The Governor wants to seek re-election, and the simplest way is to et the people’s demands.
So what are the people’s demands now?
The answer is simple: to have a job, even if the benefits and treatnt do not reach the lowest limits of various labor-related legal provisions, as long as there is a job.
Having a job gives people a sense of security and prevents the current state of confusion.
Having a job fills people with hope for the future and energizes them with enthusiasm!
If this problem can be solved, even just showing an attitude of "we are on the way" can win people’s support. If effective results can be achieved, undoubtedly, the Governor will certainly be re-elected.
But the problem is, how to solve these issues?
Everyone knows how to solve it, just like the holess on the roadside using others’ donations every day—why not beg?
Because begging is illegal in the Federation, so the holess have to change their work thod. They will casually pick sothing people care or don’t care about to start a project, then set up a donation box, persuading so passers-by to give their project as much help as they can.
The main aspect is economic help, but in case so feminists want to warm them a bit, the holess are also very pleased.
The benefit of doing this is that the Federation can proudly say that we have no beggars.
These holess, after drinking the hard liquors bought with the money donated to them, often think while lying in boxes and heaps of newspapers that once they wake up, at dawn, they will go and look for a job.
Even if it is manual labor, they will complete it earnestly and then change themselves, striving to beco a valuable person, a vivid person.
However... this is forever just wishful thinking. The poor know that making money will change lives, just like the Governor knows that raising the employnt rate will save York State and seek re-election.
Everyone holds onto the truth, but they can never stretch their arms to touch it.
He is a politician, not a rchant. He can only with a tone like the ruling class order the city leaders below, "Hey, I said, our employnt rate must go up, understand?"
Other than emphasizing these issues and issuing orders, there’s nothing else that can be done.
Of course, this is just an essential performance. This doesn’t an everyone is like this. For instance, when the Governor had a eting with Lynch, he also talked with many others to bring change and directly promote such transformation.
He looked at Lynch seriously. The miracles Lynch created had already shaken the entire Federation. Maybe he could create another miracle this ti?
Lynch thought for a while. He didn’t expect such a profound question from the Governor right away, and he needed ti to organize his thoughts.
About seven or eight minutes later, Lynch roughly had an idea in his mind, and the smile on his face beca clearer.
"We need industrial trusts, we need monopoly giants!"
Such a shocking statent directly raised the Governor’s eyebrows.
Since the earliest batch of Federation people who ca here used their flower-decked weapons and brightly colored knives to teach the natives what love and peace were, monopolism had begun to prevail.
The profit of running a business alone far surpassed everyone doing it together. Sharing prosperity is nothing but the hypocritical reason for the weak to band together and confront strong powers.
If anyone possesses monopoly power and a foundation, he will not utter silly words like sharing wealth with others.
The Federation’s business atmosphere at that ti was chaotic. rchants were often synonymous with violence, taking the early railroad magnates as an example. They used all kinds of violent ans to destroy others’ tracks, smash, and even assassinate competitors, resulting in almost half of the entire Federation’s railways directly or indirectly belonging to him personally.
Each industry was equally chaotic. The newly born Federation Governnt was unable to confront these capitalists, so with hundreds and even thousands of ard forces, thus allowing the prevalence of monopolism.
The ergence of oligarchs placed the Federation under shadows for at least forty years, until the Federation Governnt decided to completely eliminate these monopolist capitalists who threatened social and citizen safety and property, leading the Federation to embrace the sunlight of the free market.
Since then, the Federation has pushed forward dozens of laws concerning the prevention of business monopoly group appearances, strictly monitoring all dostic capitalists.
Anyone involved in monopoly issues fears them like a plague. Even within the Senate, there’s an institution called the "Antitrust asures Committee," and the Security Committee has corresponding organizations investigating monopoly enterprises.
Antitrust has already deeply rooted in people’s hearts, but at this ti, Lynch actually proposed that "monopoly enterprises can save York State," making the Governor initially think that Lynch might have lost his mind and not know what he was saying.
