Outside the waiting room was a huge station square.
The tunnel that the three of them saw on the hillside led to this place. E-Goat also saw an endless stream of trucks at the time. However, when he got closer, he saw that the trucks were not goods at all, but groups after groups of people.
Qiu Ming continued the previous topic.
"In the beginning, memory coding technology was used on ordinary people. Some rich people or top middle-class families hoped that their children could win at the starting line. Therefore, when their children were very young, they secretly used memory encoders to encode many skills for them. They even gave them some of the personality and qualities of a leader.
"And as expected, these children whose memories had been re-encoded immediately stood out among their peers, far surpassing their peers. When they grew up, whether they started from scratch or took over the family business, they would quickly soar, defeating one competitor after another and completing the crazy accumulation of wealth.
"It's like a cheat in life," Qiu Ming sighed.
"And with their success, there was a craze for memory coding in the upper class. More and more people decided to let their sons and daughters undergo memory coding. Even if it wasn't to make them winners in life, at least they wouldn't lose at the starting line.
"At the same time, on the other side, the middle and high-end skilled talent market has finally become saturated due to the continuous input of new humans. Companies and enterprises have less and less demand for this type of talent, so large groups such as Shengtang Morgan have finally adjusted the direction of training new humans from technical backbones to production, hardworking, and uncomplaining blue-collar workers."
E-Goat's eyes widened when he heard this. "Wait, what about those ordinary people?"
"Good question. Just as you guessed, as the major groups have changed the direction of training new humans, companies have also begun to hire a large number of new human blue-collar workers in the labor market, replacing lazy and inefficient ordinary workers. More and more people have lost their jobs and are living on welfare. Many families have broken down because of this. Although the lucky ones haven't been fired immediately, they know very well in their hearts that if this continues, they will lose their jobs sooner or later.
"Relying on primitive learning methods and carrying all kinds of personality flaws, they can't compete with those new humans in the job market. What's even more tragic is that they know that when their children grow up, there's a high chance that they will repeat their mistakes. At the same time, they're not the only ones who have this kind of trouble. In addition, those new humans who are doing well now, the next generation that they naturally give birth to will also have the same trouble.
"And there's only one way to solve this problem." Qiu Ming paused. "That is to accept memory coding and do what the rich have done to their children. It doesn't matter who the first ordinary person to accept memory coding is. In short, in order to survive, in order to support their family, and not to be a maggot in society, more and more ordinary people choose to take this path and accept memory coding. It's just like how beauty was once popular.
"If beauty can change the flaws in a person's appearance, then memory coding can change the flaws in a person's soul. Laziness, selfishness, arrogance … all of these can be fixed. More precisely, it can also be fine-tuned according to your occupation. A worker in the assembly line can become more tolerant of boredom, and a manager in a company can become more charismatic …
"In the beginning, their strategy did work. As long as they were willing to harden their resolve and spend some money, normal people could use memory coding to make themselves more powerful than Homo Evolutis. But soon, the Homo Evolutis realized the challenge they were facing, so they started to spend money to re-code their own memories, giving themselves a more perfect personality and stronger working ability.
"Things began to get crazier and crazier. Everyone was like an app update, constantly upgrading themselves through the memory encoder. There was no end to the competition. Of course, those corporations were also aware of this. By this time, the population growth rate had already returned to normal. No, it should be said that not only had it returned to normal, but it had also far exceeded the growth rate that they had originally planned to achieve. However, in order to reduce labor costs, those corporations did not stop the artificial reproduction plan.
"In order to settle the remaining explosive population, the major groups have also begun to look into space. New Shanghai 0297 was invested and built against this background. You can think of it as the vast majority of the residents here are employees of Shengtang Morgan. They applied to work in this new city. Before working, they will undergo memory rewriting according to the requirements of the various companies' positions. You don't have to feel sad for them losing their original memories, because most of them have already experienced memory rewriting dozens of times. They have long forgotten what their original memories are.
"The memory rewriting before entering the job is actually for their own good. It can help them better integrate into their new work and life. Whether it's clones or ordinary people, they actually only have one common identity here, which is the means of production, the most perfect means of production.
"Of course, considering that the products produced must be sold, they will also play the role of consumers. Whether it's the division of the five floors or the constantly rolling advertisements, they are all to stimulate more consumption. Only when consumption and production continue to increase can society prosper."
When E-Goat heard this, he felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar. He could even hear the sound of his teeth chattering. "But what's the point of all this? What do we gain in the process, other than becoming less and less like ourselves? "
"Good question." Qiu Ming snapped his fingers. "But who asked the wheel of history to always move forward? Perhaps if we make another choice and go back to the beginning of the artificial reproduction program, humans will choose to close Pandora's box and strangle all of this at the source. Unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world. Once productivity begins to develop, the backward will inevitably be eliminated.
"This isn't something that any individual can stop. You can't, I can't, and even the board of directors of Shengtang Morgan can't … Because as powerful as Shengtang Morgan is, there are many equally powerful competitors. As far as I know, the people on the board of directors have even experienced memory encoding hundreds of times.
"I actually envy you. After your memories are rewritten, you can live in this city without any doubt and believe what you want to believe. But for the people in the other departments of the company, we don't even know what to believe," Qiu Ming said. "It's just like what I'm telling you now. Is it the truth, or is there another version of the truth? I don't know either. It took me a long time to stop myself from thinking about this problem. I sincerely hope that you won't experience the troubles that I experienced."
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