From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 456: Lubyon's Change

No matter what era, the "common people", as one of the basic components of the country, are essentially a group of people who are easy to please and appease.

As long as normal production and life can be guaranteed and people are not overly oppressed, no one really wants to do anything weird.

The vast majority of civilian rebellions, riots, and uprisings in history occurred when people were subjected to oppression that exceeded their "threshold" of endurance, or even when they could no longer maintain a normal life.

Otherwise, who would be willing to give up their current life and risk their life to confront those in power and violent organizations who hold the vast majority of military power?
They just want to live their own little lives, without having to worry about three meals a day and enough food and clothing. No matter what happens to the universe, as long as it doesn't affect where they are, they will eat and drink as usual, and at most chat about things other than life after dinner.

The women would chat about interesting things in local life and entertainment, and those who were more well-informed could even become the center of the conversation with some "interstellar gossip".

Men, on the other hand, maintain the thousands-year-old tradition of "keyboard politics", commenting on state affairs and writing passionate articles. Today they criticize policies, and tomorrow they become naval marshals to deduce the war situation.
But these people who are easy to coax and appease are also a group of "selfish" people.

They will calculate every bit of benefit related to themselves in life, especially those benefits that have already been obtained, which they will attach great importance to.

After all, this is human nature. Except for the true saints in the legend, everyone cares about their own gains and losses.

Family members turning against each other and brothers killing each other because of conflicts of interest happen almost every moment, and this is only happening to one's friends and family.

This question is more likely to be raised if it is directed to other outsiders - such as governments, businesses, and other public institutions.

The fellow villager who was on good terms with you the previous second, after learning that his own interests have been damaged, becomes a "troublemaker who dares to kill horses" the next second.

Such situations are too common in both the Federation and the Empire. If local governments and functional departments continue to maintain an arrogant attitude in dealing with problems, small conflicts will often escalate and eventually escalate into riots.
This is why the local garrisons of the Federation and the Empire are extremely experienced in security warfare. They will give you a "real battle" every now and then, so it is difficult for them not to be proficient.

The people of the Rubion galaxy have been feeling resentful due to the increasing pressure from work and life, and the public opinion monitoring department of the galaxy's autonomous government has even issued relevant warnings many times.

The head of the public opinion monitoring department reported to the top leaders of the galaxy's autonomous government in the following words: "The negative emotions among the people in the galaxy are like a powder keg, and more and more gunpowder is being poured into it. If it is not handled in time, once the negative emotions are completely detonated, the consequences will be disastrous."

It's not that no one listened to this supervisor. Some government officials, including Franklin, also suggested interviews with some companies and asked them to pay more attention to this aspect. After all, the situation in the galaxy has only been stabilized for a short time, and the people's emotions cannot withstand the turmoil.

Unfortunately, the top leaders who can actually make decisions did not heed these warnings. Under the lobbying of several leading companies and consortiums, they chose to believe that these companies could "easily deal with" these problems and ensure that production and economic activities would not be affected.

The final result was that as the news of widespread salary cuts in all walks of life in the Rubion galaxy spread, this "powder keg" was detonated.

No one wants to take a pay cut, especially when times are tough.

No one is willing to use the money deducted from them to pay other people as wages, even if the government and major companies claim that it is to "create more jobs and reduce the overall unemployment rate in the Rubion galaxy."

"Yes, those unemployed people are very pitiful. I also hope that the government can come up with effective measures to promote employment, but the premise is that they should not deduct the money I deserve."

"The unemployed people have nothing to do with me. Why should I give them the money that should have been given to me?"

"Those who are unemployed and can't find a job have families to support. Don't we also have to support families?"

Such remarks became the mainstream voice among the people in a short period of time, because most people were unwilling to have their "vested interests" damaged.

Soon, these public opinions underwent a second evolution and were smoothly transferred to Atlas Group. "When Atlas Group was in charge before, there were not so many problems. Not only was the salary paid, but the daily working hours and intensity were also controlled."

"Yes, if Atlas can do it, why can't local companies and consortiums do it?"

"If you don't have that ability, I suggest you just invite the Atlas Group back."

You see, what does it mean to have a great scholar debate for me? (Tactical retreat)
There is no harm without comparison. After their own interests were affected, the people of the Rubion galaxy quickly remembered the good things about Atlas and lamented that they had lived a good life before.

At the same time, more and more voices have begun to criticize how stupid the decision of the Autonomous Government to decouple from the Atlas Group is.

But in fact, this is also part of the Atlas Group's layout in the Rubion galaxy.

If Amber were asked to evaluate himself, he would say without hesitation that he and Atlas had not done anything "good".

After all, the premise for the Atlas Group to leave a "good impression" in the minds of the people is that Amber and others sacrificed the interests of another group of people.

They are the clerks and administrative staff who were laid off, most of whom are actually "ordinary people" who need to support their families.

When Atlas completed the optimization of its organizational structure and dismissed these clerks and administrative staff, most of them completely lost their income and could only rely on the meager relief funds from the galaxy autonomous government to support their families.

Don’t Amber and the others know about this?

Of course not. Amber and other senior executives of Atlas not only knew about these situations, but they were also very aware that the lives of those who were fired would be difficult.

But in order to gain the support of the majority of people in the future, Amber and her friends had no choice but to sacrifice this small number of people.

So from this perspective, Amber has always felt that she is also a "bad guy", just a bad guy who is better packaged.

The development of events after this was basically the same as the eve of most of the riots that had occurred in the Federation before.

It is impossible for the galaxy's autonomous government and those large enterprises to make concessions to the people. In an environment where profit is the main driver, it is better to believe that Amber is the "child of destiny" rather than believing that the capitalists can make concessions to the people.

Their final choice is also very "traditional", and can even be said to be a reserved option for old-school capitalists.

If I can’t solve the problem, can’t I solve the person who raised the problem?
Large-scale control of public opinion began, a large number of "outspoken people" and opinion leaders were quickly taken down, and various demonstrations and strikes were also very efficiently "suppressed" - ironically, the military and police forces trained with the help of the Atlas Group played an important role in this process.

If things had gone as they had in the past, this relatively tough approach would have quickly quelled the civil unrest.

But this time, things are a little different.

Most people in the Rubion galaxy have truly experienced the 'good times' when the Atlas Group entered the system, so they know that this better life is not a fictional fantasy, but something that can actually be achieved.

It's just that the current galactic autonomous government and capitalists are unwilling to "sacrifice" their own interests like Atlas in order to allow them to live a better life.

As a result, under the activities of some speculators and ambitious people, even greater disturbances broke out one after another and became uncontrollable.
(End of this chapter)