The big man has a living father

Chapter 179 (Long Chapter) Cyber ​​Dystopia
Yes, Liu Che wanted to know why.

Sang Hongyang in the audience also wanted to know.

Not only them, but almost all researchers don't understand why this is happening.

Huo Hai turned around and wrote four big words on the blackboard.

Deflation

After finishing writing, Huo Hai spoke: "During the exploration process, Fati has discovered that different substances have different electrical conductivity, and metals are undoubtedly stronger than other things."

“And the metals we have now, and in great abundance, are gold, silver, copper, and iron.”

"Unfortunately, silver and copper are the materials with the strongest conductivity and the least likely to generate heat."

"If we develop electricity on a large scale, with our current industrial base, the development will be very fast, and the demand for silver and copper will also grow at the same time."

"In fact, the amount of silver is too small and is not suitable for power development. To be more precise, we need to use a large amount of copper to develop electricity."

"In other words, science is competing with the economy for money."

Everyone in the audience looked at each other.

They absolutely believed what Huo Hai said. Even if they verified it, it should be the case. If that was the case... didn't it mean that the lifeblood of economics and science were actually the same thing?
Smart people immediately realized that this was going to be a problem! A big problem!
Fati could not help but stand up and said, "So... you have already made... an electricity-generating machine?"

Huo Hai was stunned for a moment: "A generator..."

Originally, Huo Hai didn't want to take these titles. He has always just provided ideas. The real inventors were the researchers. The researchers invented all kinds of things and figured out various scientific principles through their own research.

But this time, in order to prevent a major catastrophe and to prevent the industrial foundation laid in the early stage from being destroyed, Huo Hai could only accept it.

"I tried it a little bit and it worked, but it's quite crude. I hope some researchers can make a real, usable generator in the future."

Huo Hai continued: "Deflation, as the name suggests, currency is the currency in circulation. Deflation means that the opening of currency circulation is narrowed and the flow is reduced. In other words, the utilization rate of money in the market is reduced, and the money in the market disappears."

"Because there is less money, if we assume that the amount of industrial products on the market remains the same, then..."

Sang Hongyang: "Prices have dropped, dropped significantly, and even plummeted."

Huo Hai nodded.

Chen An, the vice president of the Institute of Technology, said, "I don't know much about economics, but prices are getting cheaper, isn't that a good thing?"

In Chen An's opinion, if his family had 10,000 yuan, he could buy 50,000 kilograms of grain. Now that prices have plummeted, he can buy 500,000 kilograms of grain. Isn't this a good thing!
Huo Hai shook his head: "Do you think that after deflation, your family will still have so much money, and you can use it to buy more things, a bigger house, and make a lot of money?"

Everyone present looked at Huo Hai.

Is not it?
Huo Hai turned around and wrote three words on the blackboard: [Great Depression]

Turning back: "We call a scaled-down version of a house to be built a model, so we can also call the prediction of economic trends an economic model."

"Let's assume that your family has a hundred workers and you are now running a factory. The goods you produce are being stockpiled more and more because the price is getting cheaper and cheaper. On the one hand, you feel bad that so many things were originally worth tens of thousands of dollars, but now you can only sell them for a few thousand or even a few hundred. But on the other hand, you hope that someone will buy them, even if it's just for a few hundred dollars."

"Under this circumstance, would you still hire these one hundred workers with a monthly salary of three thousand yuan?"

Everyone at the scene was shaking their heads.

It's human nature that in this situation, people will definitely not continue to employ workers.

Huo Hai: "Well, these 100 workers, who used to have a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan, are now out of work. What are they going to do?"

Someone in the audience shouted: "Spend money sparingly!"

Huo Hai nodded: "Yes, in the market, people who spend thousands or even two thousand a month have disappeared. This leaves a funding gap of 150,000."

"The funding gap of 150,000 yuan means that they will sell 150,000 less of the goods they originally intended to purchase."

"This is not just about the 150,000."

"For example, a cotton garment that could be sold for one million dollars can now only be sold for 850,000 dollars. Could it be that the store still sells it at the original price, leaving the remaining 150,000 dollars worth of goods in its hands?"

Sang Hongyang said simply: "Lower the price."

Huo Hai nodded: "Because all the shop owners are afraid that they will be the unlucky ones who have to deal with the goods and end up with inventory, so everyone will lower the price and bid, resulting in the clothes being sold at a price far lower than this, or even 600,000 yuan."

