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Chapter 239 What does this world rely on to 'distribute' wealth? (Seeking collection, subscription, monthly ticket)

Lina woke up from the big soft bed in a daze. She pushed off the quilt on her body, got up with difficulty, sat on the bed, then she tidied her clothes and walked to the door.

A maid who had been waiting at the door for a long time took her to the bathroom to tidy her appearance, and handed her a book by the way.

"Mr. Wei An said to give you this book."

Lina splashed a handful of water on her face to clear her mind, and then took the book from the maid.

After the maid delivered the book, she turned and left, while Lina stared at the book in her hand.

The book itself is a hardcover book with a thick cover. Judging by the age of the book, it seems that it has been read many times.

Lina herself does not have the habit of reading. She likes to look up the information she wants on the Internet, and at most uses electronic paper books to protect her eyes.

But she also knows that there is a lot of knowledge in this world, which is only recorded in books.

Her gaze rests on the title on the cover of the book,

"What does the world depend on to 'distribute' wealth?" "

The author of the book is Joseph Searle, and it was published ten years ago.

She opened the book and read it quietly.

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The book is not thick, and the content is not complicated. The whole book uses various easy-to-understand examples to describe the same problem.

That is, what does the world rely on to distribute wealth?
The author first puts forward a point of view, that is, many people think that hard work will be rewarded, more work will pay more, and the world distributes wealth according to the amount of things done.

But then, the author raised a new question, since work will be rewarded, the longer you work, the more you will be rewarded, so why do workers who work twelve hours a day in factories often live in poverty? Woolen cloth?

Then the author begins to explain his point of view step by step.

On a small scale, in a workshop, a factory, or an enterprise, people distribute wealth according to the amount of work they do. People who work more hours, do more things, work harder, and produce more results get higher rewards than others. salary.

But on a large scale, involving the entire Federation, all classes, and all groups of people, the priority distribution rules for the entire world are distributed according to 'wealth'.

That is, people with more wealth are allocated more wealth, and people with less wealth are plundered more by people with more wealth.

People with more wealth don't have to do anything, and they can get the wealth that people with less wealth "tribute" out of thin air.

As a result, the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.

The author sums up the wealth being taken from the poor in one word, 'interest'.

Before presenting his own theory, the author first described his research results obtained from the ancient materials before the cataclysm.

In this world, when there were no different kinds of beasts and the overall environment was not yet developed, people depended on the land for their living. At that time, the most important resource for human beings was the land.

As society develops and land is merged, there will be some people who own a lot of land and some people who lose their land for some reason.

Those who do not have land borrow the land of those who have land to cultivate, and distribute part of the harvested grain to the owner of the land as the cost of borrowing the land. This is the 'land rent' (tenant lease).

The author gives a new definition of "land rent" here, that is, "land interest" - the "interest" that a person who owns the land can collect without any labor just because he owns the land and rents out the land '.

Here, the author assumes the most extreme situation, that is, there are only two people in the whole process, the landlord who owns the land, and the tenant who rents the land.

The tenant has completed all the labor and harvested the grain, but the landlord has done nothing but has to take part of the grain belonging to the tenant.

Here, labor is not the only basis for distribution, there is another basis, that is land.

The land here actually represents 'resources'.

People who have more resources will naturally rely on the way of renting out resources to 'take away' part of the fruits of labor from those who have no resources.

In the beginning, this kind of "land interest" was controlled, and the landlord would not ask the tenants to pay high "interest" without restraint.

Because if the rent of this landlord increases, the tenants can go to other landlords with cheap rent to borrow land, and the whole market will form a dynamic balance.

Of course, landlords are a community of interests, and they will gradually form alliances spontaneously.

As time goes by, more and more land begins to belong to the same landlord, or faction of the same landlord, in which case the tenants lose more and more options, 'land interest', which is the rent The pricing power is completely controlled by the landlord.

And these landlords will continue to increase rents, 'take' more fruits of labor from tenants, accumulate more resources for themselves, and buy more land.

Until the tenants' remaining labor results are not enough to support themselves, they are forced to a dead end, or due to some natural disasters, the tenants enter a dead end ahead of time, which eventually leads to the collapse and re-establishment of the entire system.

The author of this book also emphasizes here that he found this knowledge from broken materials and is not complete. In fact, there are various influencing factors.

The author then compares this knowledge before the Cataclysm with the current situation of the Federation.

He believes that the current federation is no different from the ancient stage of the world before the cataclysm, but the key resource that determines the distribution of labor results has changed from 'land' to a broader 'wealth'.

The person who owns the house can obtain a sum of "house interest" from the tenant without any labor.

Financial companies, without any or very little labor, can obtain a sum of "interest on funds" that far exceeds the value of their labor from those who have lent them money.

The labor paid by the factory owner is actually far less than the labor paid by the factory employees, but because he owns the factory and all kinds of production machinery in the factory, he can use all the fruits of labor produced by all the workers in the whole factory. Take away the 'part' and that's 'factory interest'.

Therefore, the richer a person is, the more real estate, factories, investments, and loans he owns, he can rely on various "interests" to "take away" the fruits of labor of more people, and his wealth will increase. .

However, poor laborers, because their labor surplus is "taken away", spend most of their remaining labor results on survival needs, and cannot form an effective wealth accumulation. It is even more difficult to charge other people's "interest". of poverty.

In the end the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

On the basis of their ancestors, the descendants of the rich are more likely to obtain "interest" from others to become rich, while the poor will fall into the same predicament as their ancestors, whose fruits of labor will be taken away because they have no accumulation. Unable to accumulate enough wealth.

This is the fundamental rule of 'wealth' distribution in this world.

Priority is given to distribution according to wealth. People with more wealth take away the "interest" of their wealth, while the rest are distributed according to labor to a certain extent.

At the end of the book, the author also stated that there are still many mistakes and omissions in his research results. Many places involved in the book use ideal models, and there are various other intervention factors in the complete social operation. The contents of this book are not a complete representation of how the world works.

He is still collecting more data to enrich his research.

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Lina closed the book, and before she knew it, she had already walked downstairs to the living room.

She felt like her mind was blank, and she had never been exposed to relevant knowledge in her past life.

These arguments and books, she has never seen on any website or forum.

She felt a door to a new world was opening in front of her.

"finish watching?"

A voice rang in her ear.

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