"He's right, he can't care less without Schiller..."
Schiller raised his head and murmured to himself, then leaned over and coughed a few more times, then turned to Eddie and said: "Ahem, my current situation...is due to sustained traumatic stress.
obstacle……"
"I am a person... who cannot live in the society of ordinary people. It will always remind me that I am incompatible with them... I have not done what many people expect me to do..."
Schiller squinted and his eyes became a little sleepy. He felt a dull pain on the side of his neck, but there was actually no wound there. The real wound existed in his soul.
Every Schiller will share the disease and trauma suffered by Schiller equally, and no one can escape. And if one takes the initiative to tear the wound and make it bleed, it is impossible not to bear the corresponding price.
A simple withdrawal reaction would not have caused him to fall into such a delirious state. The culprit was still the wound he had caused by attacking Moonlight Schiller in order to paralyze his superego.
The constant alternation of emotional withdrawal reactions and traumatic stress reactions caused by previous psychological shadows made Schiller seem to have lost the ability to take care of himself.
Eddie, however, focused on Schiller's hands. As a reporter, observing the opponent's movements and demeanor has almost become an occupational disease for him.
Eddie saw Schiller holding his neck and thought he had a stiff neck. After all, he slept on the table last night.
But then, Eddie discovered that Schiller's movements didn't look like rubbing his neck, but more like pressing hard, as if to stop the bleeding from the wound.
But there were no wounds on the side of Schiller's neck. Eddie recalled some of the theories he had read and suspected that Schiller might have been injured, which resulted in the symptoms of phantom pain.
In this case, Eddie felt that he could not force Schiller. After all, if the doctor himself was not in a good condition and continued to treat patients, he would only harm others and himself.
Eddie sighed and stood up, planning to go in and see Brod's condition, but at this time, Schiller stood up with some difficulty, passed him, and walked into the house first.
Eddie grabbed him from behind and said, "What are you going to do? If you really feel uncomfortable, I will send you back first..."
Schiller shook his head and stood in the shadow of the corner of the cramped bungalow and said: "I heard what you said before... You said you wanted to stay here and record the stories of ordinary people in the changing times..."
"When I felt very uncomfortable, you handed me a cigarette and let me stay at your house, so we are friends." Schiller coughed twice, sniffed hard, and spoke in a hoarse voice.
The voice said: "I'm happy to help my friend. Can you get me a pen and paper?"
Eddie looked at Schiller's face and found that he seemed to have recovered a lot. He was no longer so dull and confused. Eddie didn't know where this change came from, but since Schiller could help solve the problem, it would be great.
but.
So Eddie went to Bob and got from him a pencil that his daughter used to draw and a piece of drawing paper with scribbles on the back.
When Bob handed these things out, he seemed a little embarrassed. He scratched his head and said, "I'm really sorry, we don't have anything good here..."
Eddie waved to him and said: "The psychiatrist doesn't like other people being present when he is seeing a doctor. Let's go out and talk. Or, if your daughter is not scared, can I go and talk to her?"
Bob stretched his neck and glanced towards the back of the house, and then said: "Oh, she is not shy, she is still quite lively, but she just took the medicine I brought back and is already asleep now."
The two of them walked together and sat down on the threshold of the edge of the bungalow. Bob took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed one to Eddie. The two of them smoked while chatting about the current situation of the unemployed.
"There are quite a few people like Brod and I. You know, the transportation capabilities of shuttles and air trains are so powerful that they are even better than driving by yourself. We all know how congested the city center of New York was.
People want to drive, but they are powerless."
"Even if you can afford a car, insurance, and maintenance on time, you can't change the traffic jam situation during peak hours."
"Before my wife and I were divorced, we were typical middle-class people. We would go shopping in the supermarket, pick up and drop off our children, take them to activity centers, and go to the suburbs for outdoor activities on weekends."
"Whenever we're on the road and we're stuck in traffic for three hours, we get really pissed off. My wife and I, well, Dennis...oh, my oldest son, he's always in the car.
Crying."
Bob showed a very helpless look and said: "His mother is a very strict person and always complains a lot about life and education. Every time Dennis loses patience, my wife will yell at him. I hope she
Be more sensible and communicate with your children..."
"I admit that at that time, she was also under a lot of pressure. When Dennis came down, it didn't go well. After she suffered a lot of pain, her emotional recovery was not good. A doctor told us that she suffered from postpartum depression.
Syndrome, but we don’t quite understand it…”
"To go a long way, let's talk about the shuttle. The biggest advantage of these two means of transportation in the sky is that they can avoid traffic jams."
