I bring technology to my hometown to get rich

Chapter 410 Collapse of Life

Sean was originally a middle-level manager at Bone Company. His annual income including salary and stock incentives was over one million dollars.

The days before were undoubtedly very happy.

He has a nice house, a beautiful wife, four children and two dogs, and lives a very happy life.

However, since the emergence of virtual machines and virtual worlds, his good days have come to an end.

Because they failed to keep up with the wave of the virtual age, Skeleton, like countless Internet companies and high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, went downhill and collapsed.

There had been large-scale layoffs since the year before last, and at the beginning of last year, Sean was also laid off.

But Sean was not very panicked, because he had a good income before and his family had a generous savings, which was enough for his family to live a worry-free life for many years.

In addition, he received a considerable amount of severance pay when he was laid off, so he was not panicked at first. He even took his family on a trip around the world, thinking that he had more time to spend with his family.

But the good times soon came to an end.

His savings were depreciating wildly every moment, and he followed the advice of his financial planner and wanted to exchange his money into gold or other foreign currencies for value preservation.

However, it ended in failure. It seemed that the whole world began to reject Dao Le, and it also seemed that there were countless Dao Le in the world all of a sudden, and everyone was trying desperately to spend the Dao Le in their hands.

The value of the currency depreciated rapidly, and prices began to soar wildly.

Things that used to cost $1 have now increased to more than $10, and in many cases the price changes almost every day.

However, rising prices are not the most terrible thing.

Although money has depreciated, Sean at least still has money in his hands. Even if it has depreciated, he can still afford the living expenses of his whole family.

The really scary thing is that the team of people buying for free is getting bigger and bigger.

In the past, the number of people buying for free was relatively small, and as long as the store had insurance, it could still withstand such losses and continue to operate.

However, nowadays, there are too many people who can’t make ends meet.

Not everyone is Sean. Most people actually have no savings. Prices are rising wildly and the unemployment rate is high, despite all kinds of relief funds being distributed like paper.

However, the speed at which prices are rising is really too fast!

The relief funds distributed are simply not enough in the face of soaring prices.

As more and more people survive, the number of people buying for free naturally grows.

The huge army of zero-dollar shoppers is like a swarm of locusts, ransacking all the stores over and over again every day.

The losses of the stores were so great that the insurance companies no longer accepted their insurance. Everyone knew that the current situation was no longer covered by insurance, and no matter how many things there were, they would not be enough to grab.

Without the backing of insurance companies, a large number of shops and supermarkets began to close and could no longer operate.

It is already quite difficult for these stores and supermarkets to purchase goods.

In the past, they could shop all over the world with knives, but now it is different.

Because Dao Le is depreciating wildly, everyone is not a fool and is trying hard to control the scale of Dao Le, while trying to find ways to spend the Dao Le in their hands.

This led to a further depreciation of the dollar, while liquidity became increasingly poor and fewer regions were willing to accept the dollar.

This means that they can no longer use the printed paper to buy things around the world as they did before.

Their own industries have almost become hollowed out, and almost everything needed in daily life, from large appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, to small items like toilet paper for wiping buttocks, needs to be imported.

Very heavily dependent on imports.

This is also an important reason for the soaring prices, because everyone is unwilling to put away their knives, and it will naturally be difficult to import the goods they need if they hold on to their knives.

In this case, you either have to use other currencies to purchase it, or offer a higher price so that the other party is willing to sell it to you.

Stores and supermarkets are already having difficulty purchasing goods, and now zero-dollar purchases are so rampant that they simply cannot sustain themselves and are shutting down one after another.

This is undoubtedly disastrous for people who rely heavily on large supermarkets for their livelihood.

Now Sean has to drive for more than an hour every time to find a supermarket that is still open to buy the necessities of life.

Almost all the supermarkets around have closed down, and even if you have money, you can’t buy what you need.

Look, Sean was driving on the road, preparing to go to a supermarket dozens of kilometers away to buy food.

He drove carefully, with a pistol and a rifle on the passenger seat. The current public security situation can no longer be described as bad, it is extremely terrible and dangerous.

