Overturned Tower

--free.

The "freedom" that many people strive for all their lives on Happy Island and cannot get, can be obtained so easily on Sogo Island——

In Happy Island, when a child first begins to recognize words...even before they learn to recognize words, when they watch animations or early education programs on the screen, they will be inundated with advertisements purchased by major manufacturers.

Advertisements specifically designed for young children are several times more expensive than regular advertising spots. After all, being able to subtly implant brand awareness in young children may be more effective than playing ten ads for adults.

Before these children go to school, their preferences, spending power, and home addresses will be sold to major advertisers. From birth to death, they will be watched by endless eyes, completely overwhelmed by endless advertisements, and completely incapable of rejecting these voyeurs.

Maybe when she had nothing to do, she was watching an entertainment video, but because her eyes stayed on the young lady’s clothes in the video for a few seconds, a pop-up window immediately suggested the same style “Guess you want it”, and she even directly pulled it. He piled up limited-time coupons; and maybe when he was playing games, he accidentally spent too much krypton and ran out of deposits, and a loan software recommendation with "zero interest rate for the first thirty days" immediately appeared...

As long as the price is right, all human privacy can be purchased - and Russell and his colleagues in Delphinium Cyber ​​Security have their share of shady moles. Even Delphinium, the head of the Special Execution Department, had to apply for permission to access personal information, but someone would secretly trade it directly to the paying boss. You don’t even have to go to the Tianen Group’s network security department to purchase it… Just hire a psychic hacker of similar skill level and you can directly hack into the other party’s chip and directly steal the other party’s chat history, friend’s email address, and credit point balance. Waiting for information, not to mention the private photos and files placed in the "encrypted folder".

The biggest use of throwing an "encrypted folder" in personal space is to save the thieves' time to the greatest extent when their chips are stolen, so that these psychic hackers will not become angry because they cannot find what they want. Just make a mess of their things.

For example, secretly changing the notes of the other party's friends, or manipulating the other party to donate deposits to the Cyber ​​Church - the flow of credit points can be 100% traced, so it is difficult to make profits in this way. But if you just want the other party to lose money, you can make a donation in the other party's name.

As we all know, donations to the Cyber ​​Church must never be returned...otherwise it will become an effective and stable means of hiding assets.

Even memories and souls are searched regularly every month - Happy Island's unique technology is memory review, memory rewriting and memory erasure technology. The review of "happiness" also comes from this...

As long as you give up thinking and live comfortably, you will live a very happy life on Happy Island.

Because Tianen Group will definitely allow them to survive... As long as the residents of Happy Island are happy enough, they don't need to worry about unemployment, let alone being unable to support themselves. Although they work slightly longer hours, their income is actually stable enough to support themselves and their families.

Moreover, the large number of high-quality entertainment works provided by Happy Island can also effectively improve their "happiness" - endless excellent games, endless interesting variety shows and language programs are just the basics. There are more than a dozen excellent movies shown every week, more than 200 TV series and animations are covered at all times every day, more than 40 kinds of game competitions, a variety of entertainment venues, and a food culture second only to Taoyuan Island... …have truly achieved full coverage of residents’ hobbies.

If you are looking for more excitement, you can also buy dangerous drugs, kidnapped living people, or transcendental videos that are extremely exciting and even violate taboos from Xiacheng District. In Happy Island, only the "traffickers" of this business will be held accountable, while the buyers are innocent...at most they will only be warned by the company to which they belong. Because they are just pursuing "happiness".

In order to maintain one's own happiness, this is also "helpless".

As long as people are willing to give up thinking and stop resisting corporate rule, they can truly achieve "happiness." Instead, they will be unable to escape the company's surveillance and control throughout their lives.

And all of this... is almost the complete opposite on Sogo Island.

The residents of Sogo Island use their brainpower and continuous learning to improve themselves, just to get as stable a job as possible. That is something that you don’t have to worry about in Happy Island, and you can easily get it even if you don’t go to school.

They must either try to stay as stable as possible in the Sogo Group...do everything they can to get the top 60% of the test scores and stay as long as possible;

Either rely on the experience and skills learned from Sogo Group to start their own business after being eliminated, or be invited to join other companies. They may be able to be content for a while, but Sogo Group's continuously iterative technology will change the entire market sooner or later. At that time, "unemployment" will become a terrifying wave of reality, destroying the sand castles they have built in an instant.

