Hollywood Hunter

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The meeting place was chosen at the White House.

Simon arrived in Washington in low-key at two o'clock in the afternoon. The White House reception was a grand ceremony. The Clintons, Vice President Gore, the new Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and the new House Speaker Newt Gingrich Come together in the core of Washington.

With the identities of several people who came out, Simon also saw the Republican Party's intention to win him over.

Otherwise, because of the position of important supporters of the Simon Democrat Party, the Republican Party will definitely send representatives to participate in this meeting, but it is impossible for the two Congress leaders who are just in power to attend together.

The Clintons and Vice President Al Gore need not speak much.

Bob Dole is a competitor to Clinton in Simon's memory of the 1996 US presidential election.

The 71-year-old Republican politician has been paving the way for his presidential campaign since Clinton came to power. For this reason, he has put a lot of effort on Clinton. He promised to reach an agreement in advance. When the vote suddenly came back, it directly disturbed Clinton. The medical reform bill that the couple tried in every possible way.

The Democratic Party's fiasco in the midterm elections and the failure of medical reforms are a very critical factor.

The Clintons had used the health care reform bill as an important political capital to propagate voters on a large scale, but ended in failure. It is inevitable that the higher the standing, the more severe the fall.

Of course, the cause of the Democratic Party’s fiasco in this midterm election is much more than that.If you want to make it clear, you may need to write a big head.

As for Bob Dole, it happens to be the type Simon likes.

Standard neo-conservative politicians advocate tax cuts and deregulation of corporate giants, and they are smooth enough to be affected without selfishness.

Unlike Bob Doyle’s veterans, the new House Speaker Newt Gingrich is very aggressive.

This 51-year-old Republican MP who is also a veteran politician and has been a veteran politician since the 1970s has entered the Congress and has frequently used confrontation to provoke disputes between the two parties. Various promises made to voters during the election.

The people simply greeted each other and did not go to the famous oval office of the White House, but came to an ordinary reception room in the west wing of the White House.

The waiter brought the tea snacks and quietly withdrew, leaving only six Simons in the reception room.

What surprised Simon was that Hillary Clinton first raised the subject.

"Simon, before you came, we were still discussing the upcoming outsourcing platform of Igret. Newt does not believe that this platform can provide tens of millions of job opportunities every year. I have read the information on the official website in advance. , I don’t quite understand, can you explain it to everyone?"

Simon gestured freely while holding a cup of coffee, heard Hillary opening, and looked at the other four men without making any traces.

Clinton looked as usual, Gore seemed unheard, and Bob Dole smiled, only Newt Gingrich, who was named by Hillary, frowned slightly.

Hillary's strength is notorious.

Much of the failed medical reform bill was drafted by Hillary Clinton and the team. According to the information Simon obtained, the failure of the medical reform bill also caused a rift between the couple to a large extent.

right now.

It is conceivable that the four Washington gangsters obviously do not want Hillary to blend in this occasion.

Not only did the First Lady ignore the pressure of the four bigwigs and insisted on staying, she also took the lead in provoking the topic.By the way, I dug a hole for Newt Gingrich without any trace.

Sure enough strong.

Thinking about this, Simon took a sip of coffee and smiled and said frankly: "In fact, this description is a bit of a change of concept. It is definitely impossible to work at a tens of millions of levels. The outsourcing platform can provide relatively short-term part-time work. It may be completed within an hour or two. According to this calculation method, there will be more than ten million annual job opportunities in the future.

Hilary continued to ignore the men around him and asked, "Can there be 1 million jobs according to standard working hours?"

Simon shook his head directly: "No, Hillary and Igrid outsourcing platform is essentially a part-time platform, just to make up for the lack of human resources in Silicon Valley, and at the same time outsource relatively low-end work in order to save costs. Therefore, this A platform is actually more suitable for school students who need to earn living expenses and housewives who make money to subsidize their homes in their leisure time. If someone wants to live on this platform, it’s okay, but it requires certain professional skills."

Simon is not one of these Washington gangsters who needs to pay attention to domestic employment at all times, and he will never swollen his face in front of these people to become fat, so to be honest.

How easy is it to have 1 million jobs?

At the peak of memory, Wal-Mart has only 2 million employees worldwide.

However, although it is impossible to provide 1 million jobs, it is not a problem for the number of registered members of the Igrid outsourcing platform to exceed the million level in the next few years. However, as Simon and Hillary said, these are only part-time jobs.The number of registered members reaches one million, and under normal circumstances, it is good to have one-tenth of active users.

This is almost equivalent to a very impressive 100,000 jobs.

Glancing at Hillary's slightly disappointed expression, Newt Gingrich said to Simon slightly sharply: "It seems this is really just a gimmick."

Simon smiled and shrugged slightly, "If you must think so, Newt."

