Bai Zhongchu smiled and gently touched the electronic payment device on the counter of the milk tea shop with his mobile phone, making a soft sound, and the milk tea girl behind the counter smiled at the customer who looked a little like the head of state and said, "Chenghui." The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info then handed him two cups of milk tea.

Bai Zhongchu said thank you, handed a cup to his girlfriend Han Jiaxue, and said: "When I came back this time, I found that the money in my account was rising, and I felt that I was going to become a rich man." ”

This is really a bit underwhelming, Han Jiaxue pouted, feeling helpless for her boyfriend's scoundrel.

"The basic income in your citizen account has not been touched, so naturally you are saving more and more."

Bai Zhongchu smiled: "I didn't think I was a person who could save money before, but now I find that it's all a misunderstanding." ”

The two sat down at a small table in the bubble tea shop, and the milk tea girl who served just now seemed to have gotten off work, took over the shift with another young girl, changed her uniform and left with a smile, and said hello to Bai Zhongchu and Han Jiaxue when she left.

Bai Zhongchu suddenly remembered that Han Jiaxue seemed to have a book bar, and asked, "How is your store doing?" ”

After asking this question, Bai Zhongchu felt that he was really incompetent as a boyfriend, and his girlfriend's work was not clear, and he was slightly embarrassed.

Han Jiaxue said: "The business is still the same as before, after the currency change, the gross profit has dropped a lot, but because the cost of rent and everything has also been reduced, and the electricity and water bills have not been paid, so it is not bad." It's just that it's getting harder and harder to recruit people, everyone is now a basic income person, and they don't have to worry about eating and drinking, which country doesn't have a non-employment rate of 30 or 40 percent now? Young people now work part-time jobs for three or four hours a day, so they work very often in shifts. ”

Bai Zhongchu nodded after hearing this, he was also very concerned about the transformation and reform of the countries of the earth, after striding into the interstellar age, people's lives have changed dramatically.

The material life that Starlink can provide is richer than anyone in any previous era could have imagined. A large number of publicly-owned ecological farms and consumer factories built by Starlink provide a large number of daily consumer goods, from food to clothes, to daily electronic products, automobiles, housing and building materials, etc.

In addition, the nuclear power plants, water supply companies, and heating companies controlled by Siiico also provide basic services to Siiico citizens free of charge.

This inevitably leads to the consequence that most of the world's private for-profit enterprises, no matter what kind of services they provide, cannot compete with the public economic sector of Starlink. No matter how hard these private companies struggle, they will eventually go bankrupt.

Even if some capitalists try to make some waves in public opinion, but ordinary people are not stupid, after Starlink completely monopolizes the infrastructure and basic living supplies, everyone does not need to spend money to buy, no matter how clever the private enterprises are, everyone can still distinguish their own interests and the interests of the bosses.

Despite the large-scale closure of enterprises and the large-scale unemployment of people, the society is generally very stable, because a large number of unemployed people enjoy a newer and better life at home, and they can't help but scold their previous employers, why they are unemployed and live better than hard work.

Bai Zhongchu is also quite emotional about this phenomenon, "At the beginning, Comrade Lao Ma and other sages put forward the principle of distribution according to work, and no food if you don't work, but now it seems that it is not so suitable. At the technical level, it is easy to meet the daily consumption needs of tens of billions of people, and we still have a large amount of production capacity that is not started. So our current situation is that everyone doesn't have to do things, and as a result, life is better than before, which leads to a lot of people not wanting to go back to work at all. ”

Unlike the situation of the Iridium United Empire, Iridium, which has been developed for 5,000 years, has a sound employment system and national psychological state, and employment in Iridium is a civic obligation and compulsory, and Iridium people naturally believe that creation and hard work make people glorious, and the value of Iridium people's existence is to create contributions, for themselves or for society.

However, it is clear that the earth has not yet made a natural transition from the old capitalist labor value of "providing for the family" to the stage of Iridium, which has led to the collapse of the so-called labor and employment market after Starlink has achieved a huge supply capacity, and after the decoupling of labor from the market, people lack the motivation to re-employment.

This phenomenon has not become particularly acute and extreme in East Asian countries such as country C, even though country C has been soaring above state capitalism in recent decades, but the founding of the country still has a socialist complex, and the Chinese people have always respected hard work and despised laziness, so when a series of Starlink monopoly basic industries and supply industries open jobs on a large scale, these giant companies similar to the original state-owned enterprises have attracted a large number of jobs, and many people are even simply to win jobs in a system.

Although, now there is no system to divide, as long as you are a Star Alliance citizen, you have a sound guarantee from life to death. Even the word guarantee is lower, more precisely supply.

In the new labor regulations of country C, it is determined that the 20-hour work week is a full-time job, and although a large number of Starlink enterprises do not need so many employees at all, they still absorb tens of millions of employed people. Most people's work burden is not heavy, and even many people's work is mainly based on learning and training.

But in any case, the employment rate in country C is still relatively high.

The previous developed countries in Europe and the United States are completely different, and more than a dozen European countries have achieved more than seventy percent of the non-employment rate after the implementation of Starlink's national supply policy. The term non-employment rate has even been reinvented to avoid the unpleasant word of unemployment.

Many people in developed countries who have been lazy used to eat social security and unemployment insurance, but now they can eat and drink well, live in better houses, drive better cars, and some can even travel to places such as Cuihaixing, Liewanxing, and Mars, and are even less willing to work.

This has become a serious social problem and has attracted the attention of many scholars and research institutions. There are also people who condemn the Starlink government for liberalizing the national supply policy too quickly, and Prime Minister Du Peng directly replied to these people, Starlink can obviously make everyone's life better, is it because of taking care of the original industry, do you have to tremble and sit back and watch Starlink's national living standards in anticipation.

Naturally, after many people live well without working, their energy may be diverted to other places, such as social issues.