Before the two women got up, Simon had arrived in San Francisco.

In addition to accompanying the women and children here, the next two days were specially designed to cooperate with Simon's schedule to a series of meetings on the weekend, involving various new technology giants in Westeros system such as Igrit, Tinkobaier, and Cisco.

Simon needs to sort out each company and make sure he has a clear idea.

The Nasdaq Index, which has continued to rise since 1999, had already reached a high of 5,000 points in July before.

Yesterday on August 6, the Nasdaq closed at 5436 points. With the current growth momentum, it is not a problem to break through the high of 7045 points in March 1997 again before the end of the year.

Simon didn't know how high he could go in the end.

Next is the specific technology stocks. The most representative Igrit Company still leads the Nasdaq market. The market value of the market closed on August 6 has reached US$713.4 billion.

As expected, in this big market, Igret's market value broke through the trillion-dollar mark and became the first listed company with a trillion-dollar market value.

Simon has thought a lot when facing the fact that Nasdaq has stopped following the upward curve of its former trend.

At first I was nervous.

Will all this be a larger bubble?

However, as time goes by and overthinking, Simon is becoming more and more sure of many things.

I was still not confident enough at first.

Perhaps, even if I have the advantage of being a human being for two lifetimes, I inevitably feel that I am unlikely to be able to do too much than before. After all, the new technological trends in the past are also created by a group of the world's top elites.

Let’s talk about Nasdaq.

When did the Nasdaq index, after briefly breaking through 5,000 points at the peak of the technology bubble in 2000, plummeted for several consecutive years, and once again broke through 5,000 points?

Five years later?

Ten years later?

No, it was 2015 in 15 years later.

This time, in just three years, the Nasdaq index has exceeded 5,000 points twice in a row, and its first peak has even reached 7,000 points! Not only that, this current wave of market may even reach a higher level, and it is not impossible to 8,000 points or higher.

Are these reasonable?

Have you really surpassed the past?

However, the truth is, Simon really did.

Just talking about the Internet wave, the information industry began to develop rapidly, and the node was in 1995, with the rapid popularization of Netscape browser and the emergence of Yahoo.

This time, Simon directly advanced the process by 5 years, and launched the IE browser in 1990. At the same time, the portal website of Igrit, which was much ahead of Yahoo in the early days, was officially launched.

This is actually equivalent to the Internet industry in this time and space. As of 1999, it has been nearly 10 years, rather than just five years.

Moreover, relying on Simon's two-year-old advantages, many mature Internet industry business models are directly launched, no longer the first bubble bull market as before. Most new technology companies, including Yahoo, are still in the concept speculation stage and have not formed revenue and profits that are enough to support high stock prices.

This time, take the most representative Igret as an example.

This Internet giant, which has actually entered its 11th year of establishment, is expected to not only officially exceed the US$50 billion threshold in 1999, but will also reach between US$55 billion and US$57 billion.

Even though half of the revenue share is an e-commerce retail revenue that can fill book data, it is still absolutely terrifying compared to Yahoo and other companies in the same period.

Let’s talk about Tinkobaier, this electronics giant that is actually closely related to the concept of the Internet. Nowadays, not to mention peripheral accessories such as USB flash drives and interface converters, it is just the core electronic products such as iCam and iPlayer. In 1997, two years ago, the total sales of the total exceeded 100 million units.

In the 1999 year, according to sales data in the first two quarters, it is expected that the total shipment of each major product will reach more than 160 million units throughout the year, and the revenue scale is even higher than that of Tinkobaier, and it is expected to reach between 63 billion and 65 billion US dollars.

These real and dazzling revenue data, as well as behind them, represent not only the company itself, but also the strong driving force for all aspects of the industrial chain, are absolutely incomparable to the economic fundamentals of the current Nasdaq high-level index.

The towers in the air that come out of a mirage are destined to dissipate, but the tall buildings built solidly from the foundation can naturally remain unmoved.

After all, as the most powerful country in the world, everyone, including Simon, is inevitably more optimistic. However, the fact is that after the Nasdaq index fell back to less than 5,000 in 2000, it did not return to 5,000 points until 15 years later. Why?

Because the development of various industries in this country is actually far less courageous and diligent than the outside world imagines, and is more conservative and unimaginable.

The most direct example is that a subway has not been completed for 20 years, and a class can be seen.

Perhaps some people can distinguish thousands of reasons for this matter, because the automobile industry is not needed, because the union blocks it, and because of private land ownership, it is difficult to acquire land, and there are many different reasons, but these thousands of reasons are exactly what hinders the country's continued rapid development.

