of these things are not complicated. They only require raw materials and simple mechanical processing. Even if they are made by hand, they can be knocked out.
So not long after Purficott ordered the order, affordable, simple and easy-to-use kettles and heaters appeared on the market in Chernobog, and they were warmly welcomed as soon as they were launched. Sales volume increased. Even more popular.
Even the Shelby family, who was supported by Perfectcott, started the business of smuggling this kind of thermos and heaters to other places, which shows how popular these two products are.
In fact, this is not unusual. After all, there is a real need for this thing, and rigid needs are often the most profitable business.
Purficott did not put the money earned from kettles and heaters into his own treasury, but used it to improve the livelihood of the people at the bottom of Chernobog.
For example, in the residential medical clinic she invested in, although there were only one or two physician apprentices who had just graduated from medical school, they still had no problem treating the minor ailments of these lower-class people such as headaches, brain fever, and the cost was not high. .
As for the establishment of universal education in primary schools, let alone the establishment of universal education, it is all the way it should be.
If there is anything particularly innovative about Perfect Court, perhaps the Clothing Rental Bureau is a feature.
(End of this chapter)