Stockholm is the capital of Sweden, the city is located at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, the urban area is distributed on 14 islands and a peninsula, plus suburbs, a total of more than 24,000 islands, is the city with the most islands in the three Nordic countries, so it is also known as the Venice of Northern Europe.

Stockholm in autumn is full of charm, with beautiful scenery, ancient castle buildings, modern city facilities, a leisurely living atmosphere, and so on, all of which will make a newcomer feel a kind of elegance, indeed, elegance.

It can be said that if conditions permit, then Sweden is a place you must go to once, and if you go to Sweden, Stockholm must go, just like if you go to China and don't go to Beijing, you have never been to China.

It is precisely because it has been famous for a long time that after Cheng Yuan and his party came to Stockholm, they did not immediately go to the institute, but first walked around the street to observe the city and the people in the city up close. Since the company's reception staff acts as a tour guide, there is no need to be afraid of getting lost.

Walking on the streets of Stockholm, you will find that the pace of people here is relatively slow, not to mention compared to big cities such as New York and Tokyo, even compared to Shangjing in China, the pace of people here is very slow, all of which shows that the pressure of people here is very small, and the pace of life is slow.

"Hey." Looking at it, Wang Tao suddenly let out a sigh of emotion, "No wonder people say that if you love someone, send him to Sweden, because it is a paradise on earth." In the past, it was just hearsay, but now I come to see it in person, and sure enough, look, not to mention anything else, this street is full of handsome men and beautiful women. ”

"Cut, I thought you were going to say something, it turns out that you only have beautiful women in your eyes." Shen Hong joked next to her, "If you really like it so much, I think you can simply find a Swedish woman to marry, so that you can join Sweden." ”

"I do." Wang Tao smiled bitterly, "But who is with me?" At a glance, I know that the women here are all arrogant and arrogant, how can they look down on me. Hmph, if you can really live in Sweden, you will be willing to live a short life of ten years. ”

"It's still a short life, if you really live in Sweden, how can you live a short life." Shen Hong also sighed, "Although it's a little colder here, the air is fresh, the food is assured, and with all kinds of high benefits, it can be said that you don't have to worry about food and clothing, even if you have a short life of ten years, you can be raised back here." ”

"Yes," Wang Tao continued, "I've inquired about it, and the people here are so happy." I heard that if someone here gives birth to a child, the father has the right not to go to work for 9 months, and the mother of the baby also does not go to work, and she also receives full pay to watch the child at home.

Before the child is 16 years old, both parents can get a high living allowance, and after the age of 16, and the young people who have completed 9 years of compulsory education, if they continue to study, they can also get a high learning allowance, which is equivalent to giving money to encourage you to go to school.

Not to mention that if you are sick here, you can enjoy sick leave subsidies, the amount of which depends on the length of sick leave, equivalent to 75% ~ 100% of the salary, even so, when you really go to the doctor, the medical expenses and the cost of drugs prescribed by the doctor's hands are mostly borne by the state; Not to mention the pension, it is basically a pension to old age, with a super high pension insurance, there is no need to worry about what will happen after getting old.

Also, it seems that even if the people here don't do anything, they can receive more than 13,000 crowns a month, which is equivalent to almost 12,000 yuan, plus the prices here are not high, and the medical insurance is free, even if you are unemployed, you can live a leisurely life.

Hey, in this way, this is simply a paradise for rice worms! ”

Hearing Wang Tao say this, the Swedish woman named Emily, who was in charge of receiving Cheng Yuan and his party, was about thirty years old, dressed in a professional formal suit, with long pale blonde hair, and said in fluent Chinese: "Hehe, what this gentleman said is also not right, we Swedes may have good welfare, but few people here will live only on welfare funds, because here, no job is a very sad thing." ”

"It's sad that you don't have a job or money, you don't have to work and you don't have to worry about food and drink all day long, you don't have to worry about housing, medical care and pension, so what's sad?" Wang Tao asked, "I can't wait to be this kind of rice worm here." ”

"Huh." The woman named Emily continued to smile, "According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, people are first of all basic needs, which are commonly known as physical needs such as eating, drinking, sleeping, and surnames, followed by the need for safety, social needs, and respect, and when these are realized, there will be a higher level of self-actualization needs." Well, if according to Huaguo's saying, that is, if you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good at it, if you ask people on the street, ask them what they care about most, ten of them are concerned about climate warming, environmental degradation, these things, if you ask them if they have a job, they will also say that they have a job, even if it is just a cleaner.

So you see, as long as we Swedes are in good spirits, there are very few people who don't work, and many of us are willing to do some unpaid labor because they crave respect and self-fulfillment.

