Chapter 173: The cake is done, and no one wants to move it
When the city lockdown was first started, there were no profiteering behaviors.
But a week after the traffic blockade, government workers involved in traffic control and food transportation saw business opportunities and profits.
First of all, any normal person would not like to live in a long-term lockdown at home, they all want to go out and "relax".
What's more, even during the cholera disease, there is not only cholera, but during this period, all people still have normal birth, old age, sickness and death.
In either case, these residents who are confined to their homes want to break through the lockdown and move freely in the outside world.
So can government workers who control traffic control sell to these small bourgeois and middle class people who want to go out of the city, and those who are originally issued to people who are responsible for food transportation, municipal solid waste disposal, and so on who must move during traffic control periods?
Is this a huge amount of embezzlement?
In addition to this amount,
The government workers who transport food and water to the city, although they are the same goods as Tom Smith's employees — are all food, but they are in a different environment than Texas and Mexico.
In Texas and Mexico, there is no gold or any kind of general equivalent exchange.
Even if grain is food, food stamps that can be exchanged for grain cannot be exchanged for other materials.
All employees of the Heroine Company can obtain sufficient bills for various materials as long as they work eighteen hours a day, and any excess bills cannot be used for the enslavement of others.
This led to the fact that government workers in the old Yankee area during the urban traffic control period could rely on their power to exchange their food for other materials.
For example, selling free or low-cost potatoes from the Yankee government at high prices to the urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class who are locked up in their homes.
The urban petty bourgeoisie and the middle class, who are locked up in their homes, have no other means of purchasing food, and residents in areas with closed traffic can only buy designated food from these government workers.
Food is different from other commodities and is a necessity for the people's life.
In this way, for the first time, the urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class in the old Yankee area experienced the feeling of being monopolized on the necessities of life.
Or a government monopoly.
Because of this strong monopoly, many small families can no longer afford to pay high dollars for daily necessities.
As a result, all kinds of nonsense also appeared,
If you have the money, you can buy food, and if you don't, you can buy food with something else.
For the corrupt government workers on the food delivery lines, they are basically men,
They even became sexually interested in all sorts of urban petty-bourgeois and middle-class women.
Forced by food shortages, especially for their own children, these women have no choice but to commit themselves to these former mafia government workers.
In addition to women, some government workers with unique tastes also shot at some men and children from good families.
For these government workers, the last time they experienced relying on commodities to control people's hearts was when they shot heroine painkillers a few months ago.
They also couldn't believe that only a few months later, the use of food can now go to the heroine painkiller can do something,
What's even more exaggerated is that there are still many self-disciplined people in the old Yankee area who are clean and self-conscious and do not touch heroine painkillers.
However, food is a necessity that no one can avoid.
In front of food, anyone is a drug dependent under this name "food".
Because of the urban lockdown and traffic control policy implemented by the old Yankee government, it is becoming more and more difficult for the urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class to survive without income and only expenses.
The original intention of the old Yankee government must be good, based on the "Cholera Handbook" given by Tom Smith, to control cholera, so that the cholera disease can be ended as soon as possible and production can be resumed.
But now they are implementing a policy of locking down the city and controlling traffic, which has forcibly given birth to a huge and incomparable system of interests, a new principle of pie distribution.
Once any interest system is formed, if we want to break this interest system, we must eliminate all the gainers.
Will the old Yankee government eliminate the old Yankee consortium?
You must know that the old Yang Ji who can become a member of this huge blockade interest system are all working under the old Yang Ji consortium.
These part-time mafias can indeed be used for their prestige, but the largest part of their illegal funds still have to be handed over to their masters, the old Yankee consortium.
There is no shakable reason for this ugly, humane, immoral, and one-intentioned policy that is actually implemented but is extremely evil.
It was the old Yankee consortium that found that the urban petty bourgeoisie and the middle class were almost useless to production!
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the main force of production in the United States was the centralized farms and various large factory areas.
The small bourgeoisie and middle class in these cities contribute more to the productivity of the service industry.
Do these services affect a country's productivity?
Except for the tax revenue of the old Yankee government, it may not have any impact on the output of the factories of the old Yankee consortium.
During the cholera, the Yankee elders were surprised to find that as long as the positions in the factory area were always staffed, it did not affect the total amount of goods in a region at all.
The middle class and the urban petty bourgeoisie hardly produce any industrial or agricultural products necessary for life.
The Yankee elders also experienced the joy that Tom told the employee fighters that "there is no middle class and urban petty bourgeoisie."
Until these urban petty bourgeoisie and middle classes are drained, the old Yankee government, controlled by the old Yankee conglomerates, may never stop the city lockdown program.
But now the old Yankee government is still facing a problem - the threat of war brought by Tom Smith.
Now a dilemma is thrown in front of all the old Yankee senators present:
On the one hand, the huge profits brought by the blockade of the city, and on the other hand, the source of taxes for Tom Smith's war plan,
Elder Yankee had to give up one in order to get the other.
Before the old Yankee people present could give up, another old Yankee senator walked up to the stage with a document,
He waved a document on Europe in his hand and said solemnly to the old senators in the audience:
"We must engage these unreasonable lockdown bans as soon as possible."
"In addition to the resumption of production, there is another important reason."
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