Chapter 735: Conquering the World

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The meeting place was chosen at the White House.

Simon arrived in Washington in a low-key manner at two o'clock in the afternoon. The White House received a grand welcome. The Clintons, Vice President Al Gore, the newly elected Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and the newly elected House Speaker Newt Gingrich Come forward with the Washington core.

With the identities of several people who came forward, Simon also saw the intention of the Republican Party to win over him.

Otherwise, because of the position of important supporters of Simon's Democratic Party, the Republican Party will definitely send representatives to participate in this meeting, but it is impossible for the two congressional leaders who have just been in power to attend together.

The Clintons and Vice President Al Gore needn't say much.

Bob Dole is Simon's memory of Clinton's rival in the 1996 U.S. presidential election.

The 71-year-old veteran Republican politician has already started paving the way for his presidential campaign since Clinton took office. To this end, he did not hesitate to put Clinton together. He promised to reach an agreement in advance, but when the vote suddenly came back, he directly upset Clinton. The couple did everything possible to push the health care reform bill.

The failure of the Democratic Party's midterm elections and the failure of health care reform is a very critical factor.

The Clintons have previously used the health care reform bill as an important political capital to promote large-scale publicity to voters, but it ended in failure, which inevitably had a serious negative effect of standing higher and falling harder.

Of course, the reasons for the Democrats' fiasco in this midterm election are far more than that. It may take a tome to write it out completely.

As for Bob Dole, that happens to be Simon's type.

The standard neo-conservative politician, advocating tax cuts and deregulation of corporate giants, is slick enough to be selfish enough to be influenced.

Unlike Bob Dole's sophisticated sophistication, new House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a very aggressive personality.

The 51-year-old Republican congressman, who is in his prime but is also a veteran politician, has frequently used confrontation to provoke bipartisan disputes since he entered Congress in the 1970s. In the past two years, he has almost indiscriminately obstructed Clinton's fulfillment. The promises made to voters during the election campaign.

Everyone exchanged simple greetings, and instead of going to the famous Oval Office of the White House, they came to an ordinary reception room in the West Wing of the White House.

The waiter quietly exited after serving tea and snacks, and there were only six people left in the reception room.

To Simon's surprise, it was Hillary who started the topic first.

"Simon, before you came, we were still discussing the outsourcing platform that Igreat will launch. Newt does not believe that this platform can provide tens of millions of job opportunities every year. I read the information on the official website in advance. , I also don’t quite understand, can you explain it to everyone?”

Simon held a cup of coffee casually, and when he heard Hillary speak, he looked at the other four men without a trace.

Clinton looked as usual, Gore seemed to have not heard it, Bob Dole smiled, only Newt Gingrich, who was named by Hillary, frowned slightly.

Hillary is notoriously strong.

Most of the failed health care reform bill was drawn up by the team led by Hillary Clinton. According to information obtained by Simon, the failure of the health care reform bill also largely caused the rift between the couple.

Now.

It is conceivable that the four Washington bigwigs obviously do not want Hillary to be involved in this kind of occasion.

The first lady not only insisted on staying despite the pressure of the four bosses, but also took the lead in provoking the topic. By the way, I did not forget to dug a hole for Newt Gingrich without a trace.

Sure enough.

Thinking of this, Simon took a sip of coffee and said frankly with a smile: "Actually, this description is a bit of a sneaky concept. It is definitely impossible to have ten million-level jobs. What outsourcing platforms can provide are relatively short-term part-time jobs. Maybe it can be done in one or two hours. According to this calculation method, there will be more than enough job opportunities for tens of millions of jobs every year in the future.”

Hillary continued to ignore the men around her and asked, "Can there be 1 million jobs based on standard working hours?"

Simon shook his head directly: "No, Hillary, the Igret outsourcing platform is essentially a part-time platform, just to make up for the lack of human resources in Silicon Valley, while outsourcing relatively low-end jobs to save costs. Therefore, this A platform is actually more suitable for school students who need to earn living expenses and housewives who make money to support their families in their spare time. If someone wants to rely exclusively on this platform to live, there is no problem, but it requires certain professional skills.”

Simon is not one of these Washington bigwigs. He needs to pay attention to domestic employment at all times. He will never slap his face and make him fat in front of these people, so he will tell the truth.

1 million jobs, how can it be so easy?

At its peak in memory, Walmart had only 2 million employees worldwide.

However, although it is impossible to provide 1 million jobs, it is not a big problem for the number of registered members of the Igret outsourcing platform to exceed one million in the next few years, but, as Simon and Hillary said, these are only part-time jobs after all. The number of registered members has reached one million, and under normal circumstances, one-tenth of active users is not bad.

That's also almost the equivalent of a very impressive 100,000 jobs.

Glancing at Hillary's slightly disappointed expression, Newt Gingrich said to Simon in a slightly sharp tone: "It seems that this is really just a gimmick."

Simon does not smile

He shrugged slightly, "If you have to think so, Newt."

