Chapter 3320 Bloody New City (43)

Chapter 3294 Bloody New City (43)

Of course, rich people would not be so kind to give money to the Pale Knight directly. Municipal funds are all entered into the municipal government’s account in the name of donations. And those employees who had previously strike also returned. This is equivalent to an agent sent by elites who are in charge of the money.

But, don’t worry about who is in charge of the money, at least you have money in your account.

Moreover, can the agent who controls this money really make selfless contributions and burn themselves, not get a single point from it, and not need to improve the quality of their working environment?

This is certainly impossible. No one is a saint. People who do such things have no faith and are not here to serve the public. Since I have all the money in mind, why can’t I buy the best quality toilet paper for myself with the city government’s money? Why can't you install two air conditioners in the office? Why can't I hire two more cleaners to help me clean the workstation?

Most of these young leaders who were placed in the municipal government by elites think so and do the same.

People from all departments are also mutually beneficial. You are responsible for selecting coffee brands, picking the most expensive one, and then giving each office the most professional coffee machine. Then I will book a business trip hotel for you, so of course I will book the best one, and I will pick you up and drop off with you by car. Everyone was comfortable and got things done.

As for how much it costs, who cares? If this money is not spent, it will not fall into my pocket. I can spend more and get more from it.

But there is one problem involved, that is, everyone can take it, so that the atmosphere will be harmonious and pleasant. If someone doesn't take it, it will be a little embarrassed.

And if this person is the mayor, the situation will be even more ugly. When the Pale Knight questioned the necessity of a coffee equipment in her office that was more professional than in a cafe for the sixth time, Ms. Weiss couldn't help it.

Ms. Weiss put her hands in front of her, stood at the door and looked at the Pale Knight and said, "I have been in the city government for 36 years and I am about to retire. You are the best mayor I have ever met."

"So I hope you understand that the general public in this world is not as smart as you, but not stupid. Although it is not so kind, it is not all bad enough to lose humanity."

"You have strict requirements on yourself, but if you put this requirement on us, we can't do it. Not everyone can sacrifice so much for justice and justice like you."

“We are willing to facilitate others within our capacity and to appropriately help those who are worse than us to meet the realization of our self-worth. But we can’t do more, and you can’t always count on it. ”

"If you want to continue to be the best mayor, you cannot always ask us to make selfless contributions, but you must learn to accept and utilize our extremely limited kindness that belongs to the petty citizens. This will allow the municipal government to operate well, Good for you and the city.”

After Ms. Weis left, the Pale Knight thought a lot. He is a person who is very good at reflecting on himself and gradually realizes his problems.

He is a person who takes it for granted: standing up for justice and sacrificing himself to help the poor.

This may be because he used to be a clown. Although he has no memory of a clown, he uses the clown's body after all. He felt that he should be responsible for the evil things the clown had done before, so he had this Jesus-like sacrificial thought.

He is undoubtedly arrogant. He felt that through his firm sacrifice, he could save others and had a very strong savior complex.

From another perspective, he actually believes that people in this city cannot save themselves.

This kind of thought is actually common in people's lives. When people see the weak, they will feel that they are already so weak and pitiful. If they don’t help them, they will definitely die.

But this is actually a subjective conjecture, lacking strong evidence and logical thinking.

This is a typical misunderstanding of thinking - no matter whether he will die after no one saves him, people can save him. So few people spend their efforts to carefully investigate the real dilemma faced by the rescued person and his ability to save himself. But this is actually very important.

If the above investigation is not done, it is very likely that the helping others will not be more helpful. In severe cases, it may even do bad things with good intentions, causing the tragedy between the farmer and the snake.

Pale Knight had similar ideas before. No matter what the difficulties Gotham people are facing now, whether they have tried to save themselves or how they have saved themselves, he can save them. He also partially succeeded.

It is because of this success that he ignored the above problems even more, so that when his rescue operation stagnated, he didn't know which direction to work.

Many disciplines in this world do not have the ultimate answer. Just like mathematics does not have a formula for unity of everything, physics does not have a cosmic truth, and chemistry does not have an ether factor.

They don’t even have the ultimate problem, and none of them will declare the problem that has reached the end as long as they are completely solved.

But sociology does. The ultimate question of sociology is how to make the world without poor people. In summary, it is poverty alleviation.

This is an ultimate complex question that covers all the knowledge of sociology and all its associated disciplines. The threshold for studying this issue is very high because there are too many pre-problems before this issue, such as how to survive, how to stabilize society, how to give birth to a group of people who are capable of poverty alleviation, etc.

The theme of the Pale Knight is “Save,” but the word is a little too broad. After all, the elites in this city don’t need to be saved by him, and the target group is basically the poor. Then what he is doing now can also be called "poverty alleviation".

There is an essential difference between the two. If what he did was regarded as a Jesus-style "salvation" in mythology, then what he did was perfect. He stood up, received support from people, achieved certain results, from motivation to results, which was very consistent with the definition of the savior.

But if he looks at what he does from the perspective of "poverty alleviation", he can be said to have done a mess.

Because he did not do any social research, nor even understood the details of the ultimate complex problem, he just did some traditional definitions of "poverty alleviation".

