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Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. This city is located at the mouth of Lake Mälaren. The urban area is distributed on 14 islands and a peninsula. With the suburbs, there are more than 4000 islands. It is the city with the most islands in the three Nordic countries. Also known as the Venice of Northern Europe.

Stockholm in autumn is even more charming. The sky is clear, the scenery is beautiful, the ancient castle buildings, modern urban facilities, leisurely living atmosphere, etc., will make a newcomer People feel a rush of elegance, indeed, it is elegance.

It can be said that if conditions permit, then Sweden is a place you must visit once, and if you go to Sweden, you must go to Stockholm, just like going to China without going to Beijing, you have never been to China.

It is precisely because of the long-standing reputation that Cheng Yuan and his party did not go to the research institute immediately after arriving in Stockholm, but first strolled on the street to observe the city and its people up close.Since there are company reception staff acting as tour guides, there is no need to be afraid of getting lost.

Walking on the streets of Stockholm, you will find that the footsteps of people here are relatively slow, not to mention compared to big cities such as New York and Tokyo, even compared to Shangjing in China, the pace of people here is also very slow. There is little stress and the pace of life is slow.

"Hey." Looking at it, Wang Tao suddenly sighed with emotion, "No wonder people say that if you love someone, send him to Sweden, because there is a paradise on earth. It was just hearsay in the past, but now I come here personally Take a look, it really is so, look, among other things, there are handsome men and beautiful women everywhere on this street."

"Tch, I thought you were going to say something, so you only have eyes for beautiful women." Shen Hong joked beside her. "If you really like it so much, I think you might as well find a Swedish woman to marry, so that you can marry into Sweden."

"I really want to." Wang Tao smiled wryly, "but who is with me? You can tell at a glance that the women here are all arrogant with their eyes above their heads. How could they like me. Humph, if you can really be here Living in Sweden, I am willing to live a short life of ten years."

"You're still short-lived. If you really lived in Sweden, how could you be short-lived." Shen Hong also sighed. "Although it's a bit cold here, the air is fresh, the food is safe, and with all kinds of high welfare, it can be said that there is no need to worry about food and clothing. Even if your life is short for ten years, you can be raised here."

"Yes," Wang Tao continued, "I've inquired about it. People here are so happy. I heard that if people here give birth to a child, the father has the right not to go to work for 9 months, and the mother of the baby He also does not go to work, but also takes full pay to look after the children at home.

Children before the age of 16.Both parents can receive high living allowances, and young people who have completed 16 years of compulsory education after reaching the age of 9 can continue their studies.You can also get a high study allowance, which is equivalent to using money to encourage you to go to school, which is the same as us.You have to pay money everywhere you go to school.

Not to mention that going to school is free, but if you are sick here, you can enjoy sick leave subsidies. The amount depends on the length of the sick leave, which is equivalent to 75% to 100% of your salary. Most of the medical expenses prescribed by Zhizhi are borne by the state; not to mention the pension, which is basically provided until the old age, with super high pension insurance, and there is no need to worry about things after old age.

Also, it seems that even if the people here don’t do anything, just receiving relief money, there are more than 3000 crowns a month, equivalent to about [-] yuan, and the prices here are not too high. Medical insurance is free, and even unemployed people can live their lives leisurely.

Hey, from this point of view, this place is simply a paradise for rice worms! "

Hearing what Wang Tao said, the person in charge of receiving Cheng Yuan and his party was in her early thirties, wearing professional formal attire, and a Swedish woman named Emily with long pale golden hair. She smiled and spoke fluently. Chinese said: "Hehe, what this gentleman said is right or wrong. We Swedes may have good welfare, but few people here live on relief money, because here, it is very difficult to have no job. Sad thing."

"It's sad when you don't have a job and no money. You don't have to work and you don't have to worry about food and drink, housing, medical care and pension, so what's sad?" Wang Tao asked, "I wish I could be this kind of rice bug here."

"Hehe." The woman named Emily continued to smile, "According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, people first have basic needs, which are commonly known as physical needs such as eating, drinking, sleeping, and sex, followed by safety. Needs, social needs, and respect needs. After these are realized, there will be a higher level of self-actualization needs. Well, according to Hua Guo’s saying, that is, if you are poor, you will be alone, and if you are rich, you will benefit the world. If you ask people on the street what they are most concerned about, most of them are concerned about climate warming and environmental degradation. If you ask them if they have a job, they will say yes Work, even if it's just a cleaner.

So you see, as long as we Swedes are mentally sound, there are very few people who do not work, and many people are willing to do some unpaid labor because they are eager for respect and the realization of self-worth.

Therefore, if a Swede does not work, others may not say anything about you, but his own inner suffering will make him unable to bear it. In order to avoid this anxiety, they will find a way to find a job. If it is not suitable work, then Swedes usually choose to continue studying, after all, reading is free. "

"Amazing." Wang Tao said in shock, "This is simply a perfect country."

