Players Invade Cyberpunk

Chapter 1315: Chapter 427: School, Childhood, Education

Education is the foundation of everything; only when the breadth of education is wide enough and the number of educated people is sufficient can you continuously gain talent.

What is the most valuable in the 21st century?

Talent!

If you don’t have a substantial educated population, hoping to obtain more talents like Duke Bull and Little Ai Fellow is equivalent to gambling on a rice pool with only one draw.

It’s the youth shrinkage version with a probability of only one-thousandth in the rice pool, is this not a joke?

Moreover, modern science is no longer what it was two centuries ago when one Duke Bull could hold up half the sky.

Given the vast number and complex variety of modern scientific disciplines, without tens of millions of technical personnel, it’s impossible to make progress.

This is also why, until now, countries in the cyber world are still relying on old archaeological research, surviving on past achievements; because there simply aren’t enough researchers, many fields lack the ability to advance, and a missing key technology can make many related technologies unusable.

However, there’s a saying that they actually didn’t get wrong, and it’s quite accurate.

That is, smart poor people will become red individuals.

When faced with this issue, you must prepare several plans to prevent it.

Either you provide them with sufficient job positions that can sustain their livelihoods, and that possess certain upward mobility channels, ensuring everyone has work.

But this path is impassable because the surplus value exploitation brought by the capital market is bound to lead the market into high-intensity workforce elimination, shaping society into a pyramid, certain to leave a considerable number of people out of work, becoming jobless vagrants.

The extreme situation is like Night City which has a 10% employment rate, and the rest can only survive by relying on the scraps falling from the upper class.

To prevent them from causing trouble and changing colors, you must provide enough welfare to ensure they can survive even without working.

Therefore, the government would establish unemployment benefits, residential assurances, pensions, etc., and maintain welfare through extracting the resources of third-world countries—a method adopted by America and Europe during the Cold War which successfully dragged down the Soviet Union.

But this path still didn’t prove feasible.

It’s just that the collapse of the Soviet Union allowed them to regain a large chunk of resources.

The issues of high welfare expenditure and the pension stress brought by an aging population increasingly pressure government finances, and as soon as the resources consumed from the Soviet Union are depleted, the nation’s economy immediately fills with a dying demeanor, with the budget deficit chart being unbearable to look at.

Someone foresaw this situation, thus ushering a new policy direction.

Smart poor people will change colors, so make the bottom layer become foolish, let them fall into internal strife.

First, open up the drug market; these substances they couldn’t hold back anyway, instead let them destroy the will of the bottom people, wrecking their brains, leaving them powerless to resist.

Secondly, destroy the education of the lower class.

Exalt athletic stars and fitness giants, foster an environment in schools and society that discriminates against academics while extolling athletes, causing students to voluntarily resist studying since study in essence is anti-human behavior; without being forced, they will quickly self-decay.

Blurring academic performance and ranking, dissolving competitive grades, replacing percentage with ABCD grading—such ambiguous categorization makes it impossible to know who in the same level is more outstanding, easily resulting in self-satisfaction and stagnation.

Not every mother can be like Gloria, exhausting everything to get her son into a legitimate academy.

Finally, further divide this already resistant-lacking lower class, causing internal strife, pulling energy away from confronting the upper classes.

No need for diversity and LGBT; the cyber world also has its methods of division.

This is particularly evident in Night City, where at its creation it was said to preserve the diversity of various ethnic cultures, yet in reality, different races form gangs to fight each other, with distinct boundaries dividing their powers.

The native Vortex Gang, the immigrant Tiger Claw Gang, the Voodoo Gang, the Valentino Gang, and America’s redneck Sixth Street Gang...

In such circumstances, intermarriages or relationships between different gangs are seen as evils, any issue leads to being sacrificed to the heavens.

Under these various conditions, coupled with corporate control over prosthetics, financial loans controlling your economy, and dreams controlling your entertainment, a resilient class chain is fastened onto everyone’s heads. No matter how hard they try, they will never shake it off.

And after solving all these, there remains one final question.

What then is the cost?

The answer is, human civilization reaching its end, with the road ahead cut off and only an unfathomable abyss in front of the cliff.

The bottom class becomes stupid, making it impossible to provide a large number of researchers and technical workers.

Company employees are either successors of family traditions or brought orphaned individuals for academy training.

People like Gloria are extremely scarce among extremely few, and employees knowing what the outside world is like, their successors among the schools become increasingly competitive.

Without a substantial number of employees, but with impossible reductions in workload, the only option is to further squeeze existing employees.

In order to boost their work efficiency, the indoor air filters in corporate buildings are infused with large amounts of stimulant drugs.

But are drugs really that easy to consume?

Drugs will further damage employees’ brain neurons and all organs, you can replace internal organs with prosthetics, but what about the brain?

Consumption of drugs will cause an increase in thresholds continuously; perpetual-type drugs don’t exist, and even excessive consumption leads to dementia, which cannot even be solved with brain prosthetics.

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