With these thoughts, Xu Yang approved the plan proposed by the Harutsu Education Group.
In Shangjing, there were many parcels of land worth their weight in gold. The Harutsu Education Group had its eye on an easily accessible former industrial area which had previously belonged to Xisheng. The facilities and machinery had been moved by Nestor Corporation, and now 700 acres of vacant land remained, with a total price of 35 billion. Thanks to Xu Yang’s arrangement, this transaction would be completed very soon.
Even now, to complete such a deal was to make a killing. Under Nestor Corporation’s design, Shangjing’s blood-sucking effect on the other areas of the Northern Archipelago had lessened, leading to a downturn in land prices. From now on, there would no longer be such shocking housing prices.
The decline should have been faster, but Intercontinental Financial Corporation did not want to see Shangjing fall and never recover. They chose to maintain their efforts, continuing to invest in and increase the city’s value.
After all, Shangjing is an important part of the world financial community. As long as Shangjing’s economic situation stabilizes, it would prevent the economic crisis from worsening and stop a domino effect. This might be the strategic response made by the group’s think tank and advisors, but in Xu Yang’s view, their cohesive actions suggested that they were probably instructed by the Seven Seals. They needed to bide their time.
After the transaction was complete, the Harutsu Education Group was extremely pleased and fully authorized Nestor Corporation, signing a long-term cooperation agreement. This allowed Nestor Corporation to utilize the teaching resources, elite faculty, and research talents from the various colleges in Harutsu City, and the two formally established a cooperative relationship in education.
So, how should Nestor Corporation’s education system be designed? Xu Yang couldn’t help pondering this.
Education is the reproduction of the labor force.
When Xu Yang abstracted the model of corporate society, he envisioned a scene : within a huge commercial building, each person had their own seat, each equipped with facilities that allowed them to remain at their screw-like positions and work.
They spent long working hours completing tasks and short breaks obtaining entertainment. To make the entertainment process as brief as possible, the company provided many efficient means: Lotian chips, cerebral electrode contacts, dopamine promoter inhalants, or, at the very least, pleasure-intensive visual content, text, and animations.
Humans differ little from their ancient ancestors of five thousand years ago. The happiness derived from industrialization and ancient activities like strolling, sky-gazing, and drinking wine served the same purpose: to rejuvenate one’s mood and maintain the motivation for work and life. With simple entertainment and now the convenience of nutrient paste, humans had never been able to endure such long work hours as they did today.
Humans had truly become a controllable and measurable component within the company.
When Xu Yang was working at Kyushu High Pavilion, he personally managed the company’s backend and saw that on the system’s monitoring panel, every employee’s satiety, habitability, and mood appeared as fluctuating green bars. Everyone lived in a strange environment but naturally accepted it.
The most fatal aspect was its insularity. From birth, corporate people had no opportunity. No matter how hard they fought and tried, they were just moving between different commercial complexes and screw-like positions; the only difference being in the salary.
Some became cells in the behemoth of the corporation, which was the utmost fortune, while many more were mere moss, parasites, and Fine Dust clinging on; the corporation’s brain, heart, and lungs remained unreachable to them.
Xu Yang could only retreat, leave, forge a new path, and then face the corporation again.
Education... it had come to this point. Xu Yang felt greatly about this. The education he received was corporate-style, at institutions like the No. 10 Corporate Personnel Training Center.
He also understood corporate education well enough. His biggest impression was that it was absurd. Everything learned during his school days was meaningless compared to the work material that was crammed and printed into his head in the first month on the job.
One year into working, Xu Yang found that the contents of textbooks learned in university, the obscure knowledge he had pondered, the niche hobbies cultivated, the few meaningful books, and comics he had read, along with his dreams and fantasies... all vanished like smoke. Once vibrant and spirited, six years in the company had finally turned him into Uncle Xu.
In the current era, education had become an exceptionally awkward subject. Everyone knew it was important, yet its returns were so low. People risked installing implants in their brains to enhance learning efficiency, studied late into the night, struggled for knowledge, and competed and trampled over one another, yet many ended up with nothing at all, even worse off than before they received education, having wasted too much time on hollow things and missing many potential opportunities.
Better methods of education needed to be provided. Xu Yang reflected. Reliable, objective, useful, convenient, based on people’s interests, talents, and life situations, each person should have different choices.
Xu Yang began to design the blueprint.
For those eager to get a job through education, Nestor Corporation would help them enter a position right after learning; for those who wanted to develop hobbies, Nestor Corporation would allow them to enter the educational course library and self-learn; for those desiring further study and to enhance their job capabilities, Nestor Corporation would craft a specialized training program for them.
Accordingly, Xu Yang contacted the technical support and management departments to develop his own education portal, interfacing with the resources of the Harutsu Education library, integrating the company’s existing employee training and education systems, offering powerful educational support to all Nestor Corporation employees!