Outside the waiting room is a huge station square.
The tunnel that the three of them saw on the hillside before led to this place. The electronic sheep also saw the endless stream of trucks at that time, but when they walked in, they realized that what got off from those trucks were not goods at all, but Group after group of people.
Qiu Ming continued with the previous topic.
"In the beginning, memory coding technology was applied to ordinary people. It was some rich people or top middle-class families who hoped that their children could win at the starting line, so they secretly used memory coding for their children when they were very young. Many skills, and even give them some leadership character and qualities.
"As expected, these children whose memories have been recoded immediately stand out among their peers, far surpassing other peers. When they grow up, whether they start from scratch or take over the family business, they will take off quickly, defeating one after another. Competitors, complete the crazy accumulation of wealth.
"It's like the golden finger that opened up life." Qiu Ming said with emotion.
"Accompanied by their success, there has also been a wave of mnemonic coding in the upper class, and more and more people have decided to let their sons and daughters receive mnemonic coding, even if it is not to make them winners in life, at least not to lose at the starting line Lose.
"At the same time, on the other hand, the mid-to-high-end skilled talent market has finally become saturated due to the continuous input of new humans. Various companies and enterprises have less and less demand for these talents, so large groups such as Shengtang Morgan have also Finally adjusted the training direction of the new human beings, from the technical backbone to the blue-collar workers who produce hard-working, non-complaining workers."
The electronic sheep widened their eyes when they heard this, "Wait, what about those ordinary people?"
"Good question, just as you guessed, as the major groups have changed the direction of cultivating new humans, companies have also started to hire a large number of new human blue-collar workers in the labor market, and use them to replace lazy and inefficient ordinary workers. More and more people lost their jobs and lived on relief. Many families were broken up because of this. Although some lucky people were not fired immediately, they knew in their hearts that if things went on like this, they would lose their jobs sooner or later.
"Relying on the primitive way of learning, while carrying all kinds of defects in personality, they can't compete with those new humans in jobs, and what's more tragic is that they know that when their children grow up, there is a high probability that they will repeat them. At the same time, this kind of trouble is not only for them, but also for the new human beings who are now flourishing, the next generation naturally bred by them also has the same trouble.
"And there is only one way to solve this problem." Qiu Ming paused, "That is to accept the memory code and do what the rich have already done to their children. Who is the first ordinary person to accept the memory code? It’s not important anymore, in short, in order to survive, to support their families, and not to be maggots in society, more and more ordinary people choose to embark on this path, accepting memory coding, just like the beauty treatment that was once all the rage.”
"If beauty can change a person's flaws in appearance, then memory coding can change a person's flaws in soul, such as laziness, selfishness, arrogance... these can be repaired, and more precise ones can also be repaired. Make fine-tuning according to the occupation you are engaged in. Workers on the assembly line can become more tolerant of boredom, and the management of the company can become more charismatic...
"In the beginning, their strategy did work. As long as they are relentless and add a sum of money, ordinary people can use memory encoding to make themselves stronger than the new humans, but soon, the new humans also noticed Seeing the challenges they faced, the new humans also began to spend money to recode their memories, endowing themselves with more perfect personalities and powerful working abilities.
"Things are starting to become more and more crazy. Everyone is like an app update, constantly applying upgrade patches for themselves through the memory coder. The competition is endless. Of course, those group companies are also aware of this. At this time, it is actually The population growth rate has already returned to normal, no, it should be said that it has not only returned to normal, but also far exceeded the originally planned growth rate. However, out of the consideration of reducing labor costs, those groups did not stop the artificial reproduction plan.
"In order to accommodate the remaining explosive population, major groups have also begun to set their sights on space. It is against this background that New Shanghai 0297 is invested and constructed. You can think that most of the residents here are employees of Shengtang Morgan. If you apply for a job in this new city, you will rewrite your memory according to the job requirements of each company before starting work. You don’t have to feel sad for them losing their original memory, because most of them have already experienced it dozens of times. They have long forgotten what their original memories are.
"The memory rewriting before joining the job is actually for their own benefit, and can help them better integrate into their new work and life. Whether it is a clone or an ordinary person, they all have only one common identity here. It is the means of production, the most perfect means of production.
"Of course, considering that the products produced must be sold, they will also play the role of the consumer side at the same time. Whether it is the division of the five-story space or the constantly scrolling advertisements, they are all designed to stimulate their consumption. Only consumption and Only when production continues to increase can society prosper.”
Hearing this, the electronic sheep felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and he could even hear the sound of his teeth colliding together, "But what's the point of all this? What have we gained in this process, except that it is getting worse and worse?" like yourself outside."
"Good question." Qiu Ming snapped his fingers, "But who will make the wheel of history move forward forever? Maybe make another choice, go back to the beginning of the artificial reproduction plan, human beings will choose to close Pandora's box, All this is choked at the source, but unfortunately there is no if in this world. Once the productivity starts to develop, the backward ones will inevitably be eliminated.
"This is not something that any individual can stop. You can't, I can't, not even Shengtang Morgan's board of directors... because as powerful as Shengtang Morgan, there are many equally powerful competitors. As far as I know, the board of directors Some people have even experienced memory encoding hundreds of times.
"I actually envy you guys. After the memory is rewritten, you can live in this city without doubt and believe what you want to believe, but for people in other departments of the company, we don't even know what to believe. What," Qiu Mingdao, "it seems that what I'm telling you now is the truth, or there is another version of the truth besides this, I don't know, it took me a long time to let Stop thinking about it for yourself, and I sincerely hope you won't go through the troubles I went through."