Magical City.

Recently, several explosive news have come out of the technology circle, creating a panic in the city of science and technology.

Times are about to change again.

Controlled nuclear fusion representing infinite energy.

Artificial intelligence, which represents higher intelligence, which is said to replace 99% of jobs, is coming.

There is also a unified formula of force, which combines electromagnetic force, gravity and strong force, and brings a theoretical basis to the new industrial revolution, and human civilization will inevitably become a reality when it breaks out of the home star under its feet, rushes out of the solar system, and enters the infinite and vast universe.

The optimism is unprecedented, so that the wars and conflicts in many places have been wisely stopped, because if we continue to fight, we will consume too many resources, miss the opportunity to take off, and the future will be extremely bleak, and even be completely eliminated and disappear in the long river of history.

However, there are also a small number of people who feel very worried and pessimistic, worried that they will not think about tea and dinner, which will seriously affect their appetite and sleep quality, and feel serious anxiety.

Zhang Xinyue, female, twenty-eight years old this year, has a goddess-like appearance, her personality is relatively cold, she doesn't like to be lively, she doesn't like to make friends, she likes to live alone, she has the habit of watching anime and playing games, because she is often chased by boys she doesn't like (it can also be said to be harassed), so she is a little afraid of men, she doesn't like boys very much, and she doesn't feel uncomfortable with beautiful girls, but she appreciates it very much, and over time, she has a bit of a weird tendency, and even considered not getting married, even if she gets married, she is looking for a beautiful girl to spend her life, In this way, two beauties live together, often appreciate each other's beauty, and often do some sticky actions, which is also a good happiness.

It's just that in this era when the number of newborns is getting smaller and smaller, love between people of the same sex is not allowed by law, and those who are reported will be warned and punished, and even forcibly arrange marriage, so as to solve the problem of insufficient population and the intensification of the aging trend.

What's more, the Magical City is also a place named 'Straight Men's City', although this place has high wages and good benefits, but there is no special preferential treatment for women, but sets up all kinds of restrictions, if it is too beautiful, it is considered a threat by the female boss, and it is possible to be expelled for no reason, so in order to take root in this city, high-quality women like Zhang Xinyue often have to be cautious.

Far from it.

Back to the point.

The major changes that have taken place in the scientific and technological circle recently, whether it is controlled nuclear fusion, or more advanced artificial intelligence, or some kind of unified formula, although it is a bit far away from ordinary people, has a certain relationship with every ordinary person, and will affect everyone's fate.

For example, controlled nuclear fusion will definitely reduce the price of electricity, improve the efficiency of industrial production, reduce the cost of all aspects, and further reduce people's cost performance, and more factories and companies will appear, preferring to use robots or artificial intelligence programs as production tools, rather than recruit more employees, or force most of the workers to either go to entrepreneurship and become bosses, or stay at home and eat welfare, and there will be quite few choices in front of them.

If you enter the era of interstellar navigation, although you can bring a lot of resources and energy from the universe, just like a businessman, in order to get a tenfold, hundredfold or even ten thousand times the return, you will definitely invest a lot of resources in the early stage, and even tighten your belt and save money, just to be able to break out of the cradle and colonize the universe.

Therefore, in the next two or three years, domestic resources and welfare will definitely decrease, ordinary people should be prepared for a decline in living standards, and rich people don't have to pay attention to it, their living standards will not decline in any case, as long as they have enough money, even if they are in the end of the world, they can live like heaven.

Therefore, for ordinary people, even if the future is extremely good, the next two or three years will be a period of sadness and suffering, and when some success is achieved, and when the large-scale commercial power generation of controllable nuclear fusion is achieved, ordinary people can see hope and dawn, and finally be able to embrace a better life.

But Zhang Xinyue was very afraid of losing her job and didn't want to lose the job at hand.

Although she has worked in the Magical City for three years and accumulated a full deposit of 300,000 yuan, this money will not take long at all.

Secondly, the welfare treatment in the magical city makes it difficult for her to give up, every day is unimaginably delicious canteen food, free accommodation, free medical care, and often has such and such benefits, covering almost all aspects of life, so that you can live a high-quality life with almost no money, and most of your salary can be saved.

Finally, Zhang Xinyue is very optimistic about the future of the Magic Group, although this business group, in the field of science and technology, is taking the development route of catching up and archaeology, and the products taken out are mostly clothing, food, housing and transportation commodities, and the price is not very high, but it can easily make a lot of money, and the annual revenue is easily more than one trillion yuan, and there are very high profits, which has attracted countless speculations, and even thinks that Xu Yuan, the boss of the Magic City, has a teleportation in his hand, which can go to the other world where productivity is backward. So it's easy to get a cross-dimensional scissors difference, and the profit is very terrifying - many netizens are noncommittal and don't take it seriously about this speculation, but Zhang Xinyue faintly feels that this may be true, the more outrageous and funny the answer, the more likely it is to get close to the real fragrance, after all, in modern society, where so many high-quality ingredients can be grown, they can only be obtained from another world with a better environment, otherwise the magical city can't afford such a high cost, and it has long been replaced by cheap ingredients, so that they, the employees, I ate a pig-like meal.

Not to mention, Zhang Xinyue's working time in the Magic Group is about to turn three years, becoming a middle-qualified old employee, and the salary can be raised by one level, getting a salary of nearly 20,000 yuan per month, and then trading through a personal e-commerce platform, it is no problem to exchange it for 30,000 yuan, and at the end of the year, you can save a lot of savings.

If you work for a few more years and save three or five million, you can retire early, and the quality of life for the rest of your life will not be bad.

