Chapter 397: Confusing...
Second Suez Canal.
Mediterranean outlet.
North Canal City.
Curly David and his two companions, who came from Paris for tourism, arrived in this new city invested and built by the Homo sapiens company.
As a standard Category III city, the local population is 370,000, of which 41% are Suez natives, 16% are refugees from other parts of West Asia, 14% are South Asians, 13% are Southeast Asians, 12% are Northeast Asians, and 4% are South Africans.
However, what surprised Curly was that it was very peaceful here, not at all as chaotic as Paris.
You know, the refugee population in Paris did not reach 16%, which made David and the other two very strange.
Inside the riverside tea restaurant next to the canal.
David was very puzzled and joked: "Is it because everyone has a job? That's why they don't have various social problems?"
After eating a shrimp dumpling, the big-slicked-back-haired man looked up the personnel data of North Canal City in his notebook. He was also very surprised at this time:
"According to the data, the unemployment rate here is zero, and the pillar industries are canal services, port services, ship repairs, aquaculture and medical services. In addition, there is a food processing base here."
"Have you noticed that there are basically no children on the streets here?" The round-faced man reminded thoughtfully, holding a teacup.
David was a little hesitant to confirm: "Complete social care? Will this model really not cause psychological problems for children?"
"How many of you came from France?"
A voice came from the table next to them.
David turned his head and looked at the next table. A young couple of Northeast Asian descent were also having afternoon tea, and the man was talking.
"Sir, you also know French?" David was a little surprised.
"I know a little bit. My name is Yujiro Sugiyama, and this is my wife Yuriko Sugiyama." The man introduced himself with a smile.
David asked uncertainly, "Hello, I'm David Hall, Mr. Sugiyama , are you here for tourism?"
"I work at the port and currently live here permanently."
The man with the slicked-back hair also introduced himself: "Hello, I'm Andre Dumas, from Marseille."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Henry Mark." The round-faced man also picked up the teacup and introduced himself.
The two sides chatted while getting to know each other.
Then Henry, who had a round face, asked the question he had just asked: "You have two children? Do you send them both to boarding school? I'm very curious about the support and education system of Homo sapiens. Can we talk about it?"
"No problem, this is not a sensitive topic." Sugiyama Yujiro adjusted his chair and asked, "What specific content do you want to know?"
Henry, who had a round face, thought for a moment and said, "I mainly want to know if the relationship between children and parents will become weaker or even become strangers because of this? As far as I know, Homo sapiens boarding schools are year-round, right?"
"In fact, the company will not completely separate the children from us. As parents, we have the right to visit our children at any time, but whether they are willing to visit their children depends on the parents themselves," explained Yujiro Sugiyama.
His words are actually very easy to understand.
That is, the relationship between parents and children is not a one-way relationship, but a two-way relationship.
If parents do not visit their children often, the children will not be too close to them.
Residential schools simply make this special situation clear.
Many parents in other regions may live with their children, but in fact, they do not necessarily have frequent and intimate communication with their children.
This situation is called an "estranged family", and this type of estranged family is actually very common in reality.
Parents are busy with work and dealing with adult social relationships on a daily basis, and it is easy for them to ignore the existence of their children.
This is an unavoidable problem all over the world, especially for ordinary people who do not have enough assets to allow one of job for a long time to accompany their children as they grow up.
Poor single-parent families are the hardest hit.
Therefore, this comprehensive nanny-style school invested and built by the Smart Company is more realistic.
David also raised some questions of his own: "Mr. Sugiyama, how can Homo sapiens schools ensure that children will not have psychological problems? As far as I know, adolescent psychological problems have always been a difficult problem around the world."
"Three aspects: companionship, guidance, and low pressure." Sugiyama Yujiro held up three fingers, and then he continued:
"The first point is companionship. We set the class as small as possible and set up surrogate parents to provide seamless all-round management. In our school, teachers, counselors and surrogate parents are all professionals. This is their profession."
"The second point is guidance. School education focuses on guiding children's thoughts and mental health, while cultivating their interests and hobbies, and promptly guiding them through various problems they encounter."
"Third, low pressure. The school does not require grades, and promotion is not based on grades. Instead, students are directly recommended to universities. At the same time, we organize tours, visits, sports meets and group activities every month for each class."
As a man with slicked back hair and coming from a middle-class family, Andre didn't know how to comment on this kind of happy education.
Don't think that education in Europe and America is free of competition.
In fact, many views are one-sided.
Education in Europe and the United States is divided into two systems, namely private schools and public schools.
Private schools implement elite education, and students have to take interest classes such as Olympiad mathematics, foreign languages, and music. The tutoring sessions are even more extensive than those in Northeast Asia.
Public schools implement happy education. Whether students want to study is entirely up to their own choice. There are no remedial classes or interest classes.
The middle class and wealthy groups, as well as some parents who are eager to cross the class barrier, will send their children to private schools and compete desperately.
Andre asked uncertainly, "Mr. Sugiyama, Sapiens has a private school... Uh!"
