Chapter 1795 up your alley (4)

If the time turner is set back to the Middle Ages, which was full of wars and plagues, the man of the family died, and his property was inherited by his widow, what if she was deceived by a "little boyfriend"?

Some people like to marry widows because the widow inherited her husband's property, plus her own dowry, which adds up to a large amount of money.

Therefore, instead of taking advantage of outsiders, it is better to take advantage of your own brothers. In the 18th and 19th centuries, under the influence of church law, property inheritance in England was divided into two parts: movable property inheritance and immovable property inheritance. British movable property has always followed the principle of divided inheritance, and inheritance is divided into

Three shares: wife, children, and the church each inherit one share, of which one-third given to the church is called the "share of the deceased."

Real estate inheritance is land inheritance, and the primogeniture system is implemented. At that time, people's main property was real estate, and movables generally only accounted for a small proportion of personal property. In addition, there were limited inheritance rights in British society at that time. That is, for families without sons, their real estate

Inherited by male relatives.

On the contrary, the throne succession law does not have such provisions. Both sons and daughters can inherit, but the priority of sons must precede that of daughters.

Furthermore, who will inherit the throne is not decided by the British king himself, but by the Parliament. This is how the Hanover royal family came to the UK from Germany to inherit the throne.

If women are forced to get married in order to have children, and the government introduces laws to cancel women's property rights and inheritance rights, then mankind will go back to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the next two hundred years, and mankind will be busy in vain.

The parliament controlled by businessmen and factory owners agreed to allow women to own wealth, which is not entirely for the so-called equality of men and women. Everyone knows that the order of consumers is women, children, old people, dogs, men. In the country of mercantilism,

Consumption is as important as production.

The asceticism practiced by the church hindered the development of business. After breaking through the shackles of the church, free trade began to prevail. However, the free market economic model cannot solve all problems.

In the 20 years before the Great Depression, there was no sign of decline in the United States. Various industries were developing rapidly, showing a prosperous scene.

However, one-third of the gross national product is concentrated in the hands of the richest 5%, and 16 chaebols across the country control 53% of the gross national product.

This is a phenomenon that will inevitably occur when the free market moves to a certain stage. 87% of ordinary Americans only own 8% of the wealth, and 60% of families are living at a subsistence level.

When money is tight, men drink and women buy lipstick. At that time, it has nothing to do with the socio-economic prosperity. It is purely because they cannot afford other more expensive and better things, so they can only buy these to give themselves a little sweetness.

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But as a result, no one bought the things produced by the factory. Hoover believed that the free market could find its own way. During Roosevelt's New Deal, minimum wages and maximum working hours were stipulated, and working hours and wages were what factory owners struggled to do.

Exploiting and exploiting workers.

Before Roosevelt's New Deal, in order to solve the problem of overcapacity and insufficient consumption power without raising wages, loan consumption was proposed. The predators thought that through loans, wouldn't people have money to buy goods?

As a result, various credit consumption advertisements flooded the streets, which indeed became a shot in the arm to "solve the problem." Soon credit became a popular way of consumption, and anything could be borrowed for consumption.

The predators obtained funds to continue to expand production capacity. As production capacity increased, stock prices continued to rise. People who dreamed of getting rich overnight threw money into the stock market, and when they ran out of money, they turned to credit.

However, a family that over-purchases something will have to live frugally and repay the loan in the next period. As a result, the effect of the "boost shot" will soon disappear, and consumption will be even lower, while enterprises

The scale of production has not been reduced.

According to the rules of the free market, prices must be lowered when supply exceeds demand.

In fact, both industry and agriculture are destroying goods they cannot sell to ensure the "balance" of market supply and demand, without lowering prices anyway.

In fact, there is another solution to the increase in food prices after the production is reduced. It turns out that 100% of the food can feed 100% of the people. If the production is reduced by 5%, then 5% of the population will starve to death, which can solve the problem of food explosion.

But everyone has a desire to survive, and no one wants to be among the 5% of people who starve to death.

In order to survive, people will pawn their favorite things they bought with loans and exchange them for money to buy daily necessities. Of course, some people choose to take risks and put down their briefcases and pick up their violin cases. There are fewer office workers typing typewriters on the street and more

There are many "violinists".

The unsaleable products caused financial risks, and the stock plummeted and was about to collapse. Wall Street's giants spent 240 million to protect the market, hoping to turn the tide like JP Morgan did last time.

American individual heroism makes them think that they have superhuman abilities. If the money had been used to pay workers earlier, this would not be the case. Can the crisis accumulated over the past few years be solved overnight?

It would be great if the wife could be sold like in the 18th century, and the debt could be reduced to some extent.

Some French aristocrats were also selling antique furniture to supplement their family income. They encountered the same situation as Merope, selling to middlemen at low prices, and the middlemen then sold them at auctions at high prices.

For men, the Victorian era is worth remembering, but women actually don’t miss it that much. They prefer the imperial era because of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, and Darcy and Mr. Bentley.

But many of the men they meet are prone to alcoholism and domestic violence. Fortunately, factories are recruiting workers and women can control their own wealth. Who is willing to marry such a man before they are desperate?

The money was not her father's inheritance, it was earned by herself in the textile workshop. In fact, there were some girls who worked to earn dowries in the 18th century. They were young and didn't think so, although they also faced the same oppression and exploitation as male workers.

