We have never punished employees in terms of performance or other aspects because of comments made on the internal forum.

Employees will still have some concerns.

Most of the time, everyone on the intranet forum is very friendly and speaks very nicely.

I've heard before that some employees from the science and technology innovation department have made some strange remarks on external forums.

They wouldn't dare post similar comments on the intranet.

Actually, the strange remarks here refer to writing about Zheng Li and Li Miaomiao's daily life, or rather, the employees' imagined daily life.

Since Zheng Li has no scandals, no girlfriend, let alone marriage, all sorts of rumors have emerged from the speculations of netizens with their vast knowledge.

On some niche forums, you can find all sorts of strange and unusual posts by Zheng Li and Cheng Gang, Zheng Li and Lei Jun.

However, Zheng Li and Li Miaomiao's daily life was posted on Douban, and the poster claimed to be an employee of Kechuang Biotechnology and posted photos of Zheng Li and Li Miaomiao taken from an unknown angle.

That post became very popular.

The news reached Li Miaomiao through Li Shuyao's mouth. After reading it, Li Miaomiao not only didn't pursue the matter, but also felt a mixture of secret joy and melancholy.

I wish Zheng Li and I were really like what you all imagine.

After listening, Zheng Li nodded and said, "I understand. It's like how ByteDance and Tencent are locked in a fierce battle, but Pony Ma and Zhang Yiming still have to be friendly at dinner parties."

Internal forums are more formal settings, while social media is less so?

Li Miaomiao felt the metaphor was a bit strange: "You can interpret it that way."

No, no, no, that's not the same thing, because speaking carelessly on the internal forum can have consequences.

The likelihood of having consequences for speaking recklessly on social media is much smaller.

Just like with the establishment of a truth system, where the media has to bear the consequences for making irresponsible statements, there is significantly less fake news.

Self-media outlets will also be more cautious.

This has nothing to do with the occasion, but rather with the risk-reward ratio.

Indulging in idle chatter on internal forums comes at a real price.

And you can vent your frustrations on social media without paying any price.

It's like magic...

Li Miaomiao originally wanted to mention the magic forum, but then she remembered the confidentiality regulations and noticed the dense crowd around her.

He quickly stopped talking.

Zheng Li asked, "Magic what?"

Li Miaomiao shook her head: "It's nothing."

Li Miaomiao took Zheng Li to a store near the cinema and bought a magic wand co-branded with Harry Potter and a listed forestry company in China before leaving the cinema.

After Merlin appeared in Stockholm, a large number of forestry companies listed on the A-share market suddenly hit their daily price limit.

These forestry companies treated it as an interesting anecdote, discussing the rich imagination of speculative capital in the A-share market.

The A-share market is known for its unpredictable behavior, with frequent instances of stocks surging or hitting their daily limit due to seemingly random news.

Chuansheng University saw a surge in its salary in 2020 when eighty-year-olds in America were vying for job opportunities, simply because of its name, Chuansheng.

However, one forestry company failed to recognize the business opportunity and began to transform into producing magic-related merchandise, primarily wands.

This did open up a new path.

The company's magic-related merchandise business line is helmed by the company's actual controller's daughter, who is in her twenties, and it has made quite a splash.

Thanks to its collaboration with Warner Bros. on the Harry Potter series of wands, the company's magic merchandise brand has gained a foothold.

The company's market value also saw a surge.

The magic wand that Li Miaomiao bought at the cinema was from this company.

Li Miaomiao walked down the street, picked up her magic wand and waved it, "Only with a magic wand do I feel like a sorceress."

With my hands empty, I always felt like a Muggle.

If there were no confidentiality clause, she would say that even with magical powers, she would feel like a Muggle.

Zheng Li laughed and said, "I remember you bought quite a few wands, why are you buying more here this time?"

Li Miaomiao explained, "This is a limited edition for the 40th anniversary of the Harry Potter series. There are only 5,000 of them in the world, so I thought I'd buy one to play with."

It's only about a thousand yuan anyway.

"However, limited editions created intentionally are usually not very valuable."

Ironically, the limited quantity of these consumer goods, initially dictated by unforeseen circumstances, led to prices that were unimaginable at the time.

"Limited editions these days are all illusions created by merchants; they are a concrete manifestation of consumerism."

After completing her MBA program, Li Miaomiao gained a deeper understanding of consumerism.

Contemporary society is rife with consumerism.

Zheng Li said, "Ultimately, it's a matter of productivity. The growth of productivity can solve the vast majority of problems."

Li Miaomiao shook her head and said, "Increased productivity can solve problems, but it will also bring new ones."

In fact, compared to the past, the productivity of Earth has increased countless times.

When I took an MBA course on human economic history, the teacher showed us a chart that showed that productivity had exploded since the second half of the 20th century.

But looking back today, many problems have been solved, but many new problems have also arisen.

On the contrary, I believe that continued growth in productivity will lead to a more refined division of society.

Previously, we could roughly divide our society into three levels, but in recent years some people have proposed that our society be divided into nine levels.

Maybe in the future it can be divided into thirty layers.

I think we'll see it in our lifetime.

Zheng Li disagreed after hearing this, but he couldn't possibly tell Li Miaomiao about the social structure of the Mage Alliance.

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