Chapter 609: Resource trap

The era of colonial expansion has ended, and the focus of the Vienna government's work has once again returned to the country. The most serious problem in Austria now is the uneven development of the domestic economy, and the gap between the rich and the poor is constantly expanding.
Just looking at the per capita income of 64.6 Aegis, this figure is no longer low. After deducting children and the elderly, the per capita income of the labor force is even more than a hundred.
However, the reality is that the annual income of big capitalists and nobles is tens of millions, and the actual annual income of most ordinary workers is less than 30 Aegis.
In this regard, Franz is also a vested interest. As a result of increasing per capita income, he now has to worry about the widening gap between the rich and the poor.
Take Vienna as an example. As the city with the highest per capita income in the world, the per capita annual income in Vienna is as high as 328 SHIELD.
This income is placed in any country and region in the world, and that is the middle class.
It is not surprising that Vienna, as Austria's financial capital, cultural capital, technological capital, and educational capital, has so many resource bonuses.
However, statistics tell Franz that this is only a superficial boom, and internal problems are already very serious.
Vienna has a population of 1.06 million, of which 620,000 are of age-age workforce. Only 11.2% of the annual income reaches 328 SHIELD, only 29.6% of the annual income exceeds 100 SHIELD, and 24.6% of the annual income is less than 30 SHIELD. (Calculates labor force only)
This is still the capital, so there are so many low-income people, if I change to another area, I am afraid it will be more serious.
According to statistics, the number of poor people with annual income below 20 Aegis is as high as 31.2%. This is not the data that a developed country should have, but it is the reality.
The disparity between the rich and the poor is only one aspect, and the imbalance in regional development is even more alarming. The poorest small county has an annual per capita income of less than 8 Aegis.
This income is estimated to be enough to eat potatoes. This is based on the premise that Austria is a food-producing country. If it is in England, you can only find wild vegetables.
And this gap is still growing. The poorer the poorer, the richer the richer.
The old problems have not yet been resolved, and new ones have emerged. With the economic development, the gap between urban and rural areas is widening at an alarming rate.
The abolition of serfdom from 1848 to 1854 was the golden time for the development of rural economy in Austria, and the agricultural output value increased by 56% in five years.
Then the rural economic development slowed down rapidly, especially after the agricultural crisis broke out in 1873, the Austrian rural economy once experienced negative growth.
With the country's rapid economic growth, the rural economic growth rate in Austria in 1875 was less than 1%, and it can be said that it was almost in place.
With so many questions coming together, Franz's hair was almost gone. "Solving" is simple. How do you solve it?
Not only the problems of Austria, there is no country in the 19th century that can make exceptions, and no one can solve these problems.
Ever since Franz raised these questions, the Vienna government has been thinking of ways, but the reality is still so cruel.
Franz didn't even dare to order the bureaucrats to solve it, because once this order was issued, he would probably not see the real data.
Now is not the age of the Internet. In this era of backward communication, it is very easy to whitewash the peace, just change the data with a large stroke.
It is the natural skills of the bureaucracy to deceive and hide, and the tsarist government next door is an example of this. Since Alexander II pushed for reform, the Russian Empire has developed at an astonishing rate on paper.
Just looking at the data on paper, the industrial strength of the Russian Empire has surpassed Austria, and it is estimated that it will surpass the European continent in a few years. Perhaps in the lifetime of Alexander II, the Russian Empire can surpass the world.
Compared with the bureaucracy of the Tsarist government, the Austrian bureaucracy is fairly conscience. Falsification of data does not exist, but it is definitely not that disheartening.
This is the credit of Franz. As a qualified emperor, rewards and punishments are clearly necessary, so a strict reporting and reward system has been formulated.
You can falsify data, but you must ensure that everyone cooperates. It is not enough to ensure that the next government cooperates. You must ensure that the next government must cooperate.
Responsibility for life, all those who do not report all joint responsibility. Cancel all honors received and go to prison together in the second half of my life.
As a whistleblower, you can be promoted directly to the third level, and you can also work in the investigation department to investigate data fraud.
As a sacrifice to this policy, the bureaucrats in the province of BiH were the first to suffer. An official who was originally optimistic about Franz was included in the cabinet candidate list and was also planted in it.
Thousands of public officials went to jail at one time, and all the bureaucratic groups in the province of Bosnia and Herzegovina were implicated, almost annihilated by the army.
After being affected by this, everyone converged and the data suddenly returned to normal.
Officials are mixed, who has few political opponents? Had the local government been a piece of iron, the Vienna government would have been unable to sleep!
Hold your head tight, but you dare not mess up below. Isn't it just statistics, just report it honestly. Counterfeiting is indeed easy to make achievements, and it is easier to go to prison.
Vienna Palace, Economic Conference
Franz shot the table directly: "The domestic economy is developing very fast, but the gap between the rich and the poor, the regional gap, and the urban-rural gap are also getting worse. Now it is time to resolve it.
If you drag on, it will only be more difficult to deal with it in the future. I don't ask for a 100% solution, but I have to make sure that the situation doesn't get worse. "
The requirements are so low. Under the existing productivity situation, Franz knows that these problems cannot be solved at all.
