Galaxy Domination Guide

Bai Zhongqi and his girlfriend, Han Jiaxue, were chatting as they walked into a noodle shop that had clearly just opened. The shopfront was not small and the decor was very exquisite.

The shop owner was a tall middle-aged man with a goatee who looked kind-hearted. Seeing Han Jiaxue entering, he smiled and greeted her, "Ah, Consultant Han is here, please take a seat. This must be your boyfriend, a truly handsome man indeed."

Bai Zhongqi also smiled at the shop owner. He had made minor alterations to his appearance, and with different clothing and demeanor, almost no one would recognize him as the Chancellor.

Han Jiaxue introduced with a smile, "I come here often to eat, the owner is really nice."

"It's regular customers like Consultant Han who support the business. We haven't been open long, but we've already made many good friends who like our shop. I'm truly grateful. It's also thanks to the government; without them, I wouldn't have my shop."

Bai Zhongqi was puzzled, wondering how this matter was also an opportunity for flattering.

Han Jiaxue explained, "The special zone is now implementing a self-employment support program. Our new special zone leader seems to have some class consciousness. He appears to dislike the idea of certain individuals getting rich quickly through speculation during the transition phase, or the major domestic business owners cornering resources. So now, the special zone supports any individual engaged in self-employment and entrepreneurship."

The shop owner, with a smile, pointed to his shop and said, "The city government rented this place to me for free. There's no rent for five years, though I still have to pay the management fee, which isn't much. Additionally, the government's development office invested money directly, with no stake in ownership or management; it's simply pure support and subsidy. For self-employment in the service industry like mine, they even arrange employment for staff or provide bionic human waiters. What's more, they offer specialized guidance, which saves a lot of hassle."

Han Jiaxue praised, "It's really your skill that makes the business good."

The shop owner reminisced, "Before coming to Tai Ping, I was just a worker with some noodle-making skills, and I tried running a shop but failed. Honestly, I'm not very good at business, but making noodles and soup is what I'm best at. Working for others wouldn't make much money. After coming to Tai Ping, not only do I have a basic income, but now I have my own shop. It may not look like much, but the constant flow of customers and low costs means I'm actually earning quite well, haha."
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Listening to the shop owner's story, Bai Zhongqi felt a shared sentiment. He had met the new leader of the special zone, a C-country official with somewhat leftist tendencies. This official supported both big state economics and small private enterprises; the endeavors seen here in the special zone were evidently C-country's own experimental grounds.

All of the special zone's infrastructure and social services are now monopolized by Star Alliance enterprises, and the special zone is even more aggressive in one area than other regions – agriculture. All food supplies are directly provided to citizens by Star Alliance farms. With advanced technology, resources, and capital, such agricultural giants came into play and all but wiped out many farmers, especially the small-scale ones that still existed in C-country.

However, the small-scale farming class didn't have much to complain about, because even if they stopped farming, they would receive a basic income that was more than what they earned from the land before. Moreover, many were freed from the land and entered into the national service system, finding other jobs. Some family farms still exist but essentially, C-country assigns agricultural bureau experts to guide them in differentiated production, growing and processing high-value-added crops, and also provides them with cutting-edge agricultural machinery.

Against such a backdrop, any privately-owned large enterprise is mostly met with obstacles within the economic system under the Star Alliance. Bai Zhongqi even heard that the super-monopolistic economic system set up by the Star Alliance had sparked a strong backlash from so-called private entrepreneurs, but this resistance proved futile.

Some went on hunger strikes, others jumped from buildings, accusing the government of cutting off their paths. However, the Star Alliance would never compromise with those individuals seeking personal profit. Whether it's the Chancellor or the Star Alliance as a collective will, their actions were all about ensuring a better life on a universal level for all Earthlings and residents of every Administrative Star, not about making an individual or a few families extremely wealthy or granting them a transcendent social and economic status.

In places like the Spratly special zone, the government particularly supports individuals with skills managing their own businesses and self-employment. The government doesn't expect these people to drive the economy or employment. On one hand, it's hoped that they will work and realize their value through labor; on the other hand, it aims to achieve a socially diverse, differentiated, and flourishing society.

The Star Alliance does not reject personal legal property or wealthy individuals in economic thought, but the premise is that wealth must be earned through hard work and creativity, not through exploitation and quick schemes.

Of course, this economic transition was not a terrifying grinder of flesh and blood. Taking C-country as an example, many who were billionaires before the transition, regardless of how legitimate their wealth was, managed to keep it into the new era. Naturally, due to the transition from RMB to Star Alliance Currency and extremely complex algorithms, their wealth experienced significant depreciation, or in some cases, they were even forcibly required to convert their capital into movable and immovable assets. Nevertheless, the rich remained rich; their businesses might have collapsed, but their foundations were still solid.

Among them, some far-sighted individuals quickly transitioned their wealth into new technological equipment. For example, real estate development companies that introduced new building technologies, even if they were squeezed by Star Alliance construction enterprises locally, could take on projects in other international regions and still make fortunes. Similarly, resource-based businesses innovated with new technologies, directly leased Star Alliance civilian mining vessels, and ventured to other planets in the Solar System or even other galaxies to provide resources for the Star Alliance.

These individuals became rich quickly, but since the Star Alliance is so vast, it's difficult for any private enterprise or capitalist to negotiate terms with the Star Alliance. If the Star Alliance government throws out a job, these businesses scramble like mad dogs chasing a bone, shamelessly seizing any chance to make money.

Regrettably, the Star Alliance Currency is just a currency calculated through an intricate model. The amount issued is at the directive of the Star Alliance's economic department. In the Star Alliance, money represents wealth but cannot influence power. To the Chancellor's Supreme Command, money holds no significance. Whatever the Chancellor decides to do is not hampered by money. Even in elections intended to protect against tyranny, financial contributions have been formally decoupled from donations.

Over the centuries, money has never been as impotent and pale on Earth as it is today.