The notion that technological progress will make human beings more and more equal has been hyped up by countless scholars in later generations, either to attract attention or to take money to promote global connectivity.

Even in 2009, what Luo Fatzi said just now, as well as the examples behind it, should not be new, but the spread is not as wide as ten years later. The future Luo Fatzi has also repeatedly mentioned these in his talk show "Logical Thinking" many times.

Feng Jianxiong certainly does not support technological progress and global interconnection.

It's just that he is a practical person, and he doesn't want others to be sold by him and help him count the money.

He prefers to tell the truth, telling others that "you are about to be enslaved by me", and then confronting the other person head-on.

"What concept did I change secretly?" Sure enough, Luo Fatzi really believed what he had just heard from a colleague or friend elsewhere. He didn't realize the concept of stealing.

"The ancients ate Volga sturgeon fish, and they didn't need an earl to do it, and eating seedless watermelon was even more common for rich people......"

The beginning of Feng Jianxiong's remarks is similar to what Yu Meiqin made up at the beginning just now, and the details that follow do not need to be repeated again.

However, then he turned sharply and his intention was raised to a level that Yu Meiqin could not reach: "So, the person who created the rhetoric is actually replacing the idea that 'technology will make the middle class more equal to the poor' – and I admit that this is correct – with 'technology will make the people at the top more equal to the poor'."

And the latter layer is exactly what I dare not agree with. It is precisely for this reason that I have always said that the big proposition of 'will technology make human beings more equal' is too complex and must be discussed on a case-by-case basis and realistically pursued.

My view is that technological progress will indeed level the level of equality between the middle class and extreme poverty, but at the cost of putting the top rich above all else. To use a simple analogy:

In an era when technology is not so advanced, the world is not so interconnected, and not so global, if we compare the world to a class, then the top students can score 90 points. Then the middle class may have 60 points for the students, and 20 points for the extreme poverty.

After the advancement of science and technology, more and more skills that are originally valuable will definitely not be as easy as they were at the beginning to form a threshold and continue to be valuable. But more jobs will be created, and workers will be less skilled and less bargaining. Therefore, it is equivalent to the top-level union of abject poverty, and the middle class is encircled and suppressed.

If you use the analogy just now to score again, it is equivalent to the top students coming up with a new set of questions based on their own knowledge structure, abolishing the knowledge accumulated by the previous students, and becoming less valuable and unable to reflect the score value in the exam. But the scumbags at the bottom can learn quickly through this shuffle, and break through the obstacles caused by 'the previous knowledge has not been learned, and the later ones want to learn are also powerless'.

In this way, in the end, it became 'the original 90-point top-level student to 100 points in one fell swoop, and the 60-point student cake fell to 40 points, and the 20-point student scum barely gave a little sweetness to 30 points' - therefore, the so-called 'scientific and technological progress will inevitably make people more and more equal', the truth is just to make the student and the student scum equal, but the gap between a very small number of students and all things will become bigger and bigger. It's like now, 'the living standards of the poorest have indeed improved, but the gap between the rich and the poor between the top rich and the general public is also widening'. ”

"Although this is unheard of, it seems to be reasonable......" Luo Fatzi fell into deep thought.

To be honest, he didn't really think about what he was talking about just now, but he usually talked to some people in the media circle about the technology version.

The point of view obtained from the swinging dragon gate array is actually the most unbearable scrutiny. is like the beeps in the later generations of "Logical Thinking" and "Da Songqi Talk", the reason why I thought it was awesome when I first heard it was because it was a dragon gate array, and the person who said it could say whatever he understood, and there was no rebutter to watch it closely.

Once there is a rebutter who keeps an eye on it, the seemingly smooth layout is immediately full of loopholes.

However, Gao Dasong's thinking ability is stronger than that of Luo Fatzi, and he is a bystander, and after thinking for a while, he asked rhetorically:

"Xiao Feng, according to what you say, isn't there no solid evidence to prove your point of view? The example of 'the Queen Mother of the West eating melons' that Zhenyu said is certainly not enough to prove that 'the enjoyment of the top rich has become closer to the common people'. But you can't give a counter-example, can you show that because of technological progress, the level of enjoyment between the top and bottom has become more disparity, right?"