At first glance, it seems very correct: increase taxes for the rich, reduce taxes for the poor, strengthen social security, build welfare facilities, provide more benefits to vulnerable groups, strengthen control of various types of enterprises, and avoid capital expansion too fast.

But if you look closely, you will find that these policies have a certain feudal meaning and are relatively backward. It’s not that this is not good, but that it has not taken advantage of any advantages of modern society, and it is the tax-free and tax-free system.

Every dynasty of a great Eastern country has done it, and it has not avoided their destiny. Some people even have done this in modern times. Although Roosevelt Jr. successfully renewed his life for the United States, it was precisely because it was not advanced enough that it eventually collapsed completely.

The main reason why these policies are good but not long-lasting is that the governors stand at a high position and do what they think is good for the poor.

These things may indeed be good for the poor, but not for the poor in every region and every situation. It may also be good in the early stage, but it will be bad in the later stage. While being good to one poor person, it also harms another poor person. Even seemingly being good to the poor, it is still good to the rich in the end.

This unevenness caused by this execution gap is actually exploitation in another sense, allowing one group of poor people to stand up on the heads of another group of poor people and become new exploiters. In essence, it is not about poverty alleviation, but about battle royale. In the end, it is still a zero-sum game rather than a win-win situation.

Sometimes, this inequality is not because there is too little material, and if you help this, you can't help that, but because of the lack of investigation, relying solely on the subjective conjectures of high-ranking people, and thinking about strategies.

It is also very simple to avoid this situation, that is, to fully investigate, go deep into the bottom, and adapt to local conditions. The resources required in this way may be less than the average big money, spending the least money to do the most.

The Pale Knight has been thinking about whether he really lacks understanding of the poor.

In the past, he felt that he was not from a rich man, and he also climbed up from the bottom. How could he not understand the poor?

But now he found that this is not the case. The rich are the same, while the poor are the poor, each has their own way of poverty.

I am poor because I am from a small town without foundation, I am thin and bullied. Then why do Gotham have so many local poor and strong men?

I am poor because I have never been to college and have never received higher education, and I really can't find any good job. Then why are there so many homeless people who have been to college in Gotham?

I am poor because of mental illness and often I can’t control myself, so I can’t live a normal life. But there are more poor people in Gotham who are mentally normal. Why are they poor?

Not only the poor, but also all the employees who work in the municipal government can be called middle-class. Why haven’t they become elites? Why are you still poor compared to the top rich people?

When the Pale Knight really began to think about these issues, he realized that what people often say is true or that the truth is derived by practicing is actually limited.

No mistakes, one song, one post, one content, one reading!

What you can see may not be understood, what you understand may not be experienced personally, and what you have experienced may not be universal.

If there is something that makes sense, it is "no investigation, no right to speak."

Now that the city government has just resumed operations, the Pale Knight cannot leave too far. He decided to start from his side.

Ms. Weiss has a very good temper. When the Pale Knight had just taken over the city government, he gave him a lot of help. No matter who she is, at least she is willing to remind the Pale Knight.

And the culprit who asked her to remind her... the Pale Knight turned to look at the coffee machine. This thing fills the kitchen of the lounge and looks more like an industrial assembly line.

The Pale Knight wanted to break his head, but he couldn't think of the necessity of this thing existed here. But since Ms. Weiss reminded him of his dissatisfaction, it means she thinks this thing is necessary.

Where is it necessary?

The Pale Knight couldn't think of it, so he called his assistant and asked him to investigate in detail how this overly professional coffee machine came here and what is its state.

The assistant came back shortly after a while.

His face was calm when he handed over the report, but when the Pale Knight saw it, he sprayed a mouthful of coffee.

He looked at the assistant in shock and said, "It's just such a coffee machine, with twelve mechanical repair workers and four cleaners?"

"Yes. This is the commercial multi-enter espresso machine produced by Synesso, their latest Victoria Retro X series with the highest temperature stability and product quality. And to make this machine produce the most perfect coffee, Need professional maintenance. There are not many people."

The Pale Knight accepted this statement very, very reluctantly. He turned a page and said, "It's okay to keep the maintenance and cleaning staff, but what's going on with the history consultant?"

"Oh, this is to be able to provide you with professional advice when you are using this machine to entertain guests and tell them the history of Italian coffee and coffee machine brand history."

The pale knight opened his mouth, and now he couldn't even force it. He pointed to the line below and said, "Okay, forget about this. Then what is the supporting equipment of this professional disinfection room?"

"Mr. Mayor, such a large machine cannot be cleaned entirely here. It must be disassembled for professional cleaning and disinfection. The disinfection room is prepared for this."

"Then forget it. But this machine was obviously sent by yesterday, and it has consumed 100,000 liters of disinfectant water..."

The assistant coughed twice and said, "Maybe there was such a coffee machine in the municipal building before, but you haven't used it."

"No," said the Pale Knight, "I auctioned everything in the original municipal building. If there was such a coffee machine, I wouldn't have known?"

"Are you sure it's everything?"

The Pale Knight was really stopped. The things were shipped by Schiller, how could he know if they were everything?

So he had to call Schiller and said, "Hey, Schiller? Have you ever seen a coffee machine with a brand starting with S when you demolished the municipal building?"

"What?... Oh, that one, I've seen it. The thing was accidentally broken when loading the car and sold it as scrap iron."

The assistant immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but then his eyes turned again.