Chapter 396 Three Worlds (Part 3)
North America.
Detroit, America.
With the influx of a large number of European companies and the stimulus of America's Industrial Revitalization Act, the automobile manufacturing and real estate industries here have actually recovered.
Especially after the plastic crisis, a large number of urgent new demands have made the automobile market hot.
Neither Ford nor General Motors has launched a trade-in service, nor does it provide plastic parts replacement services for old models. They don't even develop and produce replacement parts for plastic parts for old models.
Their purpose is very simple, which is to force everyone to buy new cars.
If it were simply a quality issue, then General Motors and Ford would definitely not dare to do this. The problem is that the cars are now corroded by fungi, which is a "natural disaster" and is not covered by insurance or warranty.
Stimulated by demand and funds, Detroit's auto industry recovered rapidly.
At the same time, as the other three giants of the world's automobile industry, Volkswagen, Toyota and Audi also had to set up branches in North America.
The reason is that America has issued an ultimatum: either get out of the North American market or relocate the production line here.
The three major automakers, who already had few options, had no choice but to grit their teeth and invest and set up factories in North America.
At this time, Detroit has regained some of its former appearance as the world's automobile city.
I just don't know whether this is a resurrection or a last gasp.
At least after being devastated by the economic crisis, ordinary people in North America have lowered their demands for job remuneration.
The Hilltop City Council also knows that now they need these supplies to work properly rather than giving them high welfare benefits.
Therefore, the City on the Hill Council took the lead in secretly organizing a private meeting among entrepreneurs.
The content of the secret talks is unknown to the outside world except Homo sapiens.
After the secret talks, a very strange phenomenon began to appear across North America.
That is, all products and services except basic food began to slowly increase in price.
For example, the prices of building, renovating and purchasing houses are rising rapidly. In six months, the average price has increased by 22.7%.
The prices of education expenses, medical expenses, insurance expenses, electricity, water, gas, communication fees, electronic and electrical products, and daily necessities have also increased by 30 to 60%.
As for why the price increase.
Major companies reported that the impact of the economic crisis and the plastic crisis, coupled with a sharp increase in raw material costs, forced them to make adjustments.
But at the same time, America also introduced a large number of Aztecs and Latin Americans, paying them extremely low hourly wages.
The City on the Hill Board of Directors learned the skills of their own dogs and called these working immigrants "trainees", stipulating that the minimum hourly wage for these people is US$2, and they are not protected or insured.
With the help of these trainees, the Detroit factory can be opened.
As for those Americans who don’t work hard all day and like to brag, the corporate bosses won’t serve them anymore. The hourly wage and benefits are like this. It’s up to you whether you want to work or not!
Lower social welfare, increase the cost of living, import Latin American labor, have companies jointly cut wages, and at the same time significantly increase personal income tax.
This combination of punches suffocated all of North America.
Don't accept?
Then you can just wait to go bankrupt and become a homeless person!
All the associations that dared to take the lead in causing trouble in the past have all chosen to remain silent under the instructions of the bosses behind the scenes.
Some stubborn people have committed suicide by shooting themselves seven times in the back.
Faced with the powerful enemy, Sapiens Corporation, the City on the Hill Council put aside many of its internal differences and infighting and began to work together to adjust the situation in North America.
After all, no matter how powerful the financial industry is, it is ultimately fake.
In addition, Sapiens does not recognize the US dollar at all. No matter how sophisticated Wall Street's financial means are, it cannot attack Sapiens' financial industry through a wall, right?
Letting the Federal Reserve sell off the thousands of tons of gold in its inventory might cause the price of gold to plummet in a short period of time.
The problem is that the dollar has become almost as valuable as the dollar.
Funds are divided into employee funds and trade funds.
Among them, employee gold is basically credit currency. After all, most of the Homo sapiens employees will not exchange it for gold, but use it for internal consumption.
The trade dollar is the gold standard, or a limited gold standard. To a large extent, the trade dollar is a product tied to the Homo sapiens company, and gold is just the most intuitive collateral.
Therefore, the Federal Reserve's selling of gold can only affect trade dollars, but cannot affect the internal structure of Homo sapiens companies.
To influence a highly self-sufficient internal circulation economy is as difficult as directly starting World War III.
What's more, the Homo Sapiens company can still handle several thousand tons of gold. With the emergence of new technologies, the application scenarios of gold in the industrial field are becoming more and more numerous.
For example, Sapiens ' aerospace industry consumed 2.4 tons of gold and 4.6 tons of platinum group metals in the first half of this year alone.
With the crazy expansion of the aerospace industry in the future
If the Federal Reserve dares to sell gold, Sapiens will dare to take over.
Therefore, trade dollars are also very solid.
Financial means are useless, military means cannot win, and information means are also suppressed by the Homo Sapiens company. The board of directors of the City on the Hill has already felt the pain.
Therefore, they now dare not continue to play with finance, because they find that continuing to play with financial means will only kill themselves.
Returning to the real economy is North America’s only means of fighting against Sapiens companies.
Therefore, they came up with that combination of punches, constantly breaking through the tolerance limit of ordinary North Americans, forcing these people to be on the brink of bankruptcy at all times, so that they can lower their benefits and wages.
Of course, this is to prevent Sapiens companies from influencing ordinary people through public opinion on the Internet.
The Council has notified Internet giants such as Microsoft, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon to build firewalls to block and filter out information related to Sapiens.
At the same time, let these Internet giants find ways to discredit the image of Sapiens and turn it into an evil giant.
Hollywood has recently launched more than a dozen big-business-type movies and TV series.
Including the remake of Resident Evil, all of them contain references to the Homo Sapiens company.
Sapiens Inc. even managed to replace Lucia and become the number one villain in Hollywood movies.
However, this method is limited to North America. Outside North America, Sapiens has used satellite communications and submarine optical cables to build its own Internet industry.
In terms of cognitive warfare, Sapiens is more comprehensive and more diverse than America.
After all, the current gold dollar is stronger than the constantly depreciating US dollar. The hundreds of billions of gold that Sapiens Company invests in the cultural and entertainment fields every year are not used to steal box office revenue and promote young idols.
America can build a wall in North America, but it cannot build a wall around the world.
In Latin America alone, there are many forces that are dissatisfied with America, and they will not cooperate with America.
With the presence of Sapiens, America will speak to them in a friendly manner instead of being arrogant and bullying as before.
Of course, America is not the only force that wants to build walls and close itself off from the outside world, but the strength of the force varies.
After all, it is difficult for some forces to be self-sufficient in terms of internal resources, so opening up part of the market to the Homo Sapiens company is an inevitable choice.
For example, in Japan in Northeast Asia, even automobile companies such as Toyota and Nissan have set up factories in North America, and the domestic economy is in a serious vicious cycle.
If we don't open the market to Homo sapiens companies and allow ordinary people to find jobs in Homo sapiens companies, will we let these people starve to death or force them to cause trouble?