"In terms of material comforts, it is indeed more difficult and more disparity. Because there will be a demand, there will be a market, and there will be people who will study how to reduce costs and make it affordable for the poor. Feng Jianxiong modestly first partially admitted the other party's point of view, and then changed the conversation,

But, Maslow said, human needs are not just about material comforts. After everyone is well fed and clothed, it will be more difficult for middle-class people to be envied by the bottom.

A middle-class person who took a big brother phone of 70,000 yuan at the Canton Fair in 88 was not only enjoyed by being able to call a mobile phone, but also made thousands of small and medium-sized enterprise owners and state-owned enterprise managers envy him. That kind of pretending to be rewarded is definitely many times cooler than driving a Bugatti now.

And the top level of ancient times, in terms of making the people look up to and envy them, is actually not very brilliant - because the people's wisdom has not been opened, the peasants will only imagine that 'the emperor must eat several buns at a meal, eat a few and throw a few, and if he wants to dip in sugar, he will dip in soy sauce if he wants to dip in soy sauce, and he can also work with a golden hoe'.

Most peasants can only imagine, worship, and envy the people they can see in front of them, such as the county magistrate, or the local tyrant who has the most land in the village. Even if the people know that the emperor or the empress dowager is worthy of envy, that kind of envy will not really be transmitted to the top, and most of them are just 'afraid of power but not virtuous', and they are forced to 'fear' by power, not from the heart. Those who really envy the top from the bottom of their hearts, know what they do, and know why they are 'gentry, rich businessmen'.

However, in modern times, because of the development of media technology, people can see the possibility of the life of the top rich and powerful people much better than the poor and farmers in ancient times. Therefore, hundreds of millions of people are willing to call others father! Envy, jealousy, hatred, and jealousy are so jealous that they separate themselves!

The advantage that the middle class once gained in terms of dignity is gone, and no amount of luxury goods can prove that it can be recovered. But the poor people are not liberated because of this, and they do not have to envy anyone, they still have to find some people to worship, but the objects of their worship are concentrated on a few people.

Moreover, it is to worship with joy and sincerity. It's just that the transaction of eating well and dressing well is easy to quantify, and the transaction of buying and selling dignity is not so easy to quantify, so you just ignore it.

Maybe one day, when human beings find that capitalism is facing the problem of 'too much division between the rich and the poor' and is about to collapse, they will think of 'inserting electrodes in the back of everyone's head to detect brain waves like "The Matrix" - not even using electrodes, that would be too violent, just put on a smart collar like a Xiaomi smart bracelet.

And then everyone who has been robbed of a job by artificial intelligence or poorer and more undignified people because skills are no longer scarce, doesn't know how to make money. They can worship and look up to others, worship sincerely, and the physiological big data detected by the smart collar will be more beautiful, and then the person they worship will pay some 'soul crit damage consolation money' to those who worship him, so that they can exchange food and clothing for a living.

At that time, you know that scientific and technological progress only makes scumbags and scholars equal, and the top students will fully Mathew and suck the blood of the world - but I don't care, I believe that I will become the small group of people behind, and it is not a big deal to say it. I've never relied on pleasing the weak to attract fans, and you can reprint today's words if you want, whether it explains the source or not~"

After Feng Jianxiong finished speaking, he wiped his sleeves and left with his sister-in-law, hiding his merit and fame.

Leaving Gao Dasong and Luo Fat to stare at the dog leash.

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PS: The new book tentatively has two directions, either go back to write history, and it is a bit of an overhead calendar, I don't know how many people read it, and read the message.

The second idea is that it is more elevated, which can be regarded as the future "apocalypse" of urban questioning, and hard science fiction with a bit of near-future technology - definitely not the mentally retarded apocalypse of zombie siege or nuclear bomb washing.

I've always felt that writing about the end of the nuclear bomb before the collapse of the Soviet Union is quite new (for example, Cameron's Terminator is set like this, which is right, because that is the thinking of the Cold War), and if you write like this after the 90s, you are mentally retarded.

Similarly, the zombie siege model, written before 2010, is still understandable (the fantasy brought by the biotechnology bubble at the end of the last century).

After the artificial intelligence boom came, I think that even if human beings really have an end world, it is time to change to a novel and thought-provoking end method. The basic idea is related to some of the settings in Xiao Feng's mouth in today's chapter - a cage without privacy and dignity transactions. A laggard who did not enter the cage because of an accident broke this cage by chance

It is estimated to open in late or April. Of course, the two books will be updated in parallel until the new book hits the shelves, so this one will be written until the end of April.

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Don't worry, it's not full of 3,000 words.