Every country in the world was in an uproar over this, and even Huaxia was no exception.
That was hardly surprising. No matter how incredible Phantom Immortal Technology was or how many admirers it had worldwide, it was now destroying people's livelihoods. Who would still cozy up to it? Not charging straight in for a head-on confrontation was already showing it plenty of respect—purely because they didn't dare.
Governments around the world, meanwhile, had a serious headache on their hands.
The widespread adoption of Intelligent Robots would inevitably drive comprehensive upgrades across every industry. Not only would this reduce labor costs, but more importantly, it would also improve product quality.
It was safe to say that products made with the involvement of Intelligent Robots would sell much better than before.
Things might have been manageable if nobody adopted Intelligent Robots on a large scale. But if some countries embraced them with open arms, those that rejected them would definitely suffer enormous losses.
When that happened, if your products cost more and were less intelligent than everyone else's, would anyone still buy them?
Businesses like that would face only one outcome: bankruptcy.
And if too many businesses in a country went bankrupt, it would defy all reason for that country not to decline.
As for some people's fears that robots would betray humanity and then rule the planet, the likelihood was vanishingly small. Compared with the national decline that rejecting Intelligent Robots would inevitably bring, such an unlikely event did not even enter these politicians' calculations.
Still, everyone understood the reasoning, but who dared ignore the surging tide of public opinion?
Some governments tried explaining things to their citizens, promising that the state would meet everyone's basic needs and even guarantee access to basic entertainment.
But why would the furious public