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    The Port of Anchorage suddenly became quiet. Since the crisis broke out a few months ago, especially after Standard Oil announced that it would cut fuel and crude oil prices, fewer and fewer ships have arrived here. In the past week, on average,  Only a few ships arrive at the port every day.  Among these ships, there are not many supertankers that are truly the most meaningful. Only one came this week.  The other boats were fishing boats, whalers and the like.  It is said that the Germans are still buying oil, but because the cost of buying oil directly from Standard is already lower than extracting it from Alaska, those tankers no longer go here.  Similar to oil tankers, the number of container ships has also dropped significantly. Now the construction of Alaska has almost stopped, and even maintenance has become a problem.  Since there is no business, the Germans will naturally not keep those employees. Isn't it a waste of money?  So they naturally started large-scale layoffs. Most of the facilities in the oil field have stopped. ++++Novel Except for necessary maintenance personnel, most of the employees have been laid off, and the remaining ones have to accept more changes.  Due to the harsh contracts, it is said that although the work tasks of most of the left-behind staff have become much heavier, their wages have been reduced by 30 to 70 percent.  So there was a final bustle in the Port of Anchorage, and the workers left one after another on passenger ships.  After most of these workers left, the once bustling Port of Anchorage immediately died.  Without those workers and continuous construction, the port of Anchorage will naturally cool down. Naturally, there will be only so many workers, and there will naturally be large-scale layoffs. As a result, most of the  The port workers have also left. Of course, the number of people left is still much larger than before the development of Alaska, because the port is much larger now, and many fixed assets cannot be moved away immediately. Enough must be left behind.  manpower to maintain and defend it.  However, apart from these manpower and the logistics that provide services for them, the remaining number of people is really about the same as before the large-scale development.  As for oil pipelines and railways, the same is naturally true.  Since the port is in such decline, the cities that rely on the port are naturally the same. Since the port workers, oil field workers, railway workers, etc. are almost all gone, then the city of Anchorage will naturally follow in its footsteps.  All kinds of services and entertainment are leaving one after another, nightclubs are closing down one after another, and even the underworld is gone. Now that there is no one in Anchorage, why are they still here?  Do you want the underworld boss to go to Xiong Daxiong Er to collect protection money?  In the end, even government agencies retreated, and if this situation continues, it's almost certain that it won't be long before Anchorage becomes a wilderness again.  But it was not that no one came here, especially when they came to collect it again in the summer of 1914, there was actually another passenger ship, full of people, arriving in Anchorage.  ¡­ ¡°Sister Vera, it¡¯s so beautiful here!¡± It was evening when the ship docked, and the fiery red sunset reflected the sky and the sea bright red, as if the entire sea was burning.  The dark reflections of the mountains near the port in the fiery red sky and sea are like a beautiful landscape painting.  ¡°Yes, it¡¯s exactly the same as Mr. Monet¡¯s ¡°Impression of Sunrise,¡± but it¡¯s just sunset here.¡± Vera replied.  Different from more than ten years ago, Vera is now a big star in the entire film company, and they are here this time for a new type of movie, the first zombie movie in the world, "Apocalypse."  The legend about the resurrection of the dead and turning into man-eating monsters at the end of the world has always been circulated in various horror stories. Later, after radio was popularized, a radio station specializing in telling various ghost stories actually appeared, and one of them  One is actually doing pretty well.  Even while telling those ghost stories, they also sold a lot of crosses that are said to be able to kill vampires, silver bullets that can be used to deal with werewolves, and can be used to fight the Headless Horseman It is said that a long time ago, Ed  Mr. Mondo got a doomsday script from nowhere, which described a plague that can turn people into cannibal zombies sweeping the world, and only a few survivors managed to escape.  In today's film industry, Mr. Edmondo has always been famous for his bold use of new technologies. Now he has many brand-new technologies at his disposal. So when he saw the script, he immediately discovered that this  There are many places in the script that if these new technologies are used, the effect will be absolutely shocking.  It's just that a deserted city is needed as the background, which is not easy to find.  Someone suggested to Mr. Edmundo that it would be much easier to simply lower the requirements and reduce the city to a small town.  For example, just go to the west, rent a remote town, and then let the townspeople leave for a while.  ¡°But Mr. Edmundo is not a person who is willing to work together, so this movie has always been?The shooting has officially started.  After learning about the new economic crisis, Mr. Edmundo somehow learned that Anchorage had become a ghost town.  Such a ghost town with almost no residents is perfect for Mr. Edmundo's needs. In addition, after the outbreak of the economic crisis, although all industries have withered, movies have become more and more popular. As a result,  Mr. Edmundo also got enough investment, so he took his crew and ran here.  By this time, the gangway on the passenger ship had been set up, and Edmundo began to greet his people to disembark.  He turned his head and saw Vera still standing on the front deck talking to Annie, so he shouted to them: "Vera, Adjani, it's time to get off the ship? Damn it, do you still want to stay on the ship for dinner?"  I don¡¯t want to stay on this broken ship for another minute. ¡°Okay, Adjani, let¡¯s get down.¡± Vera smiled at Adjani who was standing next to her, and then the two of them walked towards her.  Go in the direction of the gangway.  ¡­ The economic recession has made life easier for Edmundo, who works in the film industry.  However, the situation in other industries is much more tragic. Because of the plummeting stock market, so many people jumped from the building that the New York Tower once again entered an emergency state. All places where people can easily jump from the top  Everything was closed, even high-rise restaurants, with rope loops set up near the glass exterior walls and security personnel deployed.  "However, those who can climb to the New York Tower to enjoy a last supper before jumping off the building are already rich.  In fact, those who can lose money and jump off the building in the stock market were once rich people.  As for ordinary people, they will not lose money in the stock market and jump off the building, but this does not mean that they are safer, because they also have to face two extremely dangerous situations, one is unemployment, and the other is bank bankruptcy.  .  Generally speaking, smaller banks are always willing to offer higher deposit interest rates in order to attract depositors. Because their interest rates are higher, when the economic situation is good, the poor people will pay for the extra money.  They are often willing to deposit money in these banks in order to pay interest. However, once an economic crisis occurs, these capitals are not strong enough, and they bear higher interest rate pressure. At the same time, small banks are more prone to investment mistakes and have weaker risk resistance capabilities.  It is easier to go bankrupt, and once such a situation occurs, those savers may lose all their money.  Therefore, whenever there is a major stock market crash or something, there will be a run on many small banks.  In addition, many companies that borrowed loans from these small banks went bankrupt and their investments could not be recovered. In addition, there are debt chains among small banks. Therefore, when the crisis becomes more severe, such small banks will be vulnerable to failure.  Maybe they will go bankrupt one after another.  At the same time, many people¡¯s life savings have been wiped out.  Compared with bank bankruptcy, the threat caused by unemployment is greater, because those who are truly poor often do not have much savings, so loss is not too fatal.  But unemployment is different.  Once unemployed, it almost immediately means that the worker and even his family will face days of hunger and cold.  When defending the bourgeoisie, some people once claimed that the bourgeoisie took greater risks in their operations, so they deserved more returns.  In their view, once the capitalist's goods cannot be sold, the capitalist will lose money or even go bankrupt.  In contrast, proletarians do not have to bear the risk of bankruptcy, they can just change jobs.  However, is this really the case?  The biggest risk that capitalists face is bankruptcy. There are actually very few people who will starve to death immediately after bankruptcy.  But as for the proletarian, any economic disturbance may cause him to lose his job, and unemployment means hunger and cold, which means the real danger of starving to death.  ?Compared to the United States, the situation in Europe is even more difficult.  Because the United States is so big, even if workers are unemployed, they still have the vast West and even other countries in the Americas that can provide them with some opportunities to support themselves.  Of course, the British are also in good shape. Although it is said that many people starved to death in India this year, by starving Indians to death, the situation of the British, including British workers, in the crisis is even slightly better than that of American workers.  The country that is really in the most difficult situation is Germany. Germany, which lacks colonies, has suffered particularly serious losses in this crisis, with the unemployment rate rising rapidly to more than 25%.  The wages of the remaining workers who have not lost their jobs have also dropped significantly by 20% to 50%.  Although the Social Democratic Party, which believed in trade unionism, tried to appease the people, spontaneous strikes and even riots began to occur one after another.
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