Chapter 139 The smaller the number of people who are not engaged in production, the better

"Mr. Ma said that only the population engaged in production can produce truly valuable goods."

"You have all worked in production positions in the factory, have you ever thought about what position your position occupies in the whole factory and even the whole society?"

"Mr. Ma also said that the factory owner will alienate the goods produced by the employees from the employees themselves, and use the so-called reasons, such as wages, the initial investment in the construction of the factory, the law, and other unfounded reasons, to exaggerate the importance of the factory owner capitalist in the production process."

"But was the factory built brick by brick by the factory owner?"

"It's not that the factory owners rely on various means to alienate the construction workers, so that the fruits of the construction workers' labor are alienated."

"So think about it, in an area with a population of one million, with 10,000 factory owners, the society produces more goods?"

"Or is there only a hundred factory owners, and the society produces more goods?"

"It must be the case that there are only 100 factory owners!"

"At the same time, you have to know that whether it is a population of 10 million or a million, in the current economic crisis, there is almost no trade between the world, and the goods produced in various places are consumed locally."

"On the premise that all commodities are consumed locally, it is not important to see how many people in a region produce, but to see what percentage of the population in that region produces goods."

"The simplest example is to assume that only 1 million people out of 10 million are engaged in production, and 1 million people have 900,000 people engaged in production work, and it seems that the former has more people working and producing more goods, but in fact which region produces more goods per capita?"

"Therefore, only the higher the proportion of the population engaged in production, can the total amount of commodities produced by society be increased and the quantity of commodities produced per capita in society can be increased under the condition that the total population remains unchanged."

The top brass of the American Staff Union understood, and they understood the core meaning of Tom's big remarks — that the unification of Texas and Mexico had left Texas and Mexico without the same high percentage of nonproductive workers as the Yankee Old Territories.

But even if Tom Smith's unification system in Texas and Mexico could increase the proportion of the population engaged in production in a region, that is, more goods per capita, what does this have to do with employee welfare?

Tom just wants to use a large paragraph of words to stun the senior management of the American Staff Federation, and at the same time, let the senior management of the American Staff Union think about the "crooked reasoning" buried by Tom secretly.

Only when you rack your brains to think of something will you be most convinced that it is the truth.

"And the proportion of the productive population has increased, and the goods produced in the production link will definitely increase, so where should these surplus goods go?"

"Did you see the food in the staff cafeteria at the Smith Factory?"

"That's where the goods produced by this part of the population go after the proportion of the productive population is increased."

"My Tom Smith and the members of the Smith family are extravagant, that is also a person, how much meat can a person eat, how much porridge can he drink, and how much clothes can he wear?"

"The old Yankee area is one percent of the population to waste the goods produced by 99 percent of the population."

"Texas and Mexico, on the other hand, are the goods produced by 1 in 10,000 people who waste 9,999 out of 10,000 people."

"That's a hundred-fold difference in the percentage of wasted people that is the key to getting meat on a daily basis for employees at the Smith plant in Texas and Mexico."

"It is precisely because of the reduction in the proportion of the population who are not engaged in production that the proportion of the population engaged in production has increased, and at the same time the amount of goods produced per capita for all populations."

"It also increases the proportion of social resources controlled by employees engaged in production to total social resources."

"I'm just returning the goods that should have been consumed by the lawyers' team, by the secretarial group, to the staff."

A fallacy that simply did not stand up to full scrutiny was forcibly exported by Tom to the top of the American Staff, relying on the fact that the living conditions of the employees in the Texas Smith factory area were better than those of the employees in the old Yankee area.

Executives at the American Staff Union don't know how much of Tom's meat and food are added to the meat and food to stimulate the production of dopamine in the brains of employees.

It is also unknown how much canned grain, especially canned meat, Tom hoarded during the economic crisis.

I don't know if we follow Tom's theory of the proportion of population to the proportion of total commodities produced in society,

The Smith plant of Heroine, a Texas-based company, produces goods that are owned by even fewer employees.

Relying on his advanced chemical knowledge and assembly line segmented production, Tom has increased the productivity of employees in Texas and Mexico by more than ten times.

And the amount of social resources occupied by employees, even if they eat meat every day, has not more than doubled.

In other words, Tom made the Texas and Mexico cakes more than ten times bigger, but greatly reduced the proportion of cakes distributed to employees.

Even though Tom has drastically reduced the percentage of cakes he gives to his employees, thanks to Tom's making the cake bigger, the employees can enjoy more cakes.

As a result, the share of Texas and Mexico employees has become a phenomenon that people of the era simply cannot comprehend: the proportion is decreasing but the number is increasing.

Tom did live through an era when the pie grew too fast and the share of the masses was rapidly decreasing.

In such an era, if the cake can continue to grow at a high speed, it can indeed ensure that the cake shared by the bottom employees can still get more cakes under the premise of decreasing the proportion.

And this social phenomenon, which has always guaranteed more cakes, can also always appease the grassroots stubborn stone in this cake system - the employees engaged in production.

But I'm afraid that there will be a bottleneck in science and technology, and the cake can't be bigger.

If the ruler or the ruling class stopped reducing the proportion of the cake among their employees, it would not cause much unrest in society.

But will the ruling class stop itself?

Throughout history, regardless of whether the cake can grow at a high rate or not, rulers have had to reduce the proportion of the cake that the people share.

At that point, the only way to completely address the root causes of the problem is to rebaptize society.

Will the ruling class, which has the atomic bomb, allow the bottom to subvert itself?

Tom Smith's plan was to develop the atomic bomb, which could destroy a thousand armies by one person, in a way that the cake grew too fast and the proportion of the masses decreased rapidly.