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“Unfortunately, I do a stress assessment every year and so far I am in a good state of mind.” Qiu Ming shrugged.

“So they're all clones, not real humans, right?” The e-sheep looked at the calm group of candidates in front of them, like they were trying to catch the last straw and couldn't wait to ask.

“I don't think you need to get caught up in the way you produce in this world, because there's no clone and no ordinary person at all.” Qiu Ming, "you were right to say that the continued decline in fertility in human society over a period of time had given rise to fears and compelled the federal government to launch artificial reproduction programmes in conjunction with several pharmaceutical giant companies that decided to use machine modelling of the human uterus to raise babies in order to increase the size of the population. There was no physical or genetic difference between natural births and new humans incubated by machines, and the federal legislation accorded these two categories the same political and survival rights from the outset. ”

“Are you kidding me, then why is the treatment of the new Shanghai 0297 Richland clones and ordinary people completely different?” The electronic sheep asked.

“Don't you understand?” Qiu Ming sighed, "In New Shanghai 0297, the so-called clones are ordinary people, you just have to think of them as different occupations, they are artificially divided by us, in order to meet different labor needs, but there is no difference in the nature of the two professions, so let's just say, have you ever bought luxury goods? ”

“What do you mean? ”

“The price of a luxury shirt is vastly different from the price of a regular shirt, but their own materials are actually no different, except that one of them is printed on the logo of the luxury company, as are the clones and ordinary people of the new Shanghai 0297, whether locators or the encoding behind the neck, just acts as a logo to convince people living here that their values are different, so simple. ”

“Is it a lie that only clones are rewritten by memory? ”

“It started like this.” Qiu Ming nodded, "There has always been an expert concern that clones, or new humans hatched by machines, are raised by the Federation as a whole, because they have lived in overly similar environments since childhood and are raised centrally, fearing that when they grow up they will also become overly similar because of this colonial behavior.

“People have also been arguing over how to support them, and the first machine-heavings of new humans, like ordinary people, have received all kinds of education since childhood, only to live together and break away from family relationships, in addition to the overly similar problems mentioned earlier, and because of the personality deficiencies caused by native family absences, the long incubation cycle, the huge investment in education funds, the cost of taxpayers' money, which soon sparked civil protests and the financial inability of the Federation.

“It was at this time that large groups like Shengtang Morgan offered to set up a dedicated fund to support artificial reproduction schemes, so that no federal investment was needed and the population problem could be solved, and both sides were delighted. And not long later, these big groups came up with a new training package.

“Memory code?” Zhang Hengyang raised his eyebrows.

“Yes, it is against this backdrop that research and development succeeded, starting with the problem of new humans hatching machines becoming too similar because they have lived in the same environment for a long time, while the first mate lowered their investment in education, and memory coding can give new humans different personalities and memories so that they, like ordinary people, are not affected by similar growth backgrounds.

“And then those groups thought," Now that we've done this, let's go further and put their skills together so they can get better jobs when they leave their nurturing base and go to society. ”

“And the result?” The electronic sheep questioned.

“The result was, of course, a great success," Qiu Mingdao, "at least in the beginning. Artificial reproduction schemes were sponsored by these large groups of enterprises, who knew their own employment needs, and of course, what skills to write for new humans hatched by machines, especially some high-end skilled jobs, have been scarce in the talent market, and everyone is robbing each other, but still unable to meet their employment needs.

“When memory coding technology emerges, however, the problem ceases to exist. In addition to some special occupations that rely heavily on inspiration and talent, purely technologically oriented high-end talents become fully capable of mass production, and new human beings incubated by machines are themselves human beings. Of course, some very talented and inspired people are born, and their basic knowledge is stronger and faster to develop.

“Soon, many of the executives or technical backbones of the companies on the market were occupied by the new humans, and many of them were better in character, more obedient and even more willing to work overtime, so that the bosses of course knew how to choose, and when the general public reacted, they found that their little leaders or the top superiors had become new humans. ”

Cummington, “But on the other hand, the emergence of these new human beings has indeed accelerated economic and technological development and made human society more prosperous than ever before, a period of vast reserves of talent that had never existed at any historical stage, despite the protests of a very large number of ordinary people in society at that time, who felt that high-end employment opportunities were being squeezed away and that it was becoming increasingly difficult to promote them. Yet in the face of rapid economic growth, these protests and voices of opposition have become pale.

“From a federal point of view, it is impossible for them to reverse history, stop artificial reproduction schemes and return humankind from the golden age of the millennium to the inefficient and backward primitive era, where backward productivity is necessarily replaced by advanced productivity, just as the emergence of machines triggers the tide of worker unemployment, which in itself is a social consensus.

“- Humanity has gone through three industrial revolutions before, and this is the fourth. More and more voices are making this cry, but also criticizing those protesting, feeling that they are just maggots with red eye disease, reluctant to learn to sharpen their skills and become better, jealous of others, this is simply the rage of the incompetent. Coupled with the constant efforts of the Federation to promote the equal coexistence of new human beings and ordinary people, the voices of opposition were much smaller, and the entire human community began to admire memory coding technology more and more. ”