If the problem cannot be solved, it does not mean that the problem is not solved. In any case, it is better to do it than not to do it, even if you keep the current situation, it is a great victory.
Prime Minister Felix replied stubbornly: "Your Majesty, regional economic development is uneven, and the biggest problem is the limitation of natural conditions.
We can only adapt to local conditions and formulate appropriate economic development policies. There is still a large part of this area. Due to natural conditions, industry and agriculture are not suitable for development.
From the overall perspective, we must make choices in these areas, and focus on developing areas that are easier to develop.
The widening gap between urban and rural areas is a worldwide problem. With the development of industrial technology, the gap between industrial and agricultural scissors will become more serious.
In the short term, the most effective way is to promote land mergers and adopt a large farm production model to replace the smallholder economy in many areas now.
However, this is again the least desirable approach. The social problems caused by land mergers are far more serious than the widening gap between urban and rural areas.
In fact, these two issues are not critical. The most important thing is that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, and the number of poor people is increasing.
As long as the income problem of the people at the bottom is solved, it is acceptable whether the regional development is uneven and the gap between urban and rural areas is widening. "
This is a pseudo-proposition. How to mediate the gap between the rich and the poor without addressing regional imbalances and the gap between urban and rural areas?
The three have always complemented each other, and their income is different from the others. This is regulated by the market, and the government cannot impose control.
Franz is no longer economically innocent, and will not be naive to think that the government will set a higher minimum wage income, and everyone's income will go up.
This is impossible. Every industry can bear different labor costs. The market competitiveness of some traditional industries is cheap labor.
In so many countries in the later generations, they would de-industrialize. In addition to the notional excuse of "environmental protection", more labor costs in developed countries are too high.
In other words, the guild has become a tool for some people to make profits. In order to chase a higher return on investment, capitalists have to transfer factories.
Austria has not progressed to that point. Many capitalists are still lying down and making money, and most industries have good profits.
The bottom line is that the income of the people at the bottom is not up, and the main reason is the supply-demand relationship in the labor market. The so-called labor cost affects market competitiveness, which is actually very nonsense.
The current labor price, labor cost actually accounts for a very low proportion. Except for labor-intensive industries, labor costs in many industries are less than one-tenth of product prices.
Compared with the rival British, Austria's labor costs are much cheaper, and the cost of raw materials is also much cheaper. However, the international retail price of products is almost the same.
This made Franz very dissatisfied. With so many superior conditions, the capitalists did not even grab the market with the British. Obviously, the domestic market has fed them, and everyone's initiative is not enough.
If they are not changed to give them a sense of crisis and continue for so long, it is estimated that Austria will also fall into the "resource trap".
This is the case of British and French capitalists in spacetime. Anyway, they can make money anyway, why should they work hard?
One by one with money and eating, drinking, and having fun, there is no sense of crisis at all, and finally I watched Americans and Germans surpass the past.
It is the core of this economic conference to change the status quo of domestic capitalists' unmotivated progress.
Franz: "Solving the gap between the rich and the poor is indeed the core issue. What plans does the government have?"
Prime Minister Felix: "In the short term, the easiest way to raise everyone's income is immigration. There is a surplus of domestic labor, but the colonial labor has been very scarce.
We have also been immigrating these years, but we haven't done enough. In the inland regions, we rarely even do propaganda, and we must change this situation now.
The government plans to move 10 million immigrants to the colonies within five years. The main areas of immigration this time were overpopulated rural areas and poor and remote areas. "
It is poor to see that a large number of immigrants enter the colonies, and the supply-demand relationship in the domestic labor market will inevitably change. Gone are the days when capitalists depended on cheap labor.
It wasn't Franz who was ruthless and was forced by reality.
The former German Empire was the best example. Almost all resources except coal and iron were scarce, labor costs were higher than the French, and there were not so many colonies to plunder, but they developed.
The talent bonus of compulsory education is one aspect, but more of it is the crisis awareness of the enterprise, which urges everyone to promote technological innovation.
It has been so many years for compulsory education in Austria, the quality of the population is not low, and it has a richer market and resources, which cannot be justified.
The second industrial revolution began in Austria. It is reasonable that Franz promoted the new technology. It should be faster than the same period in history, but the reality is very shameful.
In 1875, the newly registered patented technology in Austria, the royal industry accounted for one-third, the proportion of this number has increased year by year.
Franz's research found that the core problem was that the company's life was too easy. You can make money by lying down, and capitalists are simply unwilling to promote technological innovation.
This is determined by benefits. Low labor, raw material prices, and broad markets allow them to make money without hard work.
However, the research and development of new technologies is full of uncertainty. The investment and return may not be directly proportional, and everyone is unwilling to take risks.
Without pressure, it can only create pressure. These years have not yet reached the age of capital internationalization, and Franz is not afraid of capitalists running away.
Engaging in international trade requires government endorsement, and every large multinational group has a government background. Even so, these groups are often pitted.
There are many classic cases of this, for example: British and French capital invested in Austrian railways and infrastructure construction, and Franz used the economic crisis to pit it.
Another example: British capital built a large railway in the United States, and ultimately lost everything.
There are background pits, which are pits within the regular range. No background, not to mention, no need to pay attention to eating.
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