Chapter 431 Dispersed Model of Technology Dividends
Chapter 431 Dispersed Model of Technology Dividends
After discussing the engine and fuel route selection of the space shuttle with Yan Hui for an hour, Zhang Qing rushed to the Pangu Base after receiving the call. The two of them sat down in a corner nearby.
”How is the finishing work going?” After a moment of silence, Kang Chi took the initiative to ask.
“Almost done, just waiting for you to decide on the candidate.”
”Well… I just talked to Zhuoyuewen for a while…”
Kang Chi briefly talked about Zhuoyuewen’s suggestion on issuing corporate bonds and asked, “What do you think about this?”
”Didn’t they just recover more than 2 trillion yuan? Isn’t this enough for you?”
”That’s not the case. It will definitely be enough in the short term, but in the long run, it is probably not enough. In addition, I think this is indeed a model for ordinary people to participate in technological development and share the dividends of technological development.”
Zhang Qing nodded, and after thinking for a moment, he said, “If you need financing in the future, this method is indeed worth a try, but I think we still need to add some prerequisites, such as setting up a limited purchase right for us Chinese people, and each person’s subscription must also be limited by real name, and then think of some ways to avoid being monopolized by big capital…”
Kang Chi sighed after listening to it. Sure enough, Zhang Qing still understood him, and the suggestions he made were all in his heart.
“In addition, I think the way to share the dividends of science and technology does not necessarily have to be financial policies.” Zhang Qing quickly added, “We should use actual products and business models to let everyone feel the dividends of science and technology.”
”Actual products?” Kang Chi immediately became interested, “For example?”
”You should know about the driverless taxis that suddenly became popular last year, but are now a bit tepid?”
”Of course I know.”
As the technology of driverless driving gradually matures, the emergence of driverless taxis is almost inevitable. Baidu’s Pineapple Run, Tesla’s Robotaxi plan, and Alphabet’s Waymo are all more representative among them.
Last year, after Baidu’s Pineapple Run was first put into trial operation in Jiangcheng, it immediately caused heated discussions across the country. Many outsiders even went to Jiangcheng to wait for the pilot to experience this new technology.
Baidu’s stock price also rose sharply.
However, no one expected that after Pineapple Express had been in trial operation for less than ten days, Jiangcheng was forced to stop the pilot project under the call of the masses.
Not only Jiangcheng, but also many other cities have pressed the synchronous pause button.
Then the stock price of Baidu plunged rapidly like a roller coaster.
As for the reason for the suspension, in addition to the immaturity of the driverless technology itself, which has aggravated traffic pressure and trouble, the more critical reason is the contradiction behind “whether technology is stealing the jobs of ordinary people”.
There are nearly tens of millions of online car-hailing and taxi drivers in China. If the taxi market is concentrated in the hands of individual companies and becomes their money-making tool, what should be done with these tens of millions of drivers who are “squeezed away”? And everyone is familiar with the model of Pineapple Express cutting leeks.
It starts with a super low price of 4 yuan for 10 kilometers to maliciously seize the market, which is exactly the same as the business model of capital monopoly in the fields of online car-hailing, food delivery, and power banks.
Now everyone knows how ugly these capitals are. When they seize the market at a low price, there is no need to guess the result.
So not only the online car-hailing drivers are not fooled by this trick, but even ordinary consumers are not taking advantage of this capital.
And today is an online car-hailing driver, what about tomorrow? The anxiety and confusion about the future brought by this incident are not as simple as self-driving taxis taking the jobs of online car-hailing drivers.
“Although driverless taxis have been poured cold water, I think the operation of driverless taxis is not a bad thing. It is a product that will inevitably appear with the development of technology. No matter how people try to stop it, this day will come. Even my father who used to drive a taxi knows this.”
Zhang Qing looked at Kang Chi with a serious face,
”It’s just like you said, technology should make life better and make people work easier and more efficient, rather than stealing people’s jobs.”
”So I think the group can not only reap the benefits of technology by mobilizing ordinary people to invest, but also mobilize everyone to consume and use practical technology products to change everyone’s work and lifestyle,We don’t want to take their jobs away, but we want to help them make their jobs more attractive.”
”For example, if our group is engaged in driverless taxis, I think it is entirely possible to let drivers join in, and limit each person to only one car, which is equivalent to helping them upgrade their money-making tools, rather than concentrating all the money-making tools in the hands of a few people.”
”In terms of business model, we make money from selling cars, and the operating platform is a free service for buying a car, or only a small platform operating fee is charged. In the future, drivers only need to lie at home, deal with some special situations, and maintain their cars to earn money from car operations. Isn’t this job more attractive?”
”Of course, this is just a hypothesis. I know you don’t have plans to develop driverless cars for the time being, but the robots you develop will sooner or later enter the market. These robots that can be used as money-making tools, as long as they are not concentrated in the hands of a few people, but directly enter thousands of households, everyone will be like buying a “machine servant” or “family”, then the resistance to technology promotion will definitely be much smaller. ”
“Although there will inevitably be some problems, such as your robots are remote-controlled + semi-intelligent, if such a strong robot falls into the hands of bad people, it is very likely to use it to do bad things, although this is just like a criminal buying a kitchen knife to chop people, the crime is not the kitchen knife. ”
“But because this is a new product, the problem may be infinitely magnified, so we still have to consider and suggest some thresholds. Just like buying a car, you have to get a driver’s license first, and then register it after buying it. The owner is responsible for the behavior of the car, and the car helps the owner make money or brings convenience to work and life…”
“In short, although there are many issues to consider, this should be a model that can promote technology faster and recover funds quickly. Its core concept is to disperse technology as much as possible, rather than concentrate it. ”
Zhang Qing spoke out her thoughts on the future business model of the group in one breath.
The nagging before leaving was very meaningful.
However, this nagging undoubtedly touched Kang Chi’s heart again.
Looking at the urban beauty in a professional suit in front of him, his heartbeat began to accelerate.
Last time when the two had a misunderstanding, Kang Chi had a reason to escape from his inner restlessness, but at this moment, he faced his heart very seriously and suddenly became convinced.
For a girl whose figure and appearance are above his own aesthetics, and whose ideas are like his own It would be a lie to say that I don’t have any feelings for a woman who is so compatible with me and has fought together with me till now.
He opened his mouth and was about to say something, but he finally held back.
The occasion was not right, and Kang Chi noticed that under her confident and strong appearance, the fatigue in her eyes inadvertently revealed that made Kang Chi suddenly feel that he should let her take a good rest for a while. At the same time, he secretly decided that he must let her come back in another identity and way when the time comes.
So the words that came to his mouth became: “You can have a good talk with Zhuoyue Wen before you leave.”
”Are you sure you want Zhuoyue Wen to take over?”
Kang Chi nodded, and after a moment of silence, he asked: “Where are you going next?”
”I haven’t decided yet. I might find a beautiful place to relax for a while.”
(End of this chapter)