Chapter 830

Discussion time always passes quickly. Before they knew it, it was time for the intern students to leave. The three of them basically reached a consensus on the goal of Cat Getan's reform, which could be considered very significant progress.

By dusk, Alberto's personality went back to rest, and Yin Wensi emerged again. He looked down at his watch and said: "Sorry, Professor, I might have to leave; there are still things waiting for me to handle."

Schiller stood up and said: "Go ahead, remember to arrive on time tomorrow, and also, get some good rest."

After Yin Wensi left, Bruce had no intention of leaving. He looked at Schiller and asked: "What is the peerless trump card you mentioned? My scientific research ability?"

"Of course." Schiller replied while closing the door. Bruce frowned and asked: "Why?"

"Of course, it's because of your genius intelligence." Schiller walked back to the desk and sat down, while Bruce stood in place, silent, waiting for Schiller's next sentence.

"We only discuss technology, not ethics. With sufficient resources, are you confident in supporting all of humanity?" Schiller asked.

Bruce frowned and said: "I don't want to rule the Earth, nor do I want to become the King of Humanity or control all the resources on this planet."

"Why?" Schiller asked.

"Because I don't want to become Macbeth." Bruce looked into Schiller's eyes and said: "Infinite power equals no power. When power reaches its peak, nothing will be left."

Schiller sighed and said: "Rule? No..."

"If you can concentrate all the resources provided by the entire Earth, then you can use your scientific research ability to turn the entire Earth into a system, using technical means to distribute all materials evenly, thereby supporting humanity."

Schiller looked into Bruce's eyes and said: "You have never been a bottom-dweller living in a slum. The resources you possess and your genius intelligence give you a faster, more thorough way to change all of this."

"With your scientific research and technical ability, you could completely turn the entire Earth into a beehive. Everyone here could have enough space, enough resources, complete every one of their dreams, and obtain ultimate happiness."

"I asked you before whether the resources currently on Earth are enough for everyone to obtain a happy life, and your answer was affirmative."

"And now, the reason this goal hasn't been reached is that both the social system and scientific technology are responsible. And regardless of which side is strong enough, it can replace the other to a certain extent."

"And obviously, your scientific research ability has become strong enough to influence the social system, and even reach the point of changing the human social system."

"However, you must understand one thing..." Schiller gradually revealed his fangs. He stood up, walked to Bruce, looked into his eyes, and said, "Revolution—whose revolution is it?"

"Whether you want to carry out a violent revolution from the bottom up or carry out reform from the top down, you must know that even if you make the smallest change, as the person who controls the most means of production, you will certainly suffer losses. It's just a matter of the size of the loss."

"When you made the decision to thoroughly overthrow the gang rules, when you wanted to make everyone in this city better, when you wanted them to have the peaceful and prosperous life of their dreams, have you ever thought that this means you might lose everything?"

"The more you want to do, the more you will lose. In the process of re-establishing rules and re-distributing resources, you cannot stay out of it."

"Bruce, you may have read some books, but you haven't had enough time to understand them. When I ask you these questions, I think you should already understand why that book says capitalists will never awaken."

"Social wealth is fixed; resources will not increase out of thin air due to changes in distribution methods. With the total amount unchanged, the wealth that flows to the poor you sympathize with is all meat carved from your own body."

"In this process, you must cut off your own meat piece by piece, dismantle your skeleton, dissect your internal organs, and personally give all the materials you rely on for survival and that allow you to enjoy your current life to those who will neither thank you nor remember you."

"This is why, in human history, top-down reform has never succeeded. No one can endure such pain."

"All their kindness is built on the premise of not endangering themselves, and once they start cutting meat, everyone will be terrified and fear it like a tiger."

"The difference is that many such classes did not anticipate such results before the reform, but now, I have already told you all the consequences."

"Many such people do not have this ability, because of the limitations of the era; even if they pay, they cannot get the results they want. But now, I can also tell you that with your world-shocking wisdom, you can achieve this."

"Once you start doing such things, your wealth, status, and reputation will all cease to exist, and what these things can be exchanged for is only the happiness of strangers who have nothing to do with you."

"Batman, you found your humanity in the lowest depths of Cat Getan and wanted to mingle with them, but do you truly have such divinity to abandon everything you possess and sacrifice everything to your ideals?"

"Now, a multiple-choice question is placed before you: your ideals, and everything you possess—you can only choose one..."

"Batman, how will you choose?"

Bruce remembered that when he first met this professor, every time he entered his office, he would use all kinds of language to shake his mind and force him to make a choice, and this time was no exception.

Or rather, this time the question was more fatal.

Batman, who shouted every day about saving Cat Getan and fighting criminals, when he got a chance to truly save Cat Getan and thoroughly eliminate crime, should have executed this plan without hesitation.

But the only problem was that the firewood needed to light this fire was himself.

Under the existing system, wealth always flows upward, and the gap between rich and poor will only get larger and larger. To find a perfect social system to replace the current one and solve all problems once and for all, there are two ways.

One is to make resources infinite. As long as everyone has approximately infinite resources—infinite land, food, air—then the so-called gap between rich and poor actually becomes meaningless.

As long as you have absolutely infinite resources, even if the wealth gap between the poor and the rich is tens of thousands of galaxies, it actually doesn't matter, because the survival materials a human needs in a lifetime are only so much, and the materials needed to realize all needs also have an upper limit. When everyone reaches the goal of ultimate happiness, the remaining things, no matter how big the gap, don't matter.

Another path is absolute fairness. People are not born equal, but in fact, there are mandatory means to make everyone born equal. As long as there is a "final owner" who can support all of humanity, regardless of whether he is good or bad, to a certain extent, the remaining people have achieved absolute fairness—either fairly having nothing, or fairly everyone being well-off.

To achieve the first path, one needs to expand outward, obtain infinite resources, must leave the Earth, head toward the sea of stars, until occupying the entire universe. Perhaps the entire universe is not enough; one needs infinite universes to allow all humans to satisfy all needs and head toward ultimate happiness.

And to achieve the second path, one needs to change inward, with an absolute advantage, overwhelm the entire human society, and then allocate the entire Earth's resources with the highest efficiency, making every human a part of the group. Under the condition of eliminating gaps and comparisons, there are no longer any needs brought about by society. People only need to focus on their own survival and spiritual needs, and they can also achieve ultimate happiness.

But the only problem is that every "final owner" would not be willing to support all of humanity. Since they have already obtained all the resources on this planet, why not enjoy it themselves? What does the life or death of strangers have to do with them?

This is not cold-bloodedness, but the essence of human nature. Humans are inherently selfish and must first consider their own needs. And accompanying the expansion of resources in hand is the expansion of needs. Perhaps the "final owner" doesn't need an entire Earth, but he feels that his future desires might need it, so he won't share it with others.

If one wants to get rid of this natural essence, Batman must change from a human back into a god, because only a god can be truly selfless.

Bruce, standing inside the room, understood this truth. When he flew down from the high attic, he just wanted to see what the people on the ground were doing.

Living among the crowd allowed him to put on the outer garment of a human, allowed him to choose to become one of these people, and possess the courage to face suffering and still go against the current.

But when he inherited the most precious part of humanity, he still needed to strip away the most essential part of humanity: selfishness and greed.

Bruce felt that the skin he had just grown began to ache faintly. Under the human skin he put on for himself, something was coming out again.

That, perhaps, was the wings he hadn't used for a long time.