Chapter 1808 Chive Chicken & Milk Thief (Part 1)
Chapter 1808: Chive Chicken & Milk Thief (Part 1)
Oh, there is no subway...
Severus and Lucius heard the singing of street artists just after entering the subway station.
Like the old London subway, there are many ghost subway stations in Paris. Saint-Martin subway station is even directly occupied by homeless people and becomes their shelter.
Line 13 not only passes through the Invalides, but also the Champs-Elysees. Although customers who go to the Champs-Elysees to buy luxury goods will hardly take the subway, there are still a lot of advertisements posted in the subway station. One of the billboards has the words "life is Gucci" written in gold-plated letters.
This is an American slang. Someone smeared Gucci with black graffiti and wrote "suck" underneath. Under the billboard, there is a homeless man lying with a milk carton in front of him. A mouse is lying next to the milk carton, as if trying to steal a drink.
Mrs. Loris saw the mouse and did not go crazy like an ordinary cat, but continued to walk in a "cat-like" way to a place in the subway station where the lights could not reach. Severus and Lucius followed her into the dark tunnel.
The so-called Anglo-Saxon model is to maximize the market function, minimize government intervention, and use the economy to solve all problems, including ethics.
Times have changed. The woman named Yuki Nakamura who I met in Venice before was a test-tube baby. Her mother, Dr. Nakamura, found a donor and got a baby she was satisfied with. In addition to her high-income job, her daughter took her surname. She did not need to change her surname to her husband's after marriage according to Japanese law, and of course there was no need for men to intervene in the lives of the mother and daughter.
The social role that men were once given has been lost. They do not need to be fathers and role models for their children. Even if they do not set up a family, women can continue to reproduce.
Of course, men can also find surrogacy. Surrogacy is legal in the UK, which means that the human ethics and laws of the past thousands of years have to be completely overturned and started over. When probate is certified, blood verification is included. Maybe a rich man became a donor when he was young because he lacked start-up funds. His donation gave him more than a dozen children who were related by blood in terms of DNA, but he had never seen them. Can these children enjoy the same inheritance rights as legitimate children?
A trust that was originally quite generous will not have much to share with so many people, so many rich people have to make a will at a young age, otherwise when they have an accident one day, they will have to give part of their property to the "surviving children" according to the order of inheritance in the "Inheritance Law", even though they have never known each other.
Even though the Marshall Plan hit British industry hard in the name of helping reconstruction, Britain's financial and pharmaceutical industries are still the global center of gravity.
Drug salesmen always have to deal with doctors. The number of female doctors is significantly less than that of male doctors, which leads to drug companies choosing to recruit beautiful girls with blonde hair and blue eyes.
There are only three requirements for female sales: beautiful, beautiful, and beautiful. Education is not important. Maybe a top student who graduated from a prestigious university is competing for a position with an actress who failed the entrance exam. The actress is trying to recite her resume while waiting for the interview.
Without outstanding facial features, who will care about your soul?
There are not many requirements for height, because some doctors are not tall, and if women are too tall, it will put pressure on them. Idol stars will hide their marriage history, so that female fans will regard him as a spiritual lover.
Similarly, female sales must insist that they are single, so that doctors will not flirt with "moms".
Not all sales positions require women, there are also male drug sales, and not all doctors like to "socialize" with beautiful women. There is a bigger rule behind the pharmaceutical industry. In the UK and the US, you need to buy insurance to see a doctor. If you go to the hospital without insurance, you will end up like the homeless man who was shot in the back of the head by a robber and the bullet stayed in his brain, and he needs to take Oxcontin every day. He sold his house to pay off the debt to the hospital, but he lost his labor force and ended up on the street.
Insurance companies set up special people to contact hospitals. If the drugs produced by the pharmaceutical company are not negotiated with the insurance company, then according to the patient's opinion, the doctor must prescribe other drugs instead.
Fleur stayed in Gringotts in London as a temporary worker in the summer after the Triwizard Tournament. If she changed to the Muggle financial industry, she would find an intern job. Fortunately, the goblins controlled Gringotts, otherwise Bill Weasley would not have been able to tutor her in English.
In comparison, France's social welfare is better. As long as you have citizenship, you can receive monthly subsidies. Those homeless people lying in the subway do not need to beg.
This also led to France imposing high taxes on the rich. A large number of rich people fled and changed their nationality. Left-wing newspapers scolded them with front-page headlines.
There was a French actor who changed his nationality to avoid taxes. Later, he wanted to return to his country to continue his acting career, but was collectively banned by the French.
