Chapter 230: Class Solidification
readx;?‘ The 'survival' movement was in full swing, and when it was gradually expanding its influence and taking advantage of the momentum to turn into the political sphere, the 'Unconditional Minimum Income Act' was born, which knocked out the social foundation of the 'survival' movement. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The blue-collar workers at the bottom who had been surging suddenly were appeased by the lowest income they had ever paid, survival was no longer a problem, support for the 'survival' movement plummeted, and the unions, which were jumping up and down, suddenly found themselves no longer calling for large-scale walks.
The promulgation of the US minimum income bill quickly quelled the boiling situation, and with this successful experience in the forefront, all countries with the conditions began to introduce similar bills one after another, and most developed countries began to establish their own national minimum income guarantee system.
There are two sides to everything, the emergence of the minimum income system has quelled the 'survival' movement, but it has made the national welfare of the developed countries very attractive, but every country that has introduced a minimum income law has begun to face a wave of immigration.
Those immigrants from underdeveloped regions have sharpened their heads and tried to get into these countries, and they will do everything to get a minimum income, and all the policy loopholes that can be exploited will be fully exploited, even if they cannot get official status for the time being, even if they are smuggling.
Developed countries have suddenly become synonymous with free cakes, and regardless of the initial motivation, it is always reassuring for these immigrants to get an iron job first.
Within developed countries, social stratification has become more and more obvious, the gap between classes has become more and more insurmountable, social classes have begun to solidify, and the gap between the rich and the poor has deepened.
The solidification of this social class not only stems from the social system, not only from the accumulation of wealth, but even from the barriers of science and technology.
The popularity of artificial intelligence and robots has given birth to a large number of unemployed people, and the scale of unemployment has not been reduced, and the unemployment rate has been rising unusually firmly.
In the face of scientific and technological progress, as long as the ability to step into the capitalist class in time, their income began to plummet, their living environment began to deteriorate, jobs are facing the threat of robots all the time, once unemployment may mean permanent unemployment, the probability of re-employment is minimal.
In this situation, if a person wants to achieve class leaping, in addition to defeating many competitors, he must also be able to defeat robots, and in the context of great unemployment, the chance of class leap is becoming smaller and smaller.
Class differentiation does not only occur between people, it also occurs between countries, and the robot industry omits labor costs, which has always been one of the largest costs in the industrial field. Now for the production of the same standard parts of the factory, this factory is built in the United States or Thailand, there is not much difference in cost.
If this factory is built in Thailand, the only thing it can enjoy is the low land price, and if it is built in the United States, the United States has a developed logistics system, a perfect upstream and downstream industrial chain, a lower cost, and so on, which will be significantly better than the Thai factory.
Robots save labor costs, and at the same time allow developed countries to get a rare opportunity, this opportunity is - industrial reshoring!
Factories that had previously moved out of developed countries due to cost issues began to flock back to developed countries again because of cost issues.
In the field of industrial manufacturing, a matching and dense upstream and downstream industrial circle will form a fairly strong mutual gain effect, and at this time, the advantage of developed countries is also the threshold for less developed countries to realize robotization.
If an underdeveloped country wants to develop the robot industry and build its own automated factory, then it must face global competition and use a single factory to compete with economically developed regions with a complete industrial chain.
The industrial chain and industrial environment have become the biggest threshold, restricting the landing of automated factories, which leads to the most direct consequence is that the strong are stronger, the weaker they are, and the industrial absorption effect is not easily reversed by an underdeveloped region.
Industry 40 began to emerge, a unique economic order similar to the scissors gap between industry and agriculture was gradually established, industry began to gather in developed countries, and the industries of underdeveloped countries continued to lose blood and go bankrupt, and more and more underdeveloped countries fell into economic recession.
At this time, the global economy presented a very unique state, with the rapid development of science and technology, the emergence of new products and new technologies in an endless stream, and every day new technologies and new theories were put forward and applied to social production.
But correspondingly, half flame and half seawater, while high-tech is booming, traditional industries are undergoing life and death transformation, a large number of factories have closed down one after another, and batches of automated factories have risen again on their fallen bodies.
More and more workers are being thrown into society and become part of the army of unemployed, who have to receive a minimum income, spend all day doing nothing, without pressure, without hope, without a future
On the one hand, there is a great development of social production, on the other hand, there is a wide range of unemployment and enterprise closures, correspondingly, in the world, the developed countries are cooking oil and flowers, and the development of science and technology is advancing rapidly, while the less developed countries are falling into a long-term trade deficit, continuing to use agricultural primary products in exchange for high-value industrial manufactured products, and a large amount of value is harvested by the developed countries through this scissors difference.
Underdeveloped countries are also in a similar state, with little prospects, no hope, no future, no possibility of growing into developed countries, and class solidification also appears between countries. With the advent of the era of robots and intelligence, it seems that both individuals and countries have been locked up by the development of science and technology.
The high-tech characteristics of the robot industry and artificial intelligence lead to a high threshold for its realization, high technical threshold, high capital threshold, and high social resource threshold, all of which make it more and more difficult to counterattack.
The class solidification phenomenon in different periods of various countries in history is completely different, and the previous ones can be considered to come from the system or culture, and the class solidification caused by the arrival of the robot era and the intelligent era comes from the scientific and technological progress and the extreme development of the social division of labor.
When human beings develop to the age of robots, the great division of labor in society has led to the collaboration of hundreds or even thousands of companies in several industries hidden behind each robot, which is destined to have the dividends of the robot era can only be a small number of high-tech groups or high-capital groups, and it will be difficult for others to profit from it. )