The two dismounted and walked along the creek for a while, but they didn't see any animals.

Link leads Bill to a hillside where he hears Bill's bellows-like breathing. He found a fallen tree, sat down without being covered with moss, and said, "This is an open place, let's wait here." You may be able to see a herd of deer drinking from the river. ”

After walking for a while, Bill was also a little tired. He leaned his gun against the trunk of a fallen tree, sat down with his butt, and said, "I haven't played sports in a long time since I started my business." He said as he took out his cigarette and lit it.

Link smiled and said, "Being a boss doesn't conflict with sports at all." ”

"You think everyone is like you?" said Bill, taking a deep puff of his cigarette and puffing out of it. "Maybe you're right, I should find someone I really can trust to work for. ”

Link listened to him bring up the topic just now, and said, "Then do you plan to open more branches?"

"Nope. A business like a garage is too big for me to manage. Bill smiled and said. "It's not that I don't want to be motivated. I've figured it out now that everyone has their own strengths. At most, I can manage two garages, and no more, I can't manage it. ”

Link thought for a moment and said, "If you can trust me, ask the workers to find the tenants of the low-rent apartments." Find Martha and ask them for data, and they will also give you good recommendations. ”

"I'll go. "Now his garage has driven out a few people, and now he really needs manpower. "But I'm really not going to expand anytime soon. The garage business is not easy either. Morse suggested that I put together a shipping company. Buy a few big trucks and hire some drivers to run long distances. I've been hesitating, though. ”

"Running long distances isn't so easy to do now. The things that are transported are mainly chemicals, containers at ports, and agricultural products. With the influx of new immigrants, many people choose to drive. The income from long-distance travel is not as good as it used to be. ”

Today, logistics in the United States is mainly agricultural products or agricultural processed products. This is mainly due to the hollowing out of American industry, and the manufacturing industry has almost declined to the point of agriculture. There is almost nothing left to ship.

"So I'm hesitating. That requires a steady supply of goods. The main ones are containers, refrigerated food and various logistics distribution. And there are a lot of people who do this business. And now it is said that someone has developed an unmanned vehicle. That may not be a long-term road, either. ”

Link laughed and said, "What does that matter. When the driverless truck comes out, you can just change to a driverless car?"

However, he does not believe that artificial intelligence can completely replace humans.

If it had come to that point, humanity would have been completely wiped out by AI. Because humans have to eat, bosses make up only a tiny minority of the human population. The social shock caused by the mass unemployment of workers can make the whole world very chaotic. And then there may be war, and in the end, either humans die or AI die.

Of course, artificial intelligence may be the country that has the greatest benefit for the United States. The main reason for the hollowing out of industry in the United States is that salaries are too high. And the root cause of too high salaries is that taxes and fees are too high.

With an income of 100,000 US dollars, 60,000 yuan can be seen in the end, which is considered good. But of the 60,000 yuan of consumption, there is actually still a part of the money that has been taxed. Because every product you buy has to pay taxes to sellers, manufacturers, logistics operators, etc.

This creates a vicious circle where workers are paid more and products are more expensive. Consumption is certainly high. If the level of consumption is high, of course, the salary will be high, otherwise the goods will not be sold.

So the United States came up with a good idea, that is, not to industrialize. Play finance. This process, which began after the end of the Bretton system, is now completely irreversible. It can be said that the United States is also a country with a single industry. Its economy is mainly based on the globalization of the US dollar.

The dollar is pegged to gold, making the United States the hegemon of the world. When the dollar is not pegged to gold, it is pegged to oil. It's just that now I can't even do that. Because the euro has always dominated the currency circulation market in Europe, the renminbi has become internationalized.

Neither currency is the yen, and the United States is unlikely to be able to suppress it easily.

The trick of dollar hegemony is actually quite simple. Export USD investments to earn income. When the investment market develops, and the development of the United States is stagnant because the outflow of capital is too serious, and a large amount of capital needs to be returned, the United States will stop exporting dollars, so that the economies of those countries that have developed rapidly because of investment will come to a standstill, and if necessary, stir up incidents and make those countries unstable. Then the capital will have to find a safe place and return to the United States.

This was the case with the outbreak of the Anglo-Afghan War in '82. The economies of the entire South American countries have developed rapidly because of the large export of dollars, and when the United States tightened its dollar policy, Argentina was the first to be shocked. In order to deflect the crisis, the military government can think of a war. Argentina also greeted President Carter in advance. The U.S. said at the time, "That's your business, I don't care." ”

Argentina then sent troops to take an archipelago that had a sovereignty dispute with Britain. Of course, Britain did not do it, and first of all, it also looked to the United States. The United States must take a stand. The United States turned against Argentina in the blink of an eye. After the Anglo-Afghan war, there was a big bull market in the US stock market for quite a long time.

