Volume 2 Robots, Cyborgs, Demons 0076 The Expanding Pyramid
"Anithia, although Owen is full of evil outside, but in school, he is loyal and hardworking to us, even if the credit is not large, he works a lot."
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"Therefore, I think that we should think about him from his standpoint, understand the tremendous pressure he is under as the future pillar of the family, and should not continue to exert so much pressure on him, so that he is cornered, and actually chooses to end his life by such painful means."
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"Even, Senior Sister, not only me, but also many other nobles, they are also like me, they feel that your sentence against Owen this time is too unkind, and they feel that you have become more and more harsh and unsympathetic recently, and urgently need to be adjusted. Otherwise, I am afraid that it will be too much, and it will greatly damage the loyalty of those elite families who have been following us! β
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"Senior sister, Owen's death, and Sanchez's madness, are already very obvious bad signs! If you're as smart as you, can't you still see it? I hope you must think about it again, and leave a little room for everyone below, even if it is the first group! β
ββ¦β¦ Hehe, junior, you're still too tender! β
"I ......"
"Miller, the question is, am I not going to give them leeway?"
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"If nothing else, do you think they fight hard? In order to take revenge on Sanchez, who can be said to be his childhood sweetheart, Owen actually stuffed money to Sanchez's psychiatrist, and asked him to deliberately lead Sanchez in the wrong direction, lead him to madness, and rectify him to death. Forty or fifty percent of Sanchez's madness is caused by Owen. The other four or five percent were also his own iniquities. β
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"In the same way, why do you think Owen is so afraid to go to the bottom zone? Why is the environment in the bottom zone so bad? Why do people living in the Bottom Zone have such miserable lives? Can half of the money we allocate to the bottom zone actually reach the lower classes, to those most in need? β
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"After layers of exploitation by the middle-level elites who are the executors, I am afraid that it is not even a tenth! Therefore, regarding Owen's death, even if it was my fault to expel his entire family from the Bottom Zone, why the Bottom Zone became what hell it is like today, every middle-level including Owen is to blame, and He Ming is the source of evil. β
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"Therefore, the crux of the problem now is not that I don't leave room for them at all, but that they don't leave room for themselves alone!"
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"After all, human nature is selfish and unrestrained. And if a person is selfish and wants to be selfless and cared for by others, is it possible? They should have expected today's outcome. β
"Senior sister, it is true that they have always been so selfish and unrestrained. But we're different! We are dragon people born with wisdom and restraint, so naturally we should work harder and exert more effort to guide them to change the corrupt status quo of Zambaruk! β
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"It's useless to just put pressure on them. They must also be taught to be rational and law-abiding in order to achieve a sound and orderly development of society. And that is indeed complicated and difficult, but it is the duty and sacred duty of us dragons! β
"Hehe, Miller, you are so naΓ―ve! Do I have to get it through? Hmph, saying that I don't care about the lives of the people under me, how can they get any better? Speaking of selfishness and lack of restraint, how good can we dragon people be! β
"How can we ......"
"Miller, as I said, I don't like the idea that military strategists compare collectives or societies to giants. I prefer economists to say that any collective, or even society as a whole, is actually a pyramid. There are many people in the upper class, few people in the lower class, and one layer of people carries one layer of people. In this way, we can see how a collective often goes from prosperity to extinction. β
"Oh, yes, yes, I think so. By the way, moreover, any collective, including society, can be roughly divided into three levels, like a pyramid with three steps, and the higher you go, the fewer people there are. As for why there are the most people who are trampled on the bottom, it is to make the pyramid move the fastest, and the most important thing is that there are more people, which is a helpless move. β
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"As for why the upper echelons can stand at the top? Naturally, it is to see the farthest, so as to make the judgment that is most beneficial to the whole pyramid, and to point out the direction for the progress of the whole society. As for why we dragons are standing on the heads of all the big and small pyramids now, because of the superior wisdom and restraint of our dragons, this is what we must be consistent! β
"Yes! But in my opinion, the most important reason why there are fewer people at the top is that in any case, the upper layers have to pass on their weight to the lower ones. In this way, the lower the level, the more floors above, the greater the pressure, and the wider and thicker it has to be. Otherwise, once the lower layer can't bear it, the entire pyramid will collapse with a bang. At that time, the middle and upper classes will have to suffer along with the lower classes. β
"Yes, so ......"
