The Port of Anchorage has suddenly quieted down, and since the crisis erupted a few months ago, and especially since Standard Oil announced that it would cut fuel and crude oil prices, fewer and fewer ships have arrived here, with an average of only a few ships arriving at the port each day for the last week. Among these ships, there are not many real and meaningful supertankers, and only one has come this week. The other boats were fishing boats, whaling boats, and so on. It is said that the Germans are still buying oil, but because it is already cheaper to buy oil directly from the standard than from Alaska, the tankers are no longer running this way.

Similar to oil tankers, the number of container ships has dropped dramatically, and now construction in Alaska has almost stopped, and even maintenance has become a problem. Since there is no business, the Germans will not keep those employees - isn't that a waste of money? So naturally, they began to lay off most of the workers in the oil fields, most of the facilities in the oil fields have been stopped, except for the necessary maintenance personnel, most of the employees have been laid off, and the rest of the staff have to accept more onerous contracts, and it is said that most of the remaining personnel have a much heavier workload, but their wages have been reduced by 30 to 70 percent in one go.

Anchorage Harbor was the last bustle - the workers left on passenger ships. By the time most of the workers had left, the once-bustling port of Anchorage had died. Without those workers, without continuous construction, the port of Anchorage will naturally cool down, and naturally there will be a lot of workers, and naturally there will be large layoffs, as a result, most of the port workers have also left, of course, the remaining number of people is still a lot more than before the development of Alaska, because today's port is much larger after all, and a lot of fixed assets cannot be moved immediately, and enough manpower must be left to maintain and defend. However, excluding these manpower and the logistics of providing services for them, the remaining number of people is really about the same as before the Great Development. As for oil pipelines and railways, naturally, the same is true.

Since the port is in such a decay, so are the cities that rely on the port, and since the port workers, oil field workers, railroad workers, etc. are almost gone, then Anchorage City will naturally follow in its footsteps. All kinds of services and entertainment have left, nightclubs are closing one after another, and even the underworld is gone - now that Anchorage is gone, what are you doing here? Do you want the master of the underworld to go to Xiong Da Xiong Er to collect protection money? Eventually, even the government agencies retreated, and if this situation continued, it was almost certain that it would not be long before Anchorage would be a wilderness again.

But it wasn't without a rush to get here, especially in the summer of 1914, when another passenger ship arrived in Anchorage with a boatload full of people.

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"Sister Vera, it's so beautiful here!" When the ship docked, it was evening, and the fiery sunset reflected the sky and the sea in red, as if the whole sea was burning. The mountains near the harbor and the dark reflections left in the fiery red sky and sea are like a beautiful landscape.

"Yes, it's exactly like Monsieur Monet's Sunrise Impression, but it's just sunset." Vera replied. Unlike more than a decade ago, Vera is now a big star in the entire film company, and they are here for a new type of film - the world's first zombie film "Apocalypse".

The legend of the resurrection of the dead and the transformation of man-eating monsters into man-eating monsters has been circulating in various horror stories about the end of the world, and after the radio was popularized, there were radio stations that specialized in telling various ghost stories, and one of them actually ran well. Even while telling those ghost stories, there are also a lot of crosses that are said to kill vampires, silver bullets that can be used against werewolves, and can be used against the Headless Horseman......

It is said that a long time ago, Mr. Edmundo came up with a post-apocalyptic script that depicts a plague that can turn people into cannibalistic living corpses that sweeps across the world, and only a few survivors are able to escape. In today's film industry, Mr. Edmundo has always been known for his bold use of new technologies, and now he has a lot of new technologies in his hands, so when he saw that script, he immediately found that there are many places in this script that if those new technologies are used, the effect will be absolutely shocking. It's just that this needs a deserted city to do the back. Jing, it's hard to find. It was suggested to Mr. Edmundo that it would be much easier to lower the requirements and reduce the city to a small town. For example, go to the west, rent a small town in the middle of nowhere, and let the townspeople leave for a while.

