Chapter 657: Population Issues
The original mothership had to carry a large number of people and had various non-military functions, so it was always a bit cumbersome to fight.
When the war with the Apollo civilization was discovered, people discovered this problem, where is the truth of both civilian and military, if there is really a war, a mothership will be blown up, and too many civilians will die!
But in that case, there is no time to improve.
But after the improvement in the future, there will basically be no such and such problems.
After having a battle star, the whole society even has a new desire to consume, that is...... Bigger and better houses, especially houses with an average area of more than 50 square meters per person.
If people live on the planet in the future, people are no longer satisfied with the original living area, the original housing price is calculated according to the area, the larger the house, the higher the average price per square meter. The per capita area is actually only 16 square meters, which is really not much.
Where on the ship is there so much living area.
But now, people naturally want bigger houses, better environments, and the ability to keep some small animals.
Although the new human civilization is not a civilization that promotes economic growth with the desire of individual consumption, it is better for people to have a desire to consume than to have no desire.
In addition to some basic social benefits, these material resources cannot be distributed for free, only hard work can be obtained, and what should be bought with money must be paid, otherwise you can only envy others.
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Leaving aside the various social phenomena in this area, the biggest problem for the management is that the current population size is a bit insufficient.
150 million sounds like a lot, can do a lot of things, plus since humans spent 3,000 amoeba points to buy the [Micro Nano-Alpha 3 Maintenance Robot] in the Dyson sphere, the cracking progress has steadily increased, and the artificial intelligence ability has steadily increased......
But in reality? Still not enough. If it weren't for a variety of complex reasons, management would have been desperate to get a billion people.
Population has always been a big problem!
The original tech tree needs to be developed and maintained with a certain amount of population. Research institutes in all walks of life are inherently short of people. As a fourth-level civilization, the technology tree has long been flourishing, forming a huge number of science and technology systems.
Even with the advent of assistive brain technology and additional perception, humans are much smarter and more efficient at learning than they were during the Earth period, but the population is still insufficient.
In addition, as a fourth-level civilization, it is possible that there will be no major results for decades. Even if the progress of each technology line is slow, it must be persistent, otherwise how can it be possible to move forward for no reason?
Therefore, the manpower in this area can not be called, and it is not possible to draw it as much as possible, otherwise it is to pick the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon.
In addition, there are all kinds of administrative personnel, entertainment industry, service personnel, etc., which are all necessities of a civilization. Now people are pursuing all-round development, and will no longer be as in the past, only one direction of development.
Even, six motherships are theoretically capable of carrying a population of 200 million, but now they are only loaded with 150 million, which is not fully loaded. And now there is another planet, and when the residential area is developed, it will be able to carry at least 1 billion people, which is completely the rhythm of a vast land and sparsely populated area.
As a result, after some of the staff were relocated to the ground, the spaceship seemed empty, and the commercial area and various entertainment venues were much deserted, and some people who were used to the excitement were quite unaccustomed to it.
Population expansion is a very important and urgent event, but no matter how urgent the needs of the whole society are for the population, it requires considerable planning.
Population is both an asset and a burden. The number of top geniuses will increase when there are more people, and the relevant supporting education and public services should be prepared in advance, how to manage after the number of people increases, and how to adjust the economic system are all major challenges faced by the management of the new human civilization.
"Ladies and gentlemen, 150 million people and 10 billion people are two different ways of management. In the event of a special event, mobilizing 1 billion people is not on the same order of magnitude as mobilizing 150 million people. ”
"Our society demands too much quality of the population...... A slightly worse quality of the population will in turn hinder the development of society. This is clear to everyone. ”
In this daily meeting, Madam Captain focused on this aspect.
Fortunately, human scientists have been studying this aspect for a long, long time, and have come up with various solutions.
In addition, among the current population of 150 million, young people who are 100 years old, or middle-aged people who are two or three hundred years old, the overall quality is simply unprecedentedly high. They have experienced the dark ages before the neutron star collision, witnessed the sinking of the "brilliant galactic branch", and experienced the baptism of the Dyson sphere incident, and know that the development of a civilization is not easy, and it is basically dominated by blue thoughts.
The social inertia formed by this part of the population is very strong and will lead to the healthy growth of the next generation.
An education scholar asked the question: "...... But we can't rely entirely on social inertia, and when our generation dies, the new birth population behind us may not be necessarily, although we can let them know this by means of education, but education and personal experience are always two different things......"
"The power of education is quite limited."
"So, we should be cautiously optimistic. At present, the large society formed by a population of 150 million has formed a certain degree of good inertia in the social atmosphere, and we must strive to expand to 500 million people within 80 years under the condition that the atmosphere remains unchanged! ”
"Within 150 years, expand to 800 million people, and eventually stay at 100000000000000, or even more, 1.2 billion, 1.5 billion, no problem."
"All in all, 10-12 hundred million is a relatively ideal number of people......"
This female captain is a typical person of deep blue thinking, and after listening to this, she said with a little dissatisfaction: "Professor Ye, there is some truth in your statement. But first I want to ask, are we going to be able to create so many jobs? Especially high-end jobs, you know what it means, high-end jobs, not the kind of jobs that sell labor! ”
"If there are not enough jobs, it's over, a whole bunch of people do nothing all day long, wander around society, and the whole civilization collapses immediately! It is impossible for us to develop labor-intensive industries like the earth in the past! ”
Labor-intensive industries are not bad, and in a period of time when a country is at the starting point of industrialization, it is more suitable to develop labor-intensive industries and transform the agricultural population into an industrial population in large quantities.
In the product cost of labor-intensive industries, labor consumption accounts for a large proportion, while physical capital consumption accounts for a small proportion.
However, it has the limitations of the times, and the most typical feature is that the added value is relatively low. An airplane is exchanged for a few shirts, and shirts are the so-called labor-intensive industry.
Captain Feng said, "...... Just like the civilization of the earth, a clothing store must hire a waiter to collect the cashier there, even if the robot can completely replace the cashier, but in order to work, it has to do so. ”
"After the population increases, there will inevitably be a large number of individuals who cannot adapt to the times, should our civilization also follow the policy of the earth's civilization?"
Technology is not a panacea, and it cannot solve many social problems: for example, jobs.
The development of technology can create all kinds of new jobs, but it will also eliminate many old jobs.
The more developed science and technology, the higher the requirements for people's quality, but the personal quality of human beings is always normally distributed, even with the blessing of intelligence and technology, it is impossible to smooth out the gap. Most people are mediocre and unable to work in cutting-edge positions, which creates a series of social problems.