The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 3633 Christmas New Look (7)

Chapter 3633 Christmas New Look (VII)

Pamela wore a jacket. This was not like her. Even when she was doing experiments in the lab, she preferred to wear a sweatshirt or a long-sleeved, soft cotton jacket with a knit. She didn't like anything made of hard materials.

Schiller looked at her and found that she was obviously tired: her hair was not well-groomed, her eyes were bloodshot, and her lips were a little chapped.

"Brainiac, give this lady a drink," Schiller said, tapping his fingers on the table. "She really needs a good night's sleep."

Brainiac did not object and asked the waiter to bring a glass of ice wine. This was a bit strange - since Brainiac took over the earth, tobacco, alcohol, drugs and other addictive substances that are harmful to human health have been strictly controlled. Cigarettes, which are less harmful to others, should be given up as much as possible. Alcohol, which can harm your brain and may make people intoxicated and crazy, is almost completely out of stock, not to mention drugs.

Most of the tobacco and alcohol factories were shut down during the war, but the fact that they were in stock today suggests that Brainiac may have been preparing to resume supply.

Pamela's eyes lit up as she looked at the wine. She wasn't addicted to alcohol, but she hadn't had a drink in a long time, and the texture of the ice wine in the glass was good. She licked her lips, sat down, and tasted it slowly.

"How's it going, ma'am?"

"Don't mention it! Brainiac said that my plant research lab violated more than 600 laboratory safety regulations, and I have one month to rectify them. Recently, I have been cleaning and packing up. I am almost exhausted."

Schiller thought for a moment and said, "Are those killing plants you have too dangerous?"

"That's another matter! There are more than 300 kinds of plants that have been illegally cultivated, and they must be destroyed within a limited time. Really, I didn't see him doing so many things during the war. Now that I'm no longer needed, he thinks of settling the score later."

"I must remind you, Ms. Pamela. Your plant laboratory had three riots during the war! Considering that you were fighting on the front line, I helped you clean up the mess. Your beating cabbage destroyed sixteen of my combat robots! I am considering using your salary points to compensate for this part of the loss..."

Schiller even began to feel a little sympathy for Brainiac.

The magicians on Earth were good at fighting, but they also had many inexplicable shortcomings. Brainiac had to take care of the frontline battles while also managing the mess left behind by these people. It was not easy.

"How's your house?" Schiller was more concerned about this question. Pamela had just bought her house not long ago, and from what Pamela said just now, it seemed that her house was going to be taken away.

"Oh," Pamela said angrily, "my house has grown beyond my living space, but only by 15 square meters. I could just shrink the yard, but Brainiac said I can't move back in until the construction crew finishes their work. It's so annoying!"

Schiller thought about it. He had actually been to Pamela's new house, but he had not gone in. He had only seen it from outside the yard. It was a very ordinary two-story building, not a big villa. He had not expected it to be a little bit over the top.

"Oh, right, Harley..." Schiller suddenly thought, "Harley's property should have been confiscated, right? Is she okay?"

Pamela waved her hand and said, "Harley doesn't have many personal residences. She only has two personal residences. One is a private apartment in the city center. It's a large flat with only one floor and no garden. The calculated area is not even bigger than my house and it doesn't exceed the limit at all. The other house is an old house left by her parents. I won't feel bad if it is confiscated."

"What about her soda shops and factories?"

"Those are all real businesses, and they are still in operation. Although they no longer belong to her, she is still a professional manager. After all, they still rely on her to develop flavors for soda."

Schiller nodded. The best soda shop run by Harley actually belongs to the food industry, which is also an industry. In addition to producing sparkling water, her factory can also produce syrup and juice, which is a rigid industry that maintains the nutrition needed by humans.

Moreover, Brainiac's wisdom allows him to understand why humans drink soda. During the war, humans banned alcohol, so they needed substitutes to relieve their mental stress, and soda was a good choice.

Alcohol can cause brain retardation, and excessive intake can lead to poisoning. If you get drunk and go crazy, it can endanger social security. Carbonated alcohol is not much better, but it is nonsense to talk about toxicity without considering the dosage. Under the condition of quantitative supply, it can still be controlled within a safe dosage.

Schiller had never drunk soda during the war, but he heard from Jason and the others that it was rationed in the factory. There were also quotas for heavy manual laborers in the transportation and handling industries. In the absence of alcohol, iced soda with a lot of ice cubes was a rare delicacy.

Now, Brainiac is gradually relaxing restrictions, and even alcohol is being distributed, not to mention soda.

During the war, it was good to have carbonated drinks; but after the war, people's living standards improved and they naturally had requirements for taste. You can't expect Brainiac to have a sense of taste to develop different flavors of soda, so someone has to help with the research. Harley is a good choice. The soda she developed before was very popular, so she can switch to a product manager right away.