The reason why Simon has been able to do everything now in recent years, even directly advances the development of an industry by many years, is that Simon, as an emerging capital, still has enough development momentum.

At the same time, more importantly, because the Internet belongs to an emerging industry and does not touch too much of the interests of the vested interest class. Instead, more people can benefit from it, so that they can make rapid progress.

Furthermore, Simon is gradually becoming more and more confident.

With the advantages he brought to people in two lifetimes, coupled with his strong capital strength, Simon understood that he was indeed stronger than those guys he used to do. After all, he didn't need to explore and knew directly what to do, which direction to work, and how to avoid possible obstacles.

Of course, while understanding these, Simon actually realized something.

As the biggest vested stakeholder of emerging industries in this country, and even the world, Simon himself may one day become a conservative force. In order to ensure his own advantages, he began to hinder the development of this society.

This is the nature of the vested interests.

The nature of capital.

Just like Simon understood a truth very early on, even if he, the controller of the Westeros system, is not conservative, the entire capital system, in order to pursue its own interests and to hinder the emergence of competitors, will become conservative at all levels.

So, how to solve this problem?

In fact, there is a way.

Just like in the past few years, Simon has forced the new technology industry to make rapid progress with the Westeros system, if necessary, Simon can also forcefully drag the Westeros system to gradually fall into the conservative Westeros system.

This requires a prerequisite.

That is, Simon must maintain absolute strong control over the entire Westeros system.

That's right.

Be The Absolute King!

In fact, this is like Simon's improper idea that in this era, he was so ruthless that he was dragged onto the gallows and put on the oil pan and finally got a gunshot: humans need classes.

African man-cannibal ants gathered together to easily chew an elephant.

However, if the ants lose their distinctly class-separate social attributes and think that everyone is equal, free, and democratic, why should I attack the elephant for the benefit of the entire ethnic group? What if I happen to fall to the elephant's feet and be trampled to death, I'm thankful. Why don't the ant queen go?

At this level, the man-eating ant may not be able to deal with an insect.

With the harsh natural environment in Africa, the human-eating ants that "evolved" to this stage are probably not far from extinction.

OK, traitor!

Hang him!

Actually, it's like the science fiction novel that Simon once read.

Losing human nature, losing a lot, losing animal nature, losing everything.

Should we rather choose to perish in order to maintain our noble humanity? Or should we choose animality and choose the biological instinct of natural selection that has been formed over millions of years?

Obviously, the author of that novel chose the former.

Simon chose the latter.

Moreover, Simon does not agree with the description of the big trough in the novel.

Because in reality, most of the technological foundations that humans have developed rapidly around the millennium, such as semiconductors, the Internet, nuclear technology, space technology, etc., were actually produced by the two world wars that gathered a large number of social resources to explore the upper limit of science and technology and the Cold War era after that.

Then, entering the ‘new era’, as Simon doesn’t remember a public figure, the smartest brains of human beings rarely choose to explore the limits of technology, but instead flock to Wall Street and Silicon Valley. One studies how to maximize profits and short selling, and the other studies how to push advertisements to users most accurately.

Why?

Because society is open and the world is peaceful, everyone no longer needs to work hard on a very fundamental issue like survival.

So technology fell to a standstill.

The novelist’s setting is actually a misunderstanding of the limitations and inertia of the times. It is still the same saying that the development of the West is attributed to the enlightenment of society and the liberation of thought, and the result is the cause. Therefore, I feel that the progress of science and technology requires the enlightenment of society and the liberation of thought.

Just like another most famous cognition of inverted results as causes, the development of the West is the result of democracy and freedom.

Simon is too lazy to say more about this.

Return to the development of science and technology.

Do humans really no longer need to work hard for survival?

Science and technology are the primary productive forces.

Many people began to know this sentence when they were very young, but few people could understand that this simple, seemingly slogan-like sentence implies how many sad and bloody humans have developed for thousands of years.

In any case, only by constantly exploring the upper limit of science and technology can we continuously improve productivity, and human beings can have enough social resources to ensure the simplest thing to survive! On the contrary, if science and technology stagnates and keep the existing productivity unchanged, social resources will sooner or later be exhausted.

What should I do then?

Simple.

Just like countless dynasties in Chinese history.

Maybe some people will think that reincarnation is just reincarnation.

There is a price to reincarnation.

What's the price?

You can check the population loss ratio after each dynasty in China.

Highest, 80%.

The bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles.

The cruel reality is that as long as people die enough, the remaining social resources will naturally be enough.
Chapter completed!