Stellaris: Earth Alliance

244 - Second Class Citizen
In the monitoring screen, the robot walked over with a guest, but when the robot came out, the other person never came out.

"Is there something wrong here?"

Joseph didn't understand what was going on at all. There were so many entrances and exits here, so it was normal to walk away from another place.

"The person who was responsible for watching the surveillance also thought so, so the final result was that the family found the person after they found out that the person was missing and called the police."

"The police followed the clues and found that a dozen victims were stuffed alive into a locker."

"Huh? The locker is small, right? Can a dozen people fit in it?"

"Do you know a hydraulic machine? A hydraulic machine can press a large object into a steel plate as hard as a steel plate. The strength of a robot is similar to that of a hydraulic machine. It just squeezed a dozen people into a small space, and all the bones were broken. It’s so miserable.”

The company employee in charge of the recruitment chatted with Joseph, and he was still trembling when he thought of the high-definition pictures circulated on the Internet.

What Joseph saw now was a processed video. Although it was slightly processed, the bloodiness of the picture was still beyond imagination.

More than a dozen people were forced into the small locker by the hydraulic machine.

When the body was taken out, it could no longer be said that it was taken, but pried.

The flesh and blood were completely integrated with the lockers. When the bodies of these dozen people were taken out, they still maintained their square shape.

It made a clanging sound when it landed, and those who didn't know it thought it was an iron ingot.

The person in the picture dealt with all this and immediately notified the police department to dispatch more police personnel.

After finding out that it was a robot, all the service robots in the mall gathered together and removed their energy systems.

The robot that committed the crime was completely dismembered and dismantled into a pile of parts.

Still, public anger still needs an outlet.

It is obviously useless to vent to these robots, and venting to robots that are also powered off.

So they vented their anger on the government and all robot manufacturers.

The wave of opposition to robots is coming one after another.

The louder the voice of opposition, the more people searched deliberately to find out that Portman's homicides related to robots showed a soaring trend during this period.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that there is a problem here. For hundreds of thousands of years, robots have not done such excessive harm to people.

It is difficult to say that there is no human behind the sudden concentrated large-scale outbreak.

Although robot manufacturers have announced that all their products are made in accordance with national standards and there are no problems, the lack of problems itself is the biggest problem.

Under a series of professional identification agencies, there is still no way to find out the cause of the robot riot.

If the investigation is unclear, the consequences will be more serious than if the investigation is clear.

The fear of robots has spread to the extreme, and the wave of opposition to robots has finally reached its peak.

Any company, enterprise, or shopping mall that dares to use robots will be beaten by those who oppose robots.

As time goes by, there will be no companies, businesses or individuals buying robots in the entire society.

The robot industry has entered a stage of complete decline.

Strictly speaking, robot sales dropped by more than 90% during this period.

In the end, it was almost impossible to sell at all. A large number of robot-related employees were laid off. Joseph was not the first, and he would never be the last.

Just watching this video, Joseph himself felt a visceral fear of robots.Not to mention those who don’t know much about robots in the first place.

Originally, Joseph still had hope that he could find a replacement job as a robot, but now he is completely desperate.

And when he was completely desperate and looked at that bloody scene again, he suddenly felt a different kind of impulse in his heart.

Vicente's last triumphant smile was reflected in his mind.

It was he who took everything away from him, and it was he who turned himself into an indentured slave.

Since it is impossible for him to stand up again, the other party should not even think about it.

He thought ferociously, but who would have known that not long ago, the two of them were playing happily by the edge of Haihu Park, thinking about the future with each other, and the children on both sides mingled together, laughing and laughing.

But in the end Joseph suppressed his thoughts.

He took a deep breath, like a drowning person being suddenly fished out. He didn't dare to think about the scene that just appeared in his mind.

He felt like he was going crazy for wanting to do something like that.

The recruiting staff waved their hands in front of his eyes, trying to get his attention.

Joseph shook his head quickly, throwing away the evil thoughts in his mind.

"what happened to you?"

"No, nothing."

Joseph staggered away.

The other person scratched his head and didn't understand why Joseph was so lonely when he couldn't find a job for a while.

The other party is Portman's first-class citizen, and he is only second-class.

Think from your own perspective. If you can't find it, just look for it elsewhere. First-class citizens have many benefits, and it doesn't matter even if they don't work.

On the contrary, they are second-class, and their welfare is far inferior to that of the other party, so they have no idea what the other party is anxious about.

In fact, the extremely low-interest century loan program is only available to first-class citizens, and second-class citizens do not have this treatment.

It is difficult to say that the jobs that second-class citizens can do can also be done by other low-level civilized people. It is far less cost-effective to go to all the trouble to turn them into slaves than to buy slaves directly from the free merchant fleet.

Only first-class citizens, those who graduated from Portman's university, need to be controlled through this laborious method.

It's hard to get into Portman's college, and even harder to graduate successfully.

Although it can all be solved through money, that path is not for the vast majority of Portman people. Only the one percent of people have the right to do so.

The remaining 99% have to go through brutal elimination and competition.

The various promises made during the presidential campaign were also aimed at Portman's first-class citizenship.

It is not that no one mentions welfare to second-class citizens, but the voting weight of second-class citizens is unknowingly weakened through parliamentary acts.

For example, one vote of a first-class citizen is equal to 100 votes of a second-class citizen.

If the president wants to run for office, he can still only increase benefits, but these are basically benefits for first-class citizens.

The transverse cutting of the entire country was completed.

(End of this chapter)