Chapter 12: Constrained Capital#
After getting off the brain-like body, Anton asked Qi Min, "Are you really going to take care of this?" β
Qi Min's face was not very good: "That's not it." Which king and eight lambs don't have long eyes and dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head. Brush the points, brush the points, and you have to press me. β
Anton then realized that she was only in charge of the black market merchants hiring people to brush up on the old city points, and not to manage the illegal transactions of the brain-like body. "You don't care about the black market?"
"How normal the black market is." Qi Min spread his hands and said, "Where is there no black market?" Where there is profit, there must be an inflow of capital, which cannot be stopped by law. β
"But the brain-like body is your 'turf' after all." Anton reminded her.
Qi Min laughed: "You really think I am the king of the mountain?" β
However, she said with a straight face: "The reason why Yelena wants to build the brain-like body into a semi-autonomous free paradise is to attract capital into it and then isolate it from the real world. In this way, most of the evils of capitalism are confined to the virtual world of the brain-like body, and are subject to the jurisdiction of the brain-like company. Haven't you noticed that with the brain-like body, there are a lot fewer news of vicious events for profit in the real world? β
Anton nodded, this is a fact for all to see. It is precisely because of this that the government can allow such monopolistic operations as brain-like companies.
"But as soon as the management of brain-like companies tightens, illegal capital flows out of brain-like bodies and into freer areas of the real world." Qi Min continued, "This is the so-called macro-control. For brain-like bodies, the important thing is not to eliminate gray, but to keep gray within reasonable limits. β
Although this is a strategy proposed by Yelena, who is suspected of pedophilia, Anton has to admit that it still has some truth.
However, just now in the old city, the parasitism also mentioned that the black market sells personal information, which will also cause harm to ordinary people in reality. "At least the transactions in the black market that are harmful to real individuals should be banned anyway, right?"
However, Qi Min just smiled and said: "It should be banned, but who has the ability to manage it?" If the black market can be strictly distinguished between what is tolerable and what must be prohibited, wouldn't that be equivalent to standardizing and legalizing the black market? β
Thinking about it this way, if the black market could be managed, it would not be called a "black market". This is the same as GΓΆdel's incompleteness, there is always something between "right" and "wrong", and it is difficult to classify it completely. In reality, although the content of transactions is not unlimited, the number is also unusually large. If you want to manage, you have to spend a lot of manpower.
Although the brain-like company made a lot of money by monopoly, Qi Min was not interested in investing money in management. Whether it's her, Yelena, or Professor Zhou Xiaoshan, they actually take a very small part of it as their personal income, and most of them are invested back to expand the supercomputer.
Although the structure of the brain-like body has been optimized several times, it is still computationally intensive. Moreover, due to the interface used by ordinary players, the physical distance between the supercomputer group and the user should not be too far away, so as to maintain the oscillation frequency of consciousness between the real brain and the brain-like body at more than 150Hz.
In the future, it is necessary to develop simulation algorithms at the level of physical laws to break through the limitations of relying on constructors to record personal experiences, so as to make the world in the brain-like body close enough to reality. As a result, the frequency must be further increased, and every medium-sized city must now be equipped with a slightly smaller supercomputing unit.
These are very expensive parts. Although Qi Min is not in charge of money, as a CTO, he inevitably has to consider the issue of funding. She has a lot of cool features and projects to develop, but the funding is limited, and the number of people who can do the research and development work is limited. She can't "generate electricity with love", and she can't force the researchers of the brain-like company to be "struggle X".
Therefore, in comparison, it is better for Qi Min to be reluctant and not to stare at the scientific research department of the brain-like company all day long. This way she is free on her own, and the other researchers will not be so nervous.
And she now has an important "task" to talk to the black marketeers who use her old town standings to advertise.
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After being seriously instructed by her mother to "pay attention to safety", Qi Fan just felt that this thing was a bit magical. Before she met Ji Lianzhen, she always thought that he was a big sister with a lot of life experience, and she talked eloquently about her experience and life insights as a single-parent child.
However, in fact, he was just a sophomore student who was older than her, which added a lot of confidence to Qi fans. She couldn't help but feel that if Ji Lian could get relief from the misfortune of his life and turn the pain from his family into motivation to move forward, then she could do the same. And her conditions are better than Ji Lian - at least so far her mother has not become a "stepmother", otherwise she would not have come to talk to herself about the importance of paying attention to safety.
From a certain point of view, for a background like hers, even if she is not cultivated as an heir, there is no shortage of daily expenses. Even if she is thrown into a public physical school for "free-range" because of her physical disability, her pocket money will not be deducted - after all, her nominal father is not rare for that little money.
In this way, Qi Fan felt that she should make good use of her pocket money. With 5,000 yuan in my account today, I should be able to do a little bit of something.
In the evening, Qi Fan sent a message to Ji Lian and didn't reply, it is estimated that it is a brain-like body. Qi Mi was not in a hurry, but first calculated how much money she needed to spend on school meals this month, and then the rest was the funds that could be mobilized - it was a little more than five thousand yuan.
The next morning, Ji Lian replied to her, and Qi Mi told him that he had 5,000 yuan in his hand, which he could use where he needed it.
"Very well, that's been enough for a while in brain-like bodies." The parasitist replied.
"You were on the Upper Brain-like Body last night?" The Gardenia of the Empty Alley asked.
"Yes. I found Autumn Harvest, and he has no connection to the black market, but says he can help us keep an eye on it. The parasitism replied.
"That's great." The Gardenia of the Empty Alley replied immediately.
"It is advisable to give a little money as a reward for the autumn harvest." Parasitism suggested.
"How much does it cost?" The Gardenia of the Empty Alley asked.
The parasite didn't reply immediately, probably thinking for a while before writing: "It doesn't take much, it's enough to invite the autumn harvest and his brother to have a meal in the brain-like body." We will probably cooperate with them in the future. β
"Money is not an issue." The Gardenia of the Empty Alley replied rather aggressively.
However, Parasitic reminded her: "Don't be too public, especially don't suddenly spend a lot of money, it's easy to make people suspicious." β
Qi Fan only thought of such a thing. She didn't spend much money before, and it wouldn't be normal if it increased all of a sudden. It seems that you have to be careful.