But imdiately afterward, he himself thought there was a bit of interest in what Lynch said.
He didn’t show any preference or distaste for Lynch’s statent on his face; he just kept on seriously listening, slightly nodding, "Continue."
With such a sentence, Lynch knew the Governor was starting from initial resistance to exploring the possibilities within.
He comfortably crossed his legs, took out a cigarette, and with the Governor’s permission, lit it and took a puff.
The cigarette was nestled between his fingers, his hand resting on his knee as he crossed his leg, trailing smoke, and he gradually exhaled, with sudden smoke changing into formless shapes between the two of them.
Through the continuously changing smoke, Lynch looked at the person across from him, "We always fear monopolies and are unwilling to touch them. Yet, the ultimate goal of the vast majority of rchants is monopoly."
"Because monopolies can bring huge profits, we can control an industry, set standards that belong only to us, and have pricing power."
"Even if it’s just a stone, as long as we monopolize it, we can sell it at the price of gold because others cannot get it from anywhere else."
"We always say that monopoly brings destruction and instability. Our understanding of monopoly still stays in the era when monopolism was prevalent. We have only seen the downside and overlooked what can’t truly be considered bad."
The Governor repeated, "Things that can’t be considered bad?"
"Yes...," Lynch nodded, "there’s actually a good side to it."
Saying this, he shifted his tone slightly stronger, "Governor, did you know that the steel magnate monopolized 70% of the Federation’s steel business, besides bankrupting so rchants, what else did he bring?"
The Governor shook his head, "I don’t have much research in this area, but I believe you must know."
Lynch took another puff of the cigarette, flicked the ash, "Yes, he brought countless job opportunities."
"For ordinary people, whether monopoly or free and fair market, these do not have much direct impact."
"Whether above them is a monopolistic capitalist or a small entrepreneur, factory owner, they all have to work."
"If goods are sold at unreasonable prices, people would not buy them, so before the ’Antitrust Law’ ca out, the ones truly hurt were the capitalists."
"Those small and dium-sized enterprises beca the exploitation targets of monopoly giants, although ordinary workers were also within their scope of exploitation, this doesn’t an that small and dium-sized enterprises don’t exploit workers or only monopoly giants exploit workers."
"What if we remove the bad parts, and only retain the good ones?"
"Under the existing worldview, values, morals, and a sound legal frawork, what would a newly erged monopoly enterprise be like?"
Lynch stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray, "Local pillar enterprises!"
"Monopoly has always been around us, has never left, it just faced the world with a different face!"
"The situation in so cities of York State is more severe than elsewhere, and the real reason is that so pillar economic enterprises went bankrupt. The impact of their bankruptcy far exceeded the impact brought by this economic tsunami."
"To quickly restore the economic ecology of York State, we need a dominating monopoly enterprise!"
The Ristone Group, in a sense, was also considered a large enterprise with the prototype of a local monopoly enterprise, and its collapse, together with the economic tsunami, triggered a series of chain problems.
If the Ristone Group hadn’t collapsed, with the Federation defeating Gafura in the naval battle, gaining more status, the Federation products would be sold worldwide next, and the economy would imdiately improve.
The dominion of pillar economic enterprises is beyond doubt, combined with the power of a state can easily overthrow most non-pillar enterprises.
Overseas, it also has enough dominion. If the Federation Governnt gives so benefits, such as tax rebate or diplomatic cooperation to exempt goods from taxes, the Federation’s economy would start to recover rapidly in three to five years.
But the problem now is that York State does not have such an enterprise, lacking dominion, lacking cohesion, with businesses big and small like loose sand, fighting their own battles, even competing with each other.
This internal friction coupled with the competitiveness brought by international trade would only result in more and more small and micro-enterprises closing down, big enterprises struggling to survive, which is almost foreseeable.
They never thought of uniting together as one rope, after all, this involves many interest issues.
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