He immediately realized what was happening and quickly changed his topic: "I'm asking, do Homo sapiens have that kind of specialized elite school?"
"No." Sugiyama Yujiro replied very affirmatively.
Andre was a little incredulous: "If all of them are educated in this way, how can you guarantee the talent within your school? I am not disparaging this kind of school, but your education method has been proven in the entire West to be incapable of efficiently cultivating talents."
"In fact, your understanding is biased. Our education during college is very strict and comprehensive."
Curly-haired David frowned. “Am I right to assume that Homo Sapiens will teach all kinds of professional knowledge in university education?”
"That's true." Sugiyama Yujiro nodded.
"Oh my God! Wouldn't that be too stressful? Can students who have been growing up in a happy educational environment really endure such a sudden change?" David was shocked.
Henry, who had a round face, speculated thoughtfully, "Is it because the university graduation standards of Homo sapiens are not high? After all, everyone will have a job, so there won't be too much pressure."
"That is one of the reasons, but the more important reason is that our university education is very good." Sugiyama Yujiro boasted a little.
As for the real reason, he naturally would not tell David and the others.
The reason why Sapiens dares to promote happy education for students before they reach adulthood is that it has biochips to back them up.
As long as students have their biochips implanted during their coming-of-age ceremony and complete the initial adaptation, their learning speed during their four years of college will be like switching from a bicycle to a supersonic plane.
After graduating from university, these new human graduates can basically master several languages, have minor majors in two or three disciplines, and have skilled work experience.
The best among them are even elite new humans who can speak more than a dozen languages or master an entire university subject.
As for study pressure, there is really not much. After all, there is a super library and artificial assisted intelligence stuffed into the head, which means everyone has a plug-in.
The more they learn, the happier they will be, because Homo sapiens universities allow people to change majors at will.
If a student finds during the learning process that he or she does not like the major or has no interest in it, he or she can apply to change his or her major.
In fact, the reason why many people feel pain during the learning process may be, on the one hand, because the major is not what they want, and on the other hand, it may be that the sense of frustration breaks down their psychological defenses.
The new humans with biochips and intelligent assistance systems can learn things very quickly and basically do not experience frustration.
Therefore, the outside world has never been able to understand the education system of Homo sapiens, and it feels like seeing flowers in the fog.
David and the other two in front of them felt completely confused.
They are very clear about the disadvantages of happy education, but Homo sapiens still insists on happy education, which is what they don’t understand.
If there are elite schools within the Homo sapiens company, they can simply understand that this is a way for the Homo sapiens management to enslave the descendants of grassroots employees to facilitate their management.
The problem is that there are no elite schools within the Homo Sapiens company, and the descendants of all employees receive the same education.
David cannot see the disadvantages now, but he believes that in a dozen years, as the first generation of students who have received happy education since childhood graduate, Homo sapiens will taste the consequences.
This is also the unanimous conclusion reached by think tanks of major powers after studying the educational model of Sapiens.
Many think tank scholars believe this because of the examples of happy education in Western countries. They do not believe that Homo sapiens can cultivate a large number of talents by relying on four years of university.
Therefore, the argument that the failure of the education model will lead to the self-destruction of Sapiens Corporation is also one of the core theories of the great powers in attacking Sapiens Corporation.
As for the current success of Sapiens, many think tank scholars attribute it to the genius of Li Qingye; the establishment of fully-powered branches in various regions by Sapiens, which absorbed local elite talents; and the intelligence of immigrant employees from Northeast Asia and South Asia.
These remarks are very popular in many places.
The Sapiens company did not refute the rumor.
After all, biochips are something that cannot be seen in the light nowadays. Once such things are exposed, the great powers will definitely go crazy and join forces to fight a decisive battle with Homo sapiens.
To prevent the information of biochip from being leaked.
All Homo sapiens staff who are on missions outside or are in the open around the world have special anti-leakage measures.
Including chip self-dissolving system, corpse self-dissolving system, and intelligent assistance system enforcement program.
Therefore, although some members of the Shamrocks, which had been fighting the Black Ships in Latin America for a long time, had been killed, they had never been captured by the other side or had their bodies seized.
And within the Sapiens company, this secret is even less likely to be leaked.
The outside world does not know the true trump card of the Sapiens company, so it is very normal to make misjudgments.
The real situation of Zhiren Company's education industry is that it is getting better and better every year.
It’s just that the Sapiens Company will not release this kind of data. Anyway, it will be concealed as much as possible. It will take at least a dozen years for the major powers to react.
In a dozen years, Homo sapiens will definitely be much stronger than they are now, so there will be no need to worry at all.
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"Mr. Sugiyama, what do you think about the issue of retirement?" David was somewhat curious about what the Homo sapiens employees thought about this.
"Based on the current operation of various social systems, I think it is difficult for the Western-style pension system to be maintained in the long run because there are two uncertain factors, namely the economy and the population."
As a financial practitioner, Andrei deeply agreed with this and nodded:
"Indeed, these two uncertainties have put the pension system in an unstable state. Currently, the debt ratios of European countries are very high."
