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    "Okay, Dena. See" Scrooge smiled confidently, "I have many conspiracies to destroy your country. Yes, it is a conspiracy rather than a conspiracy, so even if I tell you now  "In fact, there is nothing you can do." "First of all, the most direct way is to make military preparations. The whole of Europe will stand on your opposite side, and can continue to deter you through agents bordering you.  We have to invest huge manpower and material resources in the military, and this will drag down your industrial development and people's livelihood. Dena, you also know that in this war, many things have emerged that will profoundly change the situation of the war. But because of technology.  The backwardness, the fact that Russia didn't have such technology, plus the devastation of the civil war itself, plus, well, Dena, most of the people in Russia who had access to a good education were your class enemies, maybe some of them.  A few are willing to stand on your side, but the majority will stand against you. Therefore, your technical strength is quite poor, even much worse than that of the original Tsarist Russia. This means that you have a long way to go in terms of military technology changes.  will be followers for a period of time. Dena, do you understand the difficulties this will bring to you? " "We need to allocate considerable resources from the already extremely tight resources to education and science.  In order to catch up with other countries in Europe that are already ahead of us, we must invest more in these areas than they do. However, our system has advantages and we can allocate various resources in a unified manner, which will make it more efficient."  Na replied.  "It's not just that." Scrooge said with a sneer, "In order to protect yourself, you need to maintain a larger army, and because of your technological backwardness, you need to have a numerical advantage to maintain the balance of military power.  This means that you have to equip a lot of weapons that are already outdated, and once new developments appear in weapons, all the things you have finally equipped will become useless, and then you will need to invest more.  resources to keep up with the advancement of military equipment. On the one hand, before the new equipment is displayed, you not only cannot reduce the number of backward weapons, but even increase them to ensure that this window will not be exploited by the enemy until you have new weapons.  Once it is released, it will be necessary to change the equipment on a large scale, and then your enemy will come out with a newer generation of equipment As a result, you will continue to spin in the cycle of mass production of backward weapons to maintain balance. " See Dena.  As if he wanted to refute, Scrooge quickly made a gesture and said: "Dena, don't rush, let me finish. I know what you want to say, this is just a technical problem, there is always a solution. Indeed,  For example, if you are lucky and those countries are in economic crisis, you will be able to purchase machinery and technology at a very cheap price. But on the other hand, this also means that war is approaching and your economy will be affected.  The exhibition will definitely be interrupted, but these are not the most serious things. Compared with the real problem, these are small problems. "So, what is the real problem you are talking about?"  Dana asked.  "It's your own internal loss of control." Scrooge said, "Dena, don't laugh. Don't you realize the seriousness of the problem? Well, let's establish a few basic principles before we discuss this issue.  As a premise, there are individuals who betray their own interests, but there are no classes that betray their own interests. Dana, I changed class to class here, because there are still interest disputes within the same class, such as the petty bourgeoisie.  The relationship between them and me is almost life-or-death; and the relationship between the labor aristocracy and ordinary workers is not necessarily harmonious. Of course, there is still a difference between intra-class contradictions and class contradictions, and at least there is room for reconciliation. Well, what do you think of this hypothesis?  "How?" Dena didn't answer immediately. She knew that it would be hard to admit what Scrooge threw out right away. There might be many traps in it.  "Dena, do you remember the story I told you about the blind man and the elephant?" Scrooge continued, "Every blind person is trapped in his own perception of the world, and can only come up with that wrong conclusion.  Conclusion. In fact, when facing the entire world, each of us is blind. Our life experience, our education, and our technical capabilities all limit the way and scope of our ability to see elephants.  Although there are exceptions, people with similar life experiences generally have similar views on the same things. Dana, you won't disagree with this, right? Most people of the same class, even if they don't consider conscience or anything else.  Other ridiculous things are trapped in their horizons, and they will have similar views and attitudes. Therefore, all classes will naturally protect their own interests and strive to maximize their own interests. This has nothing to do with morality.  Relationship, this is determined by their lives. I think this assumption should still be relatively small.?Reliable.  ¡± continued Scrooge. ¡°Well, I agree with that hypothesis for the time being.  ¡¯ replied Dena, who was also interested in what Scrooge could deduce from this hypothesis. ¡®That¡¯s good.  Then I have a second hypothesis based on my observations of the world.  "Scrooge said, "Economic activities have become more and more complex, and this complexity is due to the increasingly detailed division of labor in society.  I think that with the development of productivity, the social division of labor will always be more complex than it is now, and at the same time, the interdependence between various industries will become stronger and stronger.  Based on this phenomenon, I put forward the following hypothesis: The coordination of social production is becoming more and more complex, so that coordinating social production itself has become an industry, and it is an industry with very high technical difficulties and very high thresholds.  With the continuous development of social productivity, it is increasingly difficult for many people, or most people outside the industry, to understand the situation of this industry. Later, even if all the information is disclosed to them, most of them will not understand.  I can't understand the meaning and possible impact of each measure.  " Dena frowned. She was already vaguely aware of what Scrooge wanted to say. She even rushed to the point where her body began to tremble uncontrollably, so she had to hold it tightly with her hands.  "In a socialist country, an important task of state agencies is to coordinate production among various industries.  " Scrooge continued, "I can make an analogy. A socialist country is like a large company. The equity of this large company belongs to all members, and the equity of each member is naturally equal. In other words, this means  The ownership of this large company is highly dispersed.  On the other hand, the operational coordination of this large company relies heavily on the direction of its managers.  Dena, tell me, what kind of problems would a large company like this have?  " "What kind of problems will arise in such a large company?  " Dena couldn't help but think, "Such a big company Who else in this company can restrict the managers" "In this big company, the biggest problem is that the owners will completely lose their money.  restrictions on operators.  " Scrooge didn't wait for Dena to answer, and gave such a cold answer. "This is not a problem that can be solved by the shareholders' meeting. First of all, every employee is very tired and exhausted.  Dena, I think you understand, because if every employee or owner were idle, you would be defeated by the enemy out there.  Therefore, they cannot help but work hard and become exhausted.  At the same time, coordinating various productions is so complicated that these shareholders have neither the knowledge, ability, nor the time to understand the company's various statements.  The operation of the company has become a virtual black box for them.  Because I can't understand this at all, although in the system, these employee shareholders have the power to manage the company and remove those managers, in fact, they have no ability to execute such power at all.  As a result, the managers actually became the controllers of the company.  But, this is not the most terrible thing. The most terrible thing is that the interests of the managers are not naturally completely consistent with the interests of the company.  The company does not belong to him, he is just the operator.  Going back to our first hypothesis, any class will naturally be loyal to its own interests.  Managers are no exception. They will use various means to ensure the maximization of their own interests.  Even if it is at the expense of the company's interests.  For example, if the normal income of the company's managers is one, and the income of bankrupting the company and embezzling the company's assets in the process is two, or even twenty, it is almost inevitable for the managers to betray the company.  Anyway, as long as I can make money at the company's funeral, that's enough.  " Speaking of this, Scrooge suddenly remembered some interesting phenomena he had seen before traveling through time. In another time and space, after the financial crisis broke out in 2008, the CEOs of some companies that were on the verge of bankruptcy  , instead of quickly thinking of ways to save the company, they should quickly think of ways to give themselves high bonuses, or sell company assets to other companies at low prices to get more returns. (Of course, in the United States, it is a crime to give money directly, but hiring  It is legal for people to work as consultants, and the amount of salary paid to consultants is entirely up to the company.) For example, before the company went bankrupt, the CEO of a company gave himself hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to reward himself for his years of service.  The contribution made by the company. Anyway, due to the dispersed ownership, the shareholders' meeting could not form a resolution. In December 1991, the managers of a certain large company directly divided the company one by one.  They immediately became wealthy oligarchs, and their feat of getting rich at the funeral of the company they ran became an example for countless people to follow.
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