Bob Dole noticed some of Newt Gingrich’s targeting and opened the rounds: "Simon, I still don’t understand this... outsourcing platforms, but since anyone in the Federation can find a job on the platform , Is definitely a good thing, can you tell me specifically?"

Simon said: "Amazon, Bob should you know?"

Bob Dole nodded.

Simon Road: "Amazon is currently expanding its product range. In addition to books, video tapes and movie peripherals, we will also add clothing, cosmetics and other types. All these products require a special introduction page. At this stage of technology, it is not yet possible to automatically generate numbers. Millions of product catalogues, so manual filling is needed. In addition, there are picture classification, web page marking, etc., the most basic outsourcing tasks, anyone with a networked computer and English can take jobs Order."

Bob Dole waited for Simon to finish and laughed: "Sounds great, it really suits everyone."

Vice President Al Gore asked: "Simon, what is the approximate hourly rate?"

Simon turned to Gore and said: "It depends on the proficiency of the operator and the level of outsourced tasks. I just said the most basic filling, marking or classification, and the hourly wage is definitely not high. If the part-time worker is willing to take the time to learn some programming For professional skills like this, the income is definitely better than being a waiter in a restaurant."

Simon did not give an accurate number, and everyone can probably guess that the average minimum wage standard must not be met.

Bill Clinton, who has just been silent, finally interjected at this time: "Simon, these job opportunities on the outsourcing platform should be taken away by overseas part-time workers?"

Simon did not expect that Mr. President would directly hit the point.

The Igrid team has evaluated in advance. The most basic outsourcing task is about 1 to 3 US dollars an hour. This is shabby for American part-time workers. However, if it is an overseas part-time worker in an economically underdeveloped area, the exchange rate is converted. Down, it may be higher than the regular income.

For example, China.

At this stage, if someone in China can connect to the Internet and register as a member of the Igreat outsourcing platform, even if they are connected to the most basic tasks and calculated at the lowest hourly rate of $1, working 10 hours a day, the exchange rate conversion may be equivalent to the current At this stage, many people in China have wages of ten days and a half months.

In fact, most of the tasks of Igrid's outsourcing platform are mainly for part-time workers in underdeveloped regions overseas.

Only this point will definitely not appear in the official draft.

Simon will not be as honest about this issue as he just said, "There must be some, because the Internet is global. However, due to factors such as language barriers and pay settlement, outsourcing platforms are mainly for part-time workers in the federal territory. "

There are smart people in the reception room.

Simon's answer was obviously not completely untrue, but few people did not pursue it.

The topic paused a little, but the other five people in the reception room were not eager to provoke a certain topic. Finally, the young man who had created a series of business miracles in front of him had more to communicate with each other.

Al Gore quickly continued: "Simon, many people think that investment in the field of new technology has been overheated. What do you think of this?"

"Overheating is inevitable, just like when the federal construction of the national highway network at that time, there must have been people who evaluated this as overinvestment. The final facts proved that it was the hugely expensive federal highway network that contributed to the continuation of the post-war economy in the United States. rapid development."

The highway network launched in the United States in the 1950s was proposed by Al Gore’s father, Old Gore, and the Gore family also accumulated strong political capital because of this plan.

Hearing Simon's implied mention of his father's achievements in the past, Al Gore couldn't help but smile, and he immediately became more interested in the young man.

Hillary Clinton did not give Simon the opportunity to easily bypass the topic, asking: "Simon, do you think there is a serious bubble in the new technology market now?"

The information superhighway plan is also an important achievement promoted by the White House team after taking office.

Since Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940s, no president of the Democratic Party has been re-elected for half a century. This matter has been clouded over the White House like a cloud since Clinton took office.

Now, after losing this mid-term election, Clinton's chances of reelection have fallen sharply.

If the bubbles in the new technology industry cannot sustain the general election two years later, it will be a more fatal blow for the Clintons.

Simon actually did not want to discuss this issue.

Facing a group of old foxes, he didn't want to behave too forward-looking.

Moreover, Simon is actually unable to see the future for a new technology industry that has been completely unrecognized by his own big butterfly.

It is completely a new era.

Taking all factors into consideration, the development of the new technology industry in the United States at this stage is roughly equivalent to the level in 1997, that is, it was about three years ahead of schedule.

However, after several years of large-scale publicity and encouragement by the Westeros system, the number of PCs and Internet users in the federal territory is significantly higher than the 1997 level in memory. The development of hardware and software technology is not as good as memory. Hundreds of flowers bloomed like that in 1997, which is considered backward.

In any case, the new technology wave can continue for three years if it advances according to the timeline in memory.

Unsurprisingly, the 1996 election was at the peak of the Internet bubble. Taking advantage of this shareholder style, Clinton would be very easy to re-elect.

Of course, things are not absolute.

