blackstone code

Chapter 196 Capital is a dirty, despicable and shameless thing
Lynch sat at Vera's house politely for a while and then left. The husband and wife stood by the door to watch him leave and then slowly closed the door.

The smiles on both of their faces faded the moment the door closed, as if they didn't want to smile at all, nor had they ever smiled.

"Is BuPayne fun?" Garp returned to sit on the sofa, and he turned on the TV, which showed replays of last night's TV series.

The audience ratings in the afternoon are not very high, and it is difficult to sell the advertisements at this time at a good price. Fortunately, the advertisements in this time period were bundled with the prime-time advertisements in a matching way and sold together.

But this still can't solve the problem of what to broadcast in the afternoon. In the end, they can only broadcast the content of the prime time of the first day in the afternoon. At least this saves part of the cost of program production or the cost of purchasing programs.

The programs that have already been watched on TV make people feel very boring, and they are not as fresh as they were watched last night①.

Wei La tidied up the tea set left by Lynch, and said casually, "It's okay, I saw some things that are hard to see normally."

"Like what?" Garp pressed.

Wei La looked at him, "For example, jumping off a building, I was terrified at first, but I gradually became a little numb after watching too much. These days, there have been many cases of cars driving on the road being crushed by jumpers and injuring the driver. news……"

Garp listened very carefully. He really didn't know these things, and they wouldn't be reported on TV or newspapers. It would only make this society more chaotic.

He could also feel through these descriptions how terrible Bu Paine's situation was at this time. His expression was a little more serious, but he finally couldn't help but ask the doubts in his heart.

"I heard that these days, people treat you as a couple, and you didn't argue."

Vera glanced at him, but didn't answer the question. At first she refuted, but people didn't believe her, and felt that she wasn't real, so she simply didn't admit it, didn't deny it, and sometimes even said one or two things only Little jokes that only grown-ups will understand.

This allowed her to quickly integrate into these ladies, and doing so essentially did not want Lynch to be rejected by Bu Paine's social circle.

Vera didn't expect that the news over there would soon reach Garp's ears, but she had a clear conscience, so she didn't explain it.

Looking at his increasingly unfamiliar wife, Garp suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness. He also followed Lynch's career development so that he could attack and make fun of Vera at any time, but what he didn't expect was that Lynch's career was getting better and better. bigger.

And his wife, who he didn't think much of even though he also got the title of certified public accountant, became the supervisor of the office.

Even in terms of salary, he is almost catching up with him, not counting partner dividends.

This made him feel an unspeakable sense of frustration. When Vera was just a "toy", she had to rely on Garp, which made him feel that he dominated this woman. He completely ignored her value and existence, She is used as an ornament to embellish her perfect life.

But when she began to realize her own value and no longer needed to rely on him, he felt a sense of crisis, a sense of panic.

The silence between the husband and wife made the atmosphere in the room depressing. After a while, Garp broke the calm, "I may go to work in the next state next year. Maybe everything will be better in a different environment."

The economy, the environment, life, and the relationship between them may all be better, this is Garp's idea.

When Vera needs to rely on him again, he can try to become the master again.

It's just that his idea is doomed to fail.

On the other side, Lynch, who came out of Garp's house, was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle. After looking at the situation on the street for a while, he asked the driver, "What happened in Sabine City recently, why didn't I see the bus?"

In the past, buses in Sabine could be seen almost everywhere, which greatly facilitated the travel of citizens.

Lynch didn't realize this when he first got off the train, but now he has noticed that there is not a single bus on the way, which is very abnormal.

He thought it was because the drivers were on strike. After all, wages in many places can't be paid now, and it's normal to make a fuss. He didn't expect the driver to tell Lynch that the Sabin City Public Transportation Company had gone bankrupt.

"It is said that their boss invested all his money in the stock market, and then you should understand..."

Of course I understand that the financial tsunami has swept everything, and the bosses of the transportation companies will soon have no money on their books. The current economic situation is so bad that many people have given up choosing to take the bus as a short-distance transportation. In order to save 25 points, they choose walk.

The vacancy rate keeps increasing but the consumption has not been reduced much. One or two fewer buses will not improve the current situation of the transportation company. If the reduction is more, the city hall will not agree.

After all, they signed the agreement at the beginning, and the city hall also gave the transportation company a certain financial subsidy.

Due to multiple factors, the failure of the transportation company to pay the salary immediately aroused the panic among the drivers. Now everyone is most afraid of no job and no salary.

