Chapter 50: In the Name of the Father (Thanks to the Alliance Leader who fed the Blue Tears of the Headwind~)
– The answer is a wave of unemployment.
In the first month of Angels' entry into the lower city, prices have risen by almost 30% across the board.
The price is pretty scary...... But if you can reduce it immediately, you won't have a big problem if you endure it for a month.
But the problem is that it won't go down anytime soon.
Shortages will continue to be the norm. The price increase will certainly not be so high after that, but it will be very long-lasting.
If there is 30% in the first month, even if only 10% is raised in the second month, it will overwhelm some families again.
Even if the Tianen Group has reacted this month and began to deploy materials from other empty islands...... But the Big Seven are not monolithic.
Other empty islands wish that the island of happiness would be unlucky. It would be beneficial to them to let some academic and industry bigwigs escape—and to take a step back, they could also earn a high price from him.
Anyway, the airship itself carries more than sixty percent of the sky every day, so it is better to carry some goods to sell by the way, and then pull away some specialties.
But as a floating island focusing on the entertainment industry, Happiness Island is not like ampoule biomedical and trans spiritual energy, there are black technologies that cannot be touched by other air islands...... What is its specialty?
Nature is an "idol".
In other words, it is a "reserve team" that is about to become an idol.
"Halfway through idol training, they are pulled to other empty islands as 'commodities'. Nominally 'expatriate' to a branch office, and a small company under a branch, but in reality it is not even exile...... It's 'for sale'. These young men and women are what the Happiness Island can provide and what other empty islands lack...... The best goods. ”
The malt said slowly.
In the preparatory stage of idols, they were brutally trained in how to please others.
Whether it is layer by layer screening and the transformation of beautifying the prosthesis, including the training of words and deeds, singing, dancing, and conversation - this is exactly the product that is continuously produced from the assembly line and takes "pleasing others" as the selling point.
It can dig deep into the widest user base, find the market grip, and realize the ecological closed loop, or it can focus on top-level design, focus on linkage refinement, increase the value of different horizontal scenarios, and empower customers to feed back to the company.
- To put it simply, the idols of Happiness Island can be put out for the public to watch and make money for the poor; It can also be sold to other company executives for fun and directly make money from rich people.
It's called one product, two preparations.
"And the 'idol' group is easy to pile up too much pressure...... Generally speaking, the family is not too wealthy. Their income is so low that they can't survive the second batch of price increases, so they can only accept the seemingly lucrative conditions offered by the company and become caged birds.
"Among them who are transported away one by one, sooner or later demons will be born. And what we have to do is to detonate this process in plain sight. ”
Speaking of this, the gaze of the malt wine became deep.
The godfather frowned.
If the plan for ale is successful...... That would undoubtedly bring great upheaval.
Happiness Island originally used this entertainment industry as an anesthetic, among which the "idol industry" is one of the most mainstream and profitable businesses, and it is also the business with the strongest sense of anesthesia, second only to many virtual reality games developed by Tianen Group.
But on the other hand, if something goes wrong here, the chaos and panic will be the most intense.
The automated factories in the lower city are able to produce a steady stream of essential materials for life, so even if the price increases continue to rise sharply, it is sure that you will not starve to death. There is a lot of food to use.
Since people can't die of hunger, they won't fight hard.
So although people will complain, maybe the income of Tianen Group will increase -
After all, the price of goods in reality has increased, but the price of the virtual world has not increased...... There may even be a few holiday packs.
In this case, shopping is not as good as krypton.
And the price of this anesthetic feeling is a further reduction in deposits.
"The scarcity of raw materials will lead to rounds of layoffs and salary cuts in small companies. When these small companies go out of business, there will be a large number of jobless homeless people on Happy Island...... Even if the supply of raw materials was replenished at this time, the company had already closed down and the employees had already left. The prices that have already risen, now that people have adapted to it, will not drop in a while......
"After all, Tianen Group does not control prices. About seventy or eighty percent of the companies on Happiness Island are controlled by Tianen Group, and they wish they could sell more and sell longer.
"When the time comes, the 'mobile gold mines' who are sent to other empty islands will send their money back, and they can also give their employees a salary increase - in the name of this, they will absorb young and good talents from those who have left the small company, and kick the internal 'eliminators' to complete their own replacement.
"So in the end, we were fighting the angels, the factories in the lower city were destroyed, the ordinary people in the upper city were living in hardship, and the small companies were closing down and the employees were unemployed...... And Tianen Group has made a lot of money.
"At that point, the appearance of the demon will set off a chain reaction. A little propaganda, fear, hatred, and a herd mentality, will make them flee Uptown...... We're going to see the first wave of staff additions in our downtown area – I'm afraid there are people who don't even know how to unplug the chips and don't want to pull them out. They just want to stay here temporarily and leave later.
"But in any case, it's a huge opportunity."
The ale spread its hands, as if embracing something intangible.
"That may be the only turnaround point in our downtown," she stressed.
"The influx of a large number of innocent people will make the angels jealous. And the increase in high-end technical talents, new uncensored people and non-psionic people will really increase our strength.
"Whether it's talking to a company or creating your own order in downtown – that's a must."
"—and the premise is that you should be the leader?"
The godfather laughed and pointed out the deliberately obscured part of the ale: "If the size of the lower city really increases dramatically, we can't manage so many people like we have now, which divides territory and gangs. Even this wave of people will form alliances with themselves and create new civil strife.
"If the strangulation promised you, you would say it next...... In order to accomplish this, Downtown needs a new Boss. A leader who can unite everyone. ”
"Yes, that's why I nominated you."
The ale replied dryly.
She smiled slyly, and it was the smile that made no secret of her conspiracy—or rather, the smile of the righteous recounting of her machinations in the open light.
"I'm just a staff member. Or is it ...... As the leader of the eternal reincarnation, I have talked so much to you, thought so much about the lower city, and even promoted the godfather to the throne, but I don't even deserve the name of a staff member? ”
"Of course there will be your place."
The godfather took a deep look: "But the problem is not here.
"It doesn't matter who the power is in – you are again confusing the crux of the matter.
"The point is that the lower city forms a regime in the sense of the word."
"So what?"
Ale asks rhetorically: "When people come together, they form society." In society, there must be power. And if the power is not in the hands of the people who should have it...... Those who don't deserve power, will have power.
"Even if you don't get it, someone will get it. It's not you, it's not me, it's not strangulation...... It will also be Tovatus. It will also be other chieftains, newborn mages, or even people coming down from Uptown...... There will inevitably be spies and spies sent by the head office.
"And the scene I prophesied is the day of coming. The original sin for this is the company itself, and it is precisely because of the greed of the company that there will be such a day. If sooner or later there will be such a day, why should we prepare early? ”
The woman with long red hair did not hesitate to speak.
Her eyes are deep and determined.
“…… You've impressed me. ”
The godfather was silent for a moment, then sighed, "I underestimated you too much. ”
Hearing this, the malt wine smiled and said, "Then what kind of title do you like?" Lord of the Castle? Mayor? Chieftain? Or is it ...... King? ”
"The Godfather—that's it."
The barber replied slowly, "I'm just your godfather, that's all." ”