New Sapiens

Twenty years passed in the blink of an eye.

Earth was flourishing. Any economic crisis had long since passed, and grain stores were overflowing.

Hua Country's agriculture had overtaken the competition despite its late start, skipping comprehensive mechanization altogether. Driven by state power, it had moved straight into fully intelligent superconducting mechanization... with Vegetable People operators added to the mix...

All Earthlings engaged in agriculture were technicians or managers. Farmers in the classical sense no longer existed...

Citizen welfare had also risen sharply along with productivity. While it was not quite at the point of providing free meals for everyone, lifelong free education for all had been fully implemented.

Some less educated citizens were either dragged back to school by neighborhood offices or compelled by the broader social environment to resume their studies...

Among the world's fifty-six countries and civilization-administered regions, forty-two had already fully implemented "Vocational Learning."

In other words, studying itself had become a profession.

After all, researchers in the new era had far too much knowledge to master, and the ceiling had risen higher as well. Some people who were not good at studying might not finish learning everything even after a hundred years...

The state therefore had to bear the cost of education. A family's ability to support it on its own was simply nowhere near enough.

And if education fell short, the population would become a burden rather than a force driving social progress.

Earth was moving quickly, so it had to use relatively forceful methods to raise humanity's cultural and educational standards.

Thus, studying had to be professionalized. As long as one passed examinations at different levels and obtained the corresponding ratings, one could receive a salary matching that level every month.

The lowest level paid 2,400 RMB. Anyone reasonably good at studying could