And when the yen tried to internationalize in Asia, it was sniped by the Plaza Accord, and finally stagnated for more than 30 years, so that Jipan no longer dared to have the delusion of the world's largest power.

The economic turmoil in Southeast Asia, the United States did the same and succeeded.

The Kosovo war was fought against the euro, which was just ready to be issued. After the end of the game, the euro had a reputation for more than 20% lower than European countries expected. It was not until three years after the Kosovo war that the exchange rate between the euro and the dollar stabilized at the level expected before the issuance.

The second Iraq war caused a ripple effect because Iraq first decided to settle the oil trade in euros.

The United States is targeting Iran not because Iran is developing nuclear weapons, but also because Iran's oil trade is settled in euros.

The Ukrainian crisis is also due to the fact that Russia settles oil exports in euros. Moreover, the relationship with Europe has gradually become closer, so that a large amount of the world's capital has flowed into Europe. At the same time, there was a wave of refugees from Libya, which turned Europe into a pot of porridge.

In fact, until then, the United States still wants to move Chinese cheese. As a result, a large amount of foreign capital has been withdrawn from China for several years, just to hit China's economy, make foreign capital lose confidence, and let the capital flow to China flow to the United States.

It's a pity that it didn't work out that time, so the United States turned to Europe and engaged in a Ukrainian crisis.

Although the United States has succeeded in getting a hand over Europe, it has not fully achieved its goal.

The political goal should be said to have been achieved. Russia and Europe are even more divided by the Ukraine crisis. But on an economic level, the goal was not reached. Because of the confrontation between Russia and Europe, a large amount of capital flowed out of Europe, but it did not flow to the United States as expected, and the capital flowed mainly to Hong Kong. So there were people in Hong Kong who made trouble.

The United States met an adversary this time. So far, the U.S. economy has not seen a once-in-a-decade recovery like in the past. Since the subprime mortgage crisis of '08, the recovery of the U.S. economy has been slow.

In other words, the subprime mortgage crisis of '08 dealt too much of a blow to the hegemony of the dollar, and it was the key event that allowed the US economy to really begin to sink. Because it was the subprime mortgage crisis that made the whole world have little confidence in the dollar, and the US economy was hit hard. It is even worse than the Great Depression of the thirties of the last century.

That has led to the unemployment rate in the United States remaining high since '08.

Although the unemployment rate of the U.S. government is only about 6%, this does not seem to be high.

But if you look at another set of data, it's not that simple. There is a set of data that shows the number of people registered to look for work. This number represents more than 13 per cent of the working-age population. That is, at least 13% of the working population is unemployed.

This discrepancy in statistics is due to the fact that the unemployment population in the United States is only counted for half a year.

Unemployed? Okay, you register. A monthly allowance for half a year will be paid.

After half a year, whether he has found a job or not, he will be kicked out of the statistics.

And in fact, the number of unemployed people in the United States is much higher than the statistics. Some people receive unemployment benefits for half a year and then never find a job. They don't even bother to register for work — a predominantly black population. Anyway, if the family income is less than $14,000, each person can receive some social assistance every month, and if they have a few more children, they can also earn more than $1,000 a month.

That's why Link said that blacks don't seek to be motivated. Because they couldn't find jobs, some blacks had more children and received more benefits. But with so many children and no money, what will happen to the children's education in the future?

It's okay! These children do have access to 12 years of free education in a public school or parochial school.

However, even Hans's family, which was not too wealthy at the time, was reluctant to send him to public school.

Because those students from the black ghetto were full of genital devices, molesting female teachers, and bullying their classmates, they were very slippery, but they couldn't even read a story smoothly, and they stumbled over simple addition and subtraction. After 12 years of education—which may not be completed successfully—what can you do other than work as a street gangster?

The most important thing is that not only do they not learn well on their own, but they also fail to study well with other students.

Link even suspects that one of the main reasons why the fertility rate of Chinese Americans is even lower than that of whites is this. Chinese people pay attention to their children's education, and they have too many children to send their children to private schools.

Otherwise, with the traditional Chinese concept of having more children and more blessings, how can the fertility rate be lower than that of white people?

On the one hand, unemployment is high, and on the other hand, Americans are increasingly demanding salaries. As a result, many of today's U.S. factories are dominated by illegal immigrants, such as Mexicans. They ask for a low salary. Because they don't have to worry about paying taxes, they can accept lower wages.

The U.S. government also knew that if those factories were Americans, they would not be able to operate. So they know that the factories are using illegal workers, but they don't care.

As long as those companies provide some information from time to time, let the immigration bureau catch some people and go back to the business.

Then, those companies continue to use cheap illegal labor.

The advantage of illegal workers is, of course, the low pay. If factories could all be operated by lower-cost AI, it might be good news for U.S. industry.

It's just a bit worrying that AI intelligence will affect business. They're all bosses anyway. If they have to use AI, they use it.