Chapter 8053: Chess Pieces......
It is well known that during the Vietnam War in the last century, young people in the United States launched fierce anti-war actions, such as refusing to work after college, which further increased the unemployment rate in the United States, which was initiated by an anti-war organization. This in turn accelerated the social and economic problems caused by the Vietnam War, and finally the withdrawal of troops from Vietnam had to be dismissed.
Students and young people have long believed that the eventual withdrawal of American troops was the result of their efforts, which has to a considerable extent inspired the resolve of young people around the world to participate in political issues.
The harsh reality soon made it clear to the young people that in their own country, they were not really a big problem at all, and that the reason why they had not been repaired before was simply because the interests of the people who were really in charge were not really touched, but even so, many large companies took the same measure - all college graduates who participated in the "no work movement" or other movements, unless they had a family background, would not be hired.
This was also explained at the time - so many Vietnam veterans were discharged when they returned home, and it was the responsibility of the government and big business to help them solve the employment problem, after all, they gave their youth and lives to the United States.
The meaning is: And those of you who only know how to jump around and pull your hind legs in a peaceful country should stay where it is cool.
Of course, for young people in Europe and the United States who are enthusiastic and passionate, this is not a thing, after all, there are so many injustices in the world, and we can continue to be shovels~
However, the problem is that with the end of the Vietnam War and the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, almost all the world's targets are aimed at the Soviet Union, which is fighting Afghanistan......
In desperation, young people full of enthusiasm began to respond to the appeals of third world countries and began to help the people of third world countries.
As a result, they became the first group of NGOs to volunteer in third world countries.
As many of them turn their passions to Third World countries – especially in Africa – some volunteers choose to return to their home countries and return to normal life, while others stay in the countries where they volunteer for a variety of reasons, providing work as guides and interpreters for tourists from their home countries or other Western countries.
By the time of the economic crisis in 1987, the vast majority of the middle class in the capitalist world had been pitted into grandma's house by the new financial derivatives developed by the forces of financial capital.
In any case, the lifestyle of the middle class, carefully cultivated by industrial capital, has been deeply imprinted on the colonial people...... Well, in the hearts of the middle-class people, and at the same time, the poverty of the third world countries they have traveled to in the past has deeply shocked every normal person with a normal "ugly" mentality...... Well, the children of the middle class have been instilled from an early age that the people of third world countries are extremely miserable, and "as a new generation of young people, even if we can't provide them with direct help, we should go and see how miserable they are, and then call on more people to help them when they come back."
So, under this mentality, and the fact that their children also have the need to travel, a new tourism model began to be established in 1989 - yes, this is talking about volunteer tourism.
What's even more interesting is that it is the young people of the previous generation who thought they could change the world when they were young and let the world rationalize the machinations of capitalists and dictators, only this time, they have become shareholders of travel agencies, and liaisons with various local forces, including underworld and evil forces, who still need to ensure the safety of young people who pay to volunteer for the sake of the travel agency's business.
And the competition in this industry is too fierce, after all, there were quite a lot of young people who went against the wishes of the owners of large companies and could not work and live normally in their own countries, so they could only go to third world countries, and there were countless such people, so the local reception was naturally countless.
However, as the competition became increasingly fierce, everyone found that it was not possible to go on like this, so many people tried to find a way to contact old alumni or old classmates, expecting them to contact them with "whether they have participated in volunteer activities abroad" with the score of the students, and at the same time, they also promised to introduce a student to give "this number" - In their opinion, these old classmates who were able to serve in the school were all spies who broke into the revolutionary team back then, at least they don't have to be like themselves, and they can continue to live a normal life after experiencing the student movement, which must have an inside story, and as comrades back then, if you don't help, then don't blame us for exposing the shortcomings.
As a result, starting in 1993, yes, during Clinton's first term, American college education and high school education began to tilt volunteer behavior on a large scale...... In fact, if you take a closer look at the composition of Clinton's family capital, you will find that many of them are in the travel industry...... This is the end of this topic, but in any case, it was after that that the Democratic Party of the United States changed its image of waging the most wars of aggression against foreign countries, and became a heroic party of young people and volunteer organizations whose hearts were centered on peace in the world and caring for the poor people in third world countries.
