When Catherine returned to Lin Qi's villa, she let out a long sigh of relief. The final result of the Senate's expanded plenary session was that there had been no result.
At the request of the No. 1 Committee Member of the Emergency Committee, the Senate had voted to expand the scope of the meeting further.
Some well-known private shelter builders, along with representatives of the Major Consortiums, would be invited to participate in the meeting.
The No. 1 Committee Member's proposal was actually very crafty. His meaning was to use capital to defeat capital.
Giving a small portion of the top capital firms the chance to establish industry standards would not only win their favor, but also make them realize the meaning and value of what they were contributing.
At the same time, it would cut off the attempts of smaller, less-qualified enterprises to enter the private shelter construction and operation industry.
Yes, this had already rapidly become an industry! No one had expected that, with the end of the world approaching, the capitalists still had not abandoned their efforts to stuff the money in people's pockets into their own pockets.
The moment the companies producing private shelter components began mass production and large-scale shipments, they had already planted the seeds for the proliferation of private shelters! It was just that people initially had not realized that building shelters could be profitable—and enormously profitable at that—so capital had not yet dug too deeply into the matter.
But once some people with keen instincts realized this, its spread was destined to become a disaster.
Were so many shelters lined up waiting for approval really being built for their owners themselves?
Wasn't it because the entire society was driving things in that direction? Even the latest season of the Federation's highest-rated