There were almost no products produced locally, except for arms and weapons, and as life became worse and worse, the business of arms and weapons stores was unprecedentedly hot. It became more and more unsafe to go out, and he had to be careful every time he went out.

In the upscale community where he lived, many people had been robbed or killed when they went out.

Those who cannot survive have developed an extremely strong hatred of the rich, and even the communities where they live have been attacked many times.

Now communities have to organize property owners to take up arms to patrol and guard to protect the safety of the community and their own property.

Not long after walking, Sean encountered a huge parade. He saw many familiar figures among them, including his former colleagues and his former subordinates.

They were all middle-class people who used to have a glamorous and wealthy life, but now they are all unemployed and their lives have become extremely difficult.

But these people still retain the last stubbornness and decency of the middle class. They are unwilling to join the vast army of zero-dollar purchases. They do not want to do anything illegal or criminal. They just need a job, a job that can support their families.

They held signs with slogans like 'I need a job', 'I'm an engineer, I speak multiple languages', 'I need a job, I need bread', and followed the huge procession with numb expressions, like zombies.

After waiting for a long time, the lucky team finally passed by.

Sean's car had not gone far before he encountered a striking team. The main force of the striker were the uncles in hats who were in charge of public security. They were very dissatisfied with everything that was going on.

The wage increase has lagged far behind the soaring prices, the work has become extremely heavy, there are too many crimes, and it is impossible to handle them all. More importantly, there are too many cases of gun violence, and many people have died, making their law enforcement extremely dangerous.

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So they also started to strike, they stopped working and demanded a pay raise, and the increase was more than 1000%. Yes, you read that right, they demanded a tenfold pay raise.

This is not a random request from them, but because the current prices have soared more than ten times, and they will not be able to maintain their family's living expenses without raising prices.

Sean looked at the huge strike team. Now almost all public services have been shut down and everyone has joined the huge strike team.

The most ironic thing was that when the huge strike team was passing by, a group of people who were buying things for free rushed out of a store next door. As gunshots rang out, the boss who chased them fell in a pool of blood.

The many uncles in hats nearby just watched them run away. No one said anything and they soon continued to walk away.

"shit!"

Sean couldn't help but curse.

After cursing, Sean had to continue driving to the supermarket.

There were gunfights every few blocks along the way, and shops and supermarkets on both sides of the road were looted. The once beautiful communities were turned into a mess.

The lawn in front of the door is overgrown with weeds and no one has mowed it for a long time.

Many of the cars parked on the road had obvious bullet marks on them, and almost no car windows were intact.

"shit!"

Sean drove quickly away from a gunfight area. A bullet almost brushed past his ear and shattered the window of his beloved car.

He couldn't help cursing.

After finally driving to the supermarket where I purchased supplies last time, I found that the supermarket had been completely looted. The door of the supermarket was wide open, and the inside was in a mess. Almost everything that could be taken away had been snatched away.

"shit!"

Sean immediately slammed the steering wheel and started cursing again.

I risked my life by driving for dozens of minutes to buy something, only to find that the supermarkets had been looted clean and there was no supermarket still open nearby.

If he couldn't buy the goods he needed, his children at home would go hungry and his life would become a mess. He couldn't help but curse.

While cursing, he also looked for nearby supermarkets that were still open.

Soon, he found a supermarket that was still open and drove over. He discovered that the supermarket had hired mercenaries to protect its safety, which is how he escaped disaster.

But there are a lot of people shopping here, there are long queues, and the prices are very expensive, having increased by 30% compared to the last time I shopped.

Although the price is expensive, it is good enough to be able to buy the goods you need now.

Sean waited in line for nearly two hours before he could enter the supermarket. At this moment, he no longer cared about the rising prices and bought as much food and daily necessities as possible.

When it came time to pay the bill, Sean couldn't help but feel a pang of pain in his heart when he saw the number; it was more than ten thousand dollars.

In the past, this would have required moving the supplies by truck, but now these supplies were only enough to sustain his family for about a week.

"shit!"

Sean drove back, cursing as he drove.

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