Stellaris: Earth Alliance

Chapter 243 Robot Injury Incident

Fortunately, all the assets belonging to him were taken away by the bank and auctioned.

It just happened to pay him the amount he should have repaid this month.

This means he still has a month to take back everything he once had

If all his original assets were auctioned, there would be no way to repay this month's money.

Then he will not have any chance to stand up, and the law will force him to sign a labor contract with Rockfield Bank.

The salary will be paid by Rockfield Bank itself. When the money can pay back the tens of millions he spent previously, then he will be free.

Before returning home, he will no longer be an official citizen of Portman and will not enjoy many of Portman's civil rights.

Then naturally you won't enjoy Portman's minimum wage standard, and the other party can offer you any salary.

Minimum working hours are also no longer guaranteed. You have to work as long as Rockfield tells you to work.

Once you sign that labor contract, it means that you will officially become an indentured slave and will never be able to stand up again.

There is still a chance.

By virtue of Portman's formal citizenship status, he easily entered the relief shelter where Portman faced formal citizens.

Here he can still maintain a decent life and have a stable place to live.

And once his formal citizenship is deprived of his status, all this will change, and he will be reduced to a lower level than a gangster.

"Dad, I don't want to go to public school..."

My daughter has always been opposed to private schools because they have stricter regulations and greater pressure to study.

The public schools basically have no requirements, and the teachers look completely free.

In the residence specially prepared by the government for homeless people who are official citizens of Portman, the daughter who was getting ready to sleep suddenly said such a sentence.

Before, Joseph would only smile slightly, then touch the other person's head and say "good girl."

But now he couldn't laugh at all, not at all.

While the government continues to improve the benefits of formal citizens, it also continues to narrow the scope of what is recognized as formal citizenship.

There are also first-class citizens and second-class citizens among Portman citizens.

First-class citizens are also called formal citizens, while second-class citizens, although they are still Portman citizens, are already informal citizens in a legal sense.

Much of the current welfare system that applies to full Portman citizens doesn't work for them.

For example, the house where Joseph lives now is a super-luxury residence prepared by the government for homeless people. Only formal citizens are eligible to enjoy this kind of treatment.

Second-class citizens, that is, informal citizens, are not eligible to move in, nor are they eligible to receive various relief funds.

The most important way to distinguish first-class citizens from second-class citizens is academic qualifications.

Those who graduate from university are formal citizens, while those who do not graduate from university are second-class citizens, that is, informal citizens.

The super rich can directly buy a college degree for their children, while the ordinary rich can go to private schools and let their children pass the exam through normal channels.

Those who are not so wealthy have to resign themselves to their fate by attending public schools.

Public schools are also specifically ordered by the government to implement happy education. Anyone who dares to force children to study will suffer disaster.

All-round development of morality, intelligence, physical education, art and labor is possible, and the reasons are high-sounding, but in the end only those who have been admitted to university are called official citizens.

Therefore, anyone with a little money will want to send their children to private schools.

It's natural for children to want to play by nature and not want to go, but now my daughter has also felt this strange atmosphere and changed her mind and said she wants to go.But now it is no longer a question of whether she wants it or not, but it is very likely that she has no choice but to go to the public school.

On the bed, Joseph stretched out his hand to press down his daughter's open eyelids slowly and little by little.

This press pressed her eyelids, and also pressed her future.

"Go to sleep first, everything will be fine."

When Joseph took back his hand, he felt that his fingertips were a little wet.

Looking back this time, my daughter had already shed a line of tears and slowly fell asleep with her eyes closed.

This made Joseph's heart feel like a knife twisting inexplicably, and he didn't know why he felt so sad all of a sudden.

The sadness was so overwhelming that he couldn't contain it.

His daughter, who has never loved studying, suddenly told him one day that she wanted to study. Isn't this a happy thing?

But why does such a joyful thing make tears flow so uncontrollably?

Joseph didn't sleep well all night. In the following days, he rushed to various recruitment markets every day, trying to find a high-paying position corresponding to him.

However, nowhere to be found at all.

The entire robot market has become very depressed due to multiple incidents of robot injuries, and many household robots cannot be sold at all.

The military is also more cautious about purchasing robots as war weapons, and the robot market has fallen into a saturation stage for the first time.

"Advanced robot qualification certificate? This certificate is very rare, and not many people in Portman can get it. But now, the robot market is saturated, and our company has laid off a lot of people, so it is impossible to recruit externally. .”

I don’t know how many times he tried, but almost every recruiter answered him like this.

Your resume is very luxurious, and your work experience is equally impeccable. In normal times, no matter how many people compete, you will be recruited first.

But unfortunately, the current robot market has no future at all.

"What happened? Didn't many companies want to expand their production capacity not long ago? Suddenly it shrank so much!"

Joseph almost collapsed.

"You haven't watched the news recently, have you?"

"What news?"

Joseph was stunned for a moment.

"It's strange to say that the incidents of robots injuring people only broke out during this period of time. It was nothing before."

"Then, take a look."

The recruiter handed the phone to Joseph.

The picture on the mobile phone is exactly that of a large shopping mall. There are many robots in the shopping mall as service staff, responsible for simple replenishment and purchase, as well as chatting with customers and guiding them.

"What's wrong with that?"

"Yes, there is no problem with this, right? You also think there is nothing wrong with this robot. But the problem is that not being able to see his problem is the biggest problem."

The recruiter then showed him another screen.

"Do you see this model here? It's the robot you just saw. These two are the same, and they are only 20 minutes apart."

In the slightly dim scene, the robot took a guest to a monitored blind spot.

(End of this chapter)