Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 112 The Wisdom of the Johnson Family

However, anger is anger, and work is work.When the embarrassment touched the law, Ethan felt that the best solution was to ask the mage for advice.

So, after returning to the company to get the car, he turned to Stanford and asked for help from Professor Barbara Babcock, the legal advisor of Destiny Games.

After he described the matter clearly, Barbara, who was listening carefully, shook her head, "Ethan, I personally feel that this kind of matter cannot be resolved through legal means for the time being. You made it clear that this is not a labor dispute issue, but an economic issue.”

"When we in California, or the whole of America, need to use this group of decadent young people to support the whole or part of the low-end manufacturing industry, no matter where the police are, or where they are Court judges, they will not take the initiative to deal with these acute issues."

"Because they can't bear the consequences of rising labor costs, and they can't solve the problem of low-end labor shortage, so, in this case, even I will maintain the status quo."

'...'

Ethan couldn't accept this result.

He said: "How about a different way of thinking? Start from the perspective of their troubles?"

This thought made Barbara laugh, "Oh, Ethan, if we could really deal with them from the perspective of making trouble, I think the police in Myrbida would have done it long ago."

"These hippies are very cunning. They should have the experience of confronting the police. They don't gather at the factory gate for a long time, and they don't rush into the factory to smash it. They just come to the factory gate occasionally to shout. This level of tossing really doesn't constitute a crime."

"Although the factory is yours, the road outside the factory is not yours, right?"

"They passed by the gate of the factory and yelled a few words because they felt uncomfortable."

"These are the rhetoric that we can guess."

Speaking of this, Barbara spread her arms outstretched, and said helplessly: "No way, since the 60s, these people have participated in parades in society, and the number of times they have entered and exited the police station may be more than the number of times you have entered and exited the school." , so they know how to step on the edge of the law and disgust people."

"More importantly, judging from the current situation, their starting point is still acceptable."

"They are not maliciously smashing and looting, they just want a job, and, if I'm not wrong, they shouldn't have any problems when they were working before, right?"

"If that's the case, the police are even more reluctant to deal with them."

Fine……

At this point, Ethan thanked him with a smile, got up and said goodbye.

Since Barbara was unable to resolve these matters, or even she felt that a single accidental compromise to the economy was a reasonable choice, then Ethan would not pursue further studies in the legal field.

After leaving Stanford, he began to look for Jobs.Because he wanted to know how Atari used to manage these hippies when legal weapons were temporarily unavailable.

And when he found Jobs and told him about the problems he was facing, the sunny and cheerful boy also scratched his head, looked at Ethan with a sorry face, and said, "You want to know how Nolan manages us?"

"Oh—let's put it this way—Nolan himself was fuming—"

"Even take us...ah no, take the employees in the factory and fly smoke together."

"What the fxxk?"

This news made Ethan frown, because when he was at Atari, he didn't see Nolan Bushnell doing such a rash act in public!

"Are you sure?" He was a little skeptical.

"Of course!" Jobs said, "If you don't believe me, you can ask the police in Los Gatos. I remember one time he was driving a Cadillac while flying smoke, and then he was caught."

"I was released on bail after paying a full [-] U.S. dollars!"

"The police in Los Gatos warned him that if he drives dangerously like this, he won't let him go next time because he is the boss of Atari, and he will definitely be thrown in jail."

When this fact appeared, Ethan immediately understood why Atari was peaceful inside.

special code!The boss at the top can fly by himself, so what happened to the people below?
This practice of not being able to refer to it was also left behind by Ethan.

Because no matter what life it is, he and others are absolutely irreconcilable with gambling!
And when the two channels of law and reality were blocked, Ethan immediately encountered difficulties.At this moment, he really doesn't know how to solve those inseparable dog skin plasters.

But at noon, after Evelyn, who was having dinner with him, heard about these shitty things, the girl gave an idea, "Ethan, why don't you try to find Thomas?"

"Because in my memory, in the decades of our family's orchard operation, there has never been an accident, and no one has ever come to our orchard to make trouble. And even in the years when the San Francisco gang was rampant, Thomas When transporting the navel oranges, they did not pay any transportation fees to those people."

"Although I know these two things cannot be confused, but what if?"

This proposal made Ethan's eyes light up.

Yup!

There is obviously a landlord in their family!

Nonsence--

It's a grower!

Since Thomas has been able to work in the fruit planting industry for so many years, he should have some wisdom in dealing with laborers, right?
With this in mind, after eating, Ethan drove directly to his orchard.

