Chapter 434: Chapter 175 Extraordinary Change_2
It’s entirely a high-leverage wartime economy.
You could also call it a ’Keynesian’ stimulation.
Take, for example, the data center.
Zhang Feng looked at the total account balance; it’s not zero, but ’negative 1,960 trillion Federation Coins’.
This account can’t be balanced in a short time.
And this is the new account after clearing the previous one.
Previously, it was at the ’quadrillion’ level, relying entirely on global organizations and official subsidies.
Especially at present.
Without even looking at the accounts of various parties, Zhang Feng knows their capital flow is extremely fast, even terrifyingly so in global circulation.
This pace, Zhang Feng feels, will continue for a long, long time.
At least until superconductors are fully deployed.
According to the planning department’s estimates, it will be around fifteen years.
Then comes the mechanical platform, which is an even bigger deal.
Right now, it’s all supported by Z1.
As it stands, to benefit the people, you have to face the risk of collapse at any moment.
But if you raise prices, you can indeed achieve capital return.
After all, there is money now.
Zhang Feng now also discovered a problem, you can’t have both the fish and the bear’s paw.
In response, Zhang Feng sent a message to the planning department to find answers.
Not even a second later, they sent back several proposals.
Seems like they were prepared.
Zhang Feng looked over.
First, taxes, this is straightforward, but let’s not discuss it.
Second, once superconductors and Z1 are further expanded and deployed, capital will slowly return, but it will take time.
Third, adjust computational power allocation, such as shutting down a few small buildings.
Currently, each superconductor building consumes 5 billion in electricity per day (at half the current electricity price).
Now there are 100 superconducting buildings, so that’s 500 billion.
Not to mention, there are also 1200 ordinary ones, each with a daily cost of 500 million.
Combined, they consume 1.1 trillion daily, with both local governments and institutions subsidizing it.
This is not included in the data center accounts, otherwise, they would have exploded long ago.
Nowadays, data centers are more about ’research fees and materials and maintenance’ related expenses.
Without researching new projects, just the lowest maintenance cost (including Spirit Stones) is a daily operational cost of 320 billion.
Then all sides try to subsidize, while the data center shares the latest technology at ’zero price’.
But no matter what, computation power buildings are always the root of ’evolution’ for all parties.
This cannot stop.
So, can this plan work?
Then, fourth, increase productivity.
For instance, ’automated production tools’ or ’intelligent robots from science fiction’, to achieve a massive reduction in labor costs.
In this plan, the technical architecture is in place, with Z1 and superconductors meeting the material needs.
But concerning the behavior of the robots, there’s a lack of a ’neurological’ breakthrough.
And as long as there is neurology, with effective neuron links between virtual and reality technology.
Theoretically, it is possible to create ’more intelligent AI, AI that can self-correct and think’.
Digital life is no longer fantasy science.
Even the ethically challenging ’uploading consciousness and immortality’ could be realized.
But if consciousness is truly uploaded, then ’am I me?’, or is it a ’digital lifeform community akin to computers’?
This is hard to clarify.
For this, Zhang Feng initially skipped it and looked at number five.
Fifth is to increase the price of high-demand products, such as Spirit Stones and energy medicine formulas.
This is indeed worth considering, as most of the money made currently is by those working for the Federation.
Therefore, a system of ’merit points’ could be implemented, so those who achieve merit points can enjoy the latest research results first, but it will undoubtedly be expensive.
Thinking this way, Zhang Feng suddenly found himself a ’Dragon Slayer has become the dragon’, turning into a new energy capital.
But having everyone work hard for the Federation and appropriately charge some fees to guarantee the necessary production funds.
This is a very normal exchange.
If you remove the money, it completely turns into ’exchanging one’s own labor for equivalent extraordinary medicine’.
This is not wrong, is it?
More effort, more gain, heaven rewards diligence, is in line with the natural order.
If it’s not equivalent, given for free, that’s where the problem lies.
Why should someone who works enjoy the same benefits as one who doesn’t?
This is the real issue.
But precisely by thinking of this problem.
Zhang Feng suddenly realized he himself was the problem, as he initially envisioned a ’utopian celestial realm’, where everything was free.
But now, under the pressure of energy and economy, it’s contrary to that.
Different life positions lead to different thoughts.
However, now with medicine and Constitution pills already common, ensuring everyone lives healthily to old age is also a form of benefiting the people.
Beyond that, his current ability falls short.
Zhang Feng concluded that he still knows too little.
But in the currently impending collapse, with limited knowledge.
Except for the robot plans, all other measures can effectively resolve the current predicament of the Federation.
After thinking it over, Zhang Feng decided to hand it over to Old Liu and the others.
As long as daily benefits for the people can be guaranteed, then the general direction is not wrong.
The rest is just to take it slowly.
Afterward, he stopped thinking too much and started looking at big data skills materials.
This busy period yielded many insights that went unchecked.
Now, more and more people are practicing Visualization, with new meridians and blood vessels increasingly emerging.
It can’t wait until the last few months to look at them, otherwise, they won’t be finished.
Especially the detailed data from the past few years, which I haven’t even looked at.
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In two years, due to the large-scale manufacturing of superconductors, local areas have undergone significant construction, implementing superconducting geomagnetic track construction.
In the second year after Zhang Feng’s return.
Federation Calendar.
Year 03, February 1st, early spring.
The first to reap the benefits was the Great Xia officials, who built the first ’superconducting maglev train’.