Chapter 1038: Finale

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Time flies, decades have passed in a blink of an eye, and Zhou Shi is also over ninety years old. As the richest man in the world for more than ten years, and then with the development of new industries, the Internet has become a public infrastructure like hydropower, and it is no longer the darling of the times. He has also lost most of his shine, and of course Yahoo and Guoke are still old big companies, but they are no longer the focus of society. It's like we can't do without hydropower, but we don't pay attention to specific hydropower companies.

Although he is 90 years old, Zhou Shi does not look old at all, because at this time, the average life expectancy in Huaxia is 90 years old, and the longest life expectancy is even more than 150 years old. Biomedicine, sports and health and other industries have had brilliance, and it should be said that Zhou Shi is now in his nineties. However, this industry needs time and data to accumulate, and it is not yet time to explode.

In the past few decades, Zhou Shi has not been stable or bumpy, and the rise of China's national strength has frustrated the idea of the lighthouse country to dominate the world, and he has to compromise. It is difficult for him to be left and right, and it is inevitable that he will suffer some losses. For example, companies like Ningde New Energy have been sold together for various reasons, and Huaxing Optoelectronics and Visionox have merged and gone public, becoming the second largest LCD panel company in the country after BOE. Four Elephants Fund left the board of directors of Modu Auto, Spreadtrum Communications went public on Modu, Instagram went public on Nasdaq, and Yahoo Toutiao was spun off......

Of course, it is not only Zhou Shi who is unlucky, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Alibaba, Penguin and other large companies have been suppressed one by one, spin-offs have been spun off, and restricted have been restricted. At a time when there is a lot of uncertainty in the competition between countries, these super-corporations are the biggest scapegoats, condemned by almost all the public, and it is natural that they are unlucky. In the face of such a world trend, Huaxia has no choice......

It is not the first time that a large enterprise has been split, and there have been such examples in the Lighthouse Country before, such as the Morgan consortium being split into big and small Mo. The free development of mega-corporations such as Amazon is likely to challenge the order of a country, which is intolerable to the rulers of any country. Of course, the split of the Morgan consortium is different from the current social and legal background, and it is difficult to unify it with one standard. The emergence of mega-corporations is good for society, but more of a disadvantage, and if there is no external threat, it is a good thing for the vast majority of groups to put an end to the emergence of mega-corporations. If this world is inseparable from Ahri, Penguin, Amazon, Google, Samsung, there is no doubt that the damage must belong to the majority of ordinary people.

In this wave of giant enterprise spin-offs, Time is one of the least damaged enterprises, even if it is split, it is still a social enterprise, still under the control of charitable funds. The only problem is that Zhou Shi's direct control over the business has declined again, and in fact, when he was in his nineties, his influence in Time Holdings came more from honor than power.

Yes, that's right, Time Holdings still exists decades later, but it is no longer the original Time Holdings, and the main source of profits of the company has changed greatly after several industrial revolutions.

Zhou Shi's Time Holdings has maintained a slow metabolism, that is, internal and new, except for himself, there are almost no management personnel who have worked in Time for more than ten years, and it is difficult for even senior technicians to work in R&D for ten years. Of course, it is not that you can't come back after leaving, in fact, within a certain number of years of service, time welcomes the employees who have left to return to time, but after the employees who have exceeded a certain number of years of service come back, their rights and status will be more restricted. Not only personnel but also enterprises, the subsidiaries of Time Enterprise every once in a while, basically calculated according to five years or ten years, these subsidiaries of Time will operate independently or even go public, and gradually break away from the cooperative relationship with Time.

If in addition to equity, these subsidiaries have a relationship, then the biggest is a credit partnership, time and Shell Nuts, Yahoo, friends and other companies to cooperate, the contract is not the most important, in addition to the contract there are internal credit principles, such as: no fraud and no malice principle. From the beginning of these principles to reduce operating costs, they later became industry norms and legal provisions, and time has changed not only its affiliated companies, but also the society. The importance of law is decreasing, and the importance of morality is rising. In fact, this is also because artificial intelligence is forcing everyone to transform, when artificial intelligence lawyers and judges, blockchain juries are applied to judicial practice, human beings gradually lose control of the law, and the emergence of this phenomenon naturally pushes morality to the front of the law. The law has really become the bottom line of morality, not the standard.

In addition to Time Holdings, Zhou Shi's charitable fund has the world's largest environmental protection fund, such as its most well-known Ant Forest, which has made the desert an endangered ecological environment in various countries. Sewage treatment and desalination have basically freed mankind from the crisis of water scarcity.

After a period of rapid development of new materials, the progress of new energy has promoted the progress of new energy, and in terms of new energy, controllable nuclear fusion cannot be considered a success, but with a good alternative, human beings have begun to officially go to the universe, including the transformation of the moon and Mars. In terms of ecological environment construction, Zhou Shi's charitable trust is one of the well-deserved bosses.

The influence of charitable trusts and time holdings exceeds Zhou Shi's imagination, but unfortunately by 2080, they no longer belong to him. Although the charitable trust is still in his name, neither the United Nations nor the imperial courts of various countries will allow him to control such a huge organization.

Yahoo and Guoke are like IBM, HP and other companies, once very brilliant, but in 2080, although it is not outdated, but also due to various social reasons, after his various equity operations, such as DJI Innovation, and also established a military enterprise used as a military route, etc., so that his wealth turned into nothing, and his Forbes ranking retreated to the top ten in the world.

Of course, no matter what, Zhou Shi's influence in the world has reached the peak of human history, and he is recognized as the biggest driving force in the world to develop mankind into the interstellar age. He has influenced all aspects of human society, including cultural and entertainment life.

Zhou Shi's family fund owns film and television culture companies, media companies, sports clubs, new martial arts centers, etc., including Netflix, Miramax, Starlight Films, Times Group, the world's largest live music company LiveNation, etc.

Some people say that every aspect of human life has been influenced by Zhou Shi, the largest of which is the Time Coin in circulation around the world, a virtual electronic currency under the direct control of the United Nations.

However, his legend is not over, and on his birthday in 2080, he announced a plan to fly into space in the world's most advanced spaceship after his 100th birthday: "I will bury myself in space......"