Therefore, if a Swede does not work, others may not say anything about you, but his own inner torment will make him unbearable, in order to avoid this anxiety, they will find a way to find a job, if there is really no suitable job, then Swedes will usually choose to continue studying, after all, reading is free. ”

"That's amazing." Wang Tao was speechless, "This is simply a perfect country." ”

"Finish the United States? There is no perfect kingdom in this world. The woman named Emily shook her head, "What I said earlier is just the appearance, in fact, our high welfare is just that you outsiders look good, but in fact, this high welfare system has overwhelmed us.

Here, because of the political openness, even we ordinary Swedes know that this kind of high-welfare policy is not good, there are many problems, and we also have many people who want to reform and want to cancel the high-welfare policy.

This is because, although we understand the disadvantages and disadvantages of high welfare, but we really want to change, but we all start to be selfish, we don't want to give up the benefits we have, and we always want the next generation to change again, and the next generation will also want to change the next generation, so we can't continue to reform. ”

"You're well fed." It was Shen Hong who spoke, "Why should such a good welfare be canceled and reformed?" ”

"There are many reasons, but fundamentally, it is because this kind of high welfare policy is dragging the country too seriously, if there is no reform, sooner or later it will enter a dead end, just like a broken ship, which is slowly silent, if it is not repaired in time, sooner or later everyone will end up together."

"Why is it over?" Shen Hong asked.

"The reasons are naturally many, but fundamentally, it is Marx who said that the relations of production are no longer suitable for the productive forces, in other words, our high welfare system has begun to decline and is not suitable for today's society." That Emily sighed and continued, "We in Sweden have entered an aging society, and there is a serious shortage of young labor, and the shortage of labor force leads to low productivity, low production efficiency, insufficient productivity, and less wealth produced.

Because of the high welfare, the expenditure on the entire welfare accounts for more than 30% of the national income, and this figure is still increasing every year. Although high welfare will make our people more peaceful and more self-contained, it will make the people lose their fighting spirit, and the Swedes are famous for not fighting for their surnames, which is the embodiment of this physique.

In addition, high welfare has also dragged down the country's industry and agriculture and other aspects, such as making the country have no strength to carry out larger-scale and higher-level industrial upgrading, and this consequence is that our productivity lags behind, the competitiveness of the industry is insufficient, and eventually a vicious cycle is formed.

In recent years, our country's economy has deteriorated, and the fiscal deficit has been rising year after year, and our high-welfare policy will not last long, and it will be okay in the short term, but in the long run, this is not a long-term solution, and when it really comes to collapse, it will be a disaster.

That's why Swedes are melancholy, because they see the future, but they can't change it, or they are afraid of it. ”

"Hey......" After listening to Emily's words, Wang Tao sighed again, "What a good melancholy, I want to have this kind of melancholy too." ”

"Come on." Shen Hong next to him smiled, "Lao Wang, don't be poor, people are high-end and high-grade melancholy, worried about global warming, world peace, and social harmony, can it be the same as your selfish turtle thinking?" ”

As soon as he said this, he suddenly saw a group of young people marching on the street with signs, chanting slogans there, because they were all in Swedish, and the shouts were also in Swedish, so Wang Tao and Shen Hong couldn't understand or understand them.

"What are they doing?" Seeing the hoarse shouts of those people, Wang Tao immediately asked.

"Oh, that's a member of the ** party who is doing a parade and rally." Emily glanced at it, frowned slightly, and then said calmly, "They are following, demanding the repeal of the new robot policy." ”

"Robot policy?" Wang Tao blinked, "What's that?" ”

"That's the policy that the Swedish political axe has just come out, it's just a draft, and it hasn't been two days before they let them know, there's no way, who made our political axe public, there is never a secret to do something, it's far worse than you." Emily smiled when she said this, "Actually, mainly because of the huge breakthrough in our robotics technology, the Swedish political axe decided to give the green light to our robots and vigorously promote the application of robots in various fields, in the hope of taking our productivity to a higher level." ”

"Well, that's a good thing." Wang Tao was puzzled, "Then why are they opposed?" ”

"Quite simply, the reason for their opposition is that the use of robots will crowd out the living space of human workers." "Because our robotics has a strong common surname, a lot of places where humans can work, robots can do it, and what humans can't do, robots can do."

Because of its high intelligence and high universal surname, our robots can be used not only in dangerous industrial fields, other agricultural fields, and even service industries, such as cafes, restaurants, and express delivery.

Since using robots is cheaper and more efficient than employing people, many of our local companies plan to use robots to work, which will cause a lot of people to lose their jobs, so these people start to make trouble. ”

"I see." Wang Tao nodded, "However, don't you have high benefits even if you are unemployed, so what are they making trouble about?" ”

"I've already explained it earlier." Emily laughs, "We Swedes can enjoy life without working, but we don't feel dignified without working, so they oppose it." Moreover, the opposition of these people is actually more not for themselves, but for others, because they feel that if the large-scale application of robots will be unfair to third world countries, it will deprive them of the advantage of labor costs, make the advantages of Western countries stronger, and more regional conflicts will break out, which is not conducive to the equality and harmony of the whole world. ”

"This ......" Hearing Emily say this, Wang Tao was speechless for a while, "You Swedes are really fond of hearts, and you have the spirit of international [***]." ”

"Hehe, our ruling party is originally left-wing socialism." Emily smiled, "So, in a way, we're a socialist country." ”

Hearing her say this, Wang Tao suddenly stopped talking, because he found something more interesting, that is, in front of the demonstrators, rows of pitch-black humanoid robots with shields suddenly appeared!