However, Mr. Edmundo is not a person who is willing to make a living, so the film has never officially started filming. Knowing that a new economic crisis had erupted, Mr. Edmundo did not know where to find out that Anchorage had become a ghost town. Such a ghost town with almost no inhabitants is simply not suitable for Mr. Edmundo's needs, and after the outbreak of the economic crisis, although all industries withered, the movie became more and more popular, and Mr. Edmundo also got enough investment, so he pulled his crew and ran here.

By this time, the gangway on the passenger ship had been erected, and Edmundo began to beckon his men to disembark. He turned his head to see Vera still standing on the foredeck talking to Anne, so he shouted at them, "Vera, Adjani, it's time to get off the ship?" Hell, do you still want to stay on the boat for dinner? I don't want to be on this wrecked ship for a minute. ”

"Alright, Adjani, let's go down." Vera smiled at Adjani, who was standing beside her, and the two of them walked together in the direction of the gangway.

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The economic depression has made Edmundo, who is engaged in the film industry, better and better. However, the situation in other industries is much more miserable, because of the sharp drop in the stock market, and the number of people who finally jumped off the building is quite large, so that the New York Tower is once again in a very abnormal state, and all the places where people can easily jump from it are closed, even the high-rise restaurants, which have rope loops near the glass façade and placed security personnel.

However, those who can climb to the New York Tower to enjoy a final supper before jumping off the building are already rich people. Even, those who can lose money and jump off buildings in the stock market were once rich people. As for those ordinary people, they will not lose money in the stock market and jump off the building, but this does not mean that they are safer, because they also have to face two extremely dangerous situations, one is called unemployment, and the other is called bank bankruptcy.

Generally speaking, those smaller banks, in order to attract depositors, are always willing to offer higher deposit interest rates, and because their interest rates are higher, so when the economic situation is good, those poor people are often willing to deposit money in these banks for the extra interest, and once the economic crisis appears, these capital is not strong enough, and the interest rate pressure is higher, and at the same time, the investment is more likely to make mistakes, and the small banks with weaker risk resistance are always more likely to go bankrupt. Those savers may lose all their money.

Therefore, whenever there is a big stock market crash or something, there will be a run in front of many small banks. In addition, many enterprises that have borrowed the loans of these small banks have gone bankrupt and cannot recover their investments, and then coupled with the debt chains between small banks, so when the crisis is more serious, such small banks are likely to collapse one after another. At the same time, many people's life savings have been wasted.

The threat of unemployment is greater than the bankruptcy of banks, because the real poor often don't have much savings, so losses are not too fatal. But unemployment is a different story. Once unemployed, it almost immediately means that the worker, and even his family, will face a day of hunger and cold.

There are those who, in defending the bourgeoisie, have argued that the bourgeoisie is taking greater risks in their operations, and therefore they deserve more to gain. In their view, once the goods of the bourgeoisie cannot be sold, the bourgeoisie will lose money or even go bankrupt. Proletarians, by contrast, do not have to bear the risk of bankruptcy, they just need to change jobs. However, is this really the case? The biggest risk faced by the bourgeoisie is bankruptcy, and it is rare to starve to death immediately after bankruptcy. But as for the proletarian, any economic turmoil may make him unemployed, and unemployment means hunger and cold, a real danger of starvation.

The situation in Europe is even more difficult than in the United States. Because the United States is very large, even if the workers are unemployed, there is still a vast west, and even other countries in the Americas can provide them with some opportunity to support themselves. Of course, the British are in good shape, and although it is said that many people have starved to death in India this year, the British, including the British workers, are in an even slightly better position in the crisis than the American workers by starving the Indians.

It was Germany that was in the most difficult situation, and the lack of colonies suffered particularly hard in the crisis, with unemployment rising rapidly to more than 25 percent. The wages of the remaining workers who were not unemployed also fell sharply by 20 to 50 percent. Despite the efforts of the trade unionist SPD to pacify it, spontaneous strikes and even violent strikes. Movement also began to happen one after another.