Well, this time, another 250,000 yuan of financial space is missing out of nowhere.

"These bosses used to be able to make a lot of money and spend lavishly on things. Now that they can't make any money and are even losing money, will they still spend money?"

"No, this is not a matter of 100,000 or 150,000. This group of people who are much richer than the workers in the market will also stop consuming. This will result in a decline in purchasing power of millions."

"Not only that, the price of clothes has dropped, the profit margin has become thinner, and the demand for clothes in the market has also greatly decreased. Will the factory still employ tens of thousands of tailors and weavers? What about the cotton plantations?"

"When this group of workers lose their jobs, another large group of workers will lose their jobs."

"Losing my job..."

The people in the audience responded subconsciously: "Spend money frugally."

Huo Hai: "Spending money frugally has caused a sharp drop in sales of products in a certain industry."

People in the audience: "Lower the price."

Huo Hai: “I can’t make any money.”

People in the audience: "The boss is saving money, and the factory is firing workers."

Everyone understood.

This is no longer a recycling problem, this is a big bomb.

The first thing to light is the fuse.

Suddenly, the thousand-mile-long dike was blown to pieces.

When the flood comes, it sweeps away everything!
You have no idea what this bomb will hit, but once it explodes, no industry affected will be able to escape.

By then, I'm afraid the only things that will sell well will be coffins, because too many people will die.

At first, you just save money, but all your neighbors are unemployed, and it will become increasingly difficult for you to find a job. People who are a hundred times better than you are holding signs on the streets saying "I need a job, I can polish shoes". Do you still want to find a job?
Of course, no one at the scene would have thought that at this time, the entertainment industry, tobacco and alcohol would explode.

At this time, Liu Che in the audience looked at Huo Hai.

He understands better than anyone else.

The three words "Great Depression" are far more than just that.

Liu Che was just thinking that he should have the financial ability to stop this vicious cycle.

But after thinking about it carefully, Liu Che found that he was the most unlucky one in this vicious cycle.

The most an ordinary person would lose is a job that pays 3,000 yuan a month, and at worst he would have to go back to farming.

And what about me? I lent them countless money so that they could buy houses.

Although...it was the house I sold to them.

However, the accounts must be calculated separately, profit is profit, and loss is loss.

He lent money to ordinary people and bought a house worth one hundred thousand dollars. Now that the Great Depression has come, the house may only be worth fifty thousand dollars.

The original collateral for the loan was the house. Now they still owe me 80,000 yuan in loans, but the house is only worth 50,000 yuan.

How to do?
If you want to avoid losses, there is only one way, which is to ask the lender to continue to mortgage other valuable things to fill the gap.

Now that there is a Great Depression, almost everyone would be unable to make up for the gap of 30,000 yuan even if they sold all their belongings.

There is only one way, which is to take back the house and sell it for 50,000 to avoid losing more.

Then the problem is coming.

The price of houses on the market has already dropped from 100,000 to 50,000. Now I have taken back the houses and sold them crazily at 50,000. The house prices will only continue to plummet, 40,000, 30,000, 20,000, 10,000...

Nowadays, there are many developers in the market, but only one bank.

But Liu Che knew deeply that as long as he could make money, others would follow suit, and now many people were studying to open a bank together.

When there are many banks, each bank will only think about recovering the houses as soon as possible and selling them early. Whoever leaves late will suffer.

By then, housing prices will collapse.

The collapse of purchasing power is just a small matter, the collapse of housing prices is the ultimate collapse!

This means that a worker took out a loan of 80,000 yuan and spent 20,000 yuan to buy a house, but in the end he ended up renting the house for a period of time at 20,000 yuan, and then the house was taken away.

The same is true for other large cargoes, such as cattle, horses, carriages, and ships.

The wealth accumulated by a large number of ordinary people throughout their lives simply disappeared.

The key point is that Liu Che carefully calculated and found that an unknown amount of his wealth had disappeared.

I actually borrowed 80,000 yuan and finally sold the house for 50,000 yuan, making a loss of 30,000 yuan. If the price was 30,000 yuan, then I would lose 50,000 yuan. If the price was 10,000 yuan, then I would lose 70,000 yuan.