These humanoid robots are all uniformly one meter and nine tall, all black, showing a matte color, the surface of the whole body is very smooth, and the movement is also very smooth, I can't tell that it is a robot at all, I don't know, it's like a person wearing a black medieval full-body plate armor.

The robots moved in unison, all holding a human-tall transparent riot shield in one hand and a rubber baton in the other, and then they gathered and put the shields together to form a shield wall, blocking the crowd and organizing the crowd to move forward.

At the same time, there was a loudspeaker playing sound on the armored car behind, because it was played repeatedly in Swedish and English, so Wang Tao could also understand the general meaning.

It turned out that the loudspeaker was saying that there was private territory in front of them, and that if the demonstrators continued to move forward, they were encroaching on private territory and demanding that they immediately retreat.

Seeing these robots appear, coupled with the sound of loudspeakers on the armored vehicle, the crowd immediately erupted in a wave of sounds, which seemed to be quite excited, and then, the people in the front row quickly rushed forward to compete with the robots that formed the shield wall.

It's a pity that those robots are too strong, and after they are pulled into a line, no matter how the people in front of them push and smash, they don't take a step back, but they definitely don't fight back, showing super discipline and tenacity.

Well, think about it, robots, aren't afraid of this at all.

Seeing the sudden outbreak of fierce conflicts, Wang Tao immediately asked, "What's wrong with them?" ”

"It's simple." Emily said lightly, "These demonstrators are storming our robot production plant, so in order to defend ourselves, we have to send robot security guards to stop them from coming." ”

"Don't your police care? Why do you have to be responsible for your own security? Wang Tao asked again.

"It can't be helped, you know, the police don't always react to things like this." Emily spread her hands, "In Sweden, demonstrations and rallies are common, and the police don't always follow every demonstration. Besides, they are attacking our private factory, not the municipal axe building, and we have to wait for the police to come out, and we have to call the police. ”

Hearing Emily say this, Wang Tao was completely speechless, too, the system is different, and there is no way to compare at all.

"This is just the beginning." Wang Tao suddenly said, "Just as when the steam engine appeared, someone smashed the steam engine, when the era of robots is coming, there will inevitably be more and more such conflicts." Sweden is already mild, but if you want to go to another country, hey......"

"Yes, if this were in our country, the situation would have been even worse." Shen Hong frowned and said, "Our country is a big country in terms of human resources, and if this kind of robot technology is also introduced, I am afraid that more people will be laid off and more people will be unemployed." We don't have Swedish welfare, and those laid-off people will be miserable. ”

"But the question is, isn't there a need for robots because of this?" Wang Tao objected, "Don't forget, you and I have seen with our own eyes how powerful the robot is and how high the production efficiency is." If we don't use it, others will use it, and when the time comes, their productivity will increase, and we will suffer. If you refuse to use robots just because you are afraid that someone will be laid off, how is it different from the Qing Dynasty to close off the country? I remember that the minister of the Qing Dynasty at that time said that the emergence of automobiles will make a large number of sedan drivers careers, is it just for the sake of sedan drivers, and reject new technologies? ”

"Yes, I agree with Mr. Wang's point of view. The pace of change will not stop because of the slightest obstacle! Emily's eyes were firm, "We Swedes are never afraid of challenges!" Now that we've produced robots, we won't choke on food! I believe that the idea that robots will change the world is just around the corner, isn't it for this purpose that you came to our side? ”

Seeing her proud look with her chin raised high, Cheng Yuan immediately knew that this woman probably really thought that the robot was developed in Sweden, and she was very proud, which showed the arrogance in the bones of the Swedes.

"Okay, that's later, aren't you in charge of receiving us, where are we going next?" Cheng Yuan said immediately.

"Well...... this" Seeing Cheng Yuan's question, Emily put away her pride mode and said to Cheng Yuan again: "Mr. Cheng, it seems that the situation has changed, I don't think we can go directly to the factory to visit now, why don't we go to the research institute first?" ”

"It's fine." Cheng Yuan nodded.

After discovering that Cheng Yuan agreed, Emily immediately began to take out her mobile phone to call, and after a while, she saw a large helicopter appear in the sky, and after this helicopter appeared, it began to fly towards Cheng Yuan and his party, and when they arrived, they slowly landed in front of Cheng Yuan and others, obviously to pick up Cheng Yuan and his party. (To be continued.) )