It's just such a good wishful thinking, in the face of such drastic changes in the times, even she is a little nervous, very worried and afraid.

This morning.

Office area of the office building, after the start of work.

Zhang Xinyue heard the voices of her colleagues and saw their worries and fears.

"Hey, I don't know if our work will be replaced by that super artificial intelligence, anyway, I watched their press conference, as long as a clearer requirement is given, artificial intelligence can give quite perfect work results, the only thing that can stay in the company in the future, maybe it is those requirements engineers with strong expression skills, we programmers don't need it, the output of artificial intelligence in more than ten seconds, can beat most of us."

"Yes, I'm also a senior programmer, and I think my programming level is okay, but I can't understand the programs written by artificial intelligence, some sophisticated algorithms, even I think it's amazing, and then I feel that I'm afraid I'm going to be finished, the risk of unemployment is too high, from the perspective of the boss, I want to lay off myself, because the cost performance is not as high as artificial intelligence!" The male colleague said.

"I think so too, we get such a high salary and enjoy such a good treatment, but the programs that we have worked so hard to write are far inferior to the code generated by artificial intelligence, so what is the value of our existence? What is the reason for taking such a high salary, if I am fired tomorrow, HR said, I am compared with artificial intelligence, where is my advantage, I guess I will be dumb, I can't say a word, and then honestly accept the result of unemployment. ”

"Unemployed? I can plan to work here for a lifetime, even if I can't do it for a lifetime, ten years, ten years, it's not bad to do it for ten years, and I can save enough savings for a lifetime, but I didn't expect technology to develop so fast, artificial intelligence has become so advanced, I usually spend money without moderation, and I am often brainwashed by consumerism. ”

"Actually, I don't think the boss should lay off us, the magic group involves a wide range of business, even if you can't do technical positions, you can do sales, do marketing salesman, or enter the factory to do big screw work, there are many directions to choose, anyway, as long as you don't leave the group, even if you arrange me to the assembly line of the factory, I am willing to do it, I can keep my job, do some work that I am not very good at or am not familiar with." The older colleague said.

"Then I will accept the adjustment at work, as long as I don't lay off employees, I can do anything, even if it is to clean the toilet."

"That's right, if you are unemployed at home, although you can receive more than 3,000 unemployment benefits per month and live a normal life, you have no dignity at all, you will be subject to all kinds of discrimination, and you will be looked down upon by your sister in the blind date market, anyway, my self-esteem can't accept that I have become a waste that has no value and can't create value."

"Hey, who wants to be a waste? I have a cousin, handsome and smart, with a degree from 211 schools, but still can't find a suitable job, can only stay at home, make money in virtual online games, and then talk about an object in the game, and meet in reality, I got married this year, and I have a child right away, and the economic pressure is not great, the unemployment benefits of two people add up to six thousand per month, and I can earn ten thousand a month by playing gold in the game, the child is born, and the state gives more than 3,000 subsidies every month, with a total income of more than 20,000, I think we are really unemployed, and it is not particularly bad, and there is still hope for our own happiness. ”

Another colleague comforted everyone and said, so that everyone's mood was obviously better, indeed, the current era, in fact, is also suitable for lying flat in the era, and it is still very comfortable after lying flat, as long as you can make some contribution to the country in terms of population, have more children and have more children, then you can gnaw on the welfare of your son, it is still very cool.

Just heard this.

Zhang Xinyue couldn't help but retort: "This kind of lying flat, comfortable is you men, we women have to give birth to children and take care of children, every day is very hard, you men have almost no hard work, this is very unfair, moreover, we work in the magical city, there are organic food that is difficult to eat outside, top food, free education, free medical care, and such and such welfare guarantees, the salary is also very good, especially during the Chinese New Year, we bring back some specialties to our hometown, whether it is the top Chinese god beef, King crab, or organic rice, black pork, top tea, Gu Moutai wine, these are high-end goods that can be handled, in front of relatives and friends, I don't know how much face, even if it is not for face, sell these New Year's goods, you can easily earn seventy or eighty thousand, you say, such a good job, are you still willing to choose to lie down? ”

This resonated with many colleagues and expressed their agreement:

"Such a good job is to give me 10 million and let me spend it slowly, and I won't change it, and I don't want to lie down."

"I'm the same, every year when I go home for the New Year, I feel like it's the pinnacle of my life, I don't know how much face I have earned in front of relatives and friends, and those younger brothers and sisters who lie flat, even in the virtual world, have earned some money, a little achievement, and I can't take it, in front of me, I have to bow my head, and the elders love to praise me."

"That's right, when I went back to my hometown last year on a blind date, I met a school flower-level beauty, and there were many people chasing her at that time, including high-level officials, entrepreneurs who have achieved entrepreneurial results, and a few rich second generations with good family conditions, my conditions are the worst in it, but that beauty, after hearing that I am an employee of the Magic Group, immediately looked down on me, paid special attention to me, and let those rich second generations go back directly, saying that they would not call them, and wanted to develop with me, at that time, As long as I'm a little more proactive and enthusiastic about her, the girl may be able to be taken down by me, but when I learned that she had seven or eight love histories, I rejected her directly, no way, my mother was single for twenty-six years, and I didn't want to be a woman with a wonderful life. The colleague said.

"Hey, reputation, status, respect, as long as I can keep this job, these things will not be lost, if I am really laid off, I don't know what to do? Can it withstand such a blow. ”

All colleagues sighed again.

Even the work efficiency has been significantly affected.

Fortunately, at 11 o'clock in the morning, the group's email system sent an announcement email to each employee, and then there was a cheer that resounded through the magical city.