Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 911 - 294: Industrialization Breaks Into the Special Industry (2)

Is it painful?

Is it cruel?

But compared to the suffering endured by the lower-class citizens of Night City over the past century, it is only a fraction.

Jokes aside.

The sex trade is an industry that blatantly treats people as commodities, causing enormous damage to social morals, gradually altering people's perception of the opposite sex, and even leading them to believe that the sex trade is no big deal.

Lin Miao currently doesn't have the power to eradicate this vice, but at the very least, he wants to control it through other means until the appropriate time to abolish it completely.

Your dolls on the street are 100 per session, I'll charge 80. If you charge 80, I'll charge 60, using industrialization and automation to wage a price war against street dolls. After all, my dolls don't require wages. By capitalizing on operations, I'll force these people back into the regular labor market. If you want a job, I'll give you one. If you lack skills, I'll start a free training course.

In summary, no doll unregistered and unnamed with the Horizon Corporation is allowed to operate.

And to make those former dolls develop a sense of identity and trust towards the Horizon Corporation, theoretically, organizing a meeting to voice grievances and hold trials would be the most effective. But unfortunately, most of those responsible have been killed, and a few have been transformed into sex dolls. Even if they were here, it would be useless, and it can only be gradually revealed later.

Unem...unemployment?

That's impossible!

Aveline shook her head. How can dolls be unemployed?

But as she and many dolls looked at the confident faces of the slackers, they felt like their worldview was about to collapse.

What kind of world is this, damn it?

There have always been capital and criminal forces driving good people to prostitution, but when have they ever pushed people to get legit?

"You all..."

Judy, who initially mistrusted the Horizon Corporation the most, was paradoxically serious when she tentatively asked,

"Is your training...available to all dolls? Even those on the streets? And what about jobs and salaries?"

"Of course, just like others in the same position."

The Boatman nodded. What are a few thousand dolls?

The future projects and completion of the third industry on the Taiping Continent will become a vast population absorber, creating an enormous number of jobs that will swallow up the idle population of most of Night City, further boosting the economic development of other areas in Night City, eventually creating at least several hundred thousand to even over a million jobs.

"You better be telling the truth."

Receiving the answer, Judy's attitude eased significantly. As someone specially following to protect Aveline, she should have been the most vigilant to the end. Yet now, she was the first one to change her stance.

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The sound of industry is the crisp clang of metal colliding during casting and rolling.

The color of industry is the radiant ionic reactions that burst forth during welding and smelting.

An advanced level of industrial productivity is an unavoidable necessity for any nation aspiring to be powerful.

The materials required for industrial growth are vast, often necessitating transportation routes spanning far and wide for industrial allocation.

However, due to the dysfunction of government institutions and the massive loss of state control over the grassroots, the railroad transportation networks, acting as the arteries of industry, are difficult to maintain. The chaotic lower class society has given rise to numerous wandering tribes nomadically roaming across North America.

Groups like Adcardo, with their businesses and agriculture, are relatively better off. However, the Chaotic Blade Association, surviving through plunder, and other smaller wandering tribes frequently raid the long and under-protected transport routes, further damaging the poorly maintained industrial network.

Even using hovercraft for transportation does not guarantee safety. The vast expanse of the North American plains often sees Somali sky pirates, driving homemade hovercars, committing robberies (as per original settings).

Although it's often said national governments are products of irreconcilable class contradictions, the deformed capital development in the cyber world has led to the shrinkage of government power, which can no longer effectively serve as a mediator between the two, resulting in a lethal outcome where the economic crisis has lasted over sixty years with no sign of improvement.

All enterprises engage in unsustainable exploitation, and industry is squeezed within cities, barely surviving, even achieving a 10% employment rate, a number considered legendary when compared to places like Gambia and Haiti.

Now, as Lin Miao's business is gradually growing, he too must confront this issue.

On July 5, 2076, a piece of very unpleasant news was delivered to him by W.

[System; Just received a message from the Union Pacific Railroad Company, a batch of robots we shipped to Missouri was robbed en route, and all cargo on the train was looted.]

"Damn! Even robbing from me now?"

Lin Miao was exasperated to the point his mouth twisted, but there was no good solution. All he could say was, welcome to the cyber world; that's how it is. What are you going to do about it?

"What did the insurance company have to say?" 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

[System: It's not in their coverage range, considered natural wear and tear.]

Lin Miao was left speechless.

This can be considered one of the consequences companies must suffer. Due to frequent robberies, insurance companies removed this coverage from their terms, and logistics companies, on the other hand, did not want to clash with marauders like the Chaotic Blade Association since it would otherwise ruin their businesses, so they pay hefty protection fees every year.

But it's often said that devils are worse than demons, and there are more than just the Chaotic Blade Association robbing along the way. To avoid unnecessary losses, companies form armed security teams to escort their shipments, protecting company assets.