Earth Era

Escape Fleet, Area E7 of Space Island No. 715. Evans stood at the intersection of several streets. After hesitating for a long time, he finally took a step forward and chose one of the streets.

That's the way home. Evans' home is located in a living area in District E7. But now Evans doesn't want to go home. Because Evans did not find a suitable job to do today, Evans could only go home with empty hands today.

Although the fleeing government will provide free survival supplies to the unemployed, it is only the most basic. Even eating is just barely enough, not to mention the quality and taste of the food. The Evans family has three children, the youngest of which, Roddy, is just one and a half years old, which is when he needs a lot of nutrition. So Evans had to work hard every day, hoping to find some work to do and earn some money to support his family.

"It's getting harder and harder to find a job now..." Evans sighed deeply, feeling that his legs were as heavy as lead. Thinking of the three children at home who were waiting to be fed, and his wife who was getting thinner and thinner, Evans felt increasingly uncomfortable.

Interstellar escape is different from being in a fixed home. In the solar system, or in other galaxies of human civilization, the government will always provide a large number of jobs, because the expansion of human civilization requires a huge number of manpower. Whether it is in the service industry, as an interstellar miner, or as a worker in a spaceship manufacturing plant, there are many jobs to choose from. As long as you work hard, no matter which job you choose, it is very easy to support a family. Coupled with the basic benefits provided by the government, I even have enough money to buy some things for pleasure. Occasionally, I can take my family to the central mall to enjoy shopping, or to go to a beautiful place. Have fun for a few days.

"Those days were so good..." Evans sighed deeply as he recalled the past.

But since he began to escape, all this life has been far away from Evans. Now that I have been on the run for a year, the initial excitement and novelty have long since disappeared, leaving only the increasingly heavy pressure of life.

The current government simply cannot provide enough jobs - for the simple reason that there simply isn't that much to do in the Fugitive Fleet. This is different from before. In the past, developing a planet required tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of workers. Any small spacecraft manufacturing plant required hundreds of thousands of workers. Human civilization was creating wealth crazily, and part of this wealth was in the form of The form of salary comes to every ordinary family, supporting them to live a superior and prosperous life.

But what is there to do now? Routine maintenance work on a space island? ——That only requires a few hundred thousand people. Service industry? Now that business is sluggish, where are there so many stores to recruit people? Logistics between different space islands? That only requires a very small part of the manpower. There are simply not enough jobs available, and the competition for the limited jobs is fierce. Ordinary people like Evans who have no outstanding professional skills and rely solely on diligence cannot compete with those who have received advanced education.

Now even dock porters need a master's degree or above - it takes thirty-seven years to receive a complete master's education. After thirty-seven years of education, those masters can only work as a coolie at the dock. The pay was meager too - but no one complained. Because there are so many people with master's and doctorate degrees in society who can't find any jobs. Evans alone knows that there are more than a dozen living near him.

Even they can't find a job, so what makes me better than them to find a job?

Now Evans can only make a little money by doing odd jobs on the street. Anyway, he has some strength and is physically strong. As long as someone looks for it, he can do any job, whether it is carrying things or carrying things. Cleaning, digging the ground or clearing the water, I am willing to do it myself. But even these jobs are very difficult to find now. There are more and more competitors, and the salary is getting smaller and smaller. Even if you work for a whole day and are half exhausted, the money you get in the end can only buy a few loaves of bread—— That was when things were better before. Now Evans usually waits on the street for a day and then goes home empty-handed.

"By the way, I heard that the "Feiyue" flying car repair shop will dismantle most of the automatic working robots in a few days and replace them with workers to carry out flying car repair work. Maybe I can try my luck and maybe I can find some work. ." Evans was thinking secretly as he walked.

Nowadays, labor is so cheap that it can compete with robots for jobs. The government has also introduced many subsidy policies to encourage companies and factories to recruit workers to replace robots and try their best to create jobs. But compared to the huge population base, this is just a drop in the bucket.

The government holds huge wealth, which is enough for everyone in the Fugitive Fleet to live comfortably for hundreds of years. However, due to long-term considerations, the government cannot distribute this wealth to everyone for free. In addition to providing the most basic welfare benefits and ensuring people's lives, the government needs to distribute this wealth through paid forms such as salaries. In other words, if a person wants to seek better living conditions beyond basic survival, then he must rely on his own ability to earn a salary, and then use the salary to exchange supplies with the government. If you don't have the ability and can't find a job to earn a salary, then you can only rely on basic benefits to survive.

In addition, all the government can do is to try its best to provide jobs and ensure that the competition mechanism is healthy and transparent.

Although this is cruel, it is necessary. The government must use this method to carry out macro-material control and ensure the basic stability of society.

Evans only received fifteen years of primary and secondary education. This level of education is basically equivalent to illiteracy in today's human civilization, so Evans does not understand the overall situation and things that involve the entire civilization. , Evans only knows one thing, that is, his life is getting worse and worse, he is getting weaker and weaker, his wife is getting thinner and thinner, and the development of the children who should have grown up healthily is also far behind normal. The development process of...

Reality requires Evans to find a way, but the same reality tells Evans that you have no way.

"What should we do, what should we do..." Evans was anxious. At this time, Evans saw a notice posted outside a dilapidated storefront on the right side of the street. There were a few words written crookedly on the notice: "Recruiting workers, no education required. Daily salary is one yuan."

Evans' eyes suddenly lit up. In today's era, there are fewer and fewer jobs that do not require academic qualifications. The daily salary of one yuan, although small, is better than waiting on the streets. If you can keep doing it steadily, and save for seven or eight days, you can buy some meat to improve the lives of your children...

Perhaps it was because the notice had just been posted, but no one had gathered there yet. Evans immediately walked forward without hesitation and asked a bald-headed, tattooed man in a dilapidated store who was at least half as thick as himself: "Hello, are you hiring here? Are you doing this? What kind of job do you think I can do?"

The big man didn't even raise his head and said in a rough voice: "Go over there and fill out a form."

Evans filled out the form nervously and handed it to the big man. The big man glanced at Evans, looked him up and down, and then said: "Secondary education degree? Formerly a construction worker? Very good, we need people like you. Go back and prepare, and come here in five days .”

Evans' heart was suddenly filled with ecstasy. He asked tremblingly: "I...did I pass the review? We...what work am I responsible for?"

The big man said impatiently: "Nonsense, what will you do if you don't pass the review? As for what kind of work you will do, you will know later."

Evans left here full of anxiety. For some reason, when facing the big man, Evans always had some fear in his heart, as if he was facing some dangerous creature. But the foreseeable future makes Evans somewhat uncontrollably excited. Thinking of the future job that pays one yuan a day, thinking of the things he can buy for his children and his wife... Evans got a little excited.

When I got home, I told my wife these things, and my wife's skinny eyes were filled with joy.

At the same time, in the Escape Fleet Space Island No. 1, in the A1 District Government Building, the head of state was presiding over a meeting.

The meeting had come to an end, and all the issues that needed to be discussed had been discussed, so the head of state made a concluding speech: "Then it is decided.

In five days, we will reach the edge of EZ Aquarius Alpha, where the space islands will begin to disperse, occupying different spaces around Alpha, Beta, and Gamma respectively. The collection fleet will depart from the space islands and start collecting supplies nearby. We will stay here for a month in total, and after one month we will leave for the next location.

The list of required collection materials has been issued, and each department must strictly follow the requirements of the list to carry out collection activities, and must complete the scheduled collection tasks within the specified time. This is related to our overall interstellar escape plan, so everyone must be cautious.

Okay, the meeting is over..." (To be continued ~^~)