Chapter 228 Mouse Utopia - The Ending of Universe 25
The state will definitely provide supporting facilities for community canteens. This is one of the necessary basic supporting mechanisms under the new distribution mechanism.
Lu An will also promote community canteens in various places to connect to the distribution system of Wanxiang Kitchen that Qin Yiyun is working on in the future.
Some people who don’t want to go to the canteen to eat can find the nearest community canteen and order food on the Wanxiang Xiaochu APP.
Then the riders of Wanxiang Kitchen will go to the canteen to pick up the food and deliver it to the door. The platform only charges 5% commission. For example, the price of a meal is 8 yuan, and when the user orders takeout, it is 8.40 yuan. Plus a delivery fee of about 3 yuan, the total is 11.4 yuan.
Not only the Wanxiang Kitchen Platform, but other food delivery platforms can also be connected, but the commission can only be 5%. If the platform does not agree, then the community canteen will not be allowed to settle in.
In any case, Wanxiang Little Chef will definitely accept the 5% commission.
There is no other reason, just because its leader Qin Yiyun is Lu An's die-hard brother and ally.
Even if Lu An said he didn’t want a 5% commission, Qin Yiyun would nod without hesitation.
Wanxiang Little Chef is now developing very well and is expanding very quickly. With this platform in mind, it doesn’t matter whether other food delivery platforms agree or not.
There is no doubt that community canteens must be operated unmanned.
Humanoid robots have become more popular, and community canteens will definitely use robots.
Whether it is cooking in the kitchen, cleaning the dining area, etc., humanoid robots will be used.
In the past, supply and marketing cooperatives and restaurants in the 1980s and 1990s even had eye-catching slogans such as "No beating of customers at will" posted in the stores.
If you want to eat or buy something, you have to look at the mood of the waiter.
In the future, new community canteens will use humanoid robots to work and serve, and there will never be scenes of robots beating customers.
About twenty minutes later, the meeting came to an end, and Ge Yu said goodbye and left.
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Dinner time.
Lingxi and Anna, two beautiful android beauties, are currently bringing sumptuous dishes that have just been prepared from the kitchen to the table.
"Master, what do you want to drink tonight? Baijiu Maotai? Red wine or other alcoholic drinks?" Lingxi put the last dish on the table and asked Lu An who was sitting next to her.
Today’s dinner is a famous Shandong cuisine.
Lu An waved his hand and said, "I won't drink any more tonight, just eat."
Hearing this, Lingxi nodded and said, "Okay, Master, I'll get you some food."
She just turned around and went back to the kitchen, and Meng Qiuyan also came to the table. After sitting down at the table, he glanced at Lu An and asked curiously: "What did Ge Yu come to talk to you about today?"
Lu An picked up his chopsticks and glanced at the sumptuous dishes on the table, "It's about the introduction of humanoid robots and the new redistribution mechanism. The superiors plan to demonstrate it in Jianing City first."
After saying that, Lu An picked up a stir-fried kidney and tasted it. It tasted very good. The skills of the androids were no worse than those of top chefs.
At this time, Lingxi brought two bowls of rice and handed one bowl to Lu An and the other to Meng Qiuyan.
Neither Lingxi nor Anna came to the table to eat with them today. Anna was busy cleaning the room. Lingxi brought the meal and went outside to pack things.
Meng Qiuyan picked up the cup and took a sip of the drink, looked at Lu An and asked, "What does the new distribution mechanism look like?"
Obviously, she also knew about this matter, and the two of them had discussed and communicated many times at home.
Lu An briefly recounted the story in a short and long way.
After listening, Meng Qiuyan couldn't help but sigh and said: "It is indeed much more difficult to divide the cake than to make a big cake. No matter how you divide it, there will always be a group of people who will be dissatisfied. No wonder you only gave the solution of tax collection and did not join in the fun of dividing the money."
After a while, Meng Qiuyan asked an extremely profound question. She looked at Lu An and said, "When one day human civilization really develops to a state of great material abundance, do you think there will be the outcome of the 'Rat Utopia' experiment of 'Universe No. 25'?"
