Social Issues Brought by Boundless Energy

"Perhaps, this technology that allows people to dream and grow their energy within those dreams was originally a dangerous technology," Yue Yuan couldn't help but daydream, while also wondering, "But when will this Dreamscape Event ever end?"

Many years have passed since the Dreamscape Event occurred. During this time, humanity has not only successfully conducted Warp Speed Travel experiments, but also verified other Level 4 Civilization technologies derived from the Grand Unified Theory. Furthermore, humanity has successfully built the first Level 4 Civilization technology-level warship and the first Level 4 Civilization technology-level Residential Spaceship.

Shipbuilding technology has also been proven, and humanity is now fully capable of building the New Flagship originally planned. The proposed design, a planetary-level warship equipped with Planet Destroyer Cannon, would be 300 kilometers long, with a width and height in the hundreds of kilometers Planet-Class Warship.

Logically, under such circumstances, humanity should have already activated the Exit Passage to this space, but there is still no movement.

Just as Human Decision-Making Level were contemplating whether to actually build New Flagship and scientists were considering whether to find a type of Tachyon that could be used in weapons, the long-awaited change for all of humanity finally occurred.

On this day, Yue Yuan, as usual, finished his daily work in the office and then went to the Lyra Command Center to take charge. Well, for Yue Yuan, it shouldn't be called a "day," because today was his twelfth consecutive day of working while awake.

Due to the increased energy levels of humans, most people can now go a month without sleeping. This has led to some social problems, and Yue Yuan just saw a considerable number of reports on this topic in his office.

The main argument is that because humans have abundant energy, they no longer need to sleep and rest every day as before. Therefore, the previous work-rest schedule is no longer suitable for the current reality and needs to be reformed. The reform proposal suggests that, given the current state of human energy, working hours could be increased to improve the overall time utilization rate of Human Civilization.

This inhuman suggestion naturally met with opposition from a considerable number of people.

However, the dissenting voices are mostly from experts, scholars, and scientists, because within current Human Civilization, most jobs related to production and manufacturing have been replaced by Strong Artificial Intelligence, and ordinary people actually have very few jobs; the work they do is mostly hobby.

Therefore, the idea of increasing working hours is naturally only aimed at Research Personnel, scientists, and various experts and scholars who lead the progress of Human Civilization.

They are actually quite conflicted. On one hand, there's the need for the progress of Human Civilization as a whole, and on the other hand, there's the individual's need for leisure. If we followed the previous work-rest schedule, humans would have more rest time, because all the time spent sleeping was considered rest time.

With an eight-hour workday, one can rest for sixteen hours out of a twenty-four-hour workday.

This work system is actually acceptable, but because of their abundant energy, many people feel that it would be a waste not to increase their working hours. However, a considerable number of people remain silent, feeling that the current situation is fine, but due to political correctness, they have to stand up and support the proposal to increase working hours, because it is all for the efficient development of all mankind, and opposing it would make them seem a bit lacking in service spirit.

Yue Yuan had actually seen all of this. He did support increasing working hours, but then he thought about it. Scientific researchers were already exhausted, and the advancement of human technology depended entirely on them. Now that they finally had more time because of their increased energy, increasing their working hours seemed a bit like exploitation.

Yue Yuan knew that if this proposal were brought to the general meeting for discussion and decision, nine times out of ten everyone would support increasing working hours, but the specific amount of increase would be debatable. He didn't make a decision immediately, but instead waited for the matter to settle down for a while to see everyone's reaction and level of acceptance.

However, no matter how it is reformed, it can never become a perverted system where people work as long as they are awake.

Human change itself will inevitably lead to social problems, something the New Government had anticipated, so Yue Yuan wasn't particularly worried about it at the moment. Work systems would certainly change, but decisions wouldn't be made hastily; several more large meetings would likely be held to discuss them.

Because it involves many issues, not just the work-rest system. After all, if the work-rest system is changed, should humans still maintain the "24-hour day" unit of time? Should we propose another unit of time to accommodate the vigorous energy of humans?

The opinion report contained a variety of opinions, with some supporting all changes and others supporting maintaining the status quo. Those who supported change believed that humanity should keep pace with the times. Since individuals have evolved, existing systems should also change accordingly, rather than clinging to the old Earth systems, which would only cause human thought to stagnate and prevent humanity from ever becoming true interstellar life.

Those who support maintaining the status quo also have their reasons. They believe that changing the units of time is not very meaningful; at most, it would only increase the burden on human memory and unnecessarily increase the difficulty of daily narrative communication. This group actually supports changing the existing work-rest schedule, but they do not support changing the names of various units of time.

The social problems arising from humanity's abundant energy don't stop there. Due to their high energy levels, some violent issues have emerged among the people Residential Spaceship. These are people who feel they are very strong and can't feel at ease unless they destroy something. The problems aren't too serious; they just add some daily work to the Security Department personnel.

Of course, it's not all bad that humans have become more energetic; at least among the ordinary humans Residential Spaceship, some changes have occurred as a result.

Many people stay awake for long periods due to their abundant energy, while Strong Artificial Intelligence still handles most of the work within humanity. In this situation, they become a group of people who are bored out of their minds. Therefore, to avoid becoming restless and idle, a significant portion of them join the entertainment industry, while others find things to do based on their own interests and hobbies.

For example, some people set up their own studios, or a group of like-minded individuals join together to establish a hobby club, where they can create small inventions. Some skilled individuals have even set up high-tech studios, attempting to compete with Strong Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing precision in certain areas.

Some top talents also dedicate their spare time to studying various precision mechanical structures out of personal interest, which can be considered as a contribution to the further development of human Mechanical Mastery.

In general, it will take humanity quite some time to process all the changes brought about by the Dreamscape Event.