Resurrection Empire-Chapter 25 - 17 Reality Compels Me to Lay Down the Pen and Join the Army [A 5000-Word Mega Chapter, Thanks to the Alliance Hierarch, Orange!]_3
Chapter 25: Chapter 17 Reality Compels Me to Lay Down the Pen and Join the Army [A 5000-Word Mega Chapter, Thanks to the Alliance Hierarch, Orange!]_3
In a state of mental disarray, he forgot to put on a façade.
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Zheng Tian scratched her head in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"Everything in this society is wrong!"
Zheng Tian: "Huh?"
Ren Zhong thought carefully.
Since his resurrection, the various patently unreasonable details that everyone had come to accept as natural started to interconnect in his mind, forming an overwhelming net that tightly bound the heavens and earth in his view, making his scalp tingle and his breath difficult.
He spoke loudly.
"First, the 10% tax rate on inter-account transfers for non-citizens is way too exaggerated. Although, in a high-tech background, corporate monoliths can control every detail in society as if they were central nervous systems. But personal transactions should also be an integral part of society. Completely eradicating personal transactions, controlling the economic system entirely within the framework built by corporations, is an extreme suppression of social creativity and productivity."
Zheng Tian was confused by Ren Zhong, "Ah? What? Isn't trading possible?"
"But there's a ten percent heavy tax! It's unreasonable!" Ren Zhong continued muttering to himself, "Also, we have to pay taxes while sleeping, with a rate as high as 90%. Taxes are also levied on personal transactions. When you sell hunting gains to resource recycling companies, you still have to pay commissions to the affiliated professional teams. I guess even those service industries in the slums have to pay heavy taxes, too. When we eat in the cafeteria, there's still heavy tax. Besides, when setting up a makeshift shack, you always need some temporary hired labor, right? Heavy taxation is everywhere. The reason I hardly see individual merchants in town is probably because of this reason, right?"
"If taxes are collected, then where are they used? Are they used for building public utilities? Then why is it, despite the advanced technology, the education system is still so rough, and the public safety mechanism so crude? The Ruined Beasts still run rampant? People's quality of life is still so poor?"
"Also. The food in the cafeteria is clearly artificial meat. From what I know, once this stuff achieves scale production, the cost is very low. So why is the pricing so high? Regular people burn 0.1 Contribution Points just to eat every day! It barely covers what you earn from sleeping! Not a cent can be saved!"
"Furthermore, average people simply can't find jobs that can create value, aside from sleeping every day. This indicates that industries related to basic needs should have long been overproduced, no longer needing labor. So why are prices so firmly fixed? Why do regular people see no hope at all?"
"Also, what's the deal with these damned tutorials in the wrist watches? Low-end jobs don't need manpower, so why not let people properly study and do things that artificial intelligence can't?"
"Moreover, given that outside the resource recycling company and cafeteria, almost no industries exist in Starfire Town, the majority are purely residential slum areas. What's the point of people learning the knowledge from the wrist watch?"
"Starfire Town is a large town with tens of thousands of people, aside from the Ruined Beasts, there should be some industrial output, right?"
Zheng Tian weakly retorted, "Actually, there is a grain production base and some other miscellaneous small industries in the city. But non-citizens can't work there."
Ren Zhong angrily said, "Exactly. First, people are divided into ranks, giving no opportunities to non-citizens at all. Society forces non-citizens to the point where, even if they don't want to live like a lazy sleeper, they see no opportunities."
"To change one's life through hard work, no matter what profession, you must affiliate with a company and bear heavy corporate exploitation. Even if you go all out as a scavenger, it's the same. Clearly, it's the fruit of your own labor, taking no enterprise resources, and getting no support, yet you must contribute at least 10%, or even more. Is this reasonable?"
"Furthermore, why is it that although the town can sustain more people, sixteen-year-old non-citizens are driven out of the town?"
"This social system completely suppresses the creative abilities of ordinary people and further suppresses social productivity, no different from a feudal society, even more brutal, utterly depleting resources while ignoring fundamentals."
"With such a scientific foundation already in place, if ordinary people were allowed to live better and create more social wealth, would not stepping out into the universe earn more than this bit of tax? I can't understand, really... This is too..."
"Maybe I'm wrong, or maybe what I see is just the tip of the iceberg, or perhaps because I'm young and not deeply understanding civilization. But I just feel, this isn't right! It shouldn't be this way!"