"Perfect country? There is no perfect country in this world." The woman named Emily shook her head, "What I said above is just appearance, in fact, our high welfare is just that you outsiders look good, but in fact this kind of The high welfare system has overwhelmed us.

Here, because of the openness of politics, even us ordinary Swedes know that this kind of high welfare policy is not good and there are many problems. Many of us want to reform and cancel the high welfare policy. This kind of slogan finally won a lot of public support and came to power, but it really wanted to reform after it came to power.But found a lot of resistance.

This is because, although we understand the disadvantages and disadvantages of high welfare, but if we really want to change, we all start to be selfish. The next generation, therefore, has been unable to reform. "

"You are full of food." Shen Hong spoke, "Such a good welfare. Why cancel it, why reform it?"

"There are many reasons, but fundamentally, it is because this high-welfare policy has dragged the country too seriously. If reforms are not carried out, sooner or later it will enter a dead end. It is like a broken ship that is slowly silent. If it is not repaired in time. Sooner or later, we're all going to die together."

"Why did it end?" Shen Hong asked.

"There are naturally many reasons, but fundamentally, what Marx said is that the relations of production are no longer suitable for productivity. In other words, our high welfare system has begun to decline and is no longer suitable for today's society." That Emily sighed.Continued, "We in Sweden have entered an aging society, and there is a serious shortage of young labor force. And the shortage of labor force leads to low production efficiency, low production efficiency, insufficient productivity, and less wealth produced.

Because of the high welfare, the expenditure of the entire welfare accounted for more than 30.00% of the national income, and this number is still increasing every year.Although high welfare will make our people more peaceful and self-cultivated, it will make the people lose their fighting spirit. The famous indisputable character of the Swedes is the embodiment of this physique.

In addition, high welfare has also dragged down various aspects of the country's industry and agriculture, such as making the country unable to carry out larger-scale and higher-level industrial upgrading, and this consequence is to make our productivity lag behind and the competitiveness of the industry to be insufficient. Form a vicious circle.

In recent years, our country's economy has deteriorated, and the fiscal deficit has been increasing year after year. Our high welfare policy can't be maintained for a long time. It's okay in the short term, but in the long run, it's not a long-term solution. When it really comes to collapse, That's a disaster.

That's why we say that the Swedes are melancholy, because they see the future, but they are powerless to change, or they are afraid of change. "

"Hey..." After hearing what Emily said, Wang Tao sighed again, "What a melancholy, I want to have this kind of melancholy too."

"Come on." Shen Hong next to him smiled, "Old Wang, don't be so talkative, he's a high-end and high-end melancholy, and he's worried about global warming, world peace, and social harmony. Can the selfish turkey think the same?"

Just now when I was talking about this, I suddenly saw a group of young people parading on the street holding signs, shouting slogans there, because they were all in Swedish, and the shouting was also in Swedish, so neither Wang Tao nor Shen Hong could understand, nor could they can't read.

"What are they doing?" Seeing the hoarse shouts of those people, Wang Tao immediately asked.

"Oh, those are members of the Democratic Party holding a parade." Emily glanced at it, frowned slightly, and then said calmly, "They are following, demanding the abolition of the newly introduced robot policy."

"Robot policy?" Wang Tao blinked, "What is that?"

"That's a policy just released by the Swedish government. It's just a draft. It hasn't been two days before they let them know. There is no way. Who made our government an open government? There is never any secret to do anything. In other words, it is far worse than you.” Emily smiled when she said this, “Actually, it is mainly because our robot technology has made a huge breakthrough, so the Swedish government decided to give our robots a green light and vigorously promote them in various fields. Promote the application of robots in the hope of taking our productivity to a higher level."

"Well, this is a good thing." Wang Tao was puzzled, "Then why do they object?"

"It's very simple. The reason they object is that the use of robots will crowd out the living space of human workers." Emily said, "Because our robot technology has strong versatility, robots can do many things where humans can work." , What humans cannot do, robots can also do.

Because of our high intelligence and high versatility, our robots can be used not only in dangerous industrial fields, but also in other agricultural fields, and even service industries, such as cafes, restaurants, and express delivery.

Since using robots is cheaper and more efficient than using humans, many local companies plan to use robots to work, which will cause many people to lose their jobs, so these people start to make trouble. "

"So that's the case." Wang Tao nodded, "However, don't you guys still get high benefits even if you are unemployed, so why are they making trouble?"

"I've explained it before." Emily said with a smile. "Although we Swedes can enjoy life without working, it feels like there is no dignity without a job, so they object. Moreover, their objections are not for themselves, but for others, because they feel that if The large-scale application of robots will be unfair to third world countries, which will deprive them of their advantages in labor costs and make Western countries stronger. More regional conflicts will break out, which is not conducive to the equality and harmony of the entire world."

