The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 98: It’s not meaningless, it’s just not enough

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After resurrecting from the dead after a hundred years, Isaac finally calmed down and returned to his hometown. After witnessing that the world had indeed changed, but also not changed.

He finally began to have doubts about his past career and the value of his life.

Annan is not surprised by this.

It would be better to say that, like Hugo and Salvatore, those who are willing to pay any price, do not pray for certain results, and burn out their completely good souls for others... are the opposite. Very few.

That is a qualification worthy of a saint.

But it is impossible for Annan to use Salvatore's standards to demand Isaac.

After all, it is human nature to hope that your efforts will be rewarded.

"As for what you said...this country has changed a lot in the past hundred years, but it seems like nothing has changed. This is actually quite normal."

Annan held the wine glass with both hands, took a sip and replied softly: "Because what you have changed is 'a lot', not 'all'."

"...not all?"

"That's right. In the final analysis, hoping to directly improve society and bring about social progress through 'only increasing productivity' is a rather idealistic expectation in itself. It is a kind of productivity theory."

Annan said calmly: "Whether it is the Jade Tower or the Zedi Black Tower, the technology you have developed has indeed promoted the evolution of the times and brought great convenience to people.

"But why can you notice that the world has indeed changed?"

"...because I haven't been back for a long time."

Issac took a deep breath: "I haven't been back here for more than one hundred and forty years... no, it should be more than one hundred and eighty years. It's like getting along with your own children day and night, it's hard to tell Has he gotten fatter or taller?"

"In other words, you also know that no matter what new technology it is, it is difficult to feed it back to the entire society immediately."

"Well. After all, it takes a lot of time to spread news, and people will not change their lifestyles easily. Invention and civilian use, civilian use and popularization, popularization and habits are all different concepts."

As a wizard of the Transformation Sect, Isaac still understands this situation.

Transformation wizards who have just graduated often hope that they can change the entire world immediately.

Whenever they develop a new technology, they are eager to promote it immediately, preferably for everyone to use it immediately... without realizing what the most urgent needs of the people are, and whether the people are really It costs money to buy this thing.

When they find that no one cares about their invention and no one understands it, they inevitably feel a sense of underappreciation.

Therefore, it is also one of the jobs of the mentors in the wizard tower to inoculate young wizards in advance before they graduate to prevent their mentality from collapsing.

"Then you should actually be able to understand...the changes in production relations caused by the improvement of productivity, whether at the time level or at the spatial level, the changes will not be average and take effect immediately."

Annan said slowly: "People have the habit of 'following habits'. Unless necessary, they will not realize that this production relationship needs to change. Over a long period of time, the 'habits' formed will Quite fixed and will not change easily.

"As long as productivity continues to develop, society will change sooner or later. Although you feel that Denis Sawyer has not changed at all compared to the past... but is this really not your subjective feeling? It really has not changed at all. , In addition to the improvement of the city's appearance, has it not changed for the better or a little bit for the worse?"

"...That's not true."

By this time Isaac had already calmed down.

He was not an impetuous young man to begin with. When he heard "This change will not be even and effective immediately," he actually realized what his problem was.

But he still didn't know how to deal with this problem.

So he could only think carefully following Annan's words: "More than a hundred years ago, there would be multiple pirate gangs competing for power with each other in each city. For larger cities, there would even be new ones every day. New gangs are born, and old gangs die.

"But now...it seems that the Zipper Gang has completely controlled 'Black Sail Town'. There are no piles of corpses appearing in the streets and alleys."

"That's right."

Annan nodded: "But that's not because they have more conscience or morality than in the past... but because they have artillery, and because the size and technology of ships have increased.

"This makes it difficult for pirates to fight each other as gangs. When one party gains an advantage, it will quickly turn it into a victory; and after they are completely victorious, they will find ways to consolidate themselves. 'Domination' in these port cities, which in turn suppressed the formation of other gangs.

"Isn't the relationship between these pirates changed because of these new technologies? But is this change caused by the technology of the 'Pirate Relationship Modifier'?"

…Yes.

Issac's pupils, which had dimmed before, gradually brightened again.

He realized the problem.

The inventions of Zedi Black Tower are all good things that can "immediately improve people's lives."

For example, convenient and easy-to-use wound medicine, cheap and safe lighting technology, papermaking and printing technology that can be popularized, underground equipment groups that can explore tunnels safer and more labor-saving...

These things are said to have not changed society... but have they really accomplished nothing?

——Not so. ~IndoMTL.com~ In Isaac’s day, a book required at least one gold coin to start. Those books were all hand-copied, and it was impossible for poor people to even buy them. Because the price cannot be reduced at all...the labor cost of the scribe and the cost of paper are difficult to ignore.

Nowadays, with the popularization of paper making and printing technology, books have become cheap. One or two silver coins can buy a book, and there is a premium... In Noah, if you want to take away a newspaper, what is required is not the purchase of a silver coin, but a "donation."

If you want to read books or newspapers, you don't even have to spend money - every city has a public library for the public. It only requires a relatively small amount of money to "buy a monthly card" and enter it for reading.

And this is only possible because printing costs have dropped significantly.

It is precisely because of the development of lighting technology that it is possible to have such a thing as "street lights" today. With this thing, the nighttime crime rate has also dropped significantly.

"What you do is not meaningless."

Annan said softly: "It's just...not enough. Far from enough."