Chapter 255
"Can you speculate on the cause of the civil unrest?" Gan Yaduo paused for a while, looking at Zhang Yuan leisurely.
It has seen part of the development of mankind, and there have been far more wars than the Gliese people. The complexity of history is also much more complicated than that of the Gliese people.
Zhang Yuan carefully studied and calculated, and tasted the historical inevitability.
He said: "I think there are many reasons, but the most important reason is that the management system, ideology, especially the distribution system cannot keep up with the sudden productivity."
"Yes, that's the case."
Preliminary electrification means that nuclear power can be used to generate electricity and various substances can be produced, but it does not mean that resources have been produced. This is the Stone Age. Under such a poor and white situation, there are too many things to be produced.
There is a question of who gets rich first and who gets rich later.
No matter how powerful the Universal Factory is, there are only 13 trifling units. As a powerful 3D printer, even if the production capacity is very strong, it is definitely not cost-effective to directly produce living materials.
The best way is to use a universal factory to produce various machines to cooperate with the expansion of production, so that productivity can be greatly increased.
So, it is impossible to produce the material resources that all Gliese people need at once, and it is also impossible to realize a prosperous modern life for all people at once.
However, under the selfishness of some individuals, the productivity of the universal factory is not all used to produce the means of production. Some high-ranking officials and nobles have taken the lead in enjoying life in the electricity age.
So there is a huge contrast.
Be aware... Back then, in the Stone Age, many Gliese people were still grazing in the fields!
Originally, poverty was widespread and productivity was low. No matter how rich the rich are, there is only that way. And under the social public support system, wealth is accumulated in clans, equivalent to a kind of alternative collective economy. Once an individual dies in old age, this part of wealth will be released again to the society or his own clan, so individuals and The gap between the rich and the poor is not particularly large among individuals.
The rich can only raise a few illegalimate children secretly, inheriting a small amount of their own wealth. The members of the clan turn a blind eye to this phenomenon. Who makes them capable of making money?
As for entertainment, people with high IQ play with maths and other elegant things, while ordinary people do some sculptures, paintings, and sing operas... Anyway, everyone does their own things and does not interfere with each other.
But it's different now...
The gap between the Stone Age and the Electric Power Age is really big, a bit outrageous, and it's not too much to describe it as Heaven and Earth turning upside down. New lifestyle, entertainment, new food, clothing, place of residence, food, clothing, housing and transportation have all undergone brand-new changes!
Such a change also means that the gap between the rich and the poor, which was still tolerable, has suddenly changed!
These new material resources, when at first, are bound to be enjoyed by only a small number of people, and there is no way to fully popularize them. Therefore, the original population with low social status suddenly developed an extremely unbalanced mentality.
Zhang Yuan tapped his finger lightly: "I understand, it is because of the huge gap between the rich and the poor brought by the universal factory, which has accumulated energy for the civil strife. Well, the poverty of the Stone Age and the electricity age The gap between the rich and the rich is a bit too big."
There is a gap between the rich and the poor within a civilization. This thing is very normal, because there is a gap between the abilities of individuals and individuals, and there is no way to live inferior to others.
But the larger the gap between the rich and the poor, the more likely it is to have turbulence.
Because of the emergence of the Universal Factory, just two or three years of trifling, the "Gini Index" of the Gliese Civilization suddenly soared to the sky. Naturally, it is not something the people at the bottom can tolerate.
Although the Gliese people are idle and free, it does not mean that they have no desire. Under the impact of massive material resources, everyone begins to stir. No one wants to continue the life of the primordial era, even if one day later...
Under the circumstances that people begin to stir, the government departments that were not very strong in the past have drastically reduced their management and control capabilities. The restraint on the citizens is getting smaller and smaller, and even the manager itself is in a state of desperation and internal chaos under such a huge impact.
In addition to the gap between the rich and the poor, there is also a second internal cause. The original handicraft-based economic system began to appear extremely out of date, and various economic policies and cultures have caused a lot of chaos.
To give a simple example, the original products on the market were limited to primary level commodities such as grain, bone tools, handicraft products, etc., and the added value was relatively low. Many ordinary people rely on hand-made products to live their lives. After tens of thousands of years, they have been very stable.
Products produced from universal factories have higher added value. In this stone age, the added value of a car should even be so high that no one can afford it!
The impact of a large number of new products has caused everyone to want to buy the latest products.
The prices of the original products have fallen sharply, and low-value products simply cannot be sold. The chaos of monetary policy soon led to deflation and the economy was completely paralyzed.
The collapse of the economy has caused some handicraft merchants to lose money and start to be unable to support themselves.
With the development of science and technology, there are people who can't support themselves. This phenomenon is unimaginable but as it should be by rights. After all, the quality and working ability of the overwhelming majority of ordinary people are still in the Stone Age, and there is no way to keep up with the trend of the times. They can only do a little simple handicraft work, and now the handicrafts are suddenly worthless, and they are immediately unemployed.
The government at that time did not have enough experience and organizational capacity to deal with this kind of economic crisis, and its response was always slow, which led to the whole crisis getting bigger and bigger.
These managements have no such economics in their minds, and they don’t know why there are more and more impoverished people.
This group of poor people who have lost their jobs will either leave the city and continue to live the lives of primordial people...
Or...through violence, to achieve their aspirations!
"These two reasons are like two springs. The tighter they are pressed, the greater the bursting force." Zhang Yuan heave a long sigh, looking towards the white ceiling, meditating, Contemplating...
It’s a pity that the interstellar civilization only taught them some scientific knowledge, but there is no knowledge about the system at all... Even if the Gliese people are smart, they have not experienced it. , It is also impossible to know this aspect, and it is even more impossible to react.
The development of civilization has never been achieved overnight. Technology has developed, but external power has been advanced by leaps and bounds without the support of internal strength. Equivalent to is just a hollow tree, which looks tall and mighty. In fact, it fell down as soon as it was touched, and even fell down directly by itself.