I Became Park Jeong-ui’s Nephew - Chapter 224



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He became Park Jeong-ui’s nephew. – (224)

“California has grown by 5 million people in the past eight years, and the concentration of businesses has led to inflated real estate prices. The solution to this problem is to regulate and decentralize businesses.”

This is America,

Ahead of the gubernatorial election, each candidate presented their pledges.

Republican candidate George Brown advocated for corporate decentralization, saying that while California has made significant progress in recent years, its population has surged, driving up housing prices and making the economy too concentrated in one area.

To solve this problem, we need to decentralize,

David Ackerman, in contrast, argued for infrastructure concentration.

“Voters, do you know the city of Busan? It is less than 1% of the Korean Peninsula’s land area, but it is the second largest city in Korea, and its population has increased by 1 million in the past 7 years. It has now grown into a metropolis with a population of 3 million.

South Korean politicians have chosen to regulate businesses, saying that too much population and infrastructure is concentrated in Busan. As a result, 150 companies have moved out of Busan in recent years, and 20,000 working-age people have also left the city.

The surprised South Korean government eased regulations and attracted businesses back in. Let’s apply this logic to California.

If we regulate businesses to disperse them, as candidate George Brown said, 650 businesses will move out of the city within five years. That would be an exodus of more than 200,000 productive workers. Can the state afford that?

“Infrastructure is only meaningful when it’s concentrated in one place. If you try to decentralize it, you’ll end up destroying a healthy city.”

Of course, Republicans dismissed this claim.

Excessive concentration breeds chaos, and even if you look at other American states, only a small percentage of the population lives in cities.

Most people move to the outskirts of the city to escape the high land prices. Isn’t it possible for California to do the same?

But Ackermann’s counterargument was clear.

“That’s the problem. Americans are too spread out. For example, there are about 50,000 water sources across the United States, and less than 20 percent of them are managed by state governments. Why is that?

Because so many people live scattered around, water quality management is not possible, and many people are suffering from health problems. Since people cannot drink water freely, buying bottled water has become a daily routine.

Solving this problem would require an investment of about $8 billion by 1988. But if we could get people to live together in one place, that budget could be reduced to $4 billion.

The problem is not only this. As people disperse, the city is rapidly aging. It is natural. As people move out of the city, how can the residential areas and buildings in the city be properly managed?”

This is the problem facing America,

Why are American cities rapidly becoming slums?

In the early stages of economic development, people flocked to the city and the city grew along with the people, but due to rising land prices, infrastructure, and environmental issues, people began to move out of the city one by one.

Can a city survive under these circumstances?

Empty buildings multiplied, and black people took over the places where white people had left.

This is the real reason why American cities are slums,

To solve the problem, we need to concentrate people and infrastructure in cities, but instead, we are going to disperse them? Then, businesses and productive populations will also leave the cities, and urban slums will accelerate.

This is not a prediction, it is something that is already happening in the United States.

California has focused all its resources on cities over the past eight years, which has helped attract businesses and combat urban slums.

California also manages its own water sources, making it one of the few cities in the world where tap water is drinkable.

However, the local residents still do not trust the tap water, so they only buy bottled water to drink. However, if the city is dispersed, the daily life they enjoy now will become a dream.

Do you want to blow away the infrastructure that you’ve focused on for 8 years overnight?

Businesses and productive workers in California have rebelled against the Republican Party’s decentralization policies.

“We spent 2 billion dollars over 8 years to centralize the infrastructure, and now you want to decentralize it again?!!”

“This is going to waste the last 8 years of effort!! We absolutely cannot agree to this!!”

That number alone is about 1.2 million,

Seven percent of California voters rejected the Republican candidate’s platform.

How can we discuss politics without ignoring these 1.2 million people who support 90% of California’s economy? Yet the Republican Party has pushed urbanization all the way.

***

“Sir, what if the Republicans win?”

“That has its own benefits for me.”

“Yes? But if the Republicans win, won’t all the efforts you’ve put in so far go down the drain?”

“There are people who can tell if something is poop or soybean paste by putting their finger on it. Are there only smart people in America?”

This is the Daedeok County official residence.

I watched the California gubernatorial elections calmly.

The Republican Party is making a fuss about dispersing the infrastructure we’ve invested $2 billion in over eight years, and if they do that, the city will be ruined.

Do Republicans really think decentralization is the answer?

Or is he taking a desperate measure to differentiate himself from candidate Ackermann’s pledges?

What is clear is that no matter how much you explain, you have to wait and see the results.

“If we really decentralize our infrastructure, will California cities turn into slums?”

“How would I know? Just disperse it and if it doesn’t work, refocus it.”

Some people take this problem too lightly.

