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Wandering Fleet

Earth is the cradle of human civilization, but humans cannot live in the cradle forever. In the year 2254 AD, the first deep space colony ship of human civilization departed from the solar system, venturing into the boundless darkness...

DaoistegyXLO · sci-fi
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Capitalism is Hard to Eliminate

  Soon, with the establishment of the Kyushu interstellar trading market, the population of one spaceship after another began to be transported to the Kyushu star. Some of them were planetary construction workers, and some were entrepreneurs in the new market.

  "We're coming! We're coming!"

  Most of these entrepreneurs are young people, full of energy and full of expectations for the future. They hope to obtain satisfactory results on this new planet.

  "Kyushu", the second battle star delivered by the hemispheric civilization to the new human civilization, is currently under construction of the planetary curvature engine.

  It is expected that in one or two years, it will be able to have a preliminary power system and start its official voyage. The new human civilization has all the rights of this battle star, including land rights, political rights, and military ownership.

  However, as the leading civilization of the "Galactic Progressive Federation", the new human civilization has more power and should bear more obligations. Therefore, after discussion, the entire large market was simply opened up on this new planet.

  In people's plans, the battle star Shanhai is still the base camp of mankind and will house the vast majority of the population of the entire civilization.

  The Jiuzhou Planetary Fortress is the main activity venue for various civilizations in the alliance. Exchanges including but not limited to science, culture, and military affairs will all be conducted on the second planetary fortress.

  From now on, if another civilization really joins this new federation, it can also carry out activities on the Jiuzhou planet. Human beings will even open the right to live on some weak civilizations. Of course, the so-called trading market also has its own set of rules. Everything has to be paid, including housing.

  There are naturally many benefits to this division. Shanhaihao is Shanhaihao, and Kyushuhao is Kyushuhao. Each has its own function. Even if something happens to the Kyushu in the future, as long as the Shanhai is not involved, the entire new human civilization will not be damaged.

  In order to prevent the emergence of separatist forces, the working population on the Kyushu is mobile, and there will be no people who have settled above for a long time.

  The number of people dispatched to the Kyushu is about 10 million, and there are more than 800,000 unemployed people. These unemployed people hope to find their own opportunities and discover new development directions in this new planet.

  "Buzz!"

  As the transport spacecraft landed, the passengers inside jumped out of the spacecraft door, just like the way they walked in a low-gravity environment. They followed the robot's instructions and entered the rail trains.

  All human beings operating on this planet have been assigned basic residences and personal life-sustaining power devices. There is no atmosphere on the Kyushu. If housing is not allocated, a single individual cannot survive at all.

  Although the current market adopts a free competition mechanism, it is not cruel to the point of life and death. The new human government will still provide citizens with a certain degree of help.

  The allocated houses are not very big, less than 20 square meters per person, and no deposit is required in the first year. But if you want a larger residential area, you can only make money yourself and then rent or buy it. Even the residential area can completely exceed the Shanhaihao house purchase limit. As long as you are rich enough, one thousand square meters per person is fine. Of course, the higher the square number, the higher the property tax and other taxes.

  "It's really an interesting social experiment. It's hard to predict how it will develop in the next few years."

  Zhang Yuan looked at this busy scene and sighed. He also came to this planet to participate in a series of scientific and technological exchange meetings.

  What he wants to exchange with the people in the hemisphere is some knowledge about memory instillation to see if there is any improvement; there is also the research work on the genetic viruses left over from the Green Star civilization. The value of the residual technology of the fifth-level civilization must be extremely high.

  Basically, these two aspects are the focus of research.

  Dr. Li, who was traveling with him, said, "Well... the virus left over from the Green Star Civilization is quite interesting. Its gene sequence is very weird and it uses a lot of artificial base pairs. It is a new biotechnology for us, and it provides the basis for nanotechnology." Biological robots provide a good direction."

  There are only four bases in DNA in nature: A (adenine), T (thymine), C (cytosine), G (guanine), and there is an additional base U in RNA. The Green Star Civilization's virus, in addition to these four bases, also uses artificial bases to provide a large number of additional codes for encoding non-standard amino acids, so it is several orders of magnitude more difficult to decipher.

  As for food, clothing, housing, transportation, and research expenses, the governments of both parties will naturally reimburse them.

  Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "This kind of research should be done slowly, there is no use in rushing."

  Dr. Li looked at the crowd of people in the corridor, took a breath, and said: "This place will become prosperous in the future, and it will form a big city dominated by a market economy. Although the population of Jiuzhou is not large, it will be more prosperous in the future." Ten years from now, the GDP of various engineering projects and scientific research projects may account for 10-15% of the entire civilization."

  "However, the construction of the legal system, digitization and transparency should also be kept up in time, otherwise these cooperative trade areas will become a place where capitalism hides filth and evil, and all kinds of messy things will appear, wouldn't it? Has it become a step backwards in history?"

  Zhang Yuan looked back at him and said with a smile: "Xiao Li, we have never really eliminated capitalism. Even the new human society in 'Shan Hai' is the same. Before it becomes a fifth-level civilization, it is not It's possible to eliminate capitalism."

  "Is it really impossible to eliminate it?"

  "Yes, we have only publicized most of the production capital. As for private capital, it is indispensable. The lack of private capital is like a machine lacking lubricants... Oh, that's right. Have you read Mr. Mao's biography?"

  Dr. Li was stunned: "Of course I have seen it."

  Zhang Yuan clicked on his phone and found a collection of four e-books by Mao, Zhou, Deng, and Chiang, with a total price of 40 yuan.

  "Does Chang Kaishen deserve to be included in it?" Dr. Li shrugged his nose and said disdainfully: "Who created this collection without considering its historical status?"

  Zhang Yuan turned to another page, which contained a collection of personal biographies of Mao, Zhou and Deng. The total price was 50 yuan.

  Zhang Yuan asked: "Now, you think Lao Jiang is not worthy to be ranked with the other three men, but which one do you choose to buy?"

  Dr. Li hesitated. The collection of four e-books only cost 40 yuan, but three books cost 50 yuan.

  He will definitely choose four books.

  He understood what Zhang Yuan said.

  Capitalism has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and has completely changed the thinking of the entire human civilization. The admiration for great men has been easily replaced by 10 yuan. As long as it is as cheap as ten yuan, people think it doesn't matter if the great men are not parallel.

  Even if humans enter the interstellar age, it is impossible to change this kind of thinking. Admiration is admiration, and business is business. In the foreseeable future, humans will always be such creatures.

  Zhang Yuan lamented: "Capital has torn off the emotional veil of tenderness and turned all kinds of relationships into pure amounts of money. Precisely because it is in line with human nature, it is difficult to eliminate."

  Human beings cannot deny the value of capitalism. It defeated feudalism and religion and pushed human society forward in a ruthless and efficient way, at least to a certain extent.

  Arranging such a market economic system is also a helpless move. An alliance between two civilizations cannot be planned as casually as one civilization. If humans forcefully instruct the civilizations in the hemisphere on what they should do, what kind of technology they should research, and what kind of material resources they should produce, will the people in the hemisphere obey unconditionally? Of course it's impossible, it will only create contradictions.

  At the same time, it is impossible for human beings to hand over their wealth and life to others, and all raw materials must be provided by others. What if the other party suddenly gets stuck under certain circumstances?