Meng Qiuyan paused and thought deeply, "In the history of science, there are few experiments that are as fascinating and deeply disturbing as John Calhoun's 'Rat Utopia'. This experiment transcends the scope of animal behavior and is like a cold and distorted mirror, reflecting profound philosophical issues about social structure, population density and human spiritual needs."
The original intention of the experiment, officially called "Universe 25", was to create a perfect world with no famine, no disease, and no natural enemies.
However, the result is not pastoral prosperity, but a strange picture of civilization moving from its peak to self-destruction.
In the 1970s, animal behaviorist Calhoun launched his most extreme experiment.
He built a huge squirrel cage, "Universe 25," an exquisitely designed fortress whose sole purpose was to provide for all the survival needs of its inhabitants.
Unlimited supply: Food and water are constantly flowing through the funnel system, inexhaustible and inexhaustible.
Absolutely safe: There is no threat from natural enemies, the temperature is constant, and the environment is cleaned regularly, eliminating the possibility of plague.
Comfortable home: plenty of space and soft materials, enough to accommodate thousands of mice to live comfortably.
The experiment started with 4 pairs of healthy mice.
In Calhoun's vision, this paradise-like environment should allow the population to grow exponentially until it reaches the physical limit of space.
However, the direction of the experiment completely deviated from expectations.
The only limitation, the inability to expand physical space, eventually became the trigger for mental breakdown.
Calhoun clearly divided the fate of "Universe 25" into four stages, just like the life cycle of a civilization.
Phase 1: Exploitation and Adaptation. The first four pairs of mice were like pioneers, exploring the new world, dividing territories, and establishing families. Everything was in order, and the population grew slowly.
Phase 2: Exponential growth. The population doubles approximately every 55 days, the social structure is stable, the female rats nurse their offspring normally, and their behavioral patterns are healthy. At this time, paradise seems to be worthy of its name.
Three stages: stagnation and collapse. When the population reached about 600, a turning point occurred, growth slowed sharply, and even more frighteningly, the social structure began to disintegrate, and a terrible phenomenon that Calhoun called "behavioral depression" swept through the entire population.
Male rats are unable to maintain their territory, and extreme and purposeless acts of violence occur frequently.
At the same time, a large number of female rats have become completely passive, giving up their nurturing duties, and even attacking or expelling their young rats, leading to a surge in the mortality rate of young rats.
A group of male rats completely withdraw from all social interactions. They do not fight or courtship, and only focus on grooming, eating, drinking and sleeping. They have a bright appearance and are called "beautiful rats". Their normal courtship behavior disappears and is replaced by chaotic sexual activities regardless of gender and occasion, completely losing their social significance of reproduction.
Fourth stage: the abyss of extinction. The design capacity was 5,000, but after the population reached a peak of 2,200, it began an irreversible decline. The death rate was much higher than the birth rate, and the new generation could hardly survive. On the 1780th day, the last mouse died, and "Universe 25" was completely destroyed, although its troughs and water bottles were still overflowing.
末了，孟秋颜自顾自地说道：
「25号宇宙的实验结论令人震撼。毁灭并非源于物质匮乏，而是精神的消亡。」
「卡尔霍恩指出，当所有可用的『社会角色』如丈夫、母亲、喂食、探索者等等，都被填满后，个体再也无法获得任何有意义的社会身份和地位。」
“For young rats, they can’t find their place in a crowded and role-solidified world. Their struggle has lost meaning, their territory has been carved up, and competition has become extremely fierce and purposeless.”
“The pressure to survive has changed from “obtaining resources” to “coping with constant social contact and role conflicts.” This extreme social pressure eventually overwhelmed the social structure of the entire mouse world."
"Calhoun called this spiritual collective death the "second death." The rats are still alive physically, but they have long given up all functions as social beings."
"They have lost the desire to interact, compete, courtship, and raise young, and the entire rat civilization has actively chosen to die out of unlimited resources."
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(End of this chapter)