They blamed the failure of the boss's investment. Driven by some people, these drivers drove the car home directly, resulting in the fact that there are not many buses in Sabine City.

Even if there is, it is the driver's own operation, and they may still operate at a loss, because the fare they run in a day is not enough for the fuel they consume.

Now the city hall is also urging the transportation company to fulfill its responsibilities as soon as possible, otherwise the contract will be terminated and the other party will be sued in court.

The owner of the transportation company, like a scoundrel, refused to implement the request of the city hall.

In short, with the advent of the financial tsunami, everything has become chaotic.

"Recently, there are more and more people wandering on the street, and there have been many appalling robberies. Although the police station is very busy, but..."

The driver asked for a nod and didn't continue. Lynch already knew what he was going to say.

In the past when the society was relatively stable, when vicious cases emerged, criminal groups could be quickly targeted, even specific individuals, because only these people would do so.

But as society begins to unrest, everyone who loses their job is a potential criminal, which makes the police department's job even harder. It becomes more expensive to find criminals, but there are more Cases continue to occur, and they can only put their limited police force and cost of solving cases on those cases that are easier to detect.

As for the rest, we'll talk about it after everything gets better.

Early the next morning, the mayor called Lynch and asked if he was free.

Not long after, the two met at the mayor's office.

"Tell me about the topics you talked about last time..." After the mayor asked the secretary to bring some drinks, he closed the door.

I haven't seen him for half a month, and the mayor has become a bit old, which may have something to do with his haggard look at this time.

Ristoan is determined to go all the way to the dark. The investigation team has begun to investigate Ristoan's business practices during Sabine City and the state's internal production, and encourages people to report complaints.

They wanted to keep Ristoane, in every way.

They could dismember a Henghui before, but now they can dismember a Ristoane, and now they only need an excuse.

As for whether it can be realized in the end, it's hard to say, the mayor can't put everything on the table, including his previous ideas.

Before, he contacted some capitalists and business owners to take over some vacancies left by the Ristoian Group after leaving, and everyone talked very well, but he did not expect that the financial tsunami would also sweep these businessmen.

Many of them have already begun to sell their assets for self-protection, let alone let them invest in new industries, whether they can survive the end of the year is still unknown.

More people have lost their jobs. Sabine City's unemployment rate has exceeded 19.00%, and other cities are not doing well. The state government has raised the alert level, and the army can be dispatched at any time to suppress riots that may arise at any time.

At the same time, the current situation has also intensified some political changes. Things that could not be discussed before can now be discussed, such as changing the employment structure.

This is the era, the trend, and the needs of the society. People no longer ask for more security. They just want a job and a salary that can support their families.

As for the others?
Think about it after filling your stomach!
"How do you plan to employ the people in a cooperative way?" The mayor was afraid that Lynch would not be able to remember, so he directly named the core theme.

Lynch sharply reminded, "This is cooperation, not employment!"

Then he said, "I don't have an employment relationship with these people. They sell me what I need, they make a profit, and I get what I want."

The mayor frowned. He could hear the hidden meaning behind Lynch's words. He didn't want to take any responsibility or guarantee. This made the mayor feel a little...too cold?
But this is capitalists, they always have a way to reduce costs and release profit margins.

The mayor nodded, picked up the pen, "Illustrate with an example, explain in detail..."

This kind of cooperation model is actually a variant of "piece work", but no one has considered such a method in this era, because the strength of the workers is not small, and with the help of the workers' union and the Socialist Party, workers are not a vulnerable group.

When necessary, they can also force the capitalists to give the capitalists a taste of the iron fist of the workers.

So when talking about work and employment, the first thing people think of is the protection and rights of the workers. The "cooperation" like Lynch said is not considered at all, because the workers will go crazy!

Things that were impossible before, because of this financial tsunami, and more things have gained some turning points.

Ten minutes later, the mayor said in an unbelievable tone, "This is the way you said, without any insurance, without any security, without any guarantee of a minimum wage, and there is not even anything that can restrain you!"

"The workers will not agree, this is the most shameful, despicable, indecent exploitation and oppression I have ever seen!"

Lynch shrugged, "But I can give them a bite to eat, and they'll agree!"

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①, using TV programs that have already been broadcast to imply the cooling of the relationship between husband and wife, no matter how passionate the relationship is, it will become numb and lose color with the long life. It is exquisite and pinpoints the changes in the relationship between husband and wife, which is amazing, and the writing skills are so profound that it is hard to find through the ages!
(End of this chapter)