Their lives will be destroyed in an instant, and then they will fall into the fear of "unemployment" again.

"...Is it so hard to find a job on Sogo Island?"

Delphinium couldn't help but ask.

"Yeah," Russell sighed, "it's really hard to find.

"Artificial intelligence has replaced most repetitive tasks... In Sogo Island, there are no taxis, no logistics workers, no couriers, and no truck drivers running around every day on Happy Island. There are no servants at home. There are no drivers when traveling. All these services are 'unmanned'... free of charge.

"There are no security guards in the community, and there are no security personnel in the bank. There are no people in the various service windows, only cold robots - not even robots, just a panel. More businesses are directly networked, and no You no longer need to go to a service window, but you can easily do it at home.

"Restaurants don't need to hire waiters, because their own servitors can directly become the best waiters by asking someone to swipe their phone. The price of servitors is so cheap that even college students who have not graduated can own them. People have even used their own servitors. Symbiosis has been achieved..."

Russell sneered: "Even the street lady has been replaced by a more compliant and cleaner servitor. To modify the appearance of your own servitor or modify the simulated personality, the money required is the price of a synthetic steak.

“People who don’t have a job, they don’t have a job. No one wants anything they do—because they have no value.

"Those replaceable jobs can be replaced by cheap artificial intelligence; those fields that artificial intelligence has not yet entered have been involved to an outrageous extent, and the barriers to entry are incredibly high. Those who were originally abandoned due to lack of ability How can people compare to an old man who is already good at this and has been involved in this industry for who knows how many years?

"It's like being 'job downgraded' on Happy Island because of insufficient happiness. In Sogo Island, once you become a loser, you will be eliminated.

"If their original status was high enough, they would still have more 'room for elimination'... It would be like having a few more lives.

“But basically it can be said that most people will be eliminated. They can survive only by relying on the stable monthly payment of money from Sogo Island.

"They don't have to worry about food and clothing, and they don't have to worry about starving to death. But what they lose is hope."

"...But," Delphinium frowned, "then this place should develop a more developed entertainment industry than Happy Island, right?"

"That's because entertainment here is regarded as a taboo, a shame, and a poison. Because the best talents at the top of the pyramid don't have the time and leisure to do this...so they can't improve themselves. 'Entertainment' will be seen as a 'mark of failure'."

"But since so many people are unemployed, this should be a necessity."

"Yes, so the various entertainment chips flowing from Happy Island can be fetched at very high prices here. In most cases, those traded in the black market are unknown hands and filled with viruses. Pirated chips. The rarest thing on Sogo Island is content creators...Although people need entertainment, there are no good enough people willing to work in the entertainment industry.

"——Because money is no longer important here.

“After the vast majority of services have become free and the most basic basic necessities of life, food, clothing, housing and transportation are guaranteed; and when power cannot be obtained even at the highest level on the road to power, people who have a little bit of pursuit and are not completely ruined, What is pursued has become 'fame'. In other words, it is 'social status' - that is, people's respect.

"The Three Sages did not prohibit the development of the entertainment industry, but people have a spontaneous disdain for it - or I prefer to call it, fear. A situation that is already aware of the future, but is still trying to prevent that end. The one that will arrive in the future... [the fear of destiny]."

Many people have given up on this endless pursuit and just want to live a peaceful and comfortable life.

But those idealists in the middle who have fallen behind but are still chasing the large troops farther and farther ahead with snot and tears have realized the possibilities of the future. They are willing to do anything to show their worth, but they are unwilling to let the abandoned people live in peace and comfort - because that is the warm water used to cook frogs, which will completely destroy the possibility that may be only one in ten thousand. sex.

Just listening to it, Delphinium felt a very strong sense of contradiction: a harmonious, continuous progress, fair and equal society between man and machine brings hope and light, while the wall of "talent" and extreme "efficiency", "De-wasting" has caused more people to lose their existence value.

Here, directors no longer have supreme power, everything is controlled by cold and impartial artificial intelligence.

That is an intelligent system that is far more accurate and more understanding of human nature than Happy Island's big data analysis. But it is not used to push various advertisements on people's faces, but to maintain the orderly operation of the city.

People are no longer so absurd and depraved, but become ignorant and pious.

Most people cherish the idea of ​​thinking about others and struggle painfully on the road to an ideal they can never catch up with...

Obviously no one is persecuting them or restraining them, but they are tumbling and suffering in the oil pan of hell due to the conflict between the "meaning of existence" they desire and the "moral conscience" they desire.

