Chapter 323: Eight Wonders of Silver Blood
Dan Chixia seemed to have her spine pulled out, and her whole person sat on the ground softly, and the spirit of the students of the imperial courtyard was completely lost, and her expression was as pale as a corpse that had just been dug out of the cemetery.
Le Yu helped him up in time and said, "Although it seems that I am insincere when I say this, I am not targeting you, Mr. Dan Chixia. β
"You don't have to blame yourself, because you're not the only victim. In Dongyang, the Silver Blood Society uses the means of production to coerce, lure, tempt, seduc, and praise, and brainwash millions of people into slaves of intrigue, hatred, power, and pleasure. β
"They do the same thing I did, testing your bottom line step by step, pretending to support and appreciating your abilities until you are willing to do anything for the score, which is for money in Dongyang."
"There are a lot of things that once you take the first step, it's hard to turn back. Not only because it's hard to admit your mistakes, but it's also because it's hard to give up the sunk cost β the sunk cost is the price you've already paid. When people have done so many things that give up their self-esteem, if the other person makes more humiliating demands, people tend to further break through their lower limits. β
"They are not stupid, Dan Chixia, you are not stupid, it is precisely because you are not stupid that you have to put a high-sounding veil on your actions - the cadres of the Silver Blood Society said that there would be no Dongyang people without the Silver Blood Society, and you said, you are here to take care of my face."
"I repeat again, Mr. Dan Chixia, you are not wrong, you are just ......"
ββ¦β¦ Not so brave. β
"As a sign of my apologies, if you take my course, as long as you take the final exam, you can get a full score directly."
Helping Dan Chixia up, Le Yu glanced at Shi Wen, who was still shaking and cold, and turned his head to look at the students.
"I believe you already understand the power of the 'means of production', right?" Leyu smiled: "I'll briefly review what happened in the past half hour-"
"First of all, I use 'sixty hours' as the employment price and ask everyone to work for me."
"In this process, I put forward requirements to the four classmates that are not within the scope of work, including but not limited to running errands, pinching shoulders, and cutting nails, and this is a typical example of using power for personal gain - everyone must not think that this is a trivial matter so that I can succeed, if I am given enough time to get along, let me lower the moral bottom line of my classmates step by step, and in the end, as long as the person I am targeting will definitely let me take what I want because of the 'sunk cost'."
"It seems that everyone is very interested in the content of 'give and take', so I won't talk about it, and if you are interested, you can go back and dream at night."
"Among them, Qian Yuya is very keenly aware of my teaching intentions," Le Yu suddenly named Qian Yuya's name: "She tried to learn from me, and controlled other students by deducting points, although the means were very crude, but for the sake of her serious study, I added five points to her." β
The classmates of Qianyuya's team suddenly realized, and their eyes became full of envy when they looked at Qianyuya - no wonder she was so strict, it turned out that she wanted to teach the teacher!
But Qian Yuya frowned slightly and looked at Le Yu, not knowing what to think.
"And when everyone completed the task according to my instructions, I used various assessment standards to deduct everyone's usual points."
Leyu glanced at the students: "When I did this, although you vaguely felt that something was wrong, you chose to give up resistance at the thought of getting twenty or thirty ordinary points. β
"If controlling personality is a small skill of the Silver Blood Society, then this method is the core skill of the Silver Blood Society's development and growth."
"Jing Zhengwei called itβ"
"The Theory of Surplus Value."
"Why has the Silver Blood Society been able to grow step by step? The reason is because they exploit the surplus value of the laborer. What is surplus value? Assuming that the cleaning corresponds to 60 minutes, then when you finish your work, I will reduce your remuneration through ambiguous and subjective criteria, so that you can only get 30 points, and the 30 points that are not given to you are the residual value of your work. β
"In addition, I also encourage the captain to deduct your points to fatten himself, and transfer the part of the conflict between you and me to the conflict between you and the captain."
"And after the Qianyuya team finished their work, I asked them to go to the next classroom to continue cleaning, although I paid five cents of the usual time, but it was far from proportional to their workload - obviously they also provided me with a lot of surplus value."
"These are just some of the methods of the Silver Blood Society, and there are many classic exploitation methods that are limited to time and space, and I cannot show them all, such as: asking for overtime but not paying overtime pay, canceling leave, arrears of wages, dismissal of mothers, and deduction of wages for various reasons...... The century-old silver-blooded aesthetics is simply too numerous to mention, and I can't say enough, but the core is the same - the exploitation of the surplus value of laborers in various ways. β
"You may wonder why anyone would endure exploitation like this. Then after my demonstration, you should no longer have doubts - the means of production are like credits, you don't have many choices, and the poor don't have either. β
"The strength of the exploitation system lies not in the excellence of the system, but in the fact that you don't have a choice."
"I won't go into more detail about the exploitation techniques, so as not to teach you badly. I'm not afraid that you will be bad people, but I am afraid that you will be useless. Le Yu blinked: "Don't think that after learning the methods I taught, you can match the profiteers and nobles in Yanjing, they are all engaged in politics, I just have a little dirty heart, they don't have a heart at all." β
The students burst into laughter and said: "There is still a lot to be said about the theory of surplus value, but for the sake of time, you will leave the rest to your own speculation, you can apply this theory to various social phenomena, and maybe you can find more interesting social laws from it." β
"I will not teach you to brew glory, to achieve glory, to prevent death...... I wouldn't do that myself. I just want to use the historical event of the destruction of silver blood to discuss with you some of the internal laws of society, many of which were mentioned to me by Jing Zhengwei during casual chat, and I just picked up people's teeth and wisdom to retell his academic achievements to you, so all the remarks in class do not represent my own views. β
Bell-bell-bell!
The students were shocked to find out that a big class had ended like this.
"Time flies so fast, and it's time to say goodbye." Le Yu clapped his hands: "Then the first lesson "The Theory of Means of Production and Surplus Value" is over, and next week I will tell you about the eight legends of the Silver Blood Society, and I will take you into their thinking field and witness their ups and downs." β
"Next week, "Eight Wonders of Silver Blood, One Wonder Jing Qing Worm", stay tuned."
"Now, after class, thank you."