Don't wait for the unemployed workers to jump off the building. The bank presidents are already lining up to go to the rooftop, and no one will be left behind.

Is this Great Depression so terrible?

So much so that Huo Hai didn't dare to say it out loud.

Liu Che took a deep breath and roughly understood why it was called the Great Depression.

Huo Hai: "So, do you understand this phenomenon? This is called deflation."

“There are two kinds of deflation.”

"Demand shortage type. Due to insufficient consumption and investment on the demand side, deflation occurs. When total demand is lower than total supply, the price level falls, leading to deflation. To put it simply, reduced demand leads to deflation."

"The second type is oversupply. This is caused by overcapacity on the production side. When production capacity exceeds market demand, oversupply will lead to lower prices, thus triggering deflation. To put it simply, too much production leads to deflation."

Sang Hongyang: "We can't say that we have overcapacity or that demand is falling right now."

"There are nearly 40 million people in the Han Dynasty, plus the Xiongnu, Qiang, and people from the Western Regions who have joined us. Of the more than 40 million people, only less than 500,000 live in new buildings. Of the 39.5 million people, 99% do not live in new buildings. If we calculate this way, even if we increase steel production by a hundred times, it will still not be enough, not to mention overcapacity and falling demand."

Huo Hai nodded: "So, in addition to the two types of deflation, there is a third type of deflation, which is currency shortage deflation."

"The first two kinds of troubles will seriously damage the vitality of society, but this kind of deflation caused by currency reduction is the real killer!"

In fact, throughout history, we have been in a state of deflation caused by a lack of money.

That’s right, in theory China has been in a period of depression throughout its history.

The so-called revival, great governance, and prosperous times were nothing more than a brief rise in policy-driven economy during the Great Depression.

Why did those prosperous developments not accumulate but disappear quickly?

It’s not that they haven’t accumulated it.

But you are already at the bottom of a big pit. No matter how much you accumulate, it will not be able to fill the bottom of the pit. So what is the point of accumulation?
Of course, the person who dug the pit was Liu Che himself.

It was because of his series of outrageous actions that all the Han people developed a habit of hiding money.

This habit is passed down directly through genes to all descendants of this land.

This alone means permanent deflation.

Inflation? The Ming Dynasty took 70% of the world’s silver production during the Age of Exploration, but it didn’t even get a single dollar in return, and in the end, its fiscal revenue was in the millions.

Seventy percent of the world's currency poured into the Ming Dynasty, but there was no real inflation. Inflation was not a problem at all in the face of the Super Pacific dug by Emperor Liu Che.

Not to mention releasing water, even releasing the sea is useless.

Liu Che, who was in the audience, took out his glasses and put them on, wanting to see what Huo Hai was writing on the blackboard.

Huo Hai was actually drawing on the blackboard.

Huo Hai couldn't explain what punk was.

Huo Hai can only express concepts similar to steampunk and cyberpunk.

These are a pair of relative concepts.

Simply put, steampunk is a technological utopia where technology brings a better future.

Cyberpunk is a technological dystopia where technology brings about a tragic future.

Of course, they each incorporated some mysterious elements and trimmed off the branches and leaves only the backbone, which is the technological utopia and dystopia.

Huo Hai drew a big circle on the blackboard: "I heard that the General of the Cavalry has already fought to Qiuci. Although I don't know the outcome, you and I both know it."

"Uzi can't do that." (bushi)

"Kucha can't do that."

"So, my eldest brother's next step should be this country, a state called Utopia."

"Let's assume that Utopia is a beautiful country, where civilization is prosperous, people are wealthy, technology is advanced, and everyone lives a very good life."

"Even if my eldest brother saw this, I'm afraid he wouldn't have the heart to destroy it. Let's just call this country a utopia."

"But before entering the city, who knows what utopia is like? Maybe it's just the opposite of the utopia I just described, like hell on earth. Then let's call it... dystopia."

“So, do you think that developing electricity will lead us to a utopia or a dystopia?”

Fati in the audience shook his head.

Utopia?
He is now a student of Sima Xiangru, who has written Zixu Fu. Zixu and Wu have two characters, which means nothing.

Isn’t utopia the meaning of pinning one’s hopes on a non-existent country?
There is no utopia in the world, and utopia is definitely not a utopia.

However, a big man with electricity might turn into a utopia!