The fate of female workers is even cheaper. There are only female workers and child workers in textile factories, but having a job is better than not having a job. In Protestant ethics, it is shameful to do nothing without a job. Didn’t a judge say that men

Why does my friend let his girlfriend eat and drink as much as possible instead of going out to work?

Although the free market was gained by overthrowing the church, it also led to a decrease in population. Things like getting married and having children were previously the responsibility of the church. They were originally "shepherds," and of course shepherds wanted to have more calves.

They will not listen to the church's advice. Men's wages are high, competition is fierce, and there are many unemployed people. Fortunately, they can go out to fight and solve some social problems.

However, after the First World War, more men died in the war, and the population recovered slowly. During the Second World War, there was the Battle of Dunkirk, and all the supplies were gone, but the people had to be withdrawn.

But these are not the most serious problems.

Compared with other countries in the EU, France has a relatively high fertility rate and relatively good welfare. With the beginning of commercialization and de-Christianization, in commercial civilization, contemporary art has aggressively occupied the areas vacated by Christianity and Christianity-centered culture.

At that time, there were other faiths also occupying this "market".

For example, the resurgence of druids, Satan, vampires, and the currently relatively niche astral belief.

Business society rationalizes competition, whether it is healthy competition or vicious competition, while traditional religion aims to create harmony.

The astral body was discovered by pharmacists. Those glass bottles contained ashes of flowers and plants. As long as the bottle was placed on a burning candle, the air in the bottle would rise when heated. At this time, you can see the ashes begin to float.

Get up, and then see a black cloud, which will divide itself into several parts. The ashes of the rose will eventually form a rose, and the ashes of the clover will form a clover.

When parents accompany their children, they will point to the clouds in the sky and ask their children what it looks like? A dog or a human face.

As long as the person looking at it thinks it looks like it, even if a star explodes, it will look like a rose, such as the Rose Nebula in the constellation Unicorn.

Its petals are the nursery where stars are born. After stars are born, there are planets. Each of us is a child of stars born from the dust of the dead universe.

Regarding the understanding of a religion, different people have different understandings and know different things. Those who came to the party did not know much, but the young man operating the quantum collider in the Louvre definitely knew

Much more than them.

You only need to imagine that if there is an operational error or a computer virus, the collider underground in the Louvre will transform from a scientific research instrument into a nuclear bomb.

The Montsourry Reservoir, the "Temple of Water" next door, is usually closed due to safety concerns. The Montsourry Reservoir is still one of the five major reservoirs in Paris. If someone poisons it, the French will

I don’t like the habit of boiling water to drink. Once it is mixed with bacteria such as cholera, even if it does not cause a large number of casualties like in 1830, it is still a safety accident and will have extremely negative consequences.

At that time, people no longer bought bottled purified water for the purpose of improving their lives. After hurricanes and floods, the bottled purified water on supermarket shelves would soon be sold out. This was based on water safety considerations. Contemporary people feel that

The clean water that you can drink for granted may be a scarce resource in the future, and the wastewater produced by industrial pollution cannot be drank. Whether it is a conspiracy theory or a groundless worry, the competition for water resources may become a war to replace oil. Anyway, the United States

People came to rob it, but the French government and Danone refused to fight. The world's largest drinking water company was acquired. After forming a monopoly, it had pricing power, and it was easier to rob other people's companies than to start from scratch.

If the "Pearl Plan" is implemented and Alstom, the electric power company, is acquired by General Motors of the United States, the French can only save electricity to prevent their hard-earned money from falling into the pockets of foreigners.

But in this way, everyone will have to live a life of "candlelight dinner".

Who can imagine the Eiffel Tower and the Grand Palais without lighting effects.

When a once brightly lit city returns to darkness, it may not be because of a natural disaster.

People turn off the lights and light candles, and they can still laugh happily under the candlelight.

This is an attitude of resistance. It is energy-saving and environmentally friendly. It is cooler in the tunnel than on the ground and saves money on air conditioning. As long as you are not afraid of being next to the bones of the dead.

In the past, in the wilderness of Liverpool, England, there was a Salter family that produced cotton fabrics by the River Aire. They treated the workers who worked for them very well, but they went bankrupt because of blind expansion.

A wrong decision will lead to a situation where everything is lost. Those giants who seem to have solved the problem of overcapacity with loans have actually exacerbated social problems, and even some original millionaires have been involved.

In 1914, Ford raised workers' wages, which led to the rapid development of the American automobile industry and indirectly boosted the taxi business. Investing in taxis was originally a promising industry. During the Great Depression, workers could not afford to eat. How could it be possible?

How about taking a taxi if you have spare money?

Not long ago, a new Hollywood movie was released in the cinema called "The Iron Fist Man", which tells the story of a retired professional boxer who returns to the ring.

If not for the pressure of life, who would compete with young people after retirement?

This movie, which was shown in the cinema, was now being played in a small underground cave in Paris. The applause of the audience and the realistic effects of punches made the moviegoers excited.

There's no better place to watch this movie than the Catacombs.

Death causes the muscles on the boxers on the screen to disappear and rot and turn into dust, while resurrection causes the bones to be re-wrapped with muscles and become a body, making them come alive again, just like playing a movie in reverse.

Look at those boxers, this is power, the youthful strength that aging bodies crave.

Just imagining that old body regaining that kind of strength is wonderful.

Enjoy this moment as if you are the champion lifting the trophy in front of all the eyes, bells and cheers.
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