Since it is the golden autumn now, when the navel oranges are first ripening, when Ethan came to the orchard, the picking scene that greeted his eyes played the movement of a good harvest.

Workers wearing straw hats with a large cloth pocket hanging from their waists shuttled through the forest to pick the fruit.

When a bag is full, they will carry it out and hand it over to the personnel stationed outside to count and classify.

Put them into baskets according to their size, put them on the weighing pan and start weighing.

At this time, Thomas would stare at the dial, for fear of making a mistake and ruining his reputation.

With his personal confirmation, those fresh navel oranges will be loaded immediately and sent to the dock.

"Oh Ethan, why are you here?"

With Ethan's appearance, Thomas also stopped what he was doing.

He raised his arm and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He smiled and said, "You are here to experience life, right? If you want to pick navel oranges, there are cloth pockets over there."

"You used to like to do this kind of thing the most. When you were a child, because you were not tall enough, you couldn't reach it, so you yelled for me to help you carry it on your shoulders..."

The good old days made Ethan smile, waved his hand slightly, and said, "Oh Thomas, if you need someone, just tell me directly, it's not that I won't help you, there's no need to trick me into being a gangster!"

"If I remember correctly, you told me before that you would give me a dollar for picking a bag of navel oranges?"

"The results of it……"

"As soon as you gave me the money, Linda asked me to pay for the meal!"

"I've been busy all day and I've gotten nothing!"

"Hahaha——" Ethan's joking words made Thomas laugh out loud.

He raised his right hand and punched him, and then Thomas said: "Okay, Okay, you've grown up, you can't be fooled anymore, tell me, come to me at this time, what's the matter?"

Everyone is a family, and we can't be more familiar with each other, so when Thomas asked, Ethan decisively expressed his difficulties. As he told the story, the smile on Thomas's face gradually subsided, and when he finished listening At that time, he also clapped his hands, indicating to the workers to rest for a while.

Then with a big move, let Ethan come to the side to talk.

Under Thomas' choice, the two stood still on a small hill. The scorching sun made Thomas take off his straw hat and put it on Ethan's head.

Such a situation made Ethan want to refuse, but Thomas waved his hand.

He took out a pack of Marlboro from his pocket and smoked it.

"You wear a straw hat. The sun is very strong. People who don't work outdoors often get sunburned."

After explaining, he said again: "Ethan, you said that the fired workers came to the factory to make trouble?"

"Oh—I knew it was going to happen—"

'? ? ? '

Ethan couldn't understand what Thomas said.

Thomas, on the other hand, stared at the hundred-acre orchard in front of him, and took two puffs of his cigarette.

Sighing: "Ethan, let me tell you the truth. When I learned that you recruited a group of hippies to work, I knew there would be problems in your factory."

Although Thomas' words sounded hurtful, Ethan knew that his uncle meant no harm.

So he smiled back and asked, "Oh—is it because they have a bad past?"

Ethan thought he was right, but Thomas shook his head.

"No." He said: "I am not a person who discriminates against other people's past, because everyone was young. When people are at an impulsive age, some crazy ideas will appear in their minds more or less."

"Some people just think about it, and some people make it happen."

"You can't say that the former are good people, because they may be in a responsible family, and their parents may have discovered their thoughts, and then decisively suppressed some bad thoughts."

"You can't say that the latter are bad people, because they may have been born in an unfortunate environment. When their thoughts were immature, they did some wrong things that the public thinks. Without guidance , Their mistakes are understandable, somewhat remorseful, and even forgivable."

"Then what do you mean..." Ethan asked humbly, "Oh Thomas, I think I may not have understood your words, if you said that some hippies can be forgiven, then those who make trouble..."

Ethan elongated his voice.

He felt that he had made his question very clear.

He believes that those who make trouble cannot be forgiven.

Thomas smiled and shook his head. After taking a few more puffs, he threw the half-burned cigarette on the ground and stomped it out, "Ethan, you misunderstood me."

"I don't discriminate against hippies, but I think it's inappropriate for you to recruit hippies to work."

"It's not a matter of cost."

Thomas' words were a little esoteric.

But in the next second, he waved his hand again and talked about the past——

"Ethan, look ahead, who are these people working in our orchard?"

Looking in the direction of Thomas' finger, the crowded crowd were all white figures.

