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Chapter 3108 "Romantic" Wedding Season (28)

Chapter 3108 "Romantic" Wedding Season (Twenty-eight)

The island purchased by Stark is very close to Palm Beach, but no one has purchased and developed it because the island is in an awkward location.

The island is too small, and there is not enough area to build a tourist resort, but if it is used only as a personal estate, it is too large and it is difficult to arrange security.

More importantly, because it is close to the most famous tourist destination for the rich on the West Coast, the price of this island is extremely expensive, several times that of other more remote and more suitable islands. Before Stark, no one would be so stupid as to buy such an island.

Stark didn't feel like he was being wronged, because the size of the island that was a headache for people was not a problem for him.

Originally, the island only had a white sand beach on the west side. The beach was relatively short and small in area. However, Stark bought a batch of white sand in Los Angeles and directly built an artificial beach.

As we all know, labor is very expensive in the United States. Other wealthy people don't do this because hiring workers to lay sand is ridiculously expensive and the construction period is slow. If a hurricane hits, the sand may be laid today and blown away tomorrow.

But Stark can use robots, which has almost no labor cost, just some money for buying sand. Moreover, robots are more obedient than humans, and can build whatever design is drawn, which is more convenient than building a home in the game.

Now there is a huge, long white sand beach in the entire southwest of the island, which is the main venue for this wedding.

There are two small hills elsewhere on the island. The one closer to the beach is shorter and has mountain villas for guests to stay overnight. The higher hill is where Stark's new manor is. On the wedding day, the bride and groom will set out from here to the beach.

Now the hard decoration of the wedding has been basically completed. What remains is the soft decoration of the wedding venue. The decoration is also handed over to a professional company. In Stark's manor, everyone checked the design drawings of the decoration style.

As soon as Schiller saw the design, he understood why Stark was dissatisfied.

The decoration style is actually very good, a very common modern romantic wedding style, and it is top-notch within this budget, with flower arches, balloons, high-end tableware and beautifully decorated meals, there is almost nothing wrong with it.

The only problem is that it's too ordinary. It can be said that eight out of ten old-money Americans hold their weddings like this. In Stark's words, his father and mother's wedding was in this style.

In fact, everyone else was quite satisfied, because this was exactly what most people stereotyped a wedding should be like, and because Stark was very rich, the wedding was very high-end. The other couples were all from commoner backgrounds and had never seen such a grand ceremony, so they thought it was already very good.

Everyone had already started discussing the details of the arrangement with great interest. Schiller saw that Stark was in a bad mood, so he invited him to go out for a walk.

The two came to the terrace of the manor room. Stark lit a cigarette and said, "Am I a little too pretentious? I always feel that such an important life ceremony should have some traces of my own."

"The key is not the ceremony, but the people." Schiller smiled and said, "When you recall these things in your later years, you will definitely be more impressed by the expressions of the people around you."

"Yes, I didn't make any additional changes because I knew Pepper would like this kind of wedding. If it was all robots, it might become a topic of conversation for a while, but when people think about it in the future, they will always feel regretful."

"Although we can't make it all robots, maybe we can add some mechanical elements. Do you have any robot performances?"

"No, because I know there are some robot-phobes among the guests." Stark spread his hands and said, "You also know that since the beginning of the mechanical revolution, there have been endless opponents. If they use this as an excuse to cause trouble at the wedding, the beautiful memories will be tainted."

Schiller sighed in his heart. He certainly knew that a mechanical revolution was taking place all over the world, which was to use robots to replace heavy and dangerous work, such as high-altitude power maintenance, heavy object handling, bulk cargo transportation, etc.

In fact, even if there had not been this mechanical revolution, those so-called manual jobs that were going to be replaced on a large scale would have already been replaced. The female workers in textile factories were replaced by textile machines, and the steel workers were replaced by mechanical steelmaking assembly lines. This time it is just a technological upgrade of robots, allowing them to complete more intelligent tasks.

But because of this, the group that was replaced changed from the bottom-level workers to the middle class, the elite, and even the wealthy class.

The rich themselves are not productive, but their companies are competing in the industry. The most opposed to Stark Group's technical robots are the North American human resources giants.

It is said that knowledge is wealth, and people who possess knowledge are also wealth. The rich use money to hold the outstanding talents selected by society in their hands. This is an important factor in their family business being passed down from generation to generation.

However, if all these talents can be replaced by robots produced by the Stark Group one day, it means that all the talents are in the hands of Stark, and the talents in their hands will depreciate.

Some people may say that robots are obviously cheaper. Between humans and robots who possess the same knowledge, robots are obviously more cost-effective. If the rich use robots instead of humans, wouldn’t it also reduce production costs?

But the question is, who does the robot listen to?

For the rich, it is always easy to win people's hearts. Humans have weaknesses and desires. Even the simplest desire for money makes them much more stable than the robots created by Stark.

If Stark was a pure capitalist, perhaps they wouldn't be so worried, and buying and selling robots is nothing more than a business.

But Stark is a hero.

He thinks about problems from the perspective of the interests of all mankind. When the earth is safe, it's fine. But once the interests of mankind conflict with the interests of these wealthy people, the robots they bought from the Stark Group will become knives pointing at them.

Stark will have these robots hold knives to their necks. If you don't listen to me and contribute to the safety of the earth, it means that the middle-level backbone forces under your leadership will be completely destroyed, and you can forget about your eternal dynasty.

How can rich people tolerate this?

This is what really bothers Stark.

If he had his way, he would have turned this wedding into a robot expo to let those who disagree with him see that he is living a good life regardless of whether they come or not.

But he felt happy about this, but this was obviously not the wedding that Pepper wanted. The Robot Expo could be held at any time, and the wedding might be the only time in this life. Perhaps Pepper would agree, but Stark didn't want her to have any regrets.

As Stark gets older, he is no longer as aggressive as he was when he was young, and he is eager to let everyone in the world know who is the boss.

He began to gradually separate work from life. He firmly followed his own path in work and refused to be kidnapped by any circle. However, there was no need to make things so awkward with this group of people in life.

He increasingly understood that greed is human nature, and violence is useless against human nature.

He also began to understand why Schiller had to go through a huge circle every time he wanted to achieve his goals.

Are those rich people wrong?

Many of them have worked hard to build their current family business, and have endured countless hardships and ridicules along the way. They just want their children to not have to suffer these pains and be able to enjoy the fruits of their parents' hard work with peace of mind.

Parents create the family foundation, sons go further, and grandchildren reach new heights. Hasn't human society always developed in this way?

If you ask yourself, Stark would not let Helen and little Morgan start from scratch. On the contrary, he wanted to give them the best education so that their starting point would be higher than everyone else. This is a perfectly normal mentality.

If someone wanted to take all this away at this time, he would certainly rise up to resist, regard the person as an enemy, and resist to the end.

There are some so-called strategists who first assume that everyone is selfless, and then make their own plans. Once the plan goes wrong because of certain people, they blame these people for being selfish and causing the plan to fail.

These people are indeed selfish, but selfishness is not a word that was invented one day. In human history, selfless people have to be singled out and praised. This shows that selfishness is the norm and selflessness is the minority.

In this case, when formulating a plan, failing to take into account that people may not resolutely implement the plan due to personal interests, ultimately leading to the failure of the plan, is a trap of idealism.

The contradiction already exists. Simply accusing others of being selfish will not solve any problems, but is likely to intensify the contradiction.

Resolving this conflict by defeating them and then suppressing them does not ultimately solve any problems, because there will always be people who can improve their class and become the new elite through their own talents and hard work. Such suppression is endless.

But if they are completely indulged and everyone works only to continue their own family, they will frantically exclude dissidents, suppress people below them, block the path to upward mobility, and ultimately make social contradictions acute and the social atmosphere chaotic.

Going left or right is not an option, but standing in the middle is a dead end. So the best way is to use both kindness and force, and to guide and persuade. Politics is the art of compromise.

It may be a relief to keep confronting them, but you will inevitably be constrained at every turn and get half the result with twice the effort.

It would be better to give the other party a way out. If you respect me one foot, I will respect you ten feet, and both sides will take a step back.

Stark understood that his wedding was actually a gesture of goodwill to the conservatives, giving both sides a chance to sit down and talk. Even if no results were achieved, I have given you face. If you try to trip me up again, I will be the one standing on the moral high ground.

But even though he knew it rationally, Stark must feel aggrieved with his temper. But after thinking about it, he didn't know who to blame, so he could only vent his anger by beating Reed in his dream.

Schiller had nothing to say. People always have to grow up. Stark was lucky enough to have a childhood lasting for several decades.

"It's time to abandon fantasy and face reality, Tony." Schiller turned to look at Stark and said, "This is destined to be a long and difficult struggle, but you are not fighting alone."

Stark exhaled a puff of smoke. There was always mist in his eyes, which looked moist and bright when blown by the mountain wind.

"I believe that the two greatest things in this world, truth and you, are on my side. The one who will win in the end will be me, Tony Stark."

(End of this chapter)