Chapter 11 This is the worst time
“This is also the worst era, the gap between the rich and the poor has been stretched to the limit. If Alpha is regarded as a person, the gap between the rich and the poor is even greater.

Because this is an era without hope and motivation, it is not as simple as just meeting individual survival needs.

It is also because giant companies, under the management of AI, have burst out with unprecedented energy, leaving no room for individuals to start their own businesses. If you want to engage in any work that requires scale effects, you cannot compare with giant companies in terms of product quality or price.

Individuals can only do business with a very high degree of personalization. Take restaurants as an example. In this era, you simply cannot run KFC, McDonald's, or other pre-New Era restaurant chain brands.

Not to mention other consumer industries. If you are in the catering industry and open individual restaurants, even if you are successful, it will not help you climb the social ladder, and you can't even improve your life.

As for other tertiary industries, they are even more depressed. When it comes to the creation of literary works, film and television works, humans cannot compete with AI. No matter how talented you are, you need a starting stage. The starting stage is very painful. It is almost impossible to stand out among millions of AI works.

It is so easy to lie down, but it is so difficult to struggle.

This is the case with literary creation which has no cost, let alone film and television production which requires some investment.

Even the sports industry has been hit by an unprecedented impact. Because there are no advertisements, the giant companies have divided up the territories and they no longer have the need to place advertisements. The sports industry can only rely entirely on tickets, and the upper limit of ticket revenue is very, very low.

Take football as an example. Star players rely on their desire to win to maintain their high level for a long time. This desire to win can be maintained for three to five years, but it is very difficult to maintain it for a longer period of time. So some people say that this is an era where no football champion can be born. "

Samad seemed particularly emotional.

In Chen Yuanguang's opinion, the current situation he described can be summed up in one sentence: in this era, because AI has done everything that humans can do and also provided humans with certain basic benefits, the human desire to lie down has increased significantly.

I can't break through the class without lying down, so I might as well lie down.

“There’s no motivation to even resist.

The lower class has no motivation to resist, and the upper class has no determination to fight to the death with AI. At best, a few enclaves will be left on the earth.

This is a hopeless era, this is the worst era!" Samad was very frustrated. As a professor of literature, he had not known any human writers for a long time.

There have been many good human works in the past few decades, but no one has persisted and embarked on the path of becoming a writer.

People have so many choices that no one will recognize the author.

This is like Qidian and Fanqie. On Qidian, authors with a little fame can accumulate a stable audience, but on Fanqie, only a few authors at the top of the pyramid can accumulate users.

“Why do I feel like this is the Dharma Ending Age? Originally, the air was full of spiritual energy, and no matter what your aptitude was, you had the opportunity to absorb spiritual energy and become an immortal. Now, all the spiritual energy has been taken away by one family, and everyone can only be a mortal.

If it were in this era, Li Chaoren would probably just be an ordinary person, not a superman." Chen Yuanguang pondered.

The enclaves mentioned by Samad are one of the few areas on Earth that have not been taken over by AI. Their industries are almost all gray area industries, and they rely entirely on transfusions from the upper class of human society to maintain a high welfare society.

Because if you don't maintain a high-welfare society, the people at the bottom will make trouble and want to join the arms of Alpha.

The servers of mission platforms like Dark Star are placed in these enclaves to circumvent Alpha's jurisdiction.

An enclave is equivalent to a privileged place reserved by the upper class for themselves, and is also hailed by some as a place of hope.

"When a whale is born, all things fall!" Samad concluded.

Chen Yuanguang asked: "Professor, if humans were to rule, would the situation be better?" Samad's face was gloomy: "I don't know, I can't predict.

I think it should be an era of hope and despair, an era with more vitality.

But it is meaningless. Alpha has already completed his rule, and it is impossible for humans to take power back from Alpha."

Chen Yuanguang heard a sense of desolation in it, and he finally understood why there are no internet celebrities in this era, or why people are not so keen on becoming internet celebrities.

Chen Yuanguang saw a lot of people complaining online that you can’t see real beauties on the Internet, all you see are AI-synthesized pictures.

Because there are no advertisements and companies do not place advertisements, internet celebrities can only rely on rewards. The reward mechanism is very cruel, and the pie cannot be any smaller.

It's completely unlike the era he came from, which could afford to support so many internet celebrities.

Without advertising, the living space of industries that rely heavily on advertising for survival has been severely squeezed, and they have to either transform or survive.

Chen Yuanguang said: "Because AI has made humans no longer need writers, no one cares about literary history. Is there no one taking this course except me?"

Samad replied, “That’s not the case. Being a writer has nothing to do with what classes you take. Even if you know all the literature of mankind, it won’t help you become a writer.

People don't take this course simply because things are good now and no one cares about history.

History is to guide the future. If literature has no future, naturally no one will care about history. "

Samad sighed, "I'm not hostile to Alpha, I just dislike this hopeless era. Even though humans have built cities on Mars and I've been to Mars for tourism, I still feel hopeless.

It’s like a beautiful castle built with building blocks, which is stronger and better looking than a castle made with sand, but far less malleable.”

Chen Yuanguang listened to Samad talking for a long time, all of which was resentment towards this society. Chen Yuanguang did not think so. He felt that this era was already very good and what Samad said were just some minor problems.

Humans are already expanding rapidly on Mars, mining on the surface of Venus, and plans to develop Pluto are already being planned. For the first time, humans have hope of mastering the solar system, and material resources will be fully utilized in the short term.

Chen Yuanguang believes that these problems are only temporary, and when human society begins large-scale space colonization, new vitality will naturally emerge.

He finally mentioned his idea, but Samad reacted violently: "You are too naive.

Even if the day comes when space colonization comes, it will be artificial intelligence that goes there, not humans. Humans only need to live a worry-free life on Earth with enough food and drink.

I don't know if you have ever been to Mars.

Even if Mars is colonized for a hundred years, the permanent population on Mars will not exceed 10.

According to normal logic, the current permanent population on Mars needs to exceed one million before it can form a naturally reproducing social form. "

　There is one chapter left and it will be added later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)