Chapter 692: Chapter 217: Professor Dugen Breaks Down (Part 2)
But actually, Lott Degen didn’t need such a talkative driver. After all, he mainly wanted to look around himself. For this reason, he specifically opened the navigation and marked the places he had visited.
The main purpose was to see if the driver had indeed been to most of the places as he claid, instead of deliberately avoiding certain areas. If there were any areas avoided, he would fill in the gaps the next day.
Thus, Lott Degen spent two whole days driving in a car and touring around Beijing. During this ti, he also took a stroll in community parks near so bustling districts.
You bet, you really bet, persistence paid off, and Lott Degen actually saw a holess man begging on the street.
It’s just that the clothes of this holess man didn’t seem too bad, just a bit dirty. And unlike what he imagined, he was holding a sign with a QR code…
Although it was his first ti in Huaxia, after having a few als in restaurants and visiting a few shops, Lott Degen already knew that QR code was for people to scan and make paynts.
But it didn’t matter, he specifically prepared cash on him for this mont.
“If you answer a few questions for , this money will be yours.” Lott Degen began to communicate with the holess man holding a smartphone and a hundred-dollar bill he specifically withdrew from an ATM.
This software is very convenient, he just needs to speak English into the phone, and after translation, press the play button, and it will automatically translate into Chinese and read it out using AI voice.
The other side is the sa, just speak Chinese, and it can be directly translated into English.
“Are you a foreign journalist?”
“No, I’m not. I’m just very curious about your living environnt. For example, where do you sleep every night?”
“Of course, I return to the house I rent!”
“You even rent a house?”
“Isn’t it necessary? If you don’t rent a house, where do you live? The rent is very cheap, I rent a house for 500 yuan a month, and it even has a toilet.”
“Then why don’t you find a job?”
“Because I like a free life.”
“Have you always been in Beijing?”
“No, now Beijing is still warm, after a couple of months when it gets cold, I’ll go to the south. Moreover, you can’t stay in one place for too long, otherwise, you’ll be sent ho. I certainly don’t want to be sent back, as it costs money to co out again.”
Lott Degen: “???”
“The money you gave is only enough to ask so many questions. If you want to ask more, you’ll have to pay more!”
Lott Degen helplessly took out another hundred-yuan note…
“Can you afford the trip to the south? Where does your money co from?”
“From you! Don’t you know? The money you gave today, just adding a few dozen yuan more, is enough for my fare from Beijing to Deep City. Of course, I can only take the slow train, which takes a whole day and is very tiring.”
Lott Degen had heard of Deep City, which is also a super-large city in Huaxia and very close to Hong Kong.
But these weren’t important. After this conversation, Lott Degen realized that the holess people in Huaxia seed completely different from those in Xin Xiang.
After the chat, he even thought this guy was living quite well.
This made him feel very complicated…
However, once back in the car, the talkative driver started again: “Hey, Professor Degen, you shouldn’t have given him money. In Huaxia, whenever we et beggars, we prefer to give food, not money!”
“Oh? Why?”
“Because most of them are fake! They beg just because they’re too lazy to work. And you see, the person just now had hands and feet, what can’t he do?
If you truly wish to help so people, you shouldn’t give to these beggars. If anything, we are more willing to help those who still strive actively against life’s unfairness, instead of those who exploit people’s kindness for gain.”
Alright, Lott Degen didn’t want to say anything more.
There was no way, in two days’ ti, his entire understanding of Huaxia had been completely overturned. His driver was also a crucial part of his understanding of Huaxia.
And then he found that, as capitals, living in Beijing was obviously much easier than living in Washington D.C. in the United States.
Even if rents in both places are quite expensive, at least in Beijing there are places for low-inco individuals to rent.
And the cost of living in Beijing is evidently much lower than in Washington D.C. without a whopping 6% sales tax.
Moreover, Beijing’s extrely developed, efficient, and surprisingly cheap public transportation system allowed people to enjoy convenient travel services without needing to own a vehicle.
This also made Lott Degen believe he found the reason why cars in Huaxia could be so cheap.
After all, in the United States, the inadequate public transportation system has made cars a necessity for people’s travel.
But in Huaxia, according to the driver, almost all urban and rural public transportation systems are similar, and in most places, the bus systems are cheaper than Beijing.
This also ans that for the average Huaxia citizen, they don’t need a car to have convenient travel rights, which is far more cost-effective than buying a car.
Under such circumstances, if Huaxia’s ordinary people want to buy a car, the value ratio is indeed very important. Even if there is occasional special need, there are taxis and ride-hailing services, which are absurdly cheap…
For intercity transportation systems, there is the world’s largest high-speed rail and railway network, which too is far more cost-effective than driving.
So if cars in Huaxia were as expensive as those in the United States, they would have no place to survive.
Lott Degen couldn’t understand why Huaxia’s car companies didn’t use so money to lobby the governnt not to heavily invest in public transportation systems, since in the United States it is well known that large interest groups lobby the governnt to make money.
Moreover, Huaxia’s automobile industry seems to have developed very well, and should have enough drive to do this.
But when he asked this question, the look in the driver’s eyes almost made him feel depressed again, as if looking at a madman.
“Professor Degen, what you said… why does it sound like legal bribery? Car manufacturers lobbying our governnt against building public transportation systems? You must be joking, right?
Which car company would dare do such a thing, if the news got out, wouldn’t they get scolded to death? It would be strange if they didn’t imdiately go bankrupt, haha, you Aricans are really too humorous.”
This sentence made Lott Degen, who already felt very complex after two days of wandering, want to shut himself off completely.
He suddenly realized why Pierre Delini said that even if he knew the reason, he could do nothing about it.
The thinking models of ordinary people on both sides are not on the sa channel at all.
What he had always taken for granted and felt was not wrong, was inconceivable to Huaxia people.
But thinking about it carefully, the system design in the United States is evidently not too reasonable for ordinary people. Of course, it is another feeling entirely for those big billionaires.
He also thought of the complaints of his assistant and secretary.
Alright, although the necessities of life for ordinary Aricans have beco increasingly expensive compared to other countries over the years, luxury goods favored by the rich are instead cheaper compared to other countries.
It really is a hell of a joke.
…
When Lott Degen already felt completely out of sorts, Qiao Yu had already turned the opened ideas into content for the presentation.
Although it was only two days, after greeting Elder Yuan and Director Tian, Qiao Yu went straight to closing the door to visitors to ensure his high efficiency.
In fact, as long as one gives up the mathematician’s mindset of pursuing absolute perfection, and seeks another kind of relative perfection, it proves to be more in line with nature.
Allowing the system’s own driving force to seek the optimal path is actually the best choice to simulate quantum behavior.
So what he needed to do was just design a path weight function. Then leave it to the system to select on its own.
This directly solved infinite-dinsional complexity, openness deficiencies, and the limitations of non-locality and entanglent in mathematical expressions.
No matter how others see it, for Qiao Yu, Peter Schultz was absolutely a good comrade!
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