"They're all white, right?" Before Ethan could speak, Thomas said with emotion: "I don't like to recruit those MXG descendants, and I don't want to recruit those African descendants. Because in many cases, blindly saving labor costs, for an orchard, It's not good for one farm, not good for the agricultural industry as a whole."

"I know, you may think my point of view is strange, but this is the wisdom of life that my father left me, and after living with his wisdom for so many years, I find that he is indeed right. "

"My father told me that farming in America is not about planting the land, but about employing people."

"Because every time we provide a job to the society, the society will give us some power value, and the specific manifestation is the right to vote."

"Voting rights?" Hearing this, Ethan was taken aback.

Because he didn't know what this thing had to do with hiring people.

And his stupefaction made Thomas laugh, and he hammered Ethan on the shoulder angrily, motioning him to regain his senses, and then said: "Could it be the general election that you're thinking of?"

"smaller!"

"Look in front of you!"

"Because that kind of thing is still too far away from us farmers!"

Ethan smiled embarrassedly.

Because when the word 'voting rights' appeared, a picture of two old men in their 70s knocking out the dog's brain for a job suddenly appeared in his mind.

In his view, this is the best display of 'voting rights'.

And Thomas obviously didn't mean that, with his hands on his back, he continued: "Although things like general elections are far away from us, local elections are very close to us."

"Whenever there is a vacancy in a local MP, the guy who wants to get in needs our votes."

"And at this time, they will need us farmers who can provide a lot of jobs to the society."

At this point, Thomas paused.

Turning his head to look at Ethan, he believed that his child had understood.

And when their eyes met, Ethan also laughed.

Pursing her lips, she said, "So, is this why my sister said that no one has ever come to trouble us? Because you have raised a group of people, and these people have families."

"Yeah!" Ethan's words made Thomas laugh out loud, and said, "Ethan, you are right! This is the reward we receive after providing jobs to the society!"

"We have 76 permanent workers in our family!"

"Behind every worker, there is a complete family!"

"We calculate based on the average family of five, 76 jobs represent 380 votes!"

"And with their simple propaganda, the actual number of people that can be radiated is definitely thousands!"

"For a state election, that kind of turnout might not matter."

"For the whole of San Jose, this kind of votes can't affect anything."

"But if it's in the area where we live—"

"Then we can decide a person's future!"

"And when the person we elected is in power, no one will come to trouble me!"

"Respected Mr Congressman will seek re-election! Will seek promotion!"

"As long as he thinks the future is good, he will help me deal with the troubles!"

"In the end, whether he goes up or down, it doesn't matter to me, because as long as the system is inconvenient and the position of councilor is still there, then I can grow navel oranges here safely!"

Thomas looked at Ethan seriously, and said, "Oh, my boy, now you know why I thought something was going to happen in your factory, right? I'm not talking about employees making trouble, but your way of employing people is destined to make people Factories are facing problems."

"In order to keep costs down, you hired hippies, and hippies are a group recognized by society as a group that is not easy to discipline. In this case, even if they have the right to vote, the congressmen will not talk to you because they don't believe you. Has that kind of influence."

"And I'm different."

"I don't use MXG because many black workers don't have the right to vote."

"I don't use blacks because they won't vote with me."

"I only use my own people!"

"Because they are the only ones who will be influenced by the same race!"

"And if you hire this kind of person like me from the beginning, then I believe that the police officer who emphasized economics with you will decisively arrest the traffickers and troublemakers before you know the matter!"

"Then throw it to the prosecutor!"

"The prosecutor will file a lawsuit as soon as possible!"

"They will let you fully feel their sincerity!"

When these words appeared, Ethan had a deep admiration for Thomas, or the grandfather who had never met before!

Let the employees you hire become the voting rights for left and right parliamentarians to come to power?

This Nima-

Is this something that a guy who hasn't read much can think of?

The direction of this involvement is not business at all, but ZZ, okay!
At the same time, Ethan had a new doubt, "But Thomas..."

"How can you guarantee that they will vote with you?"

"and……"

"Your employment method... will make the orchard's profit drop to freezing point?"

When these words appeared, Thomas suddenly burst out laughing.

He patted Ethan on the shoulder, and then took the lead down the hill.

Returning to the navel orange loading point, he yelled at the guys who were still resting in the house, "Is it comfortable inside?"

"Comfortable—" came out a uniform voice.

"So can you work?" Thomas shouted again: "If you don't work, we may not be able to deliver thirty truckloads of goods before dark! I want to pay you overtime wages, but I want you to go home and eat more !"