"You don't have to drive, and you don't have to be stuck on the road for two or three hours. You only need to apply for a traffic card, and with one click, you can go home twice as fast as the city's top speed. Who wouldn't do that?
What to do?"
"Perhaps some middle-aged people with families like me need the trunk of a car to carry some things, but young people who often move around in bustling business districts or financial centers do not have as much burden as us. They like this the most.
Public transportation is available.”
Eddie nodded and said: "Indeed, I am not married and have no children. If it were me, I would choose Shuttle. After all, if I go home earlier, I can finish other work earlier and have my own time earlier.
This is important for young people..."
"And the impact goes far beyond that..."
Eddie continued to speculate: "Using my example, originally, when I worked at the Global Times, I had to rent a house closer to the Global Times headquarters. It was impossible for me to rent a house in the suburbs and then commute for more than 5 minutes every day.
Hours, that would be too late."
"But now, the shuttle has reached the suburbs of New York. When there is no traffic jam and the capacity is full, it can take no more than 40 minutes to go from the suburbs to the city center. In other words, it only takes more than an hour to go back and forth twice a day.
, which is completely within the acceptance range of many people.”
"Then, these young people who don't have much money can rent their houses further away. This will boost the economy of some outlying suburbs, but it may also lead to the decline of some urban settlements."
"As these areas decline, people who rely on the shops or businesses in these areas will lose their jobs, and these transportation lines flying in the sky cannot provide them with new jobs."
That's what I meant. Bob nodded and said, "Yes, I know. The robots developed by the Stark Group are very advanced, simply too advanced..."
"But all the shuttles and trains don't need conductors, dispatchers, and security personnel. So what are these people who are unemployed because of these new transportation lines going to do? What else can we do?"
When he said this, Bob turned his head and glanced at Brod in the room and continued: "Brod's situation is even worse than mine. He is a driver of a private bus transportation company. In addition to driving buses, he also
Almost nothing."
"Although I have a daughter to raise, she is relatively young now and her investment in education is very low. But Brod is different. His son is studying at New York University. Although the tuition fee is a loan and he can also work to earn living expenses, he can always
It’s very difficult.”
"You are a gold medal reporter in New York. You should also know that the consumption level in New York is very high and there are many rich people. Last time, Brod's son complained when he came back, saying that someone laughed at his shoes and the soles of them were all gone.
It fell off..."
"I know. That kid is not vain. If it gets to the point where he looks sloppy and unseemly even in his clothes, it's normal to complain a little."
Eddie also looked back at the situation in the room. He found that Schiller was writing on paper, as if he was about to write a prescription. He breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Bob and asked: "What university is his son in?"
?What professional?"
"Senior year in communications engineering." Bob shook his head and said with a somewhat sad expression: "Brod will commit suicide because his son called before and said that he hoped that his father could attend his graduation.
ceremony."
"But Brod's only suit was stained before, and he didn't have the money to take it to a dry cleaner. There's no way he could go to his son's graduation ceremony wearing tattered work clothes..."
"I said I could lend him money, but he felt that the money should be left for my daughter to buy medicine. After all, his son can already take care of himself, and it would be okay to lose him. But if my daughter loses me, she will have to live.
I can’t go down anymore.”
Eddie sighed and said, "So what are you two doing now?"
"We are all doing odd jobs." Bob rubbed his fingers and said, "Broad is stronger and works as a tally clerk in the supermarket at the end of this street. I occasionally go over to check out and do accounting, and my life is pretty good.
.”
"But we all know that days like this can't last long." Bob lowered his head, hunched his body, and wiped the surface of his shoes with his hands. "The supermarket owner plans to move his supermarket to a shuttle bus.
We can also do some snack business closer to the site, but then we won’t be able to work there.”
"It is estimated that by then, Brod can still work as a thug in the gang, but me? No gang will want me..."
After hearing this, Eddie suddenly realized a very serious problem. What will be the next step for the development of a large number of unemployed people? Yes, it is gangsters.
All periods of rampant gangs in history are inseparable from the unemployment wave. The unemployment wave will provide a large number of high-quality talents for the gangs. It is conceivable that Hell's Kitchen will become more and more prosperous in the future.
But Eddie didn't believe that Stark would not have thought of this. Although Stark had no educational background in sociology or economics, his professional staff team would definitely give it all consideration.
Moreover, even if you don’t have a professional education background, you should be able to imagine that if robots replace human workers, it will definitely cause a large number of unemployment, cause the social structure to shake, and become unstable. So, how do the people who formulate the plan plan to deal with these problems?
?
When he thought of the person who made the plan, Eddie turned around involuntarily and laid his eyes on Schiller.