"But looking at the past and present, inside and outside, no matter how big or small companies, big or small organizations, big or small countries, no matter what kind of pyramid, even if the top of this pyramid is our dragons? What upper layer of the pyramid can always maintain rational restraint and not plunder excessively! Even if you know that if you are too selfish and greedy, you will put too much pressure on the lower levels and crush the entire pyramid sooner or later, but you can see how many pyramids are not crushed by the over-inflated top layer in the end! β
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"Whether it is an ape-man or a dragon-man, human nature is selfish in nature, and no one is exempt. After all, genes evolved by attacking and plundering in the midst of cruel competition. Moreover, the further we go to the upper echelons of the social pyramid, the less bound people are, and the more easily they are encouraged by the selfish nature deep in our genes, and often only become more selfish and greedy day by day, and in the end they are unscrupulous, shameless, and openly put their personal interests above the interests of the whole collective, bringing increasingly unbearable pressure and profound disasters to the middle and lower classes. β
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"The ancient sage said, 'The Son of Heaven should be guilty of the same crime as the common people when he breaks the law', but that is simply to fool the lower classes. The fact is, do you think which emperor will really obediently obey the law after breaking the law? Even the generals below the emperor have perverted the law for personal gain, trampled on the law, and trampled on the law wantonly. β
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Therefore, in any collective birth, old age, sickness and death, as in the individual, the internal driving force of destruction is selfishness. The difference is that because the top layer is less constrained, it is always the top layer that is the first to corrupt and expand. The middle and lower strata are usually crushed by the corrupt and inflated top. β
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"Therefore, although we dragon-men are wiser and more restrained than ape-men, because we are at the top, but because we are less restrained, we will not necessarily degenerate more slowly than the apes below us. Our selfishness and lack of restraint are not necessarily any less than those of apes. The fallen dragonmen, led by Grand Duke Amury, are the best representatives of us who are actually selfish and ignorant. β
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"Forget it, I'll just say it! Now, in Zambaruk, the pyramid dominated by us, the top of which is also expanding because of the selfishness and ignorance that we cannot eradicate, will soon crush the great pyramid on which we all depend, and no one cares about the lives and deaths of those below. β
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"In other words, not only do they not give them leeway, but we don't really plan to leave them any leeway. And they now have no choice but to continue to suppress their patience! β
ββ¦β¦ Is it that bad? And, even if it's that bad, why don't you make it clear to everyone? β
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"Since you have realized that our momentary ignorance is brewing into a huge mistake that cannot be reversed, why don't you warn us and continue to persecute the apes? As you said, the decline of the collective is different from that of the individual, and it is often the head that crushes the torso. Now the main problem should not be on us! β
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"Senior sister, everyone is a dragon, even if you are so good that we all admire you, the rest of us will not be much inferior to you. If things really get that bad, we will definitely quickly understand the situation and reflect on it. Like you said, Zambaruk is the city that we and all of us depend on for our survival, and of course we will take care of restraint and strive to save ......."
"Hehe, remind you? Are you kidding? Then those apes don't even want to live! β
"How so?"
"Miller, your naivety is disgusting to me!"
"Learn, senior sister."
"Miller, now, it's imperative for each of us dragons to become stronger! No arrogant dragonman wants to be anyone's slave, so no matter how desperate they are to plunder resources, they will not be stopped, even at the risk of destroying everything! β
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"What's more, this is not the same as it used to be. In the past, in the face of the expansion of our top stratum and the middle and lower strata that are becoming more and more full of cracks and more and more precarious, we really have no other way but to restrain ourselves and even carry out self-reform at the top. But today, there is a seemingly more convenient and efficient option in front of us. β
"What, what choice?"
"Hehe, Miller, you should know, right? Isn't that the choice that your Sorento family offers you! β
"You, what do you mean?"
"Hehe, that is, the fragile and scarred middle and lower layers are replaced with cold, efficient, loyal, low-carbon and energy-saving intelligent robots in a large area."