And this image has also continued to this day, and has not changed, and even makes many people think that the Republican Party supported by arms and other business capital groups is aggressive -- but in fact, selling guns and ammunition really does not make as much money as selling high-end weapons and maintaining high-end weapons, otherwise why do so many countries want to squeeze into the market for selling high-end weapons, instead of just being satisfied with manufacturing light weapons? Are they all fools?
Only in the absence of war will the purchase of high-grade weapons to deter the enemy become an inevitable choice, and once a war really breaks out, there will actually be a small business left in the arms market, and there is no room for big business at all.
In addition, as I said before, the camp of the United States is mainly divided according to the power of industrial capital and the power of financial capital, the power of industrial capital itself is accustomed to creating an industrial chain, and controlling the upstream of the industrial chain, and then gaining power, while the power of financial capital is different, it only needs to generate transactions, whether it is a stable long-term transaction, or a large one-time Yes, this determines that the forces of finance capital can profit regardless of whether there is a war or not, while the forces of industrial capital can either profit in a state of total war or in peacetime, and small-scale wars are not what they want to see in any case. For example, after a local war, the act of buying and selling guns will still generate capital flows, and this capital flow will make the financial capital forces profitable, but the people who buy and sell guns do not necessarily need new guns, so the interests of industrial capital forces will be damaged by small-scale wars and regional conflicts.
Therefore, the forces of financial capital will from time to time provoke wars and reduce the benefits of the forces of industrial capital, while the forces of industrial capital have to give up their accountability for the sake of maintaining overall stability because of the seats of the forces of financial capital in the global flow of capital, whether it is raw materials or other bulk goods.
After the emergence of volunteer tourism, due to the good "sensibility" of young people, the vast majority of young people who have experienced it will not only take the initiative to spread the benefits of volunteer tourism to their peers - on the one hand, compared with traditional tourism projects, this kind of tourism is more economical, on the other hand, young people think that this kind of tourism is very meaningful to their lives, after all, what kind of internationalist spirit is it to go to a strange land thousands of miles away to help the locals, it is even more Soviet than the Soviets...... Ahem...... It satisfies the desire of young people to change the world and help others.
In addition, after the economic crisis in 1987, the main consumer class cultivated by the industrial capital group after World War II gradually declined, and the new generation of young people is getting poorer and poorer. Moreover, even the most knowledgeable people will bully others, such as "I am a volunteer who went to Africa, what are you doing with me!?
In any case, this mode of tourism spread rapidly, and naturally attracted the attention of some people who had been coerced into joining the system.
As mentioned earlier, the profit method of financial capital forces is obtained by relying on the rapid flow of funds, and there is also the function of tax reduction when charitable funds are active, and under the propaganda of young people, charitable funds can also be sponsored, although in the accounts, the funds used for charity and the interest generated according to bank interest cannot be spent, but when the financial capital forces make the first financial derivatives, do they not also know that this is against morality?
That's right, the huge capital chain of charity volunteer travel has appeared, and for the financial capital forces, when a stable capital chain appears, whoever fights this chain of doctrine is the enemy, and at the same time, due to the characteristics of the financial capital forces, this chain of charitable capital operation will quickly spread to other countries and regions, so many countries will set up closely related charitable funds...... This is the end of the topic.
Of course, it is undeniable that in the nearly 30 years after the Bretton Woods system was proposed in 1944, it was the most powerful period of the industrial capital group, and during this period of time, the way the industrial capital group obtained the right was still very traditional by relying on the simple and crude and direct model of manufacturing-selling, after all, at that time, the United States could be said to have won World War II and obtained the world market.
However, after the financial system was replaced by the petrodollar system in 1971, the growth rate of the financial capital group far exceeded that of the industrial capital group, so the industrial capital group was based on the industrial chain controlled by itself, and also formed a money-making function similar to that of the Federal Reserve。
Therefore, it is generally believed that the Plaza Accord is the United States to shear the wool of RB, which is not entirely correct, because a considerable part of it is aimed at the recoordination of the division of labor among global allies led by industrial capital groups, and of course, in terms of results, it is indeed sheep shearing...... But in essence, it is an important step for the US industrial capital group to further control the economic context of RB and prevent it from falling into the power of finance capital, which is not unlike what the US did in South Korea in 1998.
