Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 286: Another thirty years

Time flies, the sun and the moon are like shuttles...

It is 5534. The 30th year after the Gliese people left on the "Earth Age", the 74th year that humans came to this star field...

In the following 30 years, a total of four major events have occurred.

The first is the changes in personnel. The gray-haired Captain Zhao is a little uncomfortable with his work ability due to the decline of energy, and he is ready to retreat to the second line...

The position of captain can be said to be the highest position of the entire civilization, responsible for the overall planning of contacts and cooperation between various departments. Since the development of civilization is still in the preliminary stage, the captain has to dabble in all walks of life. This alone is very difficult. If you don’t even understand the report submitted below, what kind of captain will you be? ?

In addition, there is only one political party in the entire civilization. In order to ensure the continuity and effectiveness of the policy, each term of this post is 20 years (according to the life extension method of the earth civilization, the theoretical average life expectancy can reach 322 years) , The current constitution has not yet stipulated a specific number of re-election terms.

Unless the captain makes serious mistakes during his tenure, he will be dismissed by the Science Council.

In this handover, Zhang Yuan from the New Civilization Development Department is also the most suitable candidate. No matter in terms of qualifications, prestige, or ability, there is no more suitable successor than him.

Relevant voting is easily passed.

When the transfer of power was handed over to this junior, Zhao Qingfeng breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the burden on his body was just let go...

This mood is very subtle...

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

It is a great honor that, with the struggle of generations, the New Civilization School has grown from a small seed to a real towering tree.

Recalling this period of history, Zhao Qingfeng sighed. When they set out from the earth, they were almost the same age, but now, he is almost the oldest among the millions of people. Because he had already taken over this position during the hibernation period, dozens of sober periods more than others.

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

When you get older and then extend your life, the effect will be much worse. People in their 20s and 30s are fundamentally different from those in their 50s and 60s who take injections and medicine for maintenance.

So, compared with Zhang Yuan, Li Zhendong and others, Zhao Qingfeng's rate of aging has also accelerated, and he has lived a short life for more than a hundred years.

However, there is nothing to complain about this matter. I already knew the result.

People are born, old, sick, and die. This in itself is a kind of natural cycle. After gaining some things, you also need to pay for some other things.

If a civilization wants to progress, someone has to pay, 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 see the current achievements of the new civilization alive and slowly get on the right track.”

The same group of retired elderly people, probably more than 1,600 people, actually age faster, most of them are the original senior civilizations, including several former deputy captains, as well as a group of experts and scholars, etc. .

Retiring to the second line also has the benefits of retreating to the second line. At least I have a lot of leisure at work, and I don’t need so much labor and effort. I can enjoy the retirement life of the elderly in peace.

New Civilization has a very advanced pension system. These 1,600 retirees are all gathered in a pension community with a dedicated robotic recuperation team.

These elderly people are all idle people. When they are free, they can take a look at the latest technological developments, experience the children’s campus life, and educate the next generation; occasionally attend high-level meetings of the entire civilization, or In terms of engaging in some intellectual work, the rate of human intelligence declines much slower than physical stamina...

This kind of retirement life also seems interesting.

What's more, a large number of internal policies of the new civilization are determined through calculations. The property of officials is disclosed, and their power is also very effectively controlled.

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" and not designated by senior leaders.

There are also quite a lot of mathematics talents in this area. How to better measure a person's "civilization contribution", if it is as fair and fair as possible, is the main research direction of these mathematics people.

Of course, the highest leader like Zhang Yuan is still voted by middle-level cadres. He will have some special rights under uncalculated or emergency situations.

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In addition to changes in personnel appointments and removals, there is a second major event. The birth rate of the entire civilized population has begun to slowly decline, from 5% at the beginning to the current 1.2%.

The population growth rate of 5% is really too high. If it is placed on the earth, it is equivalent to 5 children for every couple!

Now that the population base has reached 10 million, it is not appropriate to increase the population violently. The base figure has gone up, and the absolute growth value of 1.2% in one year is 120,000 children, which is much more than the original 5%.

Even if the current population is still not enough for the development of various industries, there are no existing constraints that exist all the time. Some simple service industries and handicraft industries can be fully replaced by intelligent robots.

Together with the emergence of the "fully automatic universal factory", the automated production capacity has been greatly increased and the number of industrial population required has been reduced. The technology at the pinnacle of the secondary civilization is indeed stronger than that of the earth civilization. After 30 years of arduous reverse engineering, the places that can be cracked are almost cracked. These technologies derived from alien civilizations began to be used in all walks of life.

So, in the case of basically meeting the needs, in order to maintain long-term population health, and taking into account the current increasing average life expectancy, the future population growth rate will be controlled to about 0.5%-1%.

More importantly...According to the calculations of New Civilization History, the population of less than 50 million is a relatively healthy state after the entire administrative system is put into operation.

Currently, the dynamic planned economy ~IndoMTL.com~ is still adopted instead of the traditional market economy. The civilized action brought by the planned economy is very strong, but it also requires the government to have a very strong overall planning ability, otherwise it is easy to be like Like the Soviet Union, development is uneven.

One million people, ten million people and 100 million people are calculated in completely different ways.

According to Zhang Yuan's estimation, the population of 50 million will be the limit of the current algorithm. If the population size is exceeded, the entire civilization will inevitably be affected by "Parkinson's Law."

Parkinson's Law is another name for "bureaucracy", and is known as one of the three major discoveries of Western culture in the 20th century. It can also be called "official disease", "tissue paralysis" or "large enterprise disease". ".

The main meaning is that because of human selfishness, mediocre managers tend to look for more mediocre people as assistants, so as not to affect their status. By analogy, a system of bloated institutions, superfluous people, wrangling with each other, and low efficiency has been formed.

The current data monitoring system of New Civilization is very powerful and basically eliminates this phenomenon, but the population it can control is limited. If the population increases substantially, loopholes in this system can always be found, and the organizational efficiency of the entire civilization will decrease instead.

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

The reason why we started to control the growth rate with a population of more than 10 million is because the population thing must be sufficiently forward-looking. Waiting for 30 to 50 million people to control it will easily lead to the aging of the population structure.

For a new civilization that realizes the public support of robots, it is a very simple matter to control the population growth rate. It is enough to give birth to fewer babies from artificial wombs.

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