I'm the Demon King in Marvel

Chapter 575: Which consortium doesn’t want to own its own planet?
The Rockefeller family has been developing this "Rockefeller Planet" for thirty-five years. As one of the oldest consortiums ranked among the top ten consortiums in the United States, the Rockefeller and Morgan Alliance both obtained their own planet at the first opportunity and invested resources in its development.

At the beginning, the number of planets that needed to be developed suddenly doubled, from a single planet to several. In order to compete for precious human resources, various consortium families and the federal government used all means and offered various attractive conditions to people all over the world.

After entering the interstellar age, facing countless wastelands, the people on Earth finally realized the preciousness of human resources. After all, there are only so many humans on Earth, and each additional habitable planet is equivalent to a share of the resources.

What’s the point of controlling many planets without people?
How can there be civilization without humans?
In the early years, the people on Earth finally enjoyed the treatment that the capitalists were vying for by waving their money.

This is naturally because the great Eastern power has also entered the interstellar age, and America has lost its monopoly advantage.

Otherwise, there would be no need for vicious competition and raising the price of labor.

In comparison, the great Eastern country that entered the interstellar age a few years later still maintained its original social system, so it was accustomed to concentrating its efforts on major tasks and did not expand blindly. It made sure to build at least one large city on each planet and complete the immigration before moving on to the next planet.

Ten years later, America suddenly discovered that the development model of the Eastern superpower was more efficient than their vicious competition model.

By the time they realized that they should abandon "free marketism" and choose "state regulation", it was already too late, because each consortium has its own little ideas, and even each family in the consortium has its own ideas, and everyone wants to own a planet that belongs to them alone.

It doesn't make sense that you, the Rockefellers, Morgans, and DuPonts, got your own planets, but we, the weaker families, have to follow the federal government and eat the benefits, right?

You guys are using your precious human resources to develop your own planet, and you even have the hope of establishing an independent country in the future. Do we have to stay under the flag of America all our lives?
Who doesn't want to own their own planet? Who doesn't want to have their say? Which family leader doesn't have the dream of becoming the king?
In the early days of the founding of the United States, the thirteen states retained only the national flag for a long time, and the states were still divided. When war broke out, they would temporarily form a coalition to fight against foreign enemies.

This model continued in the United States for more than a hundred years. Even during the Civil War, the northern industrial groups and the southern plantation groups each organized their own coalition forces, just like the alliance of princes in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

One of the important reasons why Lincoln was assassinated was that the bosses of the financial groups were worried that this president who was too popular would take the opportunity to strengthen the authority of the federal government and even integrate the states to start the process of centralization.

I would rather build a memorial hall for him than let him live!

The same was true for Roosevelt, who led the United States to victory in World War II. The election result of "a vast blue country" not only scared Roosevelt's opponents, but also scared the financial bosses behind the scenes, so he could only die of illness before victory.

Unbridled selfishness, free power, corporate territorial consciousness, etc.

This is the American tradition!

If the federal government were to learn the interstellar development model of the Eastern superpower, not only would its hopes of monopolizing the planet and becoming the boss be slim, but it would also be more likely that the federal government would be reborn from the ashes in the process of integrating forces for large-scale development.

After all, the workers' passion to change the world can spark years of passion and strengthen the government's prestige in the process.

After the implementation of the "New Deal" of Roosevelt, there was also a brief period of passion in the American land.

Old-school Americans miss those days very much, but the capital groups fear them like a tiger.

In the end, America can only bite the bullet and continue with the "family development model" under the control of its own selfish desires, even if it is less efficient.

In fact, after seeing this scene, Tony Stark already knew that his persistence had failed. America, which had entered the interstellar age, was overtaken by the country across the ocean in development efficiency due to the selfish desires of the consortium.

Lin Hao clearly did nothing but throw out a star map, and the great Eastern country, under the protection of its predecessors, achieved the effect of surpassing America.

He worked so hard to help America, hoping that the capitalist consortium could slightly limit its own selfish desires and reduce some of its exploitation, but he was met with endless counterattacks. But Tony still wanted to try, to lead the real patriots in America out of the model dominated by the consortium, and stubbornly prove that American values ​​still have a positive effect and that the capitalist model can still survive.

So he also selected a brand new planet for Stark Industries and selected young students from American universities, intending to continue the greatness of America on this "blank paper".

Does this operation sound familiar?

The bald principal once lamented that everyone under his command was greedy, so he asked his son to form a "youth army", but the result...

Tony hasn't seen his own result yet, but Steve Rogers on "Rockefeller Planet" has seen that the capital consortium has once again refreshed its bottom line.

"Captain, do you know what the Rockefellers have done again?"

It is impossible that Steve did nothing in the past fifty years. He saw the capital consortium breaking new lows again and again, and finally began to learn from his other self. He secretly formed a team with members spread across many planets, most of whom were immigrants who were dissatisfied with the consortium's policies.

This was obviously not Steve's first time to come to "Rockefeller Star". The man in front of him named Red was a construction worker. Thanks to the capitalists who were throwing money all over the world at that time, he was an 18-year-old boy who chose to immigrate to the "Rockefeller Star" which was still a wasteland, and has been working here for more than 30 years.

Logically speaking, the salary offered to him by the Rockefeller family was five times that of the salary on earth. After working hard for more than 30 years, he should have become rich, had a wife and children, and lived a happy life.

Unfortunately, reality is completely different from fairy tales.

Not only does Red not have much savings, he has never married and is still a bachelor. Most of his monthly salary is spent in bars and bath centers.

Why don’t you get married?

Because female immigrants are rarer and there are more choices. Why would you choose a white-collar or gold-collar worker instead of a construction worker who sweats all day long?

He built countless high-rise buildings on the "Rockefeller Star", but he did not own a single room and is still squeezed into a container-style shed on the construction site.

This is also the reason why Red joined without hesitation when Steve expanded the team.

He had nothing!
"Damn Rockefeller, they're just a bunch of leeches!" Red's mouth was filled with alcohol and he growled in a low voice: "They've increased my years of service!"

"We agreed to five years, and then five more years passed. I've already completed seven five-year terms, and they still won't let me go back to Earth!"

Yes, Red wanted to go home.

This damn interstellar era is not friendly at all to these poor people at the bottom of society. They have spent most of their lives on this "Rockefeller Planet", and have gained nothing except injuries and illnesses.

With such a terrible life, it would be better to stay on Earth.

Even the most politically unthinking immigrants have figured out in these decades that Earth, with its myriad nations, is more civilized than alien planets controlled by a single family.

At least, there is international public opinion on Earth, but public opinion on "Rockefeller Planet" will only sing praises for the Rockefeller family.

(End of this chapter)