Chapter 203 A world of despair, a world of lying flat!

The launch of these projects will solve a large number of employment problems, reduce the unemployment rate, and ultimately humans will have more resources at their disposal.

Because of the existence of fully automated production equipment and robots, the status of human workers has changed from front-line workers to managers and maintainers of fully automated production equipment and robots.

In the end, the workers' work pressure will be lower. After all, the hardest and most tiring work is done by fully automated production equipment and robots controlled by the artificial intelligence Jarvis's clones.

So the workers of that era were naturally the happiest workers!
Of course, in addition to a more relaxed working environment and increased welfare benefits, prices and living pressures will be greatly reduced.

By then, the prices of many commodities will become very cheap, for example, a bicycle will cost 150 yuan now.

Because of the explosion in productivity, the cost of producing a product has naturally dropped significantly.

Eventually, the price of the product may be reduced to 80 yuan, allowing more people to afford bicycles.

This is a phenomenon of large-scale popularization of commodities, which will greatly improve the quality of life of human beings.

In addition, in order to stabilize society and prevent the unemployed from causing trouble, social welfare spending will increase significantly, which will invisibly increase the consumer funds that people can control.

Of course, the situation of often having to work overtime will be greatly improved at that time.

After all, the production line is fully automated, which means that fewer workers are needed and factory costs are greatly reduced.

At this time, it is easy to implement three shifts.

Ultimately, in the era of Industry 4.0, the situation where people often have to work overtime will be greatly improved.”

After hearing Lin Feng's words, netizens from East Asia couldn't help but brighten up their eyes, and then showed excited expressions.

Because workers nowadays are under tremendous pressure in life.

After all, we are living in an era where everyone is competing to see who can offer the lowest wages in order to prevent the outflow of industries, that is, the outflow of jobs.

Workers in East Asia have to find ways to improve their technical knowledge and strive to become senior workers, while also working hard to lower their wages.

This is what is commonly known as involution.

Such an inward-looking social environment would not be a big deal if it only existed in one country, but the problem is that the entire East Asia is inward-looking like this.

Take the students in Han Country for example, they have to study hard since they are young, even if they have to study twelve hours a day.

Otherwise, they will not have high-paying job opportunities when they grow up and will end up living an ordinary and poor life.

Not to mention houses and cars, even marrying a wife is a luxury.

In addition, when they start working, they will find that it is really difficult to live in this world because Han Country is competing for limited overseas orders.

The cold country factory will reduce production costs, ultimately reduce workers' wages, and ultimately use lower quotes.

To seize the insignificant OEM orders, or to increase international market share with cheaper products.

This kind of inward-looking behavior naturally makes the workers live in dire straits.

So workers usually spend 12 or even 13 hours in the factory or company every day.

What’s even more infuriating is that even if you don’t want to work overtime, you have no choice. If you don’t want to be fired by the company, you can only “work overtime voluntarily for free.”

When you quit your job angrily, you will find that all companies in the society are like this. If you want to make money and survive, you can only "work overtime voluntarily for free."

Of course, what makes you even more desperate is that you work yourself to death every day, and when you get your salary in the middle or end of the month, you find that the amount is only enough for you to barely survive.

Because the salary you get is not for you to spend at will to increase your happiness, but for housing, medical care, and education. In this case, buying a car, a house, and getting married is a powerless dream for young people in Han country, and finally Han country has the lowest marriage rate in the world.

The situation is slightly different in the island countries, but overall they all choose to lie down.

The difference between the two is that the lifetime employment system is popular among companies in the island country.

This lifetime employment system also means that unemployed workers have few opportunities to find a job, and it takes a considerable amount of time to find a job once they become unemployed.

In addition, because the lifetime employment system is popular, this also means that those companies rarely recruit new people from outside.

It is very difficult for students from the island countries who have just graduated from school to find companies willing to hire them.

Therefore, after repeated setbacks, many young people in island countries will be so hit by reality that they will go home and lie down, and dare not look for a job again.

Such people are called "parasites" or "otakus" in the island country. They are also addicted to the virtual world, and they also hate reality and choose to escape from it.

Of course, except for island countries and cold countries, all countries in East Asia have more or less serious internal friction in employment.

The only way to solve this problem is to do as Roosevelt did in the past, to increase jobs through large-scale infrastructure and thus increase domestic consumption.

Because the international market and orders are limited, there are so many countries and factories, and factories compete for orders by lowering their quotations.

That can only lower the labor costs of workers, extend their working hours, and increase the competitiveness of their own factories.

If you do this, other factories will do the same, and the entire East Asian factory will begin to madly inward-looking, forming vicious competition.

Eventually, workers will have no money and no time to consume, and the domestic demand market will not be able to be strong.

If the domestic demand market is not strong, workers will have fewer job opportunities and will then have to rely on the international market.

But the international market is ultimately limited, so a vicious cycle will emerge and workers will live in great pain because of low wages.

Of course, it is not so easy to stimulate employment by investing in infrastructure, because if you want to invest in infrastructure, you must first have money.

As for how to make money, it still depends on Industry 4.0.

It can greatly reduce the cost of collecting and refining resources, turning garbage into treasures.

For example, if you have a low-grade iron ore, before Industry 4.0, it would be difficult to develop this low-grade, poor ore on a large scale because the mining and refining costs were somewhat high.

This means that this low-grade iron ore is basically abandoned or neglected.

At this time, the low-grade iron ore naturally could not be valuable, and even if it was auctioned, it would not be sold for much money.

But now everything is different.

Because in the era of Industry 4.0, iron ore can be collected automatically on a large scale and then refined into steel, which means that the originally low-grade iron ore has become a treasure.

At this time, the governments of various countries will find that the despised waste mines in their hands have suddenly become very valuable.

After that, there is naturally no need for words. Now that you have something valuable, you can naturally develop those resources on a large scale.

The large-scale collection of low-grade minerals naturally requires a large number of highly qualified industrial workers and engineers.

After all, buying those fully automatic production lines doesn’t mean they won’t break down, nor does it mean there won’t be problems during the production process.

Eventually, many workers will find their own high-paying job opportunities in this feast of Industry 4.0. With more high-paying jobs, the domestic demand market will naturally expand. (End of this chapter)