Sugiyama Yujiro smiled and continued, "The pension mechanism of Zhiren Company does not actually rely on employees to pay insurance premiums. To be precise, we employees do not need to pay any insurance premiums."
Regarding this, Andre has studied some of the internal rules of the Sapiens Company and understands the key.
In a sense, Sapiens companies rely on developing productivity to maintain the normal operation of the pension mechanism, which has little to do with whether employees pay insurance.
The Western pension mechanism, combined with the Western economic system, itself contains certain market behaviors.
"It's not that Europe lacks productivity, but that there's something wrong with your social mechanism. With the current productivity, Europe can actually maintain its current high welfare life, but you have no way to avoid the economic cycle of the capitalist world, nor can you prevent wealth from being concentrated in the hands of a small number of people through financial means."
Although Andre works at BNP Paribas, it doesn't mean that he likes the Western economic model.
His family is just an ordinary middle-class one, and if something unexpected happens, there is a risk of bankruptcy.
As for the issue of wealth concentration mentioned by Yujiro Sugiyama, Andre was very clear that those big companies, big banks, financial consortiums and wealthy people accounted for 80% of Europe's wealth.
However, these people account for less than 1% of the total population.
The question is, how much can the top 1% of the rich consume? Obviously, one person cannot eat 100 loaves of bread.
As for the remaining 99% of the middle class, ordinary people and the poor, it will be difficult for them to increase their consumption due to lack of funds.
In order to increase consumption, Western financial groups invented loan consumption and credit cards, allowing ordinary people to use their future money to increase consumption and then take on debt.
All of this is full of calculations.
It is also to squeeze the marrow out of people's bones and completely plunder the future of ordinary people.
Andre understood the trick, but this is also the foundation of the West. Unless there is a thorough cleansing, it will be difficult to change direction.
“It’s so hard to change all this.”
"Yes! It's too difficult!" Sugiyama Yujiro knew too well the nature of those chaebols and big families. The situation in Japan is even worse than in Europe. Ordinary Japanese people have no hope of making a breakthrough.
Henry changed the topic and said, "I heard that Suez is promoting sea rice. How is the promotion going?"
Sugiyama Yujiro shook his head. "I'm not sure either. I think hundreds of thousands of hectares have been planted. Some of the crops in the Red Sea Province have already matured."
"If Suez can grow a large amount of sea rice, then the food production should be self-sufficient, right?" David asked with a smile.
Sugiyama Yujiro shrugged: "It should be possible. We don't lack food anyway."
David began to imagine: "Is this the scientific productivity theory pursued by Sapiens Company? If the entire low-lying area of the Sahara Desert can be transformed into a sea rice planting area, what a huge area that would be."
In fact, the entire Sahara Desert, with an area below 500 meters above sea level, is about 5 million square kilometers.
The area with an altitude below 200 meters is about 2 million square kilometers.
As long as there is seawater in these areas, they can be transformed into sea rice growing areas.
If it is really possible to achieve sea rice cultivation in 2 million square kilometers, with the annual yield of sea rice at 24 tons per hectare, it is estimated that 4.8 billion tons of rice can be produced.
If evenly distributed among the world's 8 billion people, each person can get 600 kilograms.
What is a productivity explosion?
This is an explosion of productivity.
In fact, if the Sapiens Company wants to fully develop the 1 million square kilometers of Suez alone, in addition to the Nile Delta and river valley plains, as well as those plateaus and mountains, there are still 700,000 square kilometers of development potential.
However, there is no need to develop so much sea rice at this stage. After all, the total number of employees in Homo sapiens is less than 1 billion and cannot consume so much food.
Last year, the annual grain output of Sapiens Company reached nearly 1 billion tons. This year, with the addition of the Suez branch, Mada Island branch and Dongba branch, the total output is estimated to exceed 1.3 billion tons.
Although David didn't know the food production of the Homo Sapiens Company, he knew that the Homo Sapiens Company was definitely not short of food.
Just from the volume of orders placed in the international grain market this year, it is easy to see that Zhiren Company's grain production capacity is very large.
After all, the Homo Sapiens Company is not India. It will not sell large amounts of food when it does not have enough to eat.
David chatted with Sugiyama Yujiro and others for more than an hour.
The chat covered all aspects of the Sapiens company and also discussed the future of Europa.
Overall, David and the other two still have a very favorable impression of Sapiens. Although there are some things that do not conform to his values, at least the welfare of Sapiens is impeccable.
The European economy is in trouble now, and there are turmoil everywhere. In David's opinion, allowing the Homo sapiens company to enter Europe may not be a bad thing.
Although as a Frenchman, he hopes that France can continue to move forward.
But they have to face the cruel reality.
In this respect the French are more thoughtful than other Europeans.
In fact, the impact and influence brought by the Sapiens Company has already caused quite a stir in Europe.
Suez is right next to Europe, and Europe has no way to build a wall to completely block the inflow of information from Sapiens. Now many Europeans know more or less about the situation of Sapiens.
Especially those Europeans who are not satisfied with their current lives have the dangerous idea of working for Homo sapiens companies.
