Chapter 162: I won't be greedy for your penny
"Who is this? A rich man?"
"It's ...... William Eagle, President of the Eagle Bank,
"The president jumped off the building?"
"Then our money can't be exchanged......
"I ...... Why should I come out and see the excitement!...... my money."
"My God, am I going bankrupt too. ”
"Ahh
"Why is this happening?"
"What are you doing howling like that? William is dead, so what's the use of you standing in line?"
"Alas......"
"I shouldn't have listened to the nonsense of Eagle Bank in the first place, what is the more reliable Eagle Bank Bill...... Now, even William is committing suicide in fear of sin!"
"Yes! It's all William!"
"Phew!"
When the saliva was spit out, it was even steaming white in the cold winter, and when it fell on William, more people began to spit on William.
When Doug saw this scene, his stiff face inevitably smiled.
Don't think that these people have done too much, when William was still in the limelight, he didn't do even more excessive things.
In this capitalist world, don't look at everyone walking on two feet, but the rich and the ordinary are two species.
Even, in what is now New England, and throughout the northern part of the United States.
It is better to say capitalism than industrial slavery.
Why?
Because a serious worker is able to pay enough and be able to consume.
And in the factories of industrial slavery, the so-called workers are more slaves than workers.
It's not that they don't consume, but what do they consume?
They consume working meals provided in the factory, and they consume jeans that they wear at work.
They don't have any security, and they have to use their meager salary to buy the necessities they need to get into the job.
As for the products they produce, they simply can't afford to consume them.
In the past, these commodities were sold to relatively wealthy people in their own countries, and on the other hand, they were exported.
However, the worldwide economic crisis is already spreading.
There are more and more capitalist industrialized countries, and everyone is walking towards industrial slavery.
It is impossible for almost all industrialized countries to consume the industrial goods they produce at home.
In the beginning, when Britain was the only industrial country.
Almost every other place in the world where there are humans is a market that they can explore.
Although, after the Industrial Revolution, Britain's production capacity increased by hundreds of times compared to before the Industrial Revolution.
However, the population of the United Kingdom is only so much. Even if we count the 10 million industrial workers, the products they produce can be completely consumed.
However, countries that have closely followed Britain into industrialization include a series of European countries such as France, Germany, and Spain.
Although Britain has a first-mover advantage, even the colonies that can control it only buy British products.
However, the size of the earth is finite.
Whether it is a backward agricultural country or a backward pastoral country.
The wealth they possess is the result of hundreds or even thousands of years of production activities.
Today, the industrial countries, like gold-swallowing monsters, swallow all the precious metals.
The big capitalists are still very excessive, and they refuse to give even a little residue to the workers at the bottom.
The products produced cannot be sold, the capitalists feel that there is no profit and no production, ordinary workers and the bottom, who have no jobs and are unemployed, and they who have no jobs can no longer afford to buy products, and they cannot afford to buy products, so they can only continue to stop production. It's like dominoes, falling one after another, and falling into a vicious circle.
In contrast, Doug's approach is, relatively speaking, more scientific.
The previous capitalists were just barbaric and rough wool, the wool was gone, and they were reluctant to spend money to raise lambs, and they were short-sighted and finally killed only themselves.
Although the Claydon Printing and Dyeing Factory also provided Doug with a lot of profits, he was not harsh on his workers.
Even, you don't have to spend money to eat meat for working meals.
Of course, meat isn't a good meat, it's just steak.
The biggest advantage of steak is that you don't have to go through complicated cooking, just grill the steak and sprinkle it with sauce.
In this era of cheap beef, it is very suitable for making cheap working meals for workers.
In contrast, the cooking methods brought by the ancestors of the founding of the United States, as well as other waves of immigrants that followed, are much more complicated.
Even if it's just a potato, dozens of ways to eat it can be developed.
Moreover, in this era, even American cookbooks recorded a large number of recipes for cooking offal.
The high wages that Doug gave to the workers had even caused a market to gather outside the Claydon Printing and Dyeing Factory.
The slum across the road from the Claydon Printing and Dyeing Factory also showed a different appearance because the workers of the Claydon Printing and Dyeing Factory moved in one after another and rebuilt the houses.
At this time, whether it is the small traders who set up stalls or the workers who build houses, they all get more money and have more spending power.
Although Doug has not made a correction to the root cause, he has greatly alleviated the symptoms of the economic crisis, and even some small booms can be seen.
However, this kind of prosperity is also destined to be only a small prosperity.
Because, the products of the Claydon Printing and Dyeing Factory are not only sold in New Haven, but also sold in other places.
This is the same as those developed countries that have mastered cutting-edge technology in later generations.
Why are they developed?
It's not because they're working harder now.
It's because they can use their technological advantages, or patent advantages, to sell their products all over the world.
For example, some small countries, or even a company, can make this country step into the category of developed countries.
The essence of their development is that more impoverished countries are feeding them.
The relative affluence around the Clayden dyeing factory is also because of this.
This looks like Doug is losing.
However, many people don't notice.
Whether it is the goods sold by the small vendors or the construction raw materials of the construction workers, they actually come from some of the shops controlled by Doug.
In other words, although he paid more salary, the money actually returned to him in the end.
Doug watched the play for a while, stood in front of the window on the second floor where William had just jumped off, and said loudly to the people below, "Don't worry, your bank notes can still be exchanged for gold and silver coins, the evil William has committed suicide in fear of crime, and the Eagle Bank will not be greedy for a penny from you!"