Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 339 Argument
“Me?” Wayne frowned, as if he had heard something utterly absurd, his tone tinged with disdain and confusion: “Why should I train them or give them jobs? They’re all criminals!”

Arranging jobs for criminals?
Are you kidding me?
“Those criminals caused enormous damage to the city. I may not kill, but I'm not a saint!” Wayne said. “The city would be a better place without them!”

"..." Shi Fei was utterly helpless. He said, "They were forced into a life of crime by circumstances. If you let them survive, wouldn't they stop committing crimes?"

“Impossible!” Wayne laughed. “They’ll live, but they’ll still commit crimes! They’re born criminals! They have money and food, but they’ll still commit crimes.”

His voice carried an almost obsessive certainty, as if it were an ironclad rule he had observed over many years.

Wayne's voice suddenly rose: "Instead of relying on me, they should look for the reasons within themselves!"

"They have no money, no skills, no education; that's their own problem—they don't work hard enough!"

In Gopher City, it's a dog-eat-dog world; those with skills and connections will earn more money and gain greater social status.

Criminals have no skills, so they resort to robbery; they deserve to be caught!

This was Wayne's idea.

“Aren’t there still so many people who haven’t committed crimes? This shows that criminals are all lazy and stupid!” Wayne presented a counterexample.

Shi Fei stared at Wayne on the screen, a sense of absurdity washing over him. This man lived in his own world, yet he had such an inflated sense of self-importance.

I feel like I was right!

He couldn't help but sneer, his tone laced with sarcasm: "Let me refute you point by point! You won't get angry, will you?"

Wayne on the screen remained calm and said indifferently, "No."

His consciousness resides in a computer database, allowing him to control his emotional modules. Furthermore, after years of fighting crime, he rarely gets angry anymore.

Getting angry won't solve the problem.

Shi Fei said, "First, you say that their crime is their nature, their humanity. That's wrong. That's the alienation of people by capital."

Seeing that Wayne seemed about to argue, he raised his hand to signal him not to interrupt.

"Driven by capital, people provide services for others or for 'capital'. People lose their own initiative."

"For example, in a company, the boss is a stingy and incompetent guy who treats people like donkeys every day, and when it comes time to pay wages, he will try to find ways to deduct a portion of the money."

"Then employees naturally have no sense of belonging to the company. The company belongs to the boss, what does it have to do with them? They are indifferent to everything that is happening in the company."

"Even if the company goes bankrupt and the boss suffers a setback, they might still applaud. Therefore, from the boss's perspective, those employees are just lazy and unwilling to work unless they are urged to do so; they are all lazybones!"

“They are filled with discontent and hatred towards society, and when they encounter setbacks in their lives, they are easily driven to crime!” Wayne couldn’t help but say, “You’re wrong. You can’t attribute their crimes to society; it’s their own choice!”

Ignoring Wayne's interruption, Shi Fei continued, "Actually, for them, they seem to have a choice, but in reality, they have no choice. Capital alienates people into commodities; a person's labor and time are clearly priced."

"In an employment relationship, it may seem that employees and employers can make mutual choices, but in reality, people cannot escape the attribute of being 'commodities'!"

Shi Fei sighed and said, "People are no longer people, but commodities that can create value and consume other commodities. Without human dignity, there is no human nature, and naturally, there is no such thing as morality and law."

This is why many people feel pain in their lives—because they are exploited, because they are no longer human.

In the eyes of the boss, they are tools for creating value.

How can tools not cause pain?

The boss can even say with a straight face, "If I hire this person and this person can't create value for me, why did I hire this person?"

On an assembly line, what truly "flows" is not the products, but the workers.

Workers no longer seem to be people, but rather tools for producing goods.

Those people may seem to have options, but in reality, they don't. This is because they don't control the means of production.

When there are no means of production, one becomes either capital or someone else's means of production!
How can it not be painful?
Just like the current situation in Gao Fu City, the people at the bottom of society have no control over any means of production!

They live to produce and consume the goods they produce, and to increase the assets of capitalists.

When capital has completed its finalization, then it will no longer need them!
They were then abandoned by capital and ceased to be human.

For example, now that Wayne is going to build a city free of guilt, he no longer needs them.

This is the origin of the evil in Gough City!
The real connection lies not with anyone else, but with Wayne Enterprises, and even with Wayne himself!

"Heh..." After hearing Shi Fei's accusations, Wayne just sneered repeatedly, his voice filled with undisguised mockery: "What a ridiculous theory, attributing evil to capital!"

“In a capitalist society, everyone is free, has the right to vote, and has a political identity.”

Shi Fei looked at Wayne on the screen and said:
"In a free country, when wildfires and floods occur, the victims must save themselves instead of waiting for others to rescue them."

When natural disasters strike, people can only rely on themselves. In such a society, how much sense of belonging can there be? How much recognition can one have for such a country?
Shi Fei's tone was like a sharp knife: "A landowner who doesn't control the means of production is not a true landowner!"

It's darkly humorous to make people who don't own the means of production vote for big capitalists.

(End of this chapter)