Chapter 456: No Excuse to Go Out
If one uses Dou Dou's most systematic way of thinking, it would probably be that mastering these two powers will inevitably stimulate further development in Huaxia's manufacturing industry. The reasoning is simple: this approach completely allows business owners to retain a sufficient profit margin.
Moreover, Dou Dou thinks this is very fair.
You see, in the past, because Westerners had more large ships and planes than others, they promoted their bonds everywhere. After everyone bought their bonds, what use did they have?
Back when technology was underdeveloped, if the bonds weren't repaid, they could at least be used to wipe your posterior. Now, with everything digital, electronic vouchers can't even be used as toilet paper.
But Huaxia is different; we don't peddle virtual things like bonds. Just import more of our industrial products. From small items like nail clippers, ballpoint pens, to large ones like airplanes, ships, and rockets...
These are all great things that can greatly enrich people's material lives, much more worthwhile than bonds.
Of course, producing these things is tough, so for those families with abundant resources, is it too much to ask for you to sell your resources to me at a cheaper price?
After all, keeping them yourself doesn't serve much purpose.
All modern production and business are inseparable from electricity, and as everyone knows, Huaxia is the world's largest electricity producer. Huaxia's high-voltage power supply system is the most advanced in the world, unparalleled.
These basic facilities cannot be built overnight, so having invested so much upfront, having a small amount of pricing power is utterly reasonable.
Thus, if everyone opens up their markets and follows the path of liberal competition, without mindlessly imposing taxes, it would be beneficial for everyone!
As for the local manufacturing industry, what's the deal? It's simple: keep the low-end for oneself, and transfer the high-end to Huaxia. Plus, engaging in finance domestically can also be profitable...
You can earn a profit in Huaxia and earn again in your own country; a win-win.
Exactly, after thorough analysis, Qiao Ze and Dou Dou believe that maintaining the status quo is rather good.
After all, these two intelligent entities are extremely rational and like to speak with data.
If one truly views the world with a completely rational attitude, some extremely counterintuitive phenomena will be discovered.
Such as the purchasing power of the yuan.
Everyone knows that with economic development, benign inflation is fundamentally unavoidable.
Some even ceremoniously calculate that in 2025, ten thousand yuan will be roughly equivalent to 200 yuan thirty years ago.
Is there reason in that? Certainly there is. After all, in such comparisons, data must be put forward. For example, back then, a full meal only required a few cents.
But what if the comparison is made in a different dimension?
For instance, thirty years ago, buying a computer which today would be considered complete garbage would require over ten thousand yuan. Thirty years on, one or two thousand yuan could buy a computer today that could easily outperform those costing tens of thousands back then.
It's not just computers.
In fact, everything people can't live without in their daily lives today is like this. Televisions, refrigerators, air conditioners, cars...
Put it thirty years ago, if a person only had a couple hundred yuan in savings, they wouldn't even dare to dream of these things. But in 2025, with ten thousand yuan in your bank account, you can buy almost everything mentioned above.
Even cars, there are plenty of such items in the second-hand market around ten thousand yuan. These are things that people couldn't even dare to think about thirty years ago.
Therefore, in any matter, as long as more dimensions are considered, one can always arrive at conclusions that are counterintuitive and bewildering.
However, thinking in a different direction might reveal the reasons. For instance, Huaxia people who have lived from thirty years ago to now would likely not want to go back to life thirty years ago.
But if it were in the West, an ordinary person would most likely wish to return to thirty years ago. Because back then, one person working could genuinely support a family of four with ease.
This already explains many things.
If Earth is viewed as one whole, then the resources or wealth generated have a certain value. If the quality of life improves in one place, it is probable that the quality of life in other places will decrease.
Originally, this need not be so apparent. But adding the acceleration of capital accumulation over thirty years, causing the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, naturally accelerates the decline in living standards for certain levels.
Coincidentally, when compared to manufacturing, the finance industry will undoubtedly accelerate this polarization.
For two extremely rational intelligent beings, all these answers can be derived from cold data. Naturally, they share the same views.
Of course, these are merely casual discussions between Qiao Ze and Dou Dou in the office, not involving more specific decision-making. As for whether what they discussed is recorded and forwarded to someone with decision-making authority as a reference, Qiao Ze doesn't care.
In fact, he rarely thinks about or studies specific mathematical or physical problems recently. Instead, he has started thinking about philosophical questions or thought experiments.
Such as the fluidity of reality.
The variation in the speed of light might signify that the laws of physics themselves are fluid rather than constant. This poses a philosophical proposition: reality might not be a solidified entity, but a flowing, dynamic phenomenon or result.
Then here's the problem.
Suppose in certain regions of the universe, such as near Earth, a physical constant undergoes drastic change in a short time, thus altering the state, motion, and interaction methods of matter.