Is it painful?
Is it cruel?
But compared to the suffering endured by the lower-class citizens of Night City over the past century, it is only a fraction.
Jokes aside.
The sex trade is an industry that blatantly treats people as commodities, causing enormous damage to social morals, gradually altering people's perception of the opposite sex, and even leading them to believe that the sex trade is no big deal.
Lin Miao currently doesn't have the power to eradicate this vice, but at the very least, he wants to control it through other ans until the appropriate ti to abolish it completely.
Your dolls on the street are 100 per session, I'll charge 80. If you charge 80, I'll charge 60, using industrialization and automation to wage a price war against street dolls. After all, my dolls don't require wages. By capitalizing on operations, I'll force these people back into the regular labor market. If you want a job, I'll give you one. If you lack skills, I'll start a free training course.
In summary, no doll unregistered and unnad with the Horizon Corporation is allowed to operate.
And to make those forr dolls develop a sense of identity and trust towards the Horizon Corporation, theoretically, organizing a eting to voice grievances and hold trials would be the most effective. But unfortunately, most of those responsible have been killed, and a few have been transford into sex dolls. Even if they were here, it would be useless, and it can only be gradually revealed later.
Unem...unemploynt?
That's impossible!
Aveline shook her head. How can dolls be unemployed?
But as she and many dolls looked at the confident faces of the slackers, they felt like their worldview was about to collapse.
What kind of world is this, damn it?
There have always been capital and criminal forces driving good people to prostitution, but when have they ever pushed people to get legit?
"You all..."
Judy, who initially mistrusted the Horizon Corporation the most, was paradoxically serious when she tentatively asked,
"Is your training...available to all dolls? Even those on the streets? And what about jobs and salaries?"
"Of course, just like others in the sa position."
The Boatman nodded. What are a few thousand dolls?
The future projects and completion of the third industry on the Taiping Continent will beco a vast population absorber, creating an enormous number of jobs that will swallow up the idle population of most of Night City, further boosting the economic developnt of other areas in Night City, eventually creating at least several hundred thousand to even over a million jobs.
"You better be telling the truth."
Receiving the answer, Judy's attitude eased significantly. As soone specially following to protect Aveline, she should have been the most vigilant to the end. Yet now, she was the first one to change her stance.
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The sound of industry is the crisp clang of tal colliding during casting and rolling.
The color of industry is the radiant ionic reactions that burst forth during welding and slting.
An advanced level of industrial productivity is an unavoidable necessity for any nation aspiring to be powerful.
The materials required for industrial growth are vast, often necessitating transportation routes spanning far and wide for industrial allocation.
However, due to the dysfunction of governnt institutions and the massive loss of state control over the grassroots, the railroad transportation networks, acting as the arteries of industry, are difficult to maintain. The chaotic lower class society has given rise to nurous wandering tribes nomadically roaming across North Arica.
Groups like Adcardo, with their businesses and agriculture, are relatively better off. However, the Chaotic Blade Association, surviving through plunder, and other smaller wandering tribes frequently raid the long and under-protected transport routes, further damaging the poorly maintained industrial network.
Even using hovercraft for transportation does not guarantee safety. The vast expanse of the North Arican plains often sees Somali sky pirates, driving homade hovercars, committing robberies (as per original settings).
Although it's often said national governnts are products of irreconcilable class contradictions, the deford capital developnt in the cyber world has led to the shrinkage of governnt power, which can no longer effectively serve as a diator between the two, resulting in a lethal outco where the economic crisis has lasted over sixty years with no sign of improvent.
All enterprises engage in unsustainable exploitation, and industry is squeezed within cities, barely surviving, even achieving a 10% employnt rate, a number considered legendary when compared to places like Gambia and Haiti.
Now, as Lin Miao's business is gradually growing, he too must confront this issue.
On July 5, 2076, a piece of very unpleasant news was delivered to him by W.
[System; Just received a ssage from the Union Pacific Railroad Company, a batch of robots we shipped to Missouri was robbed en route, and all cargo on the train was looted.]
"Damn! Even robbing from now?"
Lin Miao was exasperated to the point his mouth twisted, but there was no good solution. All he could say was, welco to the cyber world; that's how it is. What are you going to do about it?
"What did the insurance company have to say?"
[System: It's not in their coverage range, considered natural wear and tear.]
Lin Miao was left speechless.
This can be considered one of the consequences companies must suffer. Due to frequent robberies, insurance companies removed this coverage from their terms, and logistics companies, on the other hand, did not want to clash with marauders like the Chaotic Blade Association since it would otherwise ruin their businesses, so they pay hefty protection fees every year.
But it's often said that devils are worse than demons, and there are more than just the Chaotic Blade Association robbing along the way. To avoid unnecessary losses, companies form ard security teams to escort their shipnts, protecting company assets.
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