That experiment proved something else as well: according to the statistics, children raised by various categories of cloned "template parents" had a far higher chance of becoming successful than those raised in natural families!
This was hardly surprising. No qualifications were required to become a parent, and even if parents were responsible enough to actively or passively learn some knowledge, the efforts of one person or a few people could hardly be more rational or scientific than the super-big-data system Mousse had built by integrating the resources of the entire world.
Then "marriage and family," which had emerged around the same time as private ownership, could likewise be declared dead.
Mousse felt some regret, having experienced their warmth himself. But just as early industrial society, where young people could not even live past twenty-five, had still replaced agricultural society, once communal child-rearing possessed an overwhelming advantage in efficiency, it was bound to eliminate the traditional household-by-household model.
In truth, Mousse had not forcibly torn families apart. Rather, children raised communally simply grew up to be generally more competitive than peers raised under the traditional model. Moreover, as experience accumulated and research deepened, that advantage continued to expand, to the point where even the children of prominent families found it difficult to maintain their edge.
Then the Pirate World truly underwent a massive upheaval, one even more earth-shaking than the overthrow of Celestial Dragon rule!
Vegapunk had grown old and frail, retiring from the front lines of scientific research. It had to be admitted that he truly was an unparalleled scientific genius in the Pirate World. Even though the number of scientists had now increased by hundreds of times, none displayed that almost inhuman scientific talent.
But for the world as a whole, overall research capability had increased by an unknown