Bob Dole noticed some signs of Newt Gingrich's targeting, and opened his mouth: "Simon, I still don't quite understand this... outsourcing platform, but since it is said that anyone in the Federation can find a job on the platform , it must be a good thing, can you tell me specifically?"

Simon said: "Amazon, Bob, you should know?"

Bob Dole nodded.

Simon said: "Amazon is expanding its product categories recently. In addition to books, video tapes and movie accessories, it will also add clothing, cosmetics and other categories. All these products require a dedicated introduction page. The technology at this stage cannot automatically generate data Millions of product catalogs, so it needs to be filled out manually. In addition, there are image classification, web page tagging, etc., similar most basic outsourcing tasks, anyone who has a computer with a network and understands English can access the job Order."

Bob Dole smiled when Simon finished, "It sounds good, it really suits everyone."

Vice President Al Gore asked, "Simon, what's the approximate hourly rate?"

Simon turned to Gore and said: "It depends on the operator's proficiency and the level of outsourced tasks. The most basic filling out, marking or classification I just mentioned will definitely not be a high hourly wage. If part-timers are willing to take the time to learn some programming techniques by themselves. With such professional skills, the income is definitely more substantial than working as a waiter in a restaurant.”

Simon did not give an accurate figure, and everyone can probably guess that the average must not meet the federal minimum wage standard.

Bill Clinton, who had been silent just now, finally interjected at this time: "Simon, many of these job opportunities on outsourcing platforms should be taken away by overseas part-timers, right?"

Simon didn't expect Mr. President to hit the nail on the head.

The Igreit team has conducted an assessment in advance, and the most basic outsourcing tasks, the hourly salary is only about 1 to 3 US dollars, which is shabby for part-time workers in the United States. However, if it is an overseas part-time worker in an economically underdeveloped area, the exchange rate conversion Down, it may be higher than the regular income.

For example, China.

At this stage, if someone in China can connect to the Internet and sign up as a member of the Igreat outsourcing platform, even if they take the most basic tasks and work 10 hours a day based on the lowest salary of $1 per hour, the exchange rate may be equivalent to the current exchange rate. At this stage, many people in China are paid ten days and a half months.

In fact, most of the tasks of Igreat's outsourcing platform are mainly for part-timers in underdeveloped areas overseas.

Only this point will definitely not appear in the official press release.

Regarding this issue, Simon will not be as honest as before, saying: "There will definitely be some, because the Internet is global. However, due to factors such as language barriers and salary settlement, the outsourcing platform is mainly aimed at federal part-timers. "

The reception room is full of smart people.

Simon's answer was obviously inaccurate, but several people did not pursue it.

The topic paused for a while, but the other five people in the reception room were not eager to provoke a certain topic. After finally seeing this young man who has created a series of business miracles, it is definitely only beneficial to communicate with each other more.

Al Gore quickly continued: "Simon, many people think that investment in new technology is overheated. What do you think of this?"

"Overheating is inevitable, just like when the federal government built a national highway network, there must have been some people who said it was over-investing. In the end, it turned out that it was the expensive federal highway network that contributed to the continuation of the post-war economy in the United States. rapid development."

The highway network launched in the 1950s in the United States was proposed by Al Gore's father, Sr. Gore, and the Gore family also accumulated strong political capital because of this plan.

Hearing Simon mentioning his father's achievements in a compliment, Al Gore couldn't help but smile, and his affection for the young man suddenly increased a little.

Hillary did not give Simon a chance to easily bypass the topic, and asked: "Simon, do you think there is a serious bubble in the new technology market now?"

The information superhighway plan is also an important achievement promoted by the White House team after taking office.

Since Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940s, no Democratic president has been re-elected in half a century, and this matter has hung over the White House like a cloud since Clinton took office.

Now, having lost this midterm election, Clinton's chances of re-election have plummeted.

If the bubble in the new tech industry doesn't hold up to the election two years from now, it will be an even more fatal blow to the Clintons.

Simon didn't really want to talk about it.

Facing a group of old foxes, he didn't want to be too forward-looking at all.

Moreover, Simon can no longer see the future clearly for the new technology industry that is now beyond recognition by his big butterfly.

It's a whole new era.

Taking all factors into account, the development of the new technology industry in the United States at this stage is roughly equivalent to the level of 1997, that is to say, it is about three years ahead of schedule.

However, thanks to the large-scale propaganda and agitation of the Westeros system for several consecutive years, the number of personal computers and Internet access users in the Commonwealth is significantly higher than the level in 1997 in memory. The development of software and hardware technology is not as good as memory after all. In 1997, a hundred flowers bloomed, which was considered backward.

In any case, the new technology wave can continue for three years if it is advanced according to the timeline in memory.

Not surprisingly, the 1996 election

, at the peak of the Internet bubble, taking advantage of this shareholder wind, Clinton will be very easy to be re-elected.

Of course, things are not absolute.

