I'm the Demon King in Marvel

Chapter 574 The Fangs of Capital

Even if human civilization were to enter the interstellar space one day, it would be impossible for the social system to undergo earth-shaking changes in a short period of time, because the vested interest groups are already familiar with the existing rules, and they will inevitably be the first group to benefit from the benefits of the times.

You can eat meat without doing anything, so why make any changes?
What if something really changes?
Wouldn't it mean that we would lose our status as a noble family? How can we grab meat to eat?

Therefore, the two major interstellar countries in the East and the West of this world have continued their past systems to enter the interstellar era and carry out interstellar development.

The only difference lies in whether the conditions offered to immigrants are favorable and how long these favorable conditions can last.

Tony Stark was unable to go to Lin Hao's funeral home to dance, not because he was afraid of waking up Lin Hao who was faking his death, but because he also encountered some problems.

The noble families on the other side of the ocean endured for fifty years before showing their fangs, but the American conglomerate families have never concealed their fangs from the beginning.

Back then, only one habitable planet, "New America", was discovered, so the major American consortiums joined forces to develop it and share interstellar resources.

But as the Chinese people entered the sea of ​​stars with the star map, the people on Earth found that they seemed to have suddenly come from the desolate shallow water area to the resource-rich deep water area. There were actually a large number of planets suitable for human habitation within a thousand light years around.

Some need to undergo certain modifications, while some can actually be lived in directly.

As for the desolate planets that contain the resources needed for human civilization, there are countless of them. These uninhabitable desolate planets have all become mines for the people on Earth.

As mining equipment evolves from manual machinery to semi-automatic and then to fully automatic, mining efficiency is getting higher and higher, but the conditions of miners are getting worse and worse.

As habitable planets continued to be discovered, it was natural for American conglomerates to have the idea of ​​monopolizing an entire planet.

They openly legislated the legality of privately owned planets.

It stipulates that all citizens who discover a habitable planet will enjoy 10% ownership of the planet.

Once this law was promulgated, the astronomy departments of all universities around the world became the most popular major on the planet, without a doubt!

This move has indeed greatly promoted the enthusiasm of Earthlings to explore the universe and has actually achieved some positive results, with a large number of habitable planets being discovered.

But soon, Americans found that their desire to become "masters of the ball" was not easy to achieve.

Because essential means of transportation such as spacecraft are all monopolized, ordinary people are neither qualified nor financially capable of purchasing them.

While the capital consortium sells space observation equipment at a fair price, it also firmly monopolizes spacecraft, strictly controlling the entire process of each spacecraft from leaving the factory to scrapping, and even guarding the spare parts.

Its purpose is self-evident.

Can the masters just watch a lucky peasant transform himself by discovering a habitable planet and then endanger his own status several years later?
If you discover a new habitable planet, the capital consortium can abide by the law and give the discoverer one-tenth of the ownership.

But developing a wild planet requires labor and machinery, right?
Could these things appear out of nowhere on a completely new planet?
In the end, we still have to rely on transportation channels monopolized by capital consortiums.

On the surface, you own one-tenth of a planet, but what can you do with a piece of wasteland?

Ordinary people probably can’t even afford a few tickets for a spaceship, so how can they develop it?
Bring your family to live a life where men farm and women weave?

However, a planet suitable for human survival must also be suitable for the reproduction of other creatures. There are many dangers on the wild planet. Ordinary people with no experience taking their families there would not be enjoying themselves, but would be committing suicide.

The capital consortium would love to have more fools like this so that they can take over one-tenth of the land as a matter of course after their entire families die.

Therefore, the capital consortium was considerate enough to see the plight of ordinary people and provided another solution: cooperative development.

The two parties set up a development company to jointly develop this new planet. The discoverer will enjoy one-tenth of the company's original equity, but can basically only get dividends and cannot participate in management.

In order to control more planets, the consortium family offered more attractive conditions outside the federal government. The United States only gave a tenth share according to the law, but they proposed a higher share ratio to tempt the discoverer to give them the coordinates of the newly discovered planet. However, this private transaction is basically a gamble on the conscience of the capitalists. They can kill for a mere antique, let alone an entire habitable planet?

Since this decree was issued, too many people who claimed to have discovered new planets have disappeared inexplicably and have never been heard from again.

After this scandal was exposed several times, the lucky discoverer no longer dared to gamble on the conscience of the capitalists, and instead announced the planet's coordinates to the federal government through public channels.

Under open channels, the federal government at least cannot engage in murder and robbery.

This decree issued by the United States has indeed promoted the continuous discovery of new habitable planets, but it cannot be denied that some discoverers are still holding on to the coordinates, dreaming of getting a spaceship, secretly developing it, and thus completely owning a planet.

Human greed is a disguised driving force for the progress of civilization.

As the first person on Earth to master spacecraft manufacturing technology, Tony Stark and his Stark Industries have been frequently visited by various corporate spies, mercenaries, and killers over the years.

Obviously, they all hoped to tie him up and interrogate him about the complete set of spacecraft manufacturing technology.

After all, other technical personnel don't know as much as he does. A tall tree attracts the wind. How can the benefits of tying up other engineers be as great as tying up his?
"Here it comes again..." Tony's face was full of helplessness when he saw the prompt from the artificial intelligence Iris.

Over the years, his energy has been drawn down by these endless adventurers, and even the supervision of the capital consortium has been relaxed a lot. Members of the "Interstellar Development Foundation" even deliberately indulged these people and secretly provided them with information about Tony, which annoyed him greatly.

"This is a war. Their counterattack against you has already begun. The current level is still very mild, but it will only become more and more intense in the future."

Seeing his predicament, Steve Rogers on the other end of the video had no good solution.

"Are you going to continue?"

For half a century, Tony Stark found himself like a fool using a ladle to scoop up flood water. He tried to regulate the behavior of capital consortiums, but the scandals that Steve discovered one after another continued to shake his confidence.

Just like the classic line in "Tea House": Improvement, improvement, the more you improve, the colder it gets, the colder it gets!
"..." Tony was silent for a long time, still stubborn: "I haven't been defeated yet!"

Fifty years later, he was much less determined than he was fifty years ago, with only resentment and pride remaining.

"Okay, I'll go prepare for the future war." After more than fifty years of watching, Steve has gradually given up on luck.

At this moment, he is on the "Rockefeller Planet" which is more than 130 light-years away from the Earth. From the name, you can tell that this is the planet controlled by the Rockefeller family and it is also the family's main planet they chose.

Over the past half century, the top ten American financial groups have gradually moved most of their forces from Earth to their respective selected main stars, officially ushering in the era of interstellar hegemony.

Since they have not encountered aliens, when the conflicts among the ten major conglomerates are difficult to resolve, they do not hesitate to use force to solve the problems. In order to seize scarce resources, many conflicts and even exchanges of fire of varying scales have broken out.

However, this is not the most painful thing that the immigrants have encountered. After all, the current conflicts are happening on remote resource-rich planets, far away from the lives of ordinary people.

The top ten financial groups also maintained rationality and restraint and did not escalate the conflict. The top executives did not care about the deaths in the front-line conflicts and continued to hold the cocktail parties and perform singing and dancing.

The biggest crisis comes from the daily lives of immigrants.

"What's going on? Why is the price of meat going up again?"

"I heard that the breeding farm outside the city was attacked by wild beasts and suffered heavy losses."

"You can't raise it by 50% all at once, right? My son's school just raised tuition last month. If it continues to rise like this, how can we survive?"

"If I had known I should not have come to Rockefeller Planet!"

(End of this chapter)