48 Hours a Day

Outside the waiting room is a huge station square.

The tunnel that the three men had seen on the hillside was leading to this place, and the electronic sheep had also seen the river trucks, but only when they approached did they see that it was not cargo at all, but a group of people coming down from those trucks.

Qiu Ming continued his previous discussion.

“Memory coding technology was initially applied to ordinary people, and some rich people or top middle-class families wanted their children to win the starting line, so they secretly developed many skills for them with memory encoders when their children were very young, even giving them the character and qualities of some of their leaders.

“And if not, those children whose memories have been re-encoded will soon stand out among their peers, far more than their peers, and when they grow up, whether they start with nothing or take over the family's business, will quickly sweep away, defeating one competitor after another, completing the mad accumulation of wealth.

“It's like opening your life's golden fingers.” Qiu Ming mourned.

“And with their success, the upstream society has stirred up a memory code fever, with more and more people deciding to have their children and children take it, if not to make them winners in their lives, at least not lose it on the starting line.

“Meanwhile, the middle- and high-end skilled talent market was finally saturated by the constant input of new humans, and the demand for this part of the talent was dwindling among companies and enterprises, so large groups such as Shengtang Morgan finally reoriented the cultivation of new humans from the technical backbone to the production of hard-won blue-collar workers without complaining. ”

Electronic sheep hear eyes open here, "Wait, what about the ordinary people? ”

“The good question, as you can imagine, is that as the major groups change the direction of the cultivation of new human beings, enterprises are also opening up large numbers of new human blue collars in the labour market, replacing them with lazy and inefficient ordinary workers, more and more people are losing their jobs and living off relief, many families are broken down, and some of the lucky ones are left without immediate dismissal, but it is clear to their minds that it is only a matter of time before they lose their jobs.

“By virtue of their primitive learning methods and their flaws in character, they cannot compete with those new humans in the workplace, and more tragically, they know that when their children grow up, they are likely to repeat their mistakes, and that this affliction is not only for them, but also for those new humans who are now mixed up in the wind, who naturally give birth to the next generation with the same problems.

“There is only one way to solve this problem.” Cummington, “that is to take the memory code and do what millionaires have long begun to do to their children. It doesn't matter who the first ordinary person to receive the memory code is anymore. In short, in order to survive, to feed the family, not to be the maggots of society, more and more ordinary people choose to go this way and accept the memory code, just like the beauty that once prevailed. ”

“If beauty can change a person's appearance defects, then memory coding can change a person's soul defects, laziness, selfishness, ego… these can be repaired, and more precisely, fine-tuned according to your profession, workers on the pipeline become more tolerable and boring, and the management of the company can become more charming…

“In the beginning, their strategy did work, and with a lot of money, ordinary people could make themselves stronger than new humans through memory coding, but soon the new humans realized the challenges they faced, and the new humans began to spend money recoding their memories, giving themselves a more perfect personality and strong ability to work.

“Things are starting to get crazier and crazier, and everyone keeps patching themselves up with memory encoders, like app updates. Competition was endless, and those group enterprises certainly perceived that, by that time, population growth had in fact already returned to normal. No, it should be said that not only had it returned to normal, but it had also far exceeded the growth rate originally planned, yet those groups had not stopped their artificial reproduction schemes in order to keep labour costs down.

“In order to accommodate the remaining explosive population, the major groups have also begun to look into space. This is the context in which the new Shanghai 0297 was invested and built. You can think of the vast majority of the residents here as employees of Shengtang Morgan who, by applying to work in this new city, will rewrite their memories according to the job requirements of the companies before work, and you do not have to feel sorry for the loss of their original memories, because the vast majority of them have long gone through dozens of memories writing, and they have long forgotten what their original memories are.

“The rewriting of pre-employment memories is actually good for them as well, helping them better integrate into their new jobs and lives, cloning people, ordinary people, they all have a common identity here, that is, production materials, the most perfect production materials.

“Of course, given that the goods produced must be sold, they will also play a consumer role, both in the division of the five layers of space and in those constantly rolling advertisements, in order to stimulate them to consume more, and society will flourish only if consumption and production continue to increase. ”

Electronic sheep hear here just feel like an entire person falling into an ice cellar, and he can even hear his teeth crashing together, "But what's the point of all this? What we got in the process, apart from being less and less like ourselves. ”

“Good question.” Qiu Ming punched a finger, "but who let the wheels of history go forward forever, maybe make another choice, back at the beginning of the artificial breeding plan, humans would choose to close Pandora's magic box and strangle it all at the source, but the world did not, if productivity started to grow, it would inevitably eliminate backwardness.

“This is not something that any individual can stop, you can't, I can't, not even the board of directors of Sheng Tang Morgan... because there are many equally powerful competitors like Sheng Tang Morgan, and as far as I know, the board of directors have even gone through hundreds of memory codes.

“I actually envy you, after the memories are rewritten, you can live in this city without any doubt, believe what you are willing to believe, but for the rest of the company, we don't even know what to believe,” Qiu Mingdao, “as if what I'm telling you right now, is the truth, or is there another version of the truth outside, I don't know, it took me a long time to stop thinking about this, I sincerely hope that you won't go through the troubles I experienced. ”