After these words appeared, the workers inside jumped out immediately.

"Don't rush, don't rush!"

"I'm coming!"

While thinking about it, an old man in his 60s gave Thomas a straw hat.

"Put it on Thomas, it's too hot."

Thomas took it with a smile, and thanked at the same time: "Oh, you are still good to me."

Then, he asked inadvertently: "By the way, if I remember correctly, we have known each other for 30 years?"

This remark stunned the old man for a moment, and then asked: "Are you born in [-]?"

"Correct."

"Then we have known each other for 46 years." The old man laughed, "We know each other for as many years as you are, because I have been working with your father before you were born."

"Oh yes! I forgot about this!" Thomas 'suddenly realized', slapped his forehead, and said, "You watched me grow up! Then you watched my child grow up!"

"Yes, yes..." The old man nodded his head with a smile, and at the same time shifted his gaze to Ethan, "How time flies, when I was young, Thomas, you were still a child, and in the blink of an eye, Little Ethan has become a celebrity."

"However, no matter how fast time passes, we are still the same as before...Thomas, if it weren't for your father to help me, our family might have starved to death on Black Thursday, but now, my grandson has joined the army... And you are also a good person, after so many years, when many farms are already using mechanical tools and many orchards are reducing their manpower, you are still willing to hire us..."

"You Johnson family are all good people..."

When the old man recalled the past with emotion, Ethan also began to look around.

When he discovered that the workers working in his orchard were all elderly, at least in their forties, Ethan immediately understood why Thomas was able to ensure that these people could vote with him, and he understood even more , why Thomas' orchard can only earn [-] to [-] dollars a year.

Because in the land of America, not everyone can enjoy government relief!

Not everyone is willing to roll in the mud and spend their whole life in a daze!

There are still people who want to marry a wife and have children, and there are still people who want to get out of poverty!
When Thomas, or the Johnson family helped these people, they would naturally be grateful!

Maybe every time they vote, they really don't know whether the person they choose is good or bad, but they also know very well that as long as they vote with Thomas, their life will never change!
and this……

For ordinary people, it is already real and the best choice!
After talking briefly with the old man, Thomas also returned to his job.

Ethan picked up a cloth bag, hung it around his waist, and went into the woods to pick navel oranges.

Whenever workers saw him, they greeted him with a smile and asked how he came to help.

For this kind of question, Ethan would smile and say that he just had time, and with his answer, envious smiles appeared on the faces of the workers, and while they were working, they complained to Ethan about how much their children Disobedient', at the same time, said that Thomas is very happy, raising a girl who goes to college, and a son who can earn money...

Around four o'clock in the evening, thirty carts of navel oranges were enough.

The workers waved goodbye to Thomas, and Thomas waved to them with a smile.

When he turned his attention to Ethan again, he also said: "Ethan, I haven't read the book, but I know one thing, the most valuable thing in our family is this hundred acres of land."

"As long as the land is still there, our family cannot be poor."

"So I don't care about earning more or less at all, as long as the money I earn every year is enough for expenses and there is a balance, that's enough."

"My father once told me that it doesn't matter if he doesn't get rich. As long as there is land, the offspring will always be rich. Buy some land, and at the same time ensure that these lands are not abandoned, then the next generation will always have a chance."

"So, I have always told you before, if you are willing to study, then study, if you are not willing to read, then look at the garden with me, as long as we continue to operate like this, there will always be someone in our family who is willing to study and has a business mind of."

"At that time, these lands will be able to exert their maximum value."

"And until then, these workers are our greatest asset."

"Because they can help us keep these lands."

"I think this principle is also applicable to your company."

"Because your game company will not pursue extreme profits now."

"I don't think there is any need to pursue extreme profits."

"Because when you can convert your social jobs into available voting rights, you will hold the sharpest gun in our country!"

"These expenses can make you do business better!"

"If you can create a hundred such positions, then you are an excellent entrepreneur."

"You can get a thousand jobs like that, and you've got to be able to spy on the state legislature."

"And if you can provide 1, 100, or even [-] million such jobs..."

Thomas stopped.

He smiled and didn't speak.

Ethan shook his head emotionally.

Because he knew that Thomas was right!

The most valuable thing in the whole home is the more than 100 acres of Silicon Valley land!
Compared with the appreciation of real estate year after year, all the above crops can be said to be unprofitable!

No matter how much labor costs are deducted, the special ones can't compare to the appreciation of the land!
Then in this case...

