Chapter 55: The Turning Point of Civilization

As time slowly passed and everything went on as it should, there was a sudden worry that came up to haunt Oliver.

"Are people saving more and more money?" Oliver rubbed his head and muttered in a small voice.

With the increased output of the Noah, the new government was bound to bring people's living standards up. With the current conditions, it would not be appropriate to let people live frugally anymore.

The easiest way is to lower prices. The price of some basic goods began to drop, the original 10 yuan of things, now may only 5 yuan. Even the prices of some luxury goods began to come down so that people could enjoy them.

In other words, people can buy more things for the same amount of new currency.

According to Oliver's idea, the reason for the price reduction is to want to promote consumption, improve people's quality of life, and make everyone more affluent. However, it was not expected that many people continued to live the same life as before. They go to and from the office, cafeteria and dormitory every day, living a three-point life, but generally believe that they are doing well, do not need to improve the quality of life ...

Workaholics, all of them are workaholics! Many people rarely consume, do not need to enjoy, one and all work like crazy. This phenomenon is always a good thing, but reveals an odd one meaning.

In this way, their monthly expenses have become very little, every month can save a lot of money. Well, saving money is not a problem, but the new government simply does not have more high-priced goods ah! The most expensive thing is the house, a set of tens of thousands of New Zealand dollars ... nothing more expensive!

What to do? Do not launch a high-priced car? The living area is so small, there are also supporting public transport facilities, in fact, do not need much car.

Thinking about it, there are no better goods to launch ...

This also leads to a problem, if people buy a house, they will find that even if they have money, there is nothing to buy, do not buy a large pile of food in the house?

In this way, Oliver's economic system is in a dilemma, after people buy a house, there is no greater pursuit, there is no incentive to make money.

Although it is not yet at this stage, but the problem is found in advance, it should be solved in time, which is what Oliver has always done.

Suppose a person holds 10,000 SGD in his hand, according to the current price level, even if he doesn't work, he can live in a nourishing way for several years by eating, drinking and playing every day. This is not a good sign, because of inertia, people may be less motivated to work ...

Oliver's brow was furrowed as he tried to find a good solution, muttering to himself, "Either introduce more high-priced goods or ..."

Beside him, Professor Sean, who had taken a large pile of information, listened to the question and said with a smile, "Mr. Yu, actually you can't look at it that way, you still see the problem with the traditional capitalist thinking. You still think that the purpose of people making money is for material things, and if there is no material pursuit, people's incentive to make money is reduced ..."

"From a capitalist perspective, that's true. But from the point of view of the integration system, this is the first stage towards extreme wealth, which is inevitable!"

Oliver eeked and asked, "What does that mean?"

Professor Sean had been contemplating for some time and was organizing his words. He was currently mainly in charge of the Propaganda Department, and in the future, the work of the Ministry of Education would also be left to him. After all, for this piece of people's thought management, Professor Sean was the right person in the Noah.

"People's current state of mind is still very good ..." Professor Sean spoke, "people are over into the 'working for the ideal' stage. Although most of it is caused by certain incentives from the outside world, we need to find a way to fix this phenomenon as a permanent atmosphere!"

The ideological propaganda tactics now adopted by the new government are not hard-line, offensive political propaganda, but rather wishy-washy and subtle.

For example, in every issue of the news paper, the progress of the project and the progress made during the week are published, giving people a great sense of participation and accomplishment.

Noah only 50,000 people, a lot of work is done by themselves, is their own personal experience, this sense of accomplishment of the slow progress of civilization let people with a chicken blood general excitement, so many people are more willing to devote themselves to these jobs.

Secondly, the post of the competent person on the way, but also fully mobilize people's enthusiasm.

The line on the top, not on the bottom, almost to do "each can do", so that the subtle rules of the workplace into invisible. Many people study frantically after work to "charge" themselves and increase their knowledge level.

Thirdly, the great scientists and engineers with good character and learning are also leading by example and influencing all the masses with their fervent passion for work ...

Under this series of influences, the ideology of the whole civilization, in a subtle way, was shaped to be more square. People's minds began to become purified, and the pursuit of material things is not as high as before.

There is another point that Oliver did not expect, that is, his psychic ability ... kind of sun-like feeling, invariably influenced people, making them more positive, more active, more passionate and energetic. Perhaps, this point also holds a large proportion.

At this time, Professor Sean continued, "Every civilization that is heading for extreme wealth is bound to be abundant in material, and it is very normal that the money in their hands is bound to be inexhaustible. In other words, if you can spend all the money, what makes you say that it is extremely rich?"

"At this transitional stage, the productivity of the entire civilization is bound to be greater than the demand, and everyone basically can't spend all their money. That's when the monetary system gradually loses its effectiveness."

"The fusion system is characterized by a highly civilized society, with extreme material abundance, where people do what they can, and where the money is distributed according to need ... The monetary system does not necessarily have the need to exist. This is a very critical moment, if because of the abundance of materials, people lazy down, our fusion system will fail."

Oliver thought: "You mean, now we are in a critical turning point? If people get lazy because they're rich, our plan fails?"

His head started running with a feeling of cold sweat. Now the whole new human civilization is like punching a hurdle, if it doesn't go up, it will go down, if it really doesn't go up, his new coin economic system has the possibility of collapse, and the society will be in turmoil for a while.

Sean also got serious: "That's right, now is a critical period for the new human civilization to go to great affluence. People's minds are still good at the moment, and their enthusiasm for work is very high. To keep this atmosphere going and form a strong inertia, our success rate will only increase greatly!"

"All this still needs to be guided, and in fact that is what we are doing in recent times ... We have to keep increasing people's sense of honor, social responsibility, and participation. At the same time to slowly fade the importance of the new coin, and finally, to nearly abandon this monetary system."

"In fact, there is no need to worry too much, people at this stage, already have enough ideals, many people have a fanaticism, are able to work spontaneously. This is a very good phenomenon, people's laziness is being slowly eliminated." Professor Shawn said while thinking.

Oliver pondered that at this stage, people's affluence was actually natural. People can't spend all their monthly salary just by normal consumption, so the savings are getting bigger and bigger.

In fact, he does not need to consider how to promote consumption, he has to consider how to slowly fade away the new currency system, so that people no longer work for "pay". These currencies, in the end, are to be "eliminated"!

The price of living goods will have to be reduced, or even free, so that people can get what they want without the new currency.

However, even in the case of a large number of materials can be easily obtained, people can still work spontaneously, study hard, will maintain this atmosphere for a long time, the entire new human civilization will be transitioned to the state of "work for the ideal", close to the fusion system is also close!

Oliver thought about it and finally got some assurance that once this atmosphere is maintained for a long time, it becomes a kind of inertia to move forward and will not disappear for a while.

Others are working hard, people who want to be lazy will also unconsciously work hard, this is a mutual influence.

After so many things, the work atmosphere on the Noah is very frenzied, many people work overtime every day without pay, just for the satisfaction and sense of achievement in the heart, not to mention the money.

If everyone can keep this state for a long time, after habit becomes natural, they can completely eliminate their own laziness, and the existence of new coins is really unnecessary.

At that time, everything can start to be provided for free, and people do truly do what they can and take what they need ... This is really the ideal society ah, Oliver's eyes glow, this is their common ideal, and now finally has the possibility of success!