The topic returns to the matter of volunteer tourism, in fact, although tourism projects belong to the tertiary industry, industrial capital groups are generally not eye-catching, after all, it is like a pure real estate and cultural industry, since the founding of the United States, it has been mainly people on the Democratic side who are better at it, and the Republican Party is mainly an engineer - yes, Phoebe has repeatedly claimed that she is an engineer and has a reason to seek recognition - plus, the essence of volunteer tourism is more like an extension of the idea of colonialism - No one can deny that all the participants of the volunteer tour will receive more preferential treatment than the people being helped, whether it is food, clothing, housing and transportation, after all, they are essentially consumers who spend money.
In other words, the people who were helped were essentially local actors invited by the colonial governors during the colonial period, and after the gentlemen and ladies who paid to see how the colonists lived went home, the actors went back to live their lives, and the money paid by the gentlemen and ladies went down to the pockets of the colonial administrators.
It can be said that the more volunteer tourism happens, the more poor areas will become, and at the same time, the poorer they will become, because when they are poor, they will lose the foundation favored by those "volunteers" who are already carrying huge student loans and cannot support themselves-poverty. Therefore, the colonial operators who want to make money, or the operators of charitable travel agencies or charitable funds, will never allow the people in the poor areas to give it to them, and whoever makes them rich will have a great enmity with the capitalist power groups.
Phoebe understands this logic, is so sensitive to the new US president's aggressive behavior, but also let Mira leave Congress early, and enter China, in Phoebe's view, the industrial capital group will essentially support themselves, after all, everyone actually expects the Chinese attitude to continue to be upright, but if you can cultivate the African market, then it is also very good, and in this matter, in order to gain the trust of the Chinese, the American industrial capital group must rely on their circle of new diplomatic group laid out in China in advance。
Of course, Phoebe also has to admit that volunteer travel is really a good thing...... And it's not that Titan has not mastered similar programs, for example, the three food aid camps on the east coast of Africa, aren't they just the places where young people can feel like they can better manage their colonies? At least on the side of Titan's food aid camps, not only do they have adequate medical care, sanitation, and security, but they even have schools, small food processing factories, and local doctors are trained, and there is a great tendency to form a new government in the local area. Of course, Phoebe is not so stupid, but both Langley and the Ministry of Defense think that Titan's PTSD veteran re-encouragement treatment is very effective, and hope that Titan's will continue to do it, as for international law or something, what is it?
On the one hand, Titan is a rising supporter on the Republican side, and on the other hand, Republican supporters are more inclined to bail out the system when they participate in charitable acts, rather than the Democrats who go around the world to see who looks worse and I will help them - well, the Republican side is indeed a little cold-blooded, but it is much better than in the past, and they now agree with a philosophy similar to China's "emergency not poverty".
The food aid project is an emergency, PTSD veterans are re-treated, and it is also a rescue for people in the system, so the Republican Party is very appreciative of Titan's three camps, plus each family has ignorant bear children who are almost in wheelchairs by the Democrats, so there is a call for Titan to also set up a charity tourism volunteer company.
But this money, Phoebe really doesn't want to make it, after all, when it comes to the field of civilian products, it's really troublesome...... However, it is undeniable that this project can indeed strengthen Titan's position within the industrial capital group, so in the end, Phoebe relented and agreed to the request of the masses to visit the colony, of course, Phoebe also stipulated, in order to distinguish it from other volunteer tourism projects, this project is different from other projects.
The first is that the participants must have more than $50,000 in bank deposits, whether the money is given by their parents or earned by themselves, at least proving that the participants have the ability to support themselves independently, rather than running to judge and satisfy their psychology.
The second is to require full injection of defense injections in accordance with Titan's requirements and test for allergens, after all, the ecological structure of Africa and the Americas is still not the same, in case something goes wrong, Phoebe is not willing to sue people, but killing the whole family to reduce the hatred of Titan's words seems to be too domineering, so it can only be prevented in advance.
The third is to require participants to be mentally prepared to be militarized, after all, in Phoebe's view, volunteering is to really work, not to make people satisfied, and to use a model similar to military management, it is easier for participants to accept - of course, because of this, Titan's volunteer tourism program is very cheap.