Simon glanced at Dole, who were also concerned about this issue. Of course, they hoped that the new technology bubble would burst as soon as possible, which would be of great benefit to Dole's seizure of the presidency. As for the American economy, which was hit hard in the process, Qualified politicians probably don't care that much.

Therefore, it is difficult to say whether the Republican Party will interfere with it and burst the bubble in advance.

After thinking about it for a moment, Simon said in the open or dark expectation of the people around him: "The bubble is definitely there, and emerging industries cannot avoid this, and it will inevitably burst one day in the future. However, in my opinion, the relative Compared with the cyclical recession of the federal economy in the past, the bursting of the new technology bubble will only trigger a short-term correction, and after the water is squeezed out, the industry will continue to develop at a high speed, because the transition from the electrical age to the information age is a major trend."

In fact, a lot of things are well known to the few people who are not lacking in experience.

It's just that no one will despise the judgment of the young man in front of him.

Simon did not give an accurate time frame, which was also expected by Clinton and others. No one can accurately predict the economic cycle. Otherwise, there will be many high-profile speculators every time. Because of betting in the wrong direction, they will go bankrupt.

After Simon finished speaking, the Clintons looked at each other with mixed feelings.

The couple also realized one thing, when the new technology bubble burst is definitely not only the industry itself, but also closely related to the White House's ruling measures in the next two years, and even to the political game at the top of Washington.

Newt Gingrich finally asked another question: "Simon, how can you be sure that the electrical age is a megatrend to the information age?"

Simon looked at the Republican boss, with a harmless young smile on his face: "Because many core industries in the information age have already taken shape, personal computers, broadband networks, online websites, mobile communications, etc., etc., now these The scale of the industry is already in the hundreds of billions level, and it will reach the level of trillions of dollars in the future. At the same time, related industries will change people's lives in all aspects. I think that when all these are developed, human beings will enter the A new era, isn't it?"

Newt Gingrich was originally questioning how frothy the new tech industry is.

If it's all a bubble, there's no future, and the information superhighway that Bill Clinton has pushed since he took office is a joke.

Now, after a little thought, Gingrich realized that Westeros wasn't bluffing at all.

The foundation of an era must be a series of emerging industries with a large enough volume, just like the electric power and oil industries since the beginning of the electrical era in the 19th century, and the derived fields such as automobiles, steel, and chemicals. Not to mention other things at the moment, just the three giants of "Cisco-AOL-Igret" controlled by the Westeros system have formed a huge emerging industry with a volume of hundreds of billions of dollars.

There is no doubt about the arrival of a new era.

Al Gore, who was sitting on the other side, apparently also thought of something with Newt Gingrich, and asked a slightly sensitive question at the right time: "Simon, don't you think that the entire emerging industry chain of the information age is caught in the In the hands, has it hindered the development of the federal new technology industry? You must know that there will be progress only when there is competition, and the development of the industry can be further stimulated."

Al Gore is obviously referring to the ongoing antitrust investigation by the Federal Department of Justice against the three giants of Cisco-AOL-Igret, and his remarks clearly hope that Simon will take the initiative to make concessions.

Before he came to Washington, he heard that the White House used the topic of the new technology industry as a cover, and Simon knew that this meeting would not avoid the antitrust investigation of the Justice Department.

Simon did not hesitate this time, shook his head decisively, looked at the other people in the reception room, and said: "With the establishment of wto, the European Union and other organizations, and the beginning of the Internet fiber optics to connect the whole world, globalization has become an inevitable trend. One point, I don't think you have any objections, right?"

The five people in the reception room did not know why Simon suddenly mentioned globalization, and they all nodded slightly and waited for the following.

Simon continued: "Unlike the physical industries that are easily isolated, new technology companies relying on Internet platforms around the world will be very easy to expand globally. Take Yggrete as an example, we currently have In addition to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and many other overseas countries have launched portal business. However, the layout of these overseas countries is still very basic, and we need to continue to cultivate these overseas markets. , to the point where it is completely established. To do this, our new technology enterprises must be as strong as our country itself.”

When the words came to this point, the five people in the reception room had already understood.

Simon did not stop because of this, and continued: "The people here are the keys that can affect the future of the Federation, and I don't need to shy away from it. In fact, we have fallen behind countries such as Japan and Germany in the core industries of the electrical age. Now, we are about to enter In a new era, if the Federation wants to maintain its own economic strength in this era, it must abandon the strict anti-monopoly strategy of restricting the development of large companies in the past, because we need super-large new technology companies to conquer the world, only the strength is enough. Strong, we can completely lose their own initiative in the new technology industry before those countries in Europe and Asia have reacted. On the contrary, if you continue to focus on the so-called promotion of fair competition and dismantling according to traditional thinking Dismantling the industrial giants that we have formed a huge advantage, the result is likely to be the same as we have in the automobile, semiconductor

Like the failure in the field of body and other fields, it will repeat the same mistakes again. "

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