Huo Hai wrote Steam Utopia on the blackboard: "The steam engine as a power source has brought about earth-shaking changes in the Han Dynasty in just one year. We must admit that steam can bring a better future. So, we call a good utopia a steam utopia."

"I heard from Nasus that the Egyptians now speak Greek, and in Greek the helmsman of a ship is called a cyborg, so we use the word cyborg to represent control. So we call this future utopia where everyone is controlled and can't breathe a cyber dystopia."

"What do you think electricity will turn a big man into?"

Offstage, Liu Che, who was wearing his glasses, had already closed his eyes.

In fact, Liu Che knew very well that once serious livelihood issues arose, there was only one way to suppress them, and that was to give ordinary people a way to survive and then find an enemy for them to vent their anger.

This method is called war. War can feed soldiers, and judging from the current development, war can also support war.

War creates an enemy for everyone.

But what if... the Han people conquer all the places on Earth, and the super depression caused by copper shortage has not ended yet? !

Liu Che fell into deep fear.

The past three years have been the most wonderful years Liu Che has ever experienced in his life.

Twenty years ago, Liu Che looked at the starry sky that Qin Shihuang had once seen, and vowed to surpass Qin Shihuang's achievements.

Twenty years later, Liu Che no longer thought about Qin Shi Huang.

What Qin Shi Huang? Did he ever ride a train? He may not even have ridden the wooden carriage built by Qin Mo for him. How can he compare with me?
He, Qin Shi Huang, took one character from each of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and called himself Emperor.

I also took a character from the Emperor of the Earth and called myself Qiudi.

But at this moment, Liu Che's future was blocked.

Electricity development is a dead end.

There was no need for Huo Hai to tell him, Liu Che had already thought about the future.

Huo Hai: "There are many problems with the development of electricity. For example, we use coal to generate electricity and transmit it to a place where there is no water power. They use electric motors to make new looms, so weavers are no longer needed."

"Of course, this motor is much smaller than a steam engine. Every worker can operate a motor, but its productivity is a hundred times that of a steam engine and ten thousand times that of manual labor."

"This is the development of the times. Once it comes to that point, we can't refuse it. We can only find a better job for them."

"But there are some things we cannot refuse."

"For example, three kilograms of copper are used in this motor, and this motor is connected to a power plant, which requires ten kilograms of copper."

"But, one kan of money is 3.5 kilograms. Three thousand kan of money means 10.5 kilograms. Thirteen kilograms of copper? It's just a few days' salary for a worker a month."

"How do you choose if you are the factory owner?"

"In clothing factories, weaving factories, on ships, in cars, and even as a motor to drive the blades to make an electric fan..."

Liu Che blushed.

Just now he was thinking about installing a motor on the blades so that he could use the fan to cool down anywhere.

Huo Hai: "Then, the money left in the Han Dynasty is getting less and less, and the wires and motors left are increasing."

“When it reaches a certain critical value, all the people in the society suddenly find that there is not enough money…”

"We have calculated that with a shortfall of 150,000 big coins, and without any external interference, in just three cycles, an economic fluctuation of millions of big coins was triggered."

"In the development of electricity, everyone in society is short of money. What they lack is not 150,000 yuan, or even 1.5 billion yuan, but 1 trillion or 2 trillion yuan!"

"even more!"

"There is not even any new currency produced. Wouldn't it be better to produce copper wire directly in the copper smelter?!!!"

Liu Che's face in the audience was extremely hot.

That's what he just thought.

There is no money left in the world.

There will be no more jobs paying three thousand dollars.

two thousand?

one thousand?
Originally, the wages in Chang'an would not be more than 800 coins.

Don’t even mention eight hundred.

Not even three hundred!

three hundred?

No, no, no, not even thirty.

Except for electricity, of course.

Everyone else has no money, only the power industry has money, so won’t this industry be crowded?

At that time, I carried a ton of wires to install them, and was paid a copper coin after the installation was completed.

Sang Hongyang scratched his head and said, "This is strange. Why are other industries not developing, but the power industry is continuing to develop?"

Huo Hai: "Is it strange? The wires won't disappear. After the copper coins are made into wires, they are still copper and still have a fixed value. They are just hung on the wall from the money box."

"Of course, lightning can kill people, and our electromagnetic induction electricity can also kill people, so perhaps industries such as copper wire sheaths that can block the outflow of current can also develop."

