I am reborn as Sai, but the animation three-body

Chapter 197 The Era Without Currency

In the end, Taylor chose the second method for the time being, mainly because the transformation of the digestive system was indeed a bit too scary.

The second thing that followed shocked Taylor very much. Although it was very ordinary in this era, it was no less than God's creation of the world and Pan Gu's creation of the world to him.

Because three days after he woke up, Alice found him alone, saying that according to the current law, the government needs to register the identity of hibernators, and part of the process requires him to be present.

"Oh, now the United States also has a unified national identity system?" Taylor asked casually.

"Yes, this is a policy implemented after Canada joined, in order to prevent terrorist attacks and crimes." Alice explained.

"All states have passed this law. If I go to another state, will I not be able to use this ID card?"

"The American political system changed from a federal system to a unitary system a century ago, but it is still called the "United States". Now every state uses a unified legal system."

Then Taylor agreed, so Alice activated an information window and began to register some basic information about Taylor, excluding his past occupation and so on.

Soon Alice seemed to see something, so she was surprised: "Mr. Taylor, you actually have a doctorate from Harvard, a master's degree from MIT, and a doctorate from West Point Military Academy!"

(In reality, the United States does not seem to have a military discipline, so don't bring it in)
“To summarize, you have a PhD in macroatoms from Harvard, a space military degree from West Point, and a master’s degree in theoretical physics from MIT.”

"Even if these are degrees from the AD era, according to the "Academic Welfare Act" and the "Advanced Degree System Preferential Treatment Act" in the US Administrative Law, your academic welfare treatment is Level 3."

"Considering that your social contribution value is currently only 1, and your academic welfare package does not have any additional rewards, I suggest that you can obtain contribution points by finding a job."

"Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't work. Nearly one-fifth of the population in this era is the leisure class. What's more, you have been hibernating for almost two centuries, which is somewhat derailed from the times."

"So in fact, I personally think that the best way is for you to go to a higher education institution to receive modern education. You seem to be an elite in ancient times. Even if your memory is not as good as that of new humans, it is not a problem to get one or two modern degrees."

"And you can also take the opportunity to adapt to the new era. When you get a degree or two at university, you can fully integrate into modern society." Alice suggested.

"But I have no money, can I apply for American student loans?" Taylor asked. After all, it has been two centuries, and there must be some changes in the policy.

"What is M...oney?" Alice repeated jerkyly, the word she had apparently heard for the first time.

"USD (US dollar), Renminbi, which is qian... money?" Taylor prompted again in Chinese, but the other party still shook his head in a daze.

"Then what do you get for your salary? Isn't it dollars?" Taylor asked.

"What is salary?" Alice asked blankly.

"Why do you work if you don't even know your salary? Do you get anything for working?"

"Contribution points, didn't I just say that one way to get contribution points is to work, and there are many other ways, but I think this is the easiest way." Alice explained disapprovingly.

"It seems that the currency of this era is called contribution points." Taylor suddenly realized, and then asked: "So you usually use these contribution points to buy food and clothing, right?"

"What is buying?" However, Alice was once again in doubt.

"Then let me ask you, new humans always have to consume, right?"

"I've heard of this term before. It means getting what you need. If consumption is the same as what I understand, then of course the new human beings must consume. Otherwise, where do the food and clothing come from?"

Alice finally heard a AD word that she had learned, so she quickly smiled.

"Yes, since you want to consume, you must pay contribution points or other things in exchange for what you want, right?" Taylor asked as concisely as possible.

"No, you don't need anything, you just need to place an order on the website of the material distribution department for whatever food and clothing you want, and the drone will deliver the items to your home in a short while.

"Moreover, there are many types of things on the website of the Ministry of Material Distribution. They are specially designed by countless programmers who want to exchange for contribution points. They are much easier to use than Amazon and Taobao in ancient times." Alice explained.

"You don't need any procedures or provide anything? Just place an order?" Taylor already suspected that he was dreaming, which was much more shocking than the ruined space fleet and the Great Wall of Stars.

"That's right, just press the OK button. After you get your ID card, you can go online in the hospital to apply for what you want, including the organic crops in the welfare benefits of the AD people." Alice nodded.

"Since it's called an application, is there any restriction or review process?"

"No." Alice shook her head and said, "Why are there any restrictions? You are obviously a U.S. citizen, so you naturally have the right to apply to the Ministry of Material Distribution for what you want."

"As much food and clothing as I want, as much as I want?" Taylor asked in disbelief.

"Well, theoretically, there is an upper limit for a person's material allocation. If the upper limit of material allocation is exceeded, it needs to be explained to the relevant department, explaining why a huge amount of material is needed."

"But in fact, in the entire human world, no more than six figures have touched the upper limit of material distribution, and none of the people in the AD has touched this upper limit." Alice explained.

"Then it seems that the symbolic meaning of this upper limit is greater than its actual meaning." Taylor laughed.

"Indeed, it is mainly due to the poor and boring people in this world who deliberately apply for a large amount of resources in order to waste the fruits of other people's labor."

"In the European Federation, there was a case where a person applied for [-] tons of edible grass from the material distribution department. I don't know why he needs so much grass?" Alice complained.

"Some people are weird. There were a lot of weird people in our era. I don't know if there are so many weird people in your era." Taylor said.

"It seems that we are lucky. There are not many such weirdos in this era. There are more than 2000 billion people in the world, and there are only 10,000+ such weirdos." Alice smiled.

(End of this chapter)