"This..." Hearing what Emily said, Wang Tao was speechless for a while, "You Swedes are really worried, and you really have the spirit of an international leader."

"Hehe, our ruling party is originally left-wing socialism." Emily smiled, "So, in a way, we are a socialist country."

Hear her say that.Wang Tao suddenly stopped talking, because he found a more interesting thing, that is, before the demonstration crowd, rows of black people suddenly appeared.A humanoid robot with a shield!

These humanoid robots are uniformly 1.9 meters high, all black and matte, and the entire body surface is very smooth.The movement is also very smooth, and it doesn't look like a robot at all, I don't know.It's like a person wearing a black medieval full-body plate armor.

These robots moved in unison, all holding a person-high transparent anti-riot shield in one hand and a rubber baton in the other. Then they gathered together, put the shields together to form a shield wall, blocked in front of the crowd, and organized the crowd to move forward.

At the same time, the tweeter on the armored vehicle behind was playing the sound, because it was played repeatedly in Swedish and English, so Wang Tao could understand the general meaning.

It turned out that what the loudspeaker said was that the front was a private territory, and if the demonstrators continued to move forward, they would be infringing on the private territory and asked them to retreat immediately.

Seeing the appearance of these robots, and hearing the sound of the tweeters on the armored vehicles, the crowd immediately erupted in a burst of sound, which seemed to be quite excited, and then, the people in the front row quickly rushed up to compete with the robots that formed the shield wall.

It's a pity that those robots are really too strong. After being drawn into a line, no matter how the demonstrators pushed and smashed them, they insisted on not taking a step back, but they never fought back, showing super discipline Sex and tenacity.

Well, think about it too, robots are not afraid of such things at all.

Seeing the sudden fierce conflict, Wang Tao immediately asked, "What's wrong with them?"

"It's very simple." Emily said lightly, "These demonstrators are attacking our robot production factory, so in order to defend ourselves, we have to send robot security guards to stop them."

"Well, don't your police care? Why do you want your own security to be responsible?" Wang Tao asked again.

"No way, you know, the police are always too late to respond to things like this." Emily spread her hands, "In Sweden, demonstrations and rallies are common, and the police will never follow every demonstration. The reporter said that they were attacking our private factory, not the city government building, and we must call the police to wait for the police to be dispatched."

Hearing what Emily said, Wang Tao was completely speechless. Also, the systems are different, and there is no way to compare them.

"This is just the beginning." Wang Tao said suddenly, "Just like when the steam engine appeared, someone smashed the steam engine. When the era of robots is coming, this kind of conflict will inevitably increase. Sweden is already considered mild. , going to another country, hey..."

"That's right, if this were in China, the situation might be even worse." Shen Hong frowned and said, "China is a country with a lot of human resources. If we also introduce this kind of robot technology, I'm afraid more people will be laid off. More people are out of work. We don't have Swedish benefits, and those who are laid off will be miserable."

"But the question is, is it because of this that we don't use robots?" Wang Tao objected, "Don't forget, you and I have seen with our own eyes how powerful robots are and how efficient they are. If we don't use them, others will use them." At that time, their production efficiency will increase, and it will be us who will suffer. If they refuse to use robots just because they are afraid of people being laid off, what is the difference from the Qing Dynasty’s closed-door policy? I remember that the Qing Dynasty ministers said at that time that the appearance of automobiles would make a large number of cars Is it because of the bearer’s cause that you reject new technology?”

"Yes, I agree with Mr. Wang's point of view. The pace of change will not stop just because of a little obstacle!" Emily's eyes are firm, "We Swedes are never afraid of challenges! Since we have produced robots, we will not stop." I will give up eating because of choking! I believe that the day when robots will change the world is just around the corner, isn’t it for this purpose that you came to our side?”

Seeing her proud look with her chin raised high, Cheng Yuan immediately knew that this woman probably really thought that the robot was developed in Sweden, and she was very proud of it, showing the arrogance of the Swedes.

"Okay, let's talk about that later, aren't you in charge of receiving us, where are we going next?" Cheng Yuan said immediately.

"Well..." Seeing Cheng Yuan's question, Emily put away the pride mode, and said to Cheng Yuan again: "Mr. Cheng, it seems that the situation has changed. I think we can't go to the factory directly now. Why don't we go to the factory first?" Go to the research institute?"

"Alright." Cheng Yuan nodded.

After finding out that Cheng Yuan agreed, Emily immediately took out her mobile phone to make a call. After a while, she saw a large helicopter appearing in the sky. After the helicopter appeared, it began to fly towards Cheng Yuan and his group. , and slowly landed in front of Cheng Yuan and the others, obviously to pick up Cheng Yuan and his group. (To be continued..)