readx;? In the cube room in the maze, Klinos and his party squatted on the ground, except for Ognaire, who had been studying the unit lengths on the ruler. He tore a strip of cloth from his clothes www.biquge.info compared the units on the ruler, and folded it in half repeatedly to find the exact unit length of the value of 1.259.

At a glance, it can be seen that Ognair is an acute son who cannot do delicate work. The softness and deformability of the strip of fabric, as well as the thickness of the folded strip, seriously affect the accuracy, and he has come up with many answers. But there is no standard reference, and no one knows whether it is accurate or not.

Every time he held up the strip of cloth against the numbers on the ruler, a nameless fire of impatience burned through his chest. Many times, Ognel made a deviation, holding on to the stone table and gasping for air, and the sound of helplessness and refusal to admit defeat came from his throat. Then he went back and repeated what had happened before, as if it were a strange circle.

Ognel lifted the strip of cloth off the table and slammed his fists on the stone table, "Grass!" he shouted.

"Be careful, you might break that. Ebernar said something out of place.

"Don't sulk, sit down and rest. Clinos said, "If fate wants us out, we'll get out sooner or later, won't we?"

Ognair sat down on the ground dejectedly, "This question is not logical at all, and it is impossible to come up with an answer under so many restrictions. ”

"Maybe the key is whether what you think is the right answer is correct. "If a mathematical answer does not exist in reality, is the logically correct answer still correct?"

"Maybe, maybe not?" said Ognell angrily, "can you let us in to discuss this kind of thing?"

"I want to go out more than go in. Augst decided that he could not help in answering the question, so he remained quiet until now, "Tell me, do we have progress?"

"Not at all, right. Clinos asked Ognair, who responded with silence. "Maybe we should take our attention off the issue, I've heard that a lot of big breakthroughs happen in trivial matters. ”

"Nonsense......" Ognnell quipped.

"So, let's talk about something else. Clinos said, "I heard you know a lot about Freemasonry, don't you?"

Clinos called Ognair's pseudonym.

Ognair had just finished his nameless anger and reacted for a moment before replying, "I don't know much, but until some." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Clinos called him Jason to say that he had no intention of exposing Ognair's hidden identity, although Ognel didn't know much, but the subtext was that he could confide some information. Klinus hopes to learn more about the mysterious organization of Freemasonry.

"What kind of organization is the Freemasons?"

"It is an organization that seeks the truth. ”

"Come on, that's just rhetoric. Clinos sarcastically said, "The king also said that he was for the people of the empire." ”

"That's not rhetoric. The Freemasons have always sought the perfect world, which is the perfection described in metaphysics. Many people of insight sought out to join the Freemasons. It is said that half of the monks were members of the Freemasons, and half of the seats in the former Senate were very influential even in the current government. ”

"Really?"

"That's it. Ognel continued: "But now they're divided. ”

"What do you mean by split?" asked Clinos.

Literally. "With the beginning of the civil war, upheaval began within the Freemasonry," Ognnell said. It's hard to imagine that servants who were originally loyal to the truth were all divided and turned against each other for a while. The Tongmasons of Tours hoped to seize control of the empire by force before advancing their ultimate ideals. The Masons of Ranter had other ideas, they wanted to maintain the traditional regime and let the reforms be done without bloodshed. As for Kurosawa's Freemasons, they took a different approach. ”

"Going off the beaten track?"

"They have eliminated money from society, so there is no economy and no market. All the output, all the income is distributed equally to the people. Ognel quipped: "If it goes well, it should be like this." Unfortunately, such a move is just a joke. ”

Clinos had been a businessman and had lived through a time of crisis when money almost seemed to be non-existent. Pockets of gold coins were carried to the market, and half the weight of flour could not be bought. Because at that time, the shoddy currency was mixed with a lot of lead, which looked much blacker, and it could rub off a layer of things if it was scraped hard, and it was laughed at as a mud coin.

At that time, the hard currency in the market was replaced with things like spices, tobacco, privately smelted gold ornaments. This spontaneous market behavior proves that the market can continue to trade without government-issued credit money. As long as there is demand, there will be similar alternatives to money.

If a state power abolishes money and prohibits trade, it can only encourage underground transactions.

But on second thought, all the characteristics of the currency are that its aggregate is basically the same. Each person earns a portion of the whole according to the work he or she does, thus proving the value of his or her remuneration for his work in a practical sense. But with the principle of equal distribution, the meaning of money disappears macroscopically. Because all individual labor is to contribute value to the collective, and the collective value is also returned to the individual equally. In this way, the cumbersome economic cyclical ups and downs caused by the vicious circle of the sluggish market are avoided, and the national productive forces can be adjusted at any time, so that the entire state apparatus can immediately enter a state of readiness.

From the point of view of the ideal social system, this approach is indeed very close to the ultimate philosophical ideal.

"Abolishing money can be an effective means," Clinos said. All resources are distributed equally, and everyone has their own role. Even if someone makes money by taking advantage of market demand, there is no objective value without government recognition. As a result, it is impossible to purchase many things outside of illegal means, which limits the purchasing power of money, and the size of black market money without any regulatory body is bound to be limited, and the risk of collapse will increase. ”

"Hmph!" Ognel laughed disdainfully, "what you say is based on two foundations: that the government does not try to make money from the black market, and that the government's resources are evenly distributed and that they are not enough to create a black market economy. ”

After listening to the conversation between the two, Isaac wondered, "Shouldn't the biggest problem with Kurosawa's model be a moral problem?"

Ebenard didn't understand Isaac's words at all, "Why is that?"

Clinos also wondered about the argument for this view.

"All things are distributed equally, so to whom do all things belong?" Isaac argued, "all things belong to the collective as well as to the individual." Everything becomes public finances, and if you don't take it, someone will take it, and if you work hard, you won't get more things. The whole society will become a passive group that is greedy for small profits and neglects its work. ”

Ognel looked surprised, "I have to say, sometimes I forget that you're a human-like synth. ”

Isaac did not react to Ognel's words, and did not seem to take them as pejorative.