Chapter 249: The History That Follows
"Can you speculate on the cause of the outbreak of civil unrest?" Gan Yaduo paused for a moment and looked at Zhang Yuan leisurely.
It has seen part of the history of humanity, and has had far more wars than they have been Gliezers. The complexity of history is also much more complex than that of the Gliezers.
Zhang Yuan pondered and calculated, and tasted the historical inevitability.
He said: "I think there are many reasons, but the main reason is that the management system, ideology, especially the distribution system, cannot keep up with the sudden productivity. ”
"Yes, that's right."
Initial electrification means that nuclear power can be used to generate electricity and produce all kinds of materials, but it does not mean that resources have been produced. This is the Stone Age, and there are so many things to produce in this poor and white situation.
This is a question of who gets rich first and who gets rich later.
No matter how powerful the universal factory is, there are only 13 units. As a powerful 3D printer, even if the production capacity is very strong, it is definitely not cost-effective to directly produce daily necessities.
The best way is to use a universal factory to produce a variety of machines to cooperate with the expansion of production, so as to be able to greatly increase productivity.
Therefore, it is impossible to produce all the material resources needed by the Gliese people at once, nor can it achieve a prosperous modern life for all people at once.
However, under the selfishness of some individuals, the productivity of the universal factory was not all used to produce the means of production, and some high-ranking officials and nobles had taken the lead in enjoying the life of the electricity age.
So there's a huge contrast.
To know...... It was the Stone Age, and many of the Gliese people were still grazing in the fields!
Originally, there was widespread poverty and low productivity, and no matter how rich the rich were, it was only that. And under the social public pension system, wealth is accumulated in clans, which is equivalent to an alternative collective economy, once an individual dies of old age, this part of the wealth will be re-released to the society, or their own clan, so the gap between the rich and the poor is not particularly large.
Rich people can only secretly raise a few illegitimate children and inherit their small wealth. The members within the clan turned a blind eye to this phenomenon, and who gave them the ability to make money?
As for entertainment, high-IQ people play with mathematics and other elegant things, and ordinary people engage in carving, painting, singing and opera...... Anyway, everyone plays their own games and doesn't interfere with each other.
But now it's different......
The gap between the Stone Age and the Electric Age is a bit outrageous, and it is not too much to describe it as earth-shattering. New ways of life, new ways of entertainment, new food, clothing, clothing, housing and transportation have all undergone new changes!
Such a change also means that the gap between the rich and the poor, which was tolerable before, has changed drastically all of a sudden!
At the beginning, these new material resources will inevitably only be enjoyed by a small number of people, and there is no way to fully popularize them. Therefore, the original population with low social status suddenly developed an extremely unbalanced mentality.
Zhang Yuan tapped his fingers lightly: "I understand, it's because of the huge gap between the rich and the poor brought about by the universal factory, which has accumulated energy for civil strife." Well, the gap between the rich and the poor in the Stone Age and the Electric Age is also a bit too big. ”
There is a gap between the rich and the poor within a civilization, which is very normal in itself, because there is a gap between the abilities of individuals and individuals, and there is no way to live as well as others.
But the greater the gap between the rich and the poor, the more likely a society is to generate turmoil.
Because of the emergence of the universal factory, in just two or three years, the "Gini index" of the Gliese civilization suddenly soared to the sky, which is naturally not tolerated by the people at the bottom.
Although the Gliese people are idle and free, it does not mean that there are no desires, and under the impact of massive material resources, everyone begins to move. No one wants to continue the life of that primitive era, even if it's a day late......
In the case of the people's imminent move, the government departments, which were not very strong, have greatly reduced their management and control capabilities, and their binding power on the citizens has become smaller and smaller, and even the managers themselves are at a loss and in a state of internal chaos under this huge impact.
In addition to the gap between the rich and the poor, there is also a second internal factor: the original economic system dominated by handicrafts has begun to appear unusually anachronistic, and various economic policies and cultures have produced a great deal of confusion.
To take a simple example, the goods on the market were limited to primary commodities such as grain, bone tools, and handicrafts, and their added value was relatively low. Many ordinary people have relied on the manual production of these goods to survive, and for tens of thousands of years, it has been very stable.
On the other hand, the added value of goods produced from universal factories is high. In this Stone Age, the added value of a car should be even so high that no one can afford it!
The onslaught of a large number of new products has led to the desire to buy the latest products.
The prices of the original commodities fell sharply, and low-value goods could not be sold at all. The chaos of monetary policy soon led to deflation and a complete paralysis of the economy.
The collapse of the economy caused some handicraft merchants to lose money and began to be unable to support themselves.
With the development of science and technology, there are people who can't support themselves, which is unbelievable but natural. After all, the quality and work ability of the vast majority of ordinary people are still in the Stone Age, and there is no way to keep up with the trend of the times. They only do a little bit of handicraft work, and now the handicraft is suddenly worthless, and they are directly unemployed.
The government at that time did not have enough experience and organizational capacity to deal with this kind of economic crisis, and the response was always slow, resulting in the whole crisis getting bigger and bigger.
These managers simply don't have this kind of economics in their heads, and they don't know why there are more and more destitute people.
This group of poor people who lost their jobs either left the city and continued to live a primitive life......
Either...... Through violence, you can achieve your own demands!
"These two reasons, like two springs, the tighter you press, the more force you will burst out." Zhang Yuan let out a long sigh, looked at the white ceiling, and pondered, pondered......
Unfortunately, the interstellar civilization only taught them some scientific knowledge, but not any knowledge about the institutional aspects...... No matter how smart the Gliese people are, they can't know anything about it, let alone react to it.
The development of civilization has never been achieved overnight, science and technology have developed, but the external power has been advanced by leaps and bounds, without the support of internal strength, it is equivalent to just a hollow tree, which looks tall and mighty, but in fact, it will fall down when it is touched, or even fall down directly.