Chapter 286

Time flies and the moon flies

It's 5534, the 30th year after the glitzers left aboard the earth age, and the 74th year since humans came to this space

In the next 30 years, there were four major events.

The first is the change of personnel. The gray haired captain Zhao is not satisfied with his working ability because of his declining energy. He is ready to retire to the second line

The position of captain can be said to be the highest position of the whole civilization, responsible for the overall planning of the contact and cooperation of various departments. At present, the development of civilization is still in the initial stage, and the captain has to be involved in all walks of life. This alone is very difficult. If he can't understand the report submitted below, what kind of captain can he be?

In addition, there is only one political party in the whole civilization. In order to ensure the consistency and effectiveness of policies, each term of this post is 20 years (according to the means of life extension of the earth civilization, the theoretical average life expectancy can reach 322 years). The current constitution does not specify the number of consecutive terms.

Unless the captain has made serious mistakes in the course of taking office, he will be removed by the Scientific Council.

In this handover, Zhang Yuan of the Ministry of new civilization development is also the most suitable candidate. There is no more suitable successor than him in terms of qualifications, prestige and ability.

The relevant vote was easily passed.

When he handed over the baton of power to his younger martial brother, Zhao Qingfeng was deeply relieved. He felt that his burden had been put down

This kind of mood is very delicate

The inheritance of firewood is also an extremely important task. From Professor Qi Yuanshan in the 22nd century to the generation of Captain Ma, then to academician Ding and Zhao Qingfeng, and then to Zhang Yuan in the 56th century, it is hard to imagine how many tribulations and difficulties we have experienced

It is a great honor that with the struggle of generations, the new civilization school has grown from a small seed into a real towering tree.

Looking back on this period of history, Zhao Qingfeng sighs. When he set out from the earth, they were almost the same age, but now, he is almost the oldest group among the millions of people. Because he took over the post in his hibernation period, so many sober periods than others.

At that time, life extension technology was not as advanced as it is now.

It's much worse to prolong one's life when one's old. People in their 20s and 30s are essentially different from people in their 50s and 60s in taking injections and taking medicine for maintenance.

Therefore, compared with Zhang Yuan, Li Zhendong and others, Zhao Qingfeng's aging speed is also faster, and his life is usually shorter than a hundred years old.

However, there is nothing to complain about. I knew the result at the beginning.

People have birth, aging, illness and death, which itself is a kind of natural circulation. When they get something, they need to pay something else.

If a civilization wants to make progress, it must be paid, and the future of civilization must be in the hands of young people.

According to Zhao Qingfeng's own words, "it's very lucky to be able to live to see the current achievements of the new civilization and slowly get on the right track."

There are about 1600 retired elderly people in the same group. In fact, most of them are the former high-level civilized people, including several former vice captains, as well as a group of experts and scholars.

There are also benefits of retiring to the second tier. At least, I have a lot of leisure in my work. I no longer need to spend so much time and energy, and I can enjoy the retirement life of the elderly peacefully.

New civilization has a very advanced pension system. All the 1600 retirees gather in a pension community with a special robot convalescent team.

When they have nothing to do, they can take a look at the latest technological progress, experience children's campus life, and educate the next generation. Occasionally, they can attend the high-level meetings of the whole civilization, or engage in some intellectual work. Human intelligence declines much more slowly than physical strength

This kind of retirement life is also interesting.

What's more, a large number of internal policies of the new civilization are determined by calculation. Officials' property is open and their power is controlled effectively.

In order to ensure fairness and justice, even the appointment and removal of some middle-level cadres are determined by the standard of "civilization contribution", not by senior leaders.

There are also quite a lot of mathematical talents learning this aspect. How to better measure a person's "contribution to civilization" and how to be as fair as possible is the main research direction of these mathematical talents.

Of course, the top leader like Zhang Yuan is elected by the middle-level cadres. In case of incalculable or emergency situations, he will have some special rights.

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In addition to the changes in personnel appointment and removal, there is a second major event. The birth rate of the entire civilized population began to slowly decline, from 5% in the beginning to 1.2% at present.

5% of the population growth rate, it is too high, if put in the earth civilization, it is equivalent to each couple to have five children!Now that the population base has reached 10 million, it is not appropriate to increase the population wildly. The absolute growth rate of 1.2% in a year is 120000 children, much more than the original 5%.

Even though the current population is still not enough for the development of all walks of life, there is no longer the constant constraint of the original. Some simple service industries and handicraft industries can be completely replaced by intelligent robots.

In addition, the emergence of the "fully automatic universal factory" has greatly improved the automatic production capacity and reduced the number of industrial population required. The technology at the peak of the second level civilization is indeed more powerful than that of the earth civilization. After 30 years of hard reverse engineering, the places that can be cracked are almost cracked. These technologies from alien civilization began to be used in all walks of life.

Therefore, under the condition of basically meeting the demand, in order to maintain the long-term health of the population, and taking into account the current higher and higher life expectancy, the future population growth rate will be controlled to about 0.5% - 1%.

More importantly According to the calculation of new civilization historiography, the population of less than 50 million is a relatively healthy state after the whole administrative system is put into operation.

At present, the dynamic planned economy is still adopted instead of the traditional market economy. The planned economy brings about a very strong ability of civilized action, but it also requires the government to have a very strong ability of overall planning. Otherwise, it is easy to develop unevenly like the Soviet Union.

One million people, 10 million people and 100 million people are calculated in a completely different way.

According to Zhang Yuan's estimation, a population of 50 million will be the limit of the current algorithm. If we venture beyond this population size, the whole civilization will inevitably be affected by Parkinson's law.

Parkinson's law is another name for "bureaucracy", which is known as one of the three major discoveries of western culture in the 20th century. It can also be called "officialdom disease", "organizational paralysis" or "big enterprise disease".

The main meaning is that because of the selfishness of human nature, mediocre managers will tend to find more mediocre people as assistants, so as not to affect their status. By analogy, a system of overstaffed organizations, overstaffing, bickering and inefficiency is formed.

At present, the data monitoring system of new civilization is very powerful, which basically eliminates this phenomenon, but the population it can control is limited. If the population increases by a large margin, the loopholes of this system can always be found, and the organizational efficiency of the whole civilization will decline.

What's more, in some areas, the long-term lack of population is conducive to the vitality of the economy and the long-term struggle of citizens.

The reason why we start to control the growth rate when the population is more than 10 million is that we have to be forward-looking enough to control the growth rate when the population is 30 million to 50 million, which will easily lead to the aging of the population structure.

For the realization of the new civilization of robot public support, controlling the population growth rate is a very simple thing. It is enough to give birth to fewer babies from the artificial uterus.

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