Is this... Sogo Island, which yearns for and respects light?

Hope and despair are closely intertwined because of people's pursuit of goodness and beauty.

“Therefore, in Sogo Island... most of the industries that ordinary people are engaged in are voluntary labor without wages.

“It does not involve interests, so there is no artificial intelligence to make it ‘free’ and reduce the ‘cost of living’. Instead, labor itself has become something that needs to be fought for...and it seems so hypocritical.

“Because they were able to work and show their own value, it was just because the Three Sages didn’t take action.

“If the Three Sages really wanted to replace this industry, they had countless ways to replace it with artificial intelligence at the highest level of optimization. They didn’t do that, it’s just that they didn’t want to do that for the time being.

"Human labor is worthless and meaningless. Only the best brains in society can barely keep up with the progress of artificial intelligence that does not allocate such high computing power. And most of them are constantly learning. Labor, compared with these machines that have gained intelligence, seems so cumbersome, wasteful and inefficient. The three sages look at human beings like loving mothers and fathers, just like parents watching their children clumsily frying a dish, it is absolutely not considered Serve delicious dishes and eat them with gusto.”

Russell sighed: "I will leave Sogo Island not just because of Alice's last words.

"It's even more because... this place is full of light, but it only lacks hope.

"Did you know that the population of Sogo Island is decreasing year by year. Because although those 'useless people' are empty and idle, they do not choose to give birth to offspring... It is not that there is much pressure to raise children, but that they have given up on 'letting go'." The child's hope of coming back.

"They recognized that their talents were limited. Adhering to the attitude of being responsible for their children, they chose to cut off their genetic inheritance.

"...I think that even among the seven empty islands, Chongguang Island can definitely be called the 'best' one.

"Everyone is for one, and I am for everyone. There is no oppression and exploitation from directors, and there is no pressure to survive and endless advertising and fraud. People live equally in the light, serve various gods in their hearts, and abide by Etiquette and respect for others.

"There are no desperadoes in the lower city of Xingfu Island to randomly take people's lives. It's not like Sun Island where human rights are divided into different levels. It's not like Tongshen Island and Taoyuan Island, which lack living space and civilians can't even get exposed to the sun. The sun. It's not like Holy Blood Island and Fountain Island, where human life will be turned into consumables and a number on the company's files.

"The Three Sages are fair and impartial... They indeed adhere to the principles of 'truth', 'goodness' and 'beauty', seek benefits for the greatest number of people, and reduce life pressure as much as possible for the greatest proportion of people. The whole The essence of the empty island is used to develop the most advanced technology... The reason why people despair is because they are rational and smart enough, and because there are seeds of light in their hearts.

"...However, there is no room for ordinary people to 'bloom' here."

"That's because they really have no value."

Faced with Russell's whisper, Mei Shen just made a gentle voice: "People who eat nothing will only reduce the overall operating efficiency of the large social system, which will eventually lead to resources being wasted and everyone's time being delayed. Those worthless repetitions The sex industry will eventually die, and we have only accelerated the process. Just like every time we change tools in the past, work efficiency will be improved, workload will be greatly reduced, and it will also be accompanied by unemployment.

"Everything is for efficiency - although ordinary people's 'desire' to express themselves cannot be achieved, everyone's life is constantly getting better, all technologies are constantly iterating, the pressure of life is constantly reducing, and the cost of living is constantly decreasing. Continuous optimization. Eventually, the entire society will become extremely efficient... and those who are eliminated will also receive enough resources.

"We believe that this kind of pain is just a kind of psychology called [hypocrisy]. Just like erroneous codes should be corrected, traits that are not conducive to survival will cause individuals to be eliminated... It's just that human technology is too advanced, and there is a gap between groups. Too gentle and united, even disability, disaster, and disease cannot eliminate individuals who should be eliminated. Therefore, when there are too many 'weaks' accumulated in a social group, and when society develops to the point where everyone has the ability to show themselves When they finally reached the platform of their abilities, their true nature as the 'eliminated ones' was finally exposed...

"To put it simply, the development of science and technology has greatly reduced human deaths, so that human beings have too many 'reserves'. Far more than what is really 'required' to maintain a group. Therefore, after society becomes efficient, A lot of resources are freed up. That’s it.”

Thanks to the leader of "Baps' Theorem" for feeding me~