Chapter 176 Etiquette System

Wang Zhiyuan picked up a steamed bun and bit it with his teeth. The soup immediately overflowed and his mouth was filled with oil. He couldn't help but praise: "Victoria, your skills in making steamed buns are getting better and better."

"Really? Thank you!" Victoria smiled happily, wearing an apron and sitting at the dining table to enjoy her breakfast.

"Don't praise her, she only knows how to make steamed buns!" Zhao Chao said angrily. But I have one left hand and one right hand, and I don’t even care about my son.

The little guy Zhao Ting was really greedy and yelled while sitting in the child's chair, but no one seemed to pay attention to him.

The two Chinese men never expected that they would both end up asking for white women as their wives. However, after living for a long time, white and yellow people are actually about the same...

While eating, several people discussed the current social situation.

"Overall, it's not bad. But I feel a little embarrassed to get free stuff, and I don't feel at ease..." Zhao Chao's wife Victoria said.

"Yeah, I feel the same way. It's better to buy it with new coins. It's safe to use..."

While they were eating, they felt that it was difficult to change their current way of thinking, but it seemed that some changes had already occurred...

Things like "money" seem to have become less important. Rich people are of no use in the Noah... Besides, there are no particularly rich people here.

"Money" cannot bring social status. At most, it can only buy more daily necessities. The entire money worship phenomenon has completely disappeared. The new human civilization advocates "wisdom" and "knowledge", and ordinary people only respect people with wisdom and knowledge.

I don’t know when this kind of social atmosphere was formed...it seems to be natural.

A few people were chatting, and suddenly they started talking about the failed "social experiments" on Earth in the past.

Humanity has had similar social experiments in its thousands of years of history, the most typical of which is the "New Harmony Commune."

In 1824 AD, the thinker Robert Owen bought 30,000 acres of land in India and built the "New Harmony Commune", starting a great communist attempt. The commune implements the following principles: "public ownership of the means of production, equal rights, democratic management, and sharing of the fruits of labor. All members perform their duties and do their best."

From this perspective, the goals of the "New Harmony Commune" are very similar to those of Yu Yifeng and others. But this is something that was put forward in the 19th century, and I have to say that these thinkers are great pioneers.

At the beginning of its establishment, the commune showed a prosperous scene. Irving's experiment attracted widespread attention in the United States and Western Europe. More than 1,000 people participated in this experimental activity. Even some well-known figures in the United States at the time came here to enthusiastically participate in the construction of the new village.

However, the "New Harmony Commune" is not isolated from the world. It was surrounded by capitalism as a whole, and all kinds of people came to join the commune, with various purposes and ideas. Therefore, various conflicts soon arose among the members, and it became less "harmonious" than expected.

Members gradually became lazy and unwilling to engage in physical labor, and the output of the entire commune began to fall below consumption. Over time, the entire economic situation gradually became unable to make ends meet. Four years later, the "New Harmony Commune" declared bankruptcy and the experiment failed...

"...But our situation is a little different."

Wang Zhiyuan burped, and then said: "At least the current social productivity and people's ideological consciousness are much higher...and our system is more complete."

"People in the 19th century did not have ideals, nor did they have such high consciousness. In contrast, our new human civilization still has ideals..."

"The external crisis is at least the driving force for us to move forward..."

After several people finished breakfast, they went to their respective workplaces to start a new day.

…

Yu Yifeng looked at the report on the table with a strange look on his face.

Things were not as bad as the worst, and there was no looting. There were 25 communities in total, and no looting or the like had ever happened once.

That's true, after all, the government has fully announced all the "rules of the game." Even the "New Harmony Commune" in the 19th century could last for 4 years, let alone the current new human civilization.

The citizens on the Noah ship were obviously of higher overall quality and wiser than the people of the 19th century. They know where their bottom line is and what the government can tolerate.

Normally, people follow the rules of the game set by the government.

Even if there are a few thorny people who want to be bold, they still have to pat their chests and ask themselves if they have the courage. Several guys who spread rumors and caused trouble in the past were imprisoned. Under Calvin's mental transformation, they became completely honest people...

Yu Yifeng glanced at several names. These people were all candidates he thought might cause trouble.

However, these guys are actually pretty good. Even if they take some supplies, they are still below the average and there is nothing outstanding about them.

The average line is the number obtained by dividing the total supplies by the total number of people. People seem to be spontaneously unwilling to touch this number. People began to carefully control their own resource usage, so as not to use other people's shares...

Everyone feels that it seems very unqualified to use other people's things, especially when everything is open and fair.

Moreover, another strange situation has emerged: although the prices are very high, many people are still willing to pay the new currency to buy resources from the government. They feel that the things they buy can be used with peace of mind...

This phenomenon was not expected by the top government officials, but if you think about it carefully, it should be the case.

No one wants others to think that they have low quality, and they are unwilling to receive more supplies. They are cautious when using free things, for fear of being misunderstood, but they are bold when using the bought things.

This is because people's mainstream thinking is still stuck in the concept of "private ownership" and has not been transformed.

"According to this trend, it has become an equal distribution." Yu Yifeng muttered to himself, scratching his hair, feeling a little troublesome.

According to this situation, people's quality is generally good, but this kind of equal distribution is not what Yu Yifeng and others want.

Many people are even unwilling to touch the average line. They would rather buy some things from the government at a high price. In this way, the total material of each community cannot be used up at all, and people's living conditions are worse than expected.

"Distribution according to needs" is not an equal distribution. After all, everyone's needs are different.

Just like cooking a pot of rice, some people have a big appetite and eat more, while others have a small appetite and eat less, which is reasonable.

The key is to let every citizen know what their "needs" are. And when the total amount is limited, everyone needs to control their "needs" and desires a little bit...

There are too many things to learn, and there is no quantitative calculation method. Even Yu Yifeng feels that this problem is a bit of a headache.

In ancient China, there was a saying called "self-restraint and restoration of rituals", which can also be analogized to the current situation. Everyone has to restrain their desires a little bit so that they meet the overall norms.

This situation is somewhat similar to the concept of the Green Light People...

If Yu Yifeng and other new government officials see the political system of the Green Light People, will they find that they have accidentally realized "communism"? !

The Green Light People actually have very few survival needs. They can survive with sunlight, water, and air. Their civilization has never had "currency" since ancient times. Even the term "economy" was not proposed until modern times.

What maintains the social form of Green Light Civilization is "ritual". They believe that as long as it conforms to "ritual", it should be vigorously developed, of course science and technology is one of them...

It must be said that the system of Green Light people seems very strange, and this strange system easily accomplishes things that are difficult for human society to accomplish...