Chapter 114: A Brief Introduction to the Economy
The economic crisis is very complex, and it may take another book to elaborate on it, and it is in the clouds, and everyone can't understand it, so we will briefly talk about the economy here, in short. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"With the continuous development of history, the core of industrialization that has brought human progress is: cheap, mass-produced, and the replicability of wisdom crystallization is the root of human civilization progress! The smaller the cost of such reproduction, the faster human society will develop. Cheap does not mean inferior, and mass production is the sign of success for practical industrial products. History has proven time and time again that creating the most simple pieces often requires the most genius designs! ”
-- Excerpt from the military subplane.
This passage is a good illustration of the advantages and benefits of modern industrialization, which has brought us thousands of commodities and brought prosperity and comfort to mankind. The Industrial Revolution represented the replacement of manual labor with machinery, and the unlimited collection of resources on the planet to feed tens of billions of people.
So why are there still people who can't afford to eat, live on the streets, and work hard after the Industrial Revolution?
This is because the West is a capitalist society, at the end of the feudal society in the sixteenth century, the germination of the capitalist society began, the development of the commodity economy, caused the polarization of small commodity producers, the occurrence of the industrial revolution accelerated the process of polarization, a small number of people in the society through the primitive accumulation of capital, became capitalists, and the majority of the people in the society were exploited and oppressed, and became the lower working class and poor peasant class in the polarization.
A capitalist society is a cannibalistic society, and the resources collected by human beings are enough for tens of billions of people to survive, but through the primitive accumulation and industrial development of capitalists,
The surplus value created by the working class and the peasant class became the source of wealth for the entire capitalist class, the source of capital accumulation and expanded reproduction.
The acquisition of surplus value or the pursuit of profit is the absolute law of the capitalist mode of production, and is the sole purpose and motive of the capitalists in carrying out production and engaging in various activities.
On the contrary, the improvement of machinery has caused more and more workers to be squeezed out, forming an industrial reserve army. This reserve army is a stumbling block to the struggle of the working class against the capitalists, a regulator for the capitalists to keep wages at a low level that suits their needs. The improvement of machinery and the application of scientific and technological achievements, which were originally powerful means of increasing social wealth and shortening working hours, have turned into means of increasing labor intensity, increasing the number of unemployed, and plunging the proletariat into poverty under capitalist conditions.
Capitalist society is mercenary, even though the value created and the wealth produced by the whole society can feed everyone, most of the wealth resources are in the hands of a few capitalists, and the people at the bottom are still poor.
This is the disadvantage of capitalism, the capitalists are mercenary, and when the crisis comes, they will not help, but will make a fortune for their own interests.
Let's talk about the world economic crisis (also known as the Great Depression period), it is not an economic crisis deliberately created by people (some small financial crises are formed by bankers, as well as national economic adjustment), this economic crisis is too peaceful from the world economic form, after World War I, all countries have entered the era of great development, the Entente countries will recover after the war, Germany will also have economic revitalization, American goods will be sold all over the world, and the production capacity will be excessive, The supply of goods in several major producing countries exceeds demand, and the buyers only have such a fixed quantity, who will sell the excess goods to?
Nobody buys it.
It's not that no one buys it, but it can't afford it, and the purchasing power of the polarized lower class is only so strong, and no one buys the goods produced by enterprises in various countries around the world, so what will enterprises do? Naturally, it was layoffs, naturally factories were closed, and so, the economic crisis began.
You said that so many companies have produced so many goods, and the supply of goods is in short supply, so why are there still many people who cannot afford to eat and live on the streets?
This is the cruelty of Western capitalism, which, in terms of economic principles, is not determined by the relationship between production and social needs (the development of society and the needs of man), but by the rate of profit.
Thus, when the expansion of production is far from sufficient under another premise, constraints on production have emerged. Production does not pause when the requirements for the satisfaction of needs are stopped, but when the requirements for the production and realization of profits come to a standstill.
This passage is very simple, that is, enterprises should be profit-oriented, and all business and production are for profit. So there are many companies that would rather throw away the milk than fund the poor, because what is the profit of funding the poor? Throwing away milk can balance supply and demand, so that the milk in the market will be reduced, and the price of milk will not fall, which can create profits for the company.
This is the fundamental reason for the current world economic crisis: on the one hand, the United States has fallen into a blind frenzy of finance, and on the other hand, the production of major countries has resumed, and commodities are in short supply and cannot be sold, which has caused a decrease in corporate profits, resulting in a great increase in the number of workers laid off and unemployed, and then the masses of the people will save money and not consume, so that it is more difficult to sell the commodities in society, and the economy of the entire human society will fall into a vicious circle.
In order to maintain the price of agricultural products, agricultural capitalists and large farmers destroyed the "surplus" in large quantities, replaced coal with wheat and corn for fuel, and poured milk into the Mississippi River, turning the river into a "galaxy".
But the unemployed in the city wander the streets, sleeping at night on a "Hoover blanket" and eating a fist-sized bread every day.
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The great economic crisis was a terrible thing for the vast majority of the planet, and it was no exception for Hitler, whose United Steel Company was sluggish, Hillamen's sales were declining, and his personal assets were shrinking by nearly a third.
There was no way around it, and no one was immune to the Great Depression, but Hitler welcomed a few German guests from afar to his Bulgarian estate.
"What are they coming for?"
Hitler sat on the couch and looked at the people sitting on the other couches, and wondered in his heart.
Dozens of people sitting on the other sofas, some of them are old acquaintances of Hitler, such as Fritz, the successor of the Thyssen Group, Chaehoff, who has been promoted to president of Deutsche Bank, several bosses of German chemical companies, etc., and there are many people that Hitler did not know, but through Ginter's introduction, these people are all rich people in Germany without exception, either entrepreneurs, financiers, or traditional landowners, and they are all leaders in the German economic circles.
When it became clear that among these people were traditional landowners, Hitler immediately understood.
"Brother Hitler, you must help me!"
Chachhoff took Hitler's palm, a handful of snot and a handful of tears. (To be continued.) )