Keeping the land is indeed the best choice.

Secondly, it is to make a little money!

"Oh Thomas...you're right..." Ethan nodded his head with emotion, "I admit that it was my biggest mistake not to ask you for advice on building the factory..."

"Oh—my boy—there's nothing wrong—"

Thomas opened his arms, hugged Ethan in his arms, patted his back, and said, "It's still the same sentence, everyone has a time when they are young, and everyone has a process of growing up..."

"Before my father taught me this knowledge, I also thought it was a good way to save costs, because it would allow me to earn more."

"And you know, how my father taught me this lesson?"

"Because of some things, I was very dissatisfied with a worker, because he has some disabilities, and he does things slower than normal people, just slow, not lazy. He is still very serious in doing things, but I don't think this is right, so I carried my father behind my back. , fired him."

"When my father found out, he was furious. He grabbed me by the collar and dragged me to the worker's house. Then I found out that the worker's weekly salary was the only expense for their family of five."

"Although they can live on relief, a stable job can save them from constantly running for relief, because a church does not distribute relief every day, and only by constantly changing venues can it meet the needs of life. At the same time, I want to If you want to eat, you have to wait in line with your family."

"We give him a job, which is equivalent to giving him stability. His wife can find some odd jobs, and his children can help a little bit."

"But if I don't give them jobs, they may never get up again."

"That day, my father asked me to apologize to them."

"I did."

"I cried and begged for their forgiveness."

"And then, among the twenty or so people who are delivering goods to you now, two are his children, and one of his grandsons is very smart and good at studying. I got him a letter of recommendation and asked him to go to Harker High School, and other than that, I didn't give them any monetary help."

"That child was indeed confessed by the family, and it is also the hope of the whole family."

"And you know, last year, when you and Evelyn made "Snake" a hit, and I gave them some gifts to celebrate, what did those two brothers say?"

"They asked me, Boss, your child has become a famous person in the whole rice, will he start a company like Atari? If he can start a company, what professional people do he need?"

"They want that child to choose the major you want when applying for university, because they feel that there is nothing wrong with following you..."

"Of course, I didn't reply to him, because I haven't read the book myself. I just told them that I will definitely tell you about this matter when I have time..."

"It is for these reasons that when you need a driver you can trust, I can call you this group of people."

"Here I have to thank my father, right?"

"Without his education, I think I would worry about employment now."

At this point, Thomas stopped.

He patted Ethan's back lightly, as if he was nostalgic for the past, but more like feeling for the future.

And Ethan also felt a sore nose.

Before, when he went to visit Nintendo in the notebook, he was still feeling that Hiroshi Yamauchi was the winner in life.

What do you want.

But look at it now...

Instead, he ignored a lot of people.

Blowing his nose, at this moment, Ethan felt a little regretful.

If he hadn't taken Atari's model for granted when building the factory, and hadn't tried his best to cut costs, then maybe now... the situation would be much better.

"So, everything is late, right?" Ethan felt a little regretful.

He felt that Thomas said so much in the hope that he would pay attention in the future.

And his words made Thomas throw a rhetorical question: "Oh Ethan—why do you think so? Why do you think so?"

"Because I've recruited those hippies into the factory," Ethan said, "and fired off a few 'thorns,'"

"When these things have come up, then we just have to live with it, right?"

'...' This remark stunned Thomas for a moment.

Then, Thomas, who was hugging Ethan, laughed.

"Oh—boy—there's a remedy for everything—"

"There are no unsolvable problems in this world, only fools who want to procrastinate."

"If you want to solve a problem, you can do it now."

'? ? ? '

The words made Ethan raise his head.

When he stared at Thomas's face and cast a puzzled look at him, Thomas did not explain, but let go of his arms, untied a bunch of keys from his waist, and threw them away.

"Go and help me drive that Ford parked at the door."

At the same time, he also pointed to the twenty boxes of navel oranges left on the ground, and said, "Then, help me move them into the car."

"I'll call Linda and tell her I won't be home for dinner tonight."

"Oh, by the way, you have to find a way to tell Evelyn not to go back at night."

"Because you're coming with me soon."

"Follow me to receive the last gift your father left you..."

　Note: ① Nolan Bushnell did fly, and he took his subordinates with him, as disclosed in the "Jobs Biography". ②The method of electing members is different in each state, but I checked in California, they are free elections, and those who have the right to vote are free to vote.

　　PS, it’s ready tonight, it’s almost done.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)