“The development of the power industry will not stop, it will continue.”

"The faster the development, the greater the copper consumption. No matter what rescue policy is implemented, it is impossible to compete with the power giants for copper. No one can win."

At this time, Liu Che felt that Huo Hai was targeting him.

That’s what I just thought.

Liu Che thought that if he simply issued an order prohibiting the excessive development of electricity or the use of copper to make money, the problem would be solved.

But in fact, it can't be done.

In history, Emperor Wu of Han used Wuzhu coins to deal with the people's money, which was probably just using one eighth of copper and insisting that it had the value of one part of copper.

The result was that the people began to mint their own coins.

Liu Che launched a mutual reporting campaign, where anyone who reported someone else for minting coins would receive half of the person's property.

The result was...more than one and a half million people were caught privately minting coins across the country.

This includes those who successfully reported and were arrested. We still don’t know how many people there are, including those who failed to report, those who were not reported, and those who had the idea of ​​privately minting coins but failed.

It is almost equivalent to everyone making counterfeit money.

Indeed, Liu Che's method of reporting made the people wary of each other and hostile to each other, and did not divert their anger to him. Moreover, after the people reported each other for a round, almost everyone's property was confiscated again, and almost half of the money in the people fell into his hands.

The people are being played around in circles.

But it doesn’t mean that the coinage campaign can be stopped directly by government decree. It also doesn’t mean that he won.

Because... without currency, people resorted to barter.

So the question is, Liu Che got all the money into his own hands, but the people had to barter and he couldn't spend his money. What was the point of having so much money?

Similarly, it is impossible for Liu Che to directly stop the development of electricity with an order, and it is even more impossible for him to order the people to stop using copper as money.

At this time, Liu Che was a little depressed.

Neither is this, nor is that.

Do we really have to stop developing electricity?
Liu Che: "Is it possible to stop using copper as currency? It is indeed difficult to directly order the people not to use copper as currency, but what if we use silver or even gold as currency?"

"Our banks and our vaults are proof that the people trust gold and silver more than copper."

Huo Hai: "Your Majesty, have you ever thought that in a society with developed electricity, the GDP will be thousands of times greater than it is now? How can the Han Dynasty have so much money to spend?"

Even if Huo Hai knew where the silver was.

It’s too late!
By that time, the silver from the mines had not yet been brought back, and the entire economy had collapsed.

After the economy collapses, will it be useful to bring back money?

No, by then everyone will resist the new policies and business reforms.

At the same time, the market was already dead at that time, and the return of silver would not be able to save the market, so it could only be distributed again.

The question is, how do we deal with the civil unrest that will be caused by this new distribution of wealth, and the deaths of millions or tens of millions of people?
These people are far more valuable than any electricity development itself.

Because electricity needs to be developed all the time, but in the next few years, the population will collapse.

For a post-traumatic society to thrive again, it will not take a few years, but three to five decades!

The people present are the smartest people in the entire Han Dynasty.

They are the most outstanding thousands of people among the millions of students of the new school so far.

They are a group of people who have mastered science, laws, and logical thinking abilities.

After hearing this, everyone at the scene fell into deep thought.

In everyone's opinion, everyone has always had a creed that technology creates a better future!
Today, the vice president who has led everyone to where they are today through all the difficulties has personally destroyed this creed and told everyone that technology will not necessarily create a steam utopia, technology will also create a cyber utopia!

Many people subconsciously think that the past was not that good and the future will definitely be better.

But now the vice president is analyzing everything bit by bit and telling everyone that no, the future may be the worst and the past may be the best.

This is devastating.

Many people at the scene did not come to the institute to be a craftsman.

Many people have big ambitions.

Many people believe that in the future, the Research Institute and the Academy of Technology will replace the current bureaucratic system of patronage.

We all want to achieve something, create an empire unprecedented in history, and then leave our names on the monument in the history books.

But now, he suddenly realized that what he had done might turn this empire, which had been extremely grand, into purgatory.

What about personal ambitions?
What should the big man do?
What about the future?!

"No?!!!!!!"

"Impossible, how could this happen?"

Huo Hai was merciless on stage: "The development of electricity will make the manufacturing of power equipment faster, the production of wires faster, and the manufacturing of motors faster. All the money in the world will be tied to the wall."

