Zhang Zhong drove an electric pickup truck filled with furniture and sundries that he couldn't bear to throw away.
He called his wife and planned to go to their new home along the route provided by the navigation system.
It was an independent three-story villa with a garden on a middle-class street in San Francisco.
Before, he had never dared to imagine that he would live in such a house one day.
Since arriving here illegally 30 years ago, he has made a living without any skills by working hard, living in a small and expensive apartment, and sending the money he saves back to support his relatives in his hometown.
San Francisco is still a vibrant place with many opportunities, but it also has disadvantages such as racial discrimination and high crime rates.
He had no interest in joining any gang, so Zhang Zhong couldn't find many opportunities to stand out.
Seeing that he was over fifty and doing nothing, his son grew up and gave him a surprise.
His son’s name is Zhang Rick.
They often communicate through the interplanetary network at night.
According to his son, since he immigrated to the lunar city, he has done well.
Not only has he mastered many new skills, but he has also made a lot of money. .
Zhang Ruike saved a full 200,000 yuan in half a year, which is almost twice the per capita income of San Francisco.
It is enough to get a good house in San Francisco, where housing prices are not high.
Zhang Zhong couldn't help but be proud of his son, and he became a firm supporter of Dongyinhe Company.
Every time he saw relevant news, he would pay attention and comment.
He believed that his son would have greater development in the future.
Although the living conditions of their family have changed significantly, Zhang Zhong noticed that San Francisco has become more depressed recently, with many more unemployed people wandering the streets, some becoming homeless, some joining gangs and engaging in the black industry, and even the most recent one Over the past month, prices have fluctuated up and down, causing many people to worry.
Zhang Zhong did not receive higher education, but in today's world of advanced information, he still found out what caused it.
The short answer is the depression caused by economic transformation.
Many products were sold cheaper, but because people believed that they would be sold even cheaper in the past, no one paid any attention to them.
Zhang Zhong became interested because he had plenty of money, but his neighbors persuaded him to wait and see.
As for his feelings about himself They all became suspicious and didn’t want to lose money.
"It's really funny that something like this happened in this era."
Zhang Zhong looked helplessly at the changes around him, but he didn't have much sympathy in his heart.
He was used to living a hard life, and it was too late to enjoy happiness.
It may be like growing up in a developed country, enjoying generous benefits, liking to make donations and providing aid everywhere, and not even knowing how to do what one can.
After moving, Zhang Zhong felt relaxed again and didn't know what to do, because even the unemployment rate in the Free Beacon Country had increased by two points, making it almost impossible for people like him to find a job.
Only at this moment did he feel a little depressed, but soon, he had no other worries, and gradually got used to staying at home all day and living a stable life with his wife, going out to make friends and exercise during the day, In the evening, I watched TV and chatted with my son.
He watched the news.
In March, several well-known companies went bankrupt.
The unclear economic situation made many people become more conservative.
As a result, some companies that moved too fast or were completely unwilling to change became victims.
"It is said that on the day of bankruptcy and liquidation, a large number of discarded and unsellable products were still found in the warehouses of those companies.
The production date was less than a year ago."
Zhang Zhong said with emotion: "You said that Congress is striving to maintain positive GDP growth this year.
Why haven't you seen the actions of the members, let alone what achievements they have made?"
He thought in confusion, it wasn't that the MPs or the country didn't take action, it was that there were so many things going on this year that he couldn't pay attention to the issues that had been calmed down by the MPs.
However, since the time has entered April, many countries have finally stopped being reserved and have admitted the existence of the economic depression.
They must face it squarely, no longer intend to cover it up, and take some real big actions.
Zhang Zhong finally noticed the change.
He saw a small piece of news.
Dongyinhe Company stated that it would increase its procurement efforts to maintain the stability of the earth's industrial system.
For example, they reached a 10 billion cooperation with the Free Lighthouse Country on high-end artificial materials. , saving an industry almost instantly and preventing hundreds of thousands of people from losing their jobs.
Immediately afterwards, more policies came out, and more companies announced that they would persist through the difficulties to maintain human confidence in the future.
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This depression that no one could see clearly showed signs of clearing up.
On this day, Zhang Zhong was wandering around the store in front of his home.
At the age of 50, he still didn't like young people's online shopping, but liked the feeling of touching the goods.
He saw many new products hanging in the store.
"Hey, it's a new product."
Seeing a rare sight of many people watching in the store, Zhang Zhong didn't think much about walking in.
He took a closer look and found that it was actually a home entertainment cabin launched by te.
You can watch movies in it.
It was great.
When he thought that it was not a product that his neighbors mentioned might lose money or have a price reduction, even if the price exceeded 20,000, Zhang Zhong bought it without hesitation.
The staff carefully packaged it and delivered it to his car.
He went home along the way and found that the deserted San Francisco had become lively.
There are a lot of advertisements on the streets.
The advertisers include large companies selling high-tech products, small companies engaged in planet development-related industries, and even public service advertisements shot by pioneers who have just completed their training and will soon go to explore other planets.
Although the high-tech products promoted by many large companies are just selling dog meat with a slightly changed name, they are still products from half a year ago.
Companies engaged in planet development-related industries may simply be a skinny company, not even a decent company.
There is no office space.
Those pioneers who participated in the filming have actually not found a job and are still waiting for opportunities.
Even if they really go to other planets, they are likely to die inexplicably in the first year due to lack of various guarantees and be buried in a foreign land.
But for most ordinary people, they will never see anything different.
They can only move forward with the flow of the times.
This is April 2024, winter is over and spring has arrived.
I downloaded Anno 2205 today and found that it is somewhat similar to my novel.
It also starts with lunar development and then business simulation.
What a coincidence.
Unfortunately, it is in English for the time being: