Reborn American Giants

Chapter 135 Inverted U Theory

After dealing with the attackers, when Victor finally left the Santa Tecla branch, it was already past two o'clock in the morning. Ato was responsible for driving back to the Fandino slum, and he closed his eyes and fell asleep in the back seat.

Porfirio had been contacted before leaving. As soon as Luisa left the police station, Motta sent people to take her to Fandino's hospital. The safest place now, without a doubt, is entirely controlled by Gref.

The Fandino slum is controlled by the family.

Although sleeping in the car was not a good choice, Victor still had a very comfortable and peaceful sleep. When he woke up in a daze, he found that the car had stopped at the gate of a hospital.

, he also has an extra white blanket on his body.

It was bright outside the car, and the sun had already risen. Atuo, whose eyes were as red as a rabbit, was sitting on the hood of the car, chewing on a coconut pancake, with a cup of steaming coffee beside him.

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Seeing Victor getting out of the car, Atuo threw away the meatloaf in his hand, jumped off the hood of the car, and stamped his feet.

"Where are Luisa and Porfirio?" Victor wiped his face, and while yawning, he vigorously moved his slightly numb cheeks and asked.

"I'll take you up to the observation room on the third floor," A'tuo glanced upstairs and said.

"No need. You go get some food and come back. You're a little hungry," Victor followed his gaze and looked upstairs, shaking his head and saying.

Atuo was speechless. If he had known better, he would not have eaten the damn meatloaf and the damn coffee.

The hospital where Luisa and the others are currently staying was invested and established by Victor to provide medical aid services to people from the Fandino slum.

In fact, the level of a country's crime rate should not only depend on the country's economic development level. If the economy is good and the crime rate is low, then the American police will not have a headache with the extremely high crime rate.

It depends on the degree of social justice and distributional fairness.

The fundamental rule here is: the greater the income distribution gap, the higher the Gini index (a commonly used indicator used internationally to measure the income gap of residents in a country or region), the higher the crime rate. On the contrary, the crime rate will be higher.

The lower it is, the higher the degree of social stability.

The famous economist Kuznets has a theory due to the "inverted U-curve" of income distribution. He believes that the long-term trend of unequal income distribution can be manifested in the early stages of economic growth in the transition from pre-industrial civilization to industrial civilization.

Stages of rapid expansion, followed by brief stabilization, and then tapering in later growth stages.

But the reality is that if a country, especially a developing country, wants to maintain economic and social vitality and innovation, it must ensure that there is an incentive gap in the income distribution process, rather than one-sided pursuit of the principle of "fairness"

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As a result, this reality has created a contradiction that is difficult to eliminate in the process of national development: the contradiction between rapid economic development and sustained social stability. The two are almost incompatible.

The higher the Gini index, the greater the income gap. The poor and low-income classes will have a strong sense of unfairness and "sense of deprivation." Serious psychological imbalance will lead to a series of behaviors such as hatred of the rich, revenge on society, and crime.

Triggered a series of social problems.

As a politician, apart from the intrigues, Victor has not forgotten to study hard and supplement his knowledge. He can now see through the subtle logic.

In the past life, the only country that had done a pretty good job of resolving this contradiction was Rabbit.

During the great social and economic development of Rabbit in the previous life, the government passed a series of policies and laws to rationally adjust income distribution. One was to vigorously develop the rural economy, and through measures such as "building a new socialist countryside" and industry feeding back agriculture, the government

Rural economic development strives to reduce the impact of the urban-rural dual structure.

The second is to standardize economic behavior through the legal system, promote the formation of average profits between industries and regions, establish a sound market economy, and narrow the income gap between regions, industries, and occupations.

The third is to establish a fair mechanism for upward circulation, by strengthening compulsory education, developing various types of secondary and higher education, vocational education and adult education, creating a labor market with equal competition, free movement, a unified and open labor market, and cutting off the intergenerational flow of poverty.

, reduce the impact of personal pre-endowment factors and narrow class gaps.

The last point is to protect the people's basic living rights and interests by improving various social security systems and protecting residents' living rights and interests in the fields of medical care, housing, minimum living security, and special assistance, so as to reduce and ultimately eliminate poverty.

Many of Victor's practices have the shadow of these policies. Through the Vandino Construction Company, he absorbed a large number of poor people living in the Vandino slums, guaranteed their minimum income standards in the form of "wages", and at the same time built

Public facilities such as schools and hospitals have given these lower-class people the hope of changing their class attributes through education, and supplemented by resettlement housing, the Housing Welfare Reform Act, etc., have solved the people's housing problems.

Among them, he also formulated a principle for himself, that is, he can trample on the law, but he cannot be too casual, and at least maintain the dignity and face of the law on the surface.

In other words, he does not support large-scale, public violent crimes like Escobar's, which directly push the judiciary into a blind corner. This kind of behavior can only bring disaster to himself, but it cannot solve any problems.

In his eyes, he was dismissive of Escobar's actions. High-level criminals should have a cool head like politicians. They should never forget about it when their blood boils and do whatever they want. Then

It is stupid, it is seeking death, and there is no future.

After Ato got in the car, Victor turned around and went upstairs. This was not his first time here and he was no stranger to the situation inside. Besides, Louisa, Porfirio and others were receiving medical treatment here.

A lot of people were also arranged to take care of him, so it was not difficult for him to find the ward.

Climbing up the stairs to the third floor, there are more than a dozen young people gathered in the quiet corridor. Some seem to be wandering around, peering in at the doors of other wards, some are sleeping on the benches in the corridor with their eyes closed, and a few others

They were playing poker together, but there was no doubt that they all grasped the weapons around them tightly, without any sense of relaxation. The patients or family members who were coming and going next to them also looked like they had seen it before, and there was no trace of them.

Looks like a fuss.

Seeing Victor appear at the top of the stairs, these young people quickly stood up and made a greeting gesture. There is no doubt that they all belong to the Gref family.

Victor ignored these guys. For him, the status of these young people in the organization was too low. Some of them were not even formal members of the family, but could only be regarded as peripheral members.

The value of these people to the Gref family lies in serving as thugs and cannon fodder. When necessary, they can also take the blame for others.

But they are also the most important and fanatical group of people in the organization, because in their minds, there is nothing else but "getting ahead", "rising up", and changing their own destiny of poverty.

But to be honest, there are only a few middle and high-level positions in an organization, and among a thousand people like them, it is not necessarily possible to emerge a middle-level leader.

Most of them have only three endings: die in a fight, spend a lifetime in jail, or quit sadly after they can no longer survive, and end up in poverty.

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