No matter how he said in the media that "the right to change nationality should be respected", no one paid any attention. France allows dual citizenship. Under the dual citizenship policy, he should be treated as a French citizen in France. Of course, he must also pay the 75% tax. If he does not pay this money, no one will watch his movies, and without fame he will not get a high salary.
The British people have mixed opinions about the right-wing female prime minister who believes in the free market. The bad comments are mainly because the female prime minister's evaluation of the princess is too bad. The British like the princess, but the female prime minister said she is an idle lady who doesn't care about the world. This kind of words should not be said by a prime minister, no matter what gender the prime minister is.
Another thing is her bad family life. As for her political achievements, some people think that she has created some systems and destroyed some things. She makes some people feel very embarrassed. The alias of the Anglo-Saxon model is the "new American model."
Since when did Britain start to learn from the United States?
What's worse is that she said after retirement that if time could go back, I would never enter politics because my family has paid too high a price for my political career.
In this case, why didn't she stay at home from the beginning?
The legalization of surrogacy was also passed during her term. At that time, many people believed that the potential risks of surrogacy far outweighed the possible benefits and believed that it was completely unacceptable ethically. However, once the British law is passed, it is difficult to repeal it.
Fortunately, the surrogacy law in the UK prohibits commercial surrogacy, while surrogacy is legalized in some states in the United States. That is to say, a high-income American woman can use her own eggs to obtain fertilized eggs like Dr. Nakamura, and then let another woman get pregnant on her behalf, so that she can get pregnant and work at the same time.
Just like the refrigerator used to make jelly, the developer could not imagine how his product would change in the future. It was originally a luxury product aimed at a niche market, but it suddenly became a household appliance that every household in the world must have.
Test-tube babies were originally used to bring hope to parents who wanted children, but now they have become a chain of sin. France also prohibits surrogacy, but it can go through the black market. The French Supreme Court has also ruled that children surrogated abroad have no right to obtain French nationality.
In ancient Egypt, commerce was used as a diplomatic means to establish alliances, but the Anglo-Saxon model encourages competition. This time, the acquisition of "Milk" by "Coke" was just a test. The French authorities voted against the Iraq War. What is the attitude of civilians?
There is a saying in the manufacturing industry that the French never copy, and no one copies the French.
Fleur went to the UK for an internship and later married a British man. Other French young people will do the same. After their careers are stable, they will start a family. In this way, the young labor force of France will be taken away by the UK.
Without the fertility rate created by these young people, the live birth rate of the native British population will be even lower.
The American president who sent troops proposed a tax reduction policy. At that time, a comedy talk show host said that most people who could not afford health insurance could not afford to pay taxes. If they were given a tax reduction for taxes that they did not owe, they could use the money that they could not get back to buy health insurance that they could not afford.
In other words, the president's reform was to reduce taxes for the rich, and it had no effect on those who really needed help.
Quidditch emphasizes teamwork. Gryffindor has always lacked in this aspect and always lost to Slytherin. Later, Harry Potter appeared and changed to a better flying broom, and Gryffindor's grades soared.
But their lack of teamwork style remained unchanged. As soon as Harry Potter graduated, Gryffindor's grades dropped.
Slytherin doesn't want to compete with them at all. Hufflepuff loves food more than sports. Only Ravenclaw will compete with them.
Ravenclaw, who focuses on learning, and Gryffindor, who doesn't like reading, are rivals in a sense. Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff are both women. These two female-dominated colleges have different concepts.
Hufflepuff thinks marriage and family are important, while Ravenclaw thinks that one should have his own career. Slytherin and Hufflepuff, who also have strong family values, are easy to get together.
If the man is reliable and does not do too much, let them hold the scepter if they like it, just like the magic brother fountain, don't witches follow wizards?
Hufflepuff code, if you are not a leader, obey orders.
There is no interest to fight for, as long as some people don't do too much.
But this world is so cruel, like a city forest, no one will sympathize with the weak.
And according to the characteristics of Western civilization, you must fight for power. If you don't speak out, others will think you have acquiesced to the rules of the game. Even if you don't want to protest, you must protest.
In fact, the current location of St. Francis Xavier Station is very close to the catacombs. The Paris subway runs through the bones of six million people.
The word Catacombs comes from the Latin word Cumbere, which means rest in peace. Unfortunately, the souls living here cannot enjoy peace because there are always rumbling subways full of living people passing by them.
These dead skeletons cannot make a sound, so no one cares about their opinions. The subway workers will go on strike and compose songs. Their demands will be heard, and it is quite annoying. Even if you walk into the tunnel, the "bard" on the platform is still singing that song. Why doesn't he go somewhere cooler?