In Schiller's opinion, Harley was not a materialistic person. She was rich simply because she was smart and lucky, but she was not the kind of person who could work hard to make money. Schiller heard her complain more than once that there was too much work in the factory and she had no private time at all. Schiller thought that sooner or later she would get tired of the year-round business life, so it was good now.

Speaking of half-capitalists like Harley, we have to mention the Wayne Group, the largest capitalist in Gotham. Across the world, upheavals have dealt a heavy blow to every capitalist like Wayne - not everyone can accept going from a capitalist to a proletarian overnight. Many well-known wealthy people have jumped ship, and Bruce, as the initiator of all this, is very happy.

The reason for this is probably that the Wayne Group was already in a bit of a mess. Brainiac is not here to fight the landlord, but to clean up the mess.

The Gotham transformation project drew too much money from the Wayne Group, causing all departments of the group to shrink drastically, cash flow became increasingly sluggish, and production could no longer keep up. Otherwise, it would not have been hammered by the Luthor Group.

The decline of such a large group has brought about terrible livelihood problems. The number of jobs that Wayne Group can provide has been decreasing year by year, which has led to a gradual increase in the number of unemployed people in Gotham.

As mentioned before, the main causes of gangs are economic downturn and too many unemployed people. Naturally, vagrants will gather in groups of three or five, endangering social order.

The Great Depression had already led to a deterioration in the global economic situation, and the Wayne Group was hit hard. In addition, the Luther Group had been squeezing Wayne's industries on the East Coast in order to turn the tide, almost pushing the Wayne Group to the brink of the cliff.

Many people always say that Batman does not use Wayne Group to save Gotham, but in fact, at the level of Wayne Group, saving the world is actually a paradox.

Judging from the scale of the Wayne Group, its greatest contribution to society is not the development of new technologies, but the provision of countless jobs. This allows social capital to flow downward and protects the lives of thousands of ordinary people.

So what it actually needs to do is to manage itself well - as long as the group survives, these jobs will always exist and will continue to allow thousands of workers to make a living.

If it wants to withdraw funds to do something else, once it affects the group's operations, resulting in the group's scale shrinking and large-scale layoffs in factories, it may cause many workers to be laid off, which will be a real nightmare for ordinary families.

Starting a project of this magnitude is like cutting open an aorta to bleed. Death is only a matter of time. If there is no way to save the situation and it collapses completely, Gotham may return to the gangster era overnight.

The rescue operations that Bruce and Thomas did were actually just a delay. Bruce didn't deliberately bring Brainiac over at this time, he just had to do it - without Brainiac, there were others, and he had to use this method to save the country.

If this is a bit complicated, we can explain it in another way: What is the so-called deindustrialization in the United States? In fact, it is that large groups like the Wayne Group cut open their aortas to bleed, withdrawing too much funds and investing them in the financial stock market, hoping that financial investment will make money.

All groups are doing this. The blood of the group has been drained, but the heart's capacity has not increased. In order to keep the group alive, it can only shrink its scale and reduce the money invested in production, which naturally leads to factory closures and workers losing their jobs.

It can be said that this is a curse of capitalism. Every group and every country will one day experience this curse: prosperity and decline, total collapse, and then build a new country on the ruins.

Because of this, Bruce had no objection to Brainiac taking over Wayne Group, and was even happy to throw this mess to him - anyway, I have run out of money, but such a large group cannot fail, what to do in the end, it all depends on your level 12 wisdom, Brainiac.

The trap of capitalism cannot limit the planned economy. A war directly puts the earth into a state of super artificial intelligence wartime control. Economics no longer exists, and the situation of Wayne Group is not a big deal.

After all, the funds that Bruce had withdrawn were all invested in real industries. In a way, it was like transferring money from one hand to the other - the buildings that had been built were standing there and would not disappear with the stock market crash. They would always be useful.

Although the factories were reduced in size, most of them were just a change of ownership. The factory buildings and production equipment were still there, and the workers were ready to go to work at any time. When efficiency was not important and production was the only requirement, the situation quickly stabilized.

The Wayne Group's mortal enemy, the Luthor Group, is a little different. Lex is also not involved in finance, but his problem is over-expansion, and gradually moving towards monopoly, and there are some uncontrollable trends.

Obtaining more funds means that the scale of production can be expanded; the larger the scale of production, the more funds can be obtained, and then continue to expand, from one industry to another, until a complete monopoly is achieved.

Before Brainiac came, Lex had already controlled every aspect of Metropolis. Almost all the necessities for survival were produced by the Luthor Group, and it had even extended its influence to other cities on the East Coast.

Because of this, Congress did not dare to touch the tiger's whiskers easily, and even acquiesced to the independence of Metropolis - because the expansion of the Luther Group was unstoppable.