Can a city that has driven out businesses due to various regulations come back to life?

If we just deregulate again, wouldn’t that be enough? While we’re talking about it, the companies that have moved out of the city are likely to have settled somewhere else.

Just looking at Busan, 150 companies have recently moved out of the city, but less than 30 of them have returned to the city.

This is the scary thing, once a person or a company leaves the city, it is unlikely to return. If a company leaves Busan and settles in Gyeongseong, why would it return to Busan?

Same goes for California,

Is there no place for a business to do business in California or the United States?

Just looking at Texas, the population has increased by 1.2 million over the past eight years, which means that businesses and industrial capacity are being concentrated there.

Then California should also think about concentrating its infrastructure in some way, rather than decentralizing it? Anyone who thinks about it would laugh at that.

But even if I explain it like this, there will be people who think, ‘Really?’

These are the kinds of people who need to take a picture of their own poop to feel better.

Can you logically convince me of such things? I even considered the worst-case scenario where California falls into Republican hands.

If that’s the case, I’d rather concentrate my industrial capacity in Texas, and while I regret the $2 billion I invested in California, I’m not going to die without it.

Rather, it is a golden opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to the Republican Party.

Can Californians support a Republican who decentralized cities and then destroyed local businesses?

It’s not too late to go and eat up California.

Of course, it would take the effort of investing time and money again, but I didn’t hesitate.

***

“Huh? Why is it like this?”

“You’re getting out too fast? Stop for a moment!!”

This is California,

The Republican Party, which won the gubernatorial election, implemented its urban decentralization policy as planned.

The result was a catastrophe,

More than 100 companies left the city before the regulations even took effect.

The number of people who followed was 120,000, and vacancies in both office and residential areas began to increase rapidly.

Embarrassed, Republicans quickly changed their regulatory policy, repealing the high tax rate and changing their words to gradually spread the money out over five years.

“That’s funny.”

“The bus has already left.”

But companies packed their bags and left without looking back.

You’re going to disperse the companies over five years? Isn’t that basically just driving them out of the cities?

The mindset of entrepreneurs is to get out before they are kicked out. If this momentum continues, a shocking forecast has been released that 600 companies could go out within 5 years.

The startled Republicans completely changed their strategy,

Even though regulations were completely abolished, businesses did not return to the city.

Unlike in the past, when a big player like the Korean leader invests 2 billion dollars, the infrastructure will have to be maintained through taxes collected from companies by the state government.

Meanwhile, Texas was growing at a rapid pace, and infrastructure was beginning to be concentrated in cities as South Korean leaders invested.

California voters are finally starting to see something, but it’s already too late.

“The Korean leader was right!! We were fooled by the Republican Party!!”

“Then we should bring back the Korean enemy!!”

But the Korean leader never returned to California.

Of course, voters voted for a Republican who promised to destroy infrastructure by dispersing cities.

But now, do you think it will work to bring back the Korean enemy?

Following the lead of South Korea, companies also moved to Texas in large numbers, and with the loss of industrial capacity, California was left with no choice but to face destruction.

The development surprised even the Republican Party, and the desperate Republican Party clung to Daehan Transportation.

“Could you please come back to California?”

“Why should we do that?”

“No… That’s… Don’t you feel bad about the investment you’ve made over the past eight years? We’ll support you again, so please come back… .”

“No need. We’ll start over in Texas.”

Daehan Transportation displayed a cool attitude.

What good will it do for a company to associate with those ungrateful people who blew the 2 billion won spent over 8 years on infrastructure in an election?

So California recorded negative growth less than a year after the gubernatorial election.

Even within the United States, this is being evaluated as a disaster.

The federal government tried to inject emergency funds, but it was nowhere near enough.

California, which the Korean leader saved by pouring 2 billion dollars into, do you think such a city can be supported with only a few hundred million dollars?

Moreover, California is not the only place that the federal government needs to worry about; the entire United States is currently struggling with the problem of urban slums.

The federal government cannot afford to spend more than that, and experts say California is on the express train to hell.

The reflective benefits are being enjoyed by Texas,

The incident cost the Republican Party ground in California.

“I got tricked by you guys and ended up like this?!!”

“How are you going to take responsibility for this?!!”

“Get out now!! I will never take pictures of you again!!”

The incident also had repercussions in other states.

The Republican Party, along with President Reagan, were credited with pulling up the American economy, so naturally Americans thought the Republican Party knew the economy well.

But as it turns out, the only economic expert is President Reagan.

The rest were just swindlers who took turns eating from the seats below.

American politicians had no intention of concentrating industrial capacity, urban slums were accelerating, and the world situation was shaken as the once-thriving United States went astray.