Simon looked at Dore and the two who also focused on this issue. They certainly hope that the new technology bubble will burst as soon as possible. This will greatly benefit Dore's seizure of the presidential throne. As for the US economy that has been hit hard in the process, Qualified politicians probably don't care about that much.

Therefore, it is difficult to say whether the Republican Party will stubbornly puncture the bubble in advance.

Thinking about it for a moment, Simon said in the light or dark expectation of several people around him: "Bubble is definitely there, and new industries cannot avoid this, and it will inevitably burst one day in the future. However, in my opinion, the phase Compared with the cyclical recession of the federal economy in the past, the bursting of the new technology bubble will only trigger a short callback. After the water is squeezed out, the industry will continue to develop at a high speed, because the transition from the electrical age to the information age is a major trend."

In fact, a lot of things, the few people who are not lacking in experience on the scene know it well.

But no one will despise the judgment of the young man in front of him.

Simon did not give an accurate time limit as expected by Clinton et al. No one can accurately predict such things as the economic cycle, otherwise there will be a lot of speculators with heads and faces every time because of the wrong direction.

After Simon finished speaking, the Clintons looked at each other with mixed feelings.

The couple also realized that when the new technology bubble bursts, it is definitely not only the industry itself, but also closely related to the White House's ruling in the next two years, and even to the political game of senior Washington officials.

Newt Gingrich finally asked another question: "Simon, how can you be sure that the electrical age is a megatrend toward the information age?"

Simon looked at the Republican gangster with a young and harmless smile on his face: "Because many core industries in the information age have been formed, personal computers, broadband networks, online websites, mobile communications, etc., now these All of them are already in the scale of hundreds of billions of industries, and will further reach the trillion-dollar level in the future. At the same time, related industries will change people’s lives in all aspects. I think that when all of these develop, humanity will also enter It’s a new era, isn’t it?"

Newt Gingrich was questioning the degree of bubbles in the new technology industry.

If it were all a bunch of bubbles, there would be no future at all, and the information superhighway plan that Bill Clinton had promoted since he took office became a joke.

Now, with a little thought, Gingrich realized that Westeros was not bluffing at all.

The foundation that underpins an era is definitely a series of emerging industries with a large enough volume, just like the power and petroleum industries and the derived automobile, steel, chemical and other fields since the beginning of the electrical era in the nineteenth century.Not to mention others at the moment, just the three giants of Cisco-AOL-Igreat controlled by Westeros have formed a huge emerging industry with a volume of hundreds of billions of dollars.

The arrival of a new era is indeed beyond doubt.

Al Gore, who was sitting on the other side, apparently thought of something with Newt Gingrich, and promptly raised a slightly sensitive question: "Simon, you don’t think that the entire information age emerging industry chain is caught in the Has it hindered the development of the federal new technology industry? It is important to know that there can be progress only if there is competition, and to further stimulate the development of the industry."

Al Gore clearly refers to the antitrust investigation being conducted by the Federal Ministry of Justice against the'Cisco-AOL-Igerit' Big Three. These words clearly hope that Simon will take the initiative to make concessions.

Before coming to Washington, hearing that the White House was using the topic of the new technology industry, Simon knew that this meeting could not avoid the Ministry of Justice’s antitrust investigation.

Simon did not hesitate this time, shook his head decisively, and looked at the other people in the reception room, saying: "With the establishment of WTO, EU and other organizations, and the Internet optical fiber began to connect the whole world, globalization has become an inevitable trend. One thing, I think everyone has no objections, right?"

The five people in the reception room did not know why Simon suddenly mentioned globalization, and all nodded slightly, waiting for the following.

Simon continued: "Unlike physical industries that are easily subdivided apart, new technology companies relying on Internet platforms around the world will be very easy to expand globally. In the case of Eaglet, we have already The portal business has been launched in many overseas countries such as Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and other countries outside the United States. However, the layout of these overseas countries is still very junior, and then we need to continue to deepen these overseas markets. To reach a point where they can gain a firm foothold. To do this, our new technology companies must be as strong as our country itself."

Speaking of words here, all five people in the reception room are already clear.

Simon did not stop because of this, and then said: "A few of you are the key that can affect the future of the Federation, and I don't need to avoid it. The core industry of the electrical age, we have actually fallen behind countries such as Japan and Germany. Now, we are about to enter In a new era, if the Federation wants to maintain its economic strength in this era, it must abandon the strict anti-monopoly strategy that restricted the development of large enterprises in the past, because we need super-large new technology companies to attack the world, and only have enough strength. Powerful, we can completely lose their initiative in the field of new technology industry in those countries in Europe and Asia before they have responded. On the contrary, if you continue to focus on the so-called promotion of fairness and promotion of competition in accordance with traditional thinking We are disintegrating the industrial giants that have formed a huge advantage, and the result is likely to repeat the same mistakes as our failures in the automotive and semiconductor fields."