"In the future, when people go out to eat, they can only use a cow to exchange for dozens of chickens, and then have a meal. If no one wants to exchange food for chickens, then the person who has dozens of chickens will not be able to keep them alive, and his chickens will become dead."

"I talked about deflation before. Both types of deflation can be adjusted over time, and even through war to release pressure, consume excess production and stimulate demand gaps."

"But this particular kind of deflation, where the money disappears, is unsolvable, there is no answer."

"In the case of deflation, we can try to widen the hole, maybe in two and a half years, three years? Then it will recover, and when the next deflation comes, it will leak out again."

“But if the currency disappears, it disappears. There is no solution.”

Liu Che stood up with a smile: "I see, no wonder you rushed back from Huaishuo."

Sang Hongyang next to him was confused: "Huh?"

Your Majesty is not worried at all and is still smiling?
Could it be that Your Majesty is so free and easy that after learning about the awesomeness of electricity, he could actually hold back and actually prepare to permanently ban the development of electricity?
But that's not right. If you don't develop, others will develop. If other countries develop electricity, they will grit their teeth and endure the pain. By then, guns and cannons will be more powerful than those of the Han people. How will the Han people cope with it? !
With your Majesty's great talent and vision, how could you do such a self-castrating thing?
The people around me also had the same doubts.

Everyone is going crazy and desperate, yet Your Majesty can actually laugh! ? !

Liu Che disagreed.

In the past, Liu Che thought he knew a lot about economics. Now, Liu Che admits that he only understands the economic theories that have already appeared, and he does not understand those that have not appeared.

Perhaps I only understand one percent of the economic theories that should exist in this world, which is almost equivalent to understanding nothing at all.

However, I don’t understand economics, but I understand Huo Hai.

Didn’t Huo Hai say that he recommended a complete ban on the commercialization of power technology?

Why is it that the commercialization of electric power technology is banned instead of the development or research of electric power technology?
We must be waiting for a certain opportunity. Once the opportunity comes, we can develop electricity!
Liu Che: "So, your plan is that we completely ban the commercialization of power technology, but still let researchers lead the development of power technology and wait for an opportunity?"

Huo Hai was very serious: "As the vice president, the reason why I convened this meeting is not because this matter has no solution and will harm the Han Dynasty. If that were the case, it would be held in the court, not here."

“Indeed, there will be a good time when we can start developing electricity commercially.”

"But until then, all researchers please take note."

"If you continue to research steam engines and other mechanical technologies, you will become rich. In the next ten years or even longer, you will become the embodiment of science, the symbol of civilization, and the most powerful person in the Han Dynasty. You will be granted the title of nobility and prime minister, and you will be able to call the wind and rain. You will have thousands of fans when you go out, and your house will be magnificent."

"But one day, everything will come to an abrupt end. All the technologies you have will become obsolete. All your technologies will no longer be valuable. Everything you have studied will become history. Suddenly, you will become a person abandoned by the times."

All the researchers at the scene fell silent.

This wonderful life suddenly disappeared one day.

What’s the difference between this and a person being alive but actually already dead on this day?
Huo Hai on the stage looked at everyone and said, "If you choose to develop power technology, you will most likely not get any funding, any project rewards, any awards, or any reputation for ten years or even longer."

"You can't make any money, your children can't afford to go to the best primary schools, and your wife can only live on coarse food with you."

"But, a dozen years from now, one day, you will suddenly become a national idol. You will become the top scientists that all the capital in the capital market is crazy about. You will be the sages of mankind recorded in textbooks. You will be the shining stars among the shining stars of mankind!"

Fatih had seen this day.

Ten years? I can wait even thirty years!

Someone in the crowd murmured quietly: "I was stupid to choose electricity. I will become famous and make money first. When I am rich and famous, I can invest in electricity researchers."

Besides, since electricity cannot be commercialized, there should be no problem with me investing in their research.

Why do you have to be Tang Monk for ten years?
No matter how powerful the team of pilgrims is, they are still just a team of pilgrims. The Buddha himself has never come down to earth to suffer.

However, not everyone has a capitalist mindset, and many people are already making a lucky choice between the two.

What Liu Che was more curious about was how Huo Hai was going to solve the money problem.

Do we have to wait until one day some metal is discovered that can replace silver and copper and become the darling of electricity?

Impossible, it definitely isn't this, he must have something else in mind.

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