Liu Yu said in a deep voice: "Yes, there is a saying that industrial workers can choose to work for which factory, but they cannot choose not to work. Overall, they have to choose to enter the factory to work in the end because they no longer have land in the countryside, either become homeless people and starve to death, or they can only find one factory and become workers."

"There is indeed a certain competitive relationship between capitalists, and it is not ruled out that some capitalists who are more generous and kind-hearted can give relatively good treatment and living conditions, just like the northern expatriates in the Eastern Jin Dynasty who were tenants of the village, sometimes encounter relatively good-conditioned owners like the Xie family. But no matter what, capitalists make money by opening factories, which means that their working environment and living conditions will not have a very large essential difference, and they are all relatively difficult and harsh."

"Due to the operation of the machine, early workers often had work-related injuries in which their arms or limbs were cut off by the machine, and they had to work more than six hours a day. Even in the late Qing Dynasty, some people had to count that British industrial workers had an average age of only 20 years old, and they had to work as child laborers in their early 10s. Most people died of work-related injuries or fatigue before they were 20 years old. There were very few people who lived past forty years old. Therefore, compared with the farmers of the Celestial Empire, these industrial workers of the early Western powers lived a life worse than death."

The ancestor nodded: "On average, it's not as good as twenty years old. Even in the war-torn era in China, it's rare. It's really too cruel. These Western workers live so miserably. Don't they resist or revolt?"

Liu Yu said seriously: "In fact, the organizational and unity of the workers in the factory are very strong, because large machine production, like the official workshops in the Qin and Han Dynasties, is that everyone needs to divide the work and cooperate and act collectively on a whole production line, not like small farmers who are single-familiar. Therefore, the workers are often very united and have a quasi-militarized management. Usually, those workers who are not married and have no family live collectively in the factory and know each other well. This is the so-called discipline and revolutionary nature."

The ancestor laughed: "So, it is indeed like a military camp and an army. If it is a young man with nothing, it is the most opportunity and the least afraid of rebellion. Since the exploitation of these capitalists is so cruel that they cannot survive at an average of twenty years old, there must be many workers who will often cause trouble for the work environment and salary. Didn't that Western country under the banner of human rights when it rebelled? Now it's these capitalists' turn to be rulers, and workers should still be bulls and horses, so they can make trouble."

Speaking of this, the ancestor curled his lips: "However, it requires someone like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to take the lead, which is a bit troublesome. He wants to defeat the capitalists, but in the end, as the leader of the workers, he becomes a capitalist. This is almost like asking a gentry, a small landlord, or a farm leader to lead the tenant farmer and farmers to defeat the aristocratic family, and finally become aristocratic family. It seems not easy."

Liu Yu shook his head and said, "In that era, Western countries actually had various ideas such as human rights, democracy, and equality. Just like in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in our country, there were also hundreds of schools of thoughts, or like now, there are often talks about Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. In the words of later generations, this is the so-called philosophical discussion. Some nobles or capitalists with superior families will have some thoughts who have no worries about food and clothing, and do not have to engage in material production such as farming or factories, but rather study philosophical issues such as the mysterious and yellow heaven and the universe and the common people."

"These thinkers often have compassion for the world and see that all living beings are suffering, especially those who are workers live a miserable life, so they feel compassion. Most people just stay on their mouths or write some words and poems to express their sympathy for them. But some people will begin to study why these workers seem to have escaped from the slavery and oppression of kings and great nobles and become free people, but they may live even worse than the farmers back then. Why are the technological progress in the world, big machines can assist humans in labor, and the efficiency of production has also improved a lot compared to before, but ordinary workers and people are still in a difficult situation, and live a life that is worse than death, which is even worse than before?"

The ancestor laughed: "That's because the extra wealth and benefits of the world are not distributed to these ordinary people and workers. As you said, they can freely choose which factory to work for, but overall they can only go to the factory to work in the end, just to choose different capitalists. Those good-hearted capitalists will give workers better conditions because they are not ruthless enough. Then they may earn less money and produce less, and they will not compete for other black-hearted capitalists. Just like the various aristocratic family estates in our current family, except for those with big family and big family, those small aristocratic families that give tenants more preferential and benefits will often end up going bankrupt because they give more tenants, and if they give them fewer, they will not compete for other black-hearted families."

Liu Yu nodded and said, "Yes, you're right. That's the reason. The more you are, the more you make, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have to squeeze out other capitalists. They also strictly control the workers, differentiate and disintegrate, and mix a lot of their own eyes and eyes. By selling the produced industrial products at a lower price, squeeze out other factories. Finally, when one or several of them dominate, they will raise the price and fire the workers, even if they will be temporarily

A relatively high salary is used to attract other workers. After other factories go bankrupt, they will lower these wages, making it a problem for workers to survive. In the end, they can only eat and live in their factories and become real slaves. Only by using high-intensity labor, can people survive until they are twenty years old. Therefore, there is a famous saying in later generations that capital comes to the world, and blood and dirty things flow in every pore. This sentence is very accurate to describe the greedy nature of capitalists."
Chapter completed!