Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 175 The Hidden Plan

The central bank is a leading financial center institution in the country. It is an important tool for the state to intervene and regulate the development of the national economy, and it is related to the lifeline of the country.

in the past.The currency of the wizarding world has always been issued by Gringotts, which is controlled by goblins. Gringotts also formulates all monetary policies in the wizarding world. Gringotts acts as the de facto "central bank" of the wizarding world.

When the economic development of the magic world is relatively slow, the role of the central bank may not be very obvious, but in the future, Lockhart will definitely let all aspects of the magic world develop rapidly, so the right to withdraw currency issuance and the power to set bank interest rates must be It is to be returned to the government.

However, after discussions within the Red Ghost Society, it was determined that it was absolutely impossible to directly announce the policy of taking back the various powers of Gringotts, announcing the Gringott currency such as the Golden Galleon as illegal, and issuing new currency at the same time.

This will undoubtedly cause a lot of panic among wizards in the magical world. At the same time, wizards who are accustomed to using currencies such as "Golden Galleons, Silver Sickles, and Copper Turners" may find it difficult to accept the new currency issued by the Ministry of Magic, and even goblins They may also relapse into chaos.

In this way, if the new currency of the Ministry of Magic does not become popular, it will be a waste currency without any value. Therefore, instead of doing this directly, the Red Ghost will first introduce various vouchers to replace the Gringotts currency step by step role.

The current magic world has a rich social welfare security system, and all the money involved in these security systems will also be issued in the form of vouchers for the time being.

Coupons can be exchanged for Galleons, but the official Ministry of Magic will use coupons for everything. Gradually, the credit of coupons will be higher than Galleons. At the same time, the magic world receives a lot of Galleons, so that The new monetary system can replace the Gringotts monetary system step by step.

The social welfare security system is a part that Lockhart attaches great importance to, because it involves one of the most basic issues about fairness-the redistribution of wealth.

In the past, most of the wealth and resources in the magic world were concentrated in the hands of a few families and individuals. The wealth of a few pure-blood families accounted for almost 90.00% of the wealth in the magic world.

Lockhart once asked Lupine to estimate the Gini coefficient of the magic world. After some investigation, Lupine believed that the wealth Gini coefficient of the magic world has exceeded 0.6, which has exceeded the warning line in various economic senses.

Therefore, building various social security systems and promoting the redistribution of social wealth is an extremely important part.

In this regard, there have been a lot of discussions within the Red Ghost Society. In addition to this plan of establishing a complete social welfare security system, there is also a plan proposed by Hermione and Dobby that has also entered the alternative.

Dobby and Hermione's plan is: first determine the total amount of social wealth, and then, every ten years, directly issue currency to double the amount of currency circulating in the society, and the extra currency will be evenly distributed to the wizarding world Every wizard at the same time announces that the prices of all goods are doubled.

In this way, for the rich, they already have such a large amount of currency in their hands, and the extra money is insignificant to them. However, since the amount of currency in the world has doubled, all the money has depreciated by half , then it is equivalent to reducing all the rich people's wealth by half.

For ordinary wizards, especially those without money, it is equivalent to getting a lot of money for no reason, enough to live a better life.

To be honest, Lockhart himself was almost attracted by this idea at first. If this policy can really be formulated and implemented, then the limit on the gap between rich and poor will undoubtedly be huge.

At that time, it would not be running into the Datong society, it would be like flying to the Datong society with a firebolt, but in the end this plan was rejected.

The main reason is that many people think that the implementability of this plan is too low, and there has never been such a radical fairness promotion plan in history, and they are afraid that they will not be able to grasp it and cause irreversible mistakes.

In the future, it may be possible to set up a pilot project in some areas. At present, it is really not suitable to implement it directly. It is more reasonable to establish a comprehensive social welfare security system.

Although the current social welfare security system is said to involve several aspects, most of it still focuses on the living security of underage wizards.

There is no other reason, it is because the population of the magic world is too small, the population is the greatest resource, and talents are the most precious wealth.

Even if Lockhart hadn't intervened, the Weasley family would certainly develop better than the Malfoy family in the future, for no other reason, just having more people.

In the world of "Naruto", Sasuke Uchiha, who wanted to revive the Uchiha clan, actually pointed out that he gave birth to a child, which can be said to have completely gone down a wrong path.

If you want to revive your family, how can you only have one child?Keep marrying wives and taking concubines, and working hard endlessly. This is the correct way to revive the Uchiha clan.

The same is true for the magic world. If you want to grow and grow, how can you do it without a population? Encouraging fertility so that wizards can afford to have children is the top priority.

If we say that the establishment of a comprehensive social welfare security system is because "population is the greatest resource", then the reform of the education system is because "talents are the most precious wealth".

What the magic world needs most is not people who can use known magic and configure known potions. These people are at best craftsmen, and what they need more is magicians.

Similar to the work of scientists in the Muggle world, there must be enough magicians in the wizarding world in the future.

Of course, it is impossible to rely on Hogwarts, which has always been rigidly taught. The solution is to establish a three-level school system of elementary school-Hogwarts-Azkaban.

Of course, all of this can be established on the basis of the development of productivity in the magic world.

Welfare is not a matter of just distributing money. If productivity does not develop, no matter how much welfare is given to emphasize fairness, it will be nothing but poverty for the whole people.

To really make all wizards in the magic world live a good life, it still depends on the development of productivity, the combination of science and magic, the research on the essence of magic, and the research on controllable nuclear fusion technology will always be the top priority.

The Red Ghost Society has also proposed many other plans before, such as announcing the liberation of all house elves, believing that house elves have the same rights as human wizards, such as announcing large-scale cooperation with the Muggle community.

But it's all because I think it's not appropriate to take too big a step, so I decided to do it secretly and not directly disclose it.

For example, the liberation of enslaved house elves can be proposed in the trial of pure-blood Death Eaters and the reform of Hogwarts, and the development of cooperation with Muggles can be used as an assessment standard when the Ministry of Magic recruits civil servants, and it can also be proposed as part of the education reform. , rather than bringing it up right now.

(End of this chapter)