But what Phoebe didn't expect was that some people had already been dissatisfied with the shady scene of the current charity volunteer project, and when Titan, a volunteer tourism that does not advertise and only relies on the spread of the real wealthy class, was introduced to their children by parents, it was very popular.
And Phoebe's evaluation of this is - even if it is a Tyrannosaurus rex, it will be inferior to the next generation because of comfort.
However, this is not the case in the eyes of those who enthusiastically participated, on the one hand, because it was Onclaude who was really responsible for organizing volunteer activities, and Onclaude was the product of mutual compromise on the side of industrial capital, but in any case, Abron, the first president of Unclon, the manager of the Atlantic Floaters, the coordinator of the new forces of the diplomatic bloc who was able to unite, and even, negotiated with high-level officials from many countries around the world and signed a satellite list...... In the eyes of young people who like to advocate for anti-war, Abrun is a representative of young people who have contributed to world peace, a hero similar to Iron Man - after all, resisting the call of the Ministry of Defense is not something ordinary people can do.
Of course, the most important thing is that Abrun is white, which is on the side of Republican supporters, whether old or young, actually has a good opinion of him, even if Abrun rarely runs out to do activities...... After all, over the years, there have been fewer and fewer white heroes in real life, and the election of a black president has dealt a major blow to the worldview of many supporters of the Republican Party......
So, with Abron, who has a clear Republican label, coming forward, it is strange that volunteers at Titan's East Africa Food Aid Base are not traveling.
In this case, everyone knows that volunteer trips at the East African Food Aid Base are also a short-term opportunity to connect with young people in the circle and meet more new people of the same kind – something similar to the nature of making friends with Cambridge or Oxford, or Harvard or Yale.
In fact, Phoebe succeeded in portraying Abrun as a representative of the younger generation of the "silent majority", and this silent majority in the United States, in essence, was carefully cultivated by the industrial capital forces of the United States after World War II, as opposed to the new middle class of the pre-World War II middle class.
However, as mentioned earlier, the rules of life of this new middle class have been greatly weakened by several economic crises, and there is even a tendency to shift to the Democratic camp, and those young people who participate in volunteer tourism are the best indicators.
And with the rise of a black president, not only Republican supporters, but also most of the industrial capital forces feel that this is a violation of traditional American values - as mentioned earlier, the Republican Party has found that the Democratic Party has begun to play with the table again.
However, the Republican Party is not the party that will only support the table, and the Republican Party will also lift the table, after all, as mentioned earlier, for the industrial capital forces, whether it is peace or war, they can seek benefits in both states, while the financial capital forces can only make profits in the state of peace and regional war, and if a large-scale war occurs, the financial capital forces will not get much benefit. Therefore, from a certain point of view, although the forces of finance capital like to provoke local wars, they are more productive than the industrial capital groups in maintaining the overall peace of the world.
Therefore, the people on the side of the Financial Capital Group are also more optimistic about Onclude's volunteer trip, but this time it does not involve the capital chain and making money, but only to let the young people within themselves establish a certain degree of friendship with the young people of the Industrial Capital Group.
In this case, the gold content of Onclaude's volunteer trip has also risen sharply, and naturally, there will be TV stations that want to report on it, and even celebrities who want to come to participate in such activities, so Onclaude, or Phoebe, as a supplier of scarce resources, will naturally have ideas for this activity, such as letting her sisters participate in a month-long volunteer activity at a food aid camp, by the way, you can also get American TV stations to report on it......
But as mentioned earlier, the girl is Adi's entry into the United States too early, Phoebe's plan is for two years later, at least the Girls' Generation of RB has been prepared, after all, the current theme of Girls' Generation is to increase popularity through works, not through charity activities...... However, isn't there a BOA, as long as she is willing to cheer for Girls' Generation in RB, then Phoebe doesn't mind letting her participate in Onclave's charity volunteer tour as a CAA contracted artist- Barbara reported that many large brokerage companies in the United States hope to let their young artists participate in the volunteer tours they organize, including CAA, but Onclaude has not taken care of those people in the entertainment industry at the beginning, and now, as the first CAA artist to participate in the event, presumably BOA seniors will also be very happy, but I don't know, whether she understands the twists and turns behind this, whether she knows how to take advantage of such advantages, but after telling Li Xiuman, Li Xiuman should understand how to do it... …