Days as a Spiritual Mentor in American Comics

Chapter 4584 - 3666: New Christmas Atmosphere (3)

Arriving at the school, there's no need to punch in. The moment you pass through the school gate, facial recognition is already completed.

Moreover, even though it's still morning, all the main roads in the school have already been cleared of snow. Clearly, Brainiac's administrative efficiency surpasses that of any human being.

Walking on the solid, non-slippery ground, Shiller couldn't help but lament that humans really can't do anything right. For more than a decade, this was the first time he didn't have to struggle through deep and shallow snow to get to the classroom after it snowed.

Apparently, others share the same opinion. Although Brainiac's control is strict, his administrative ability and accompanying services keep up, so there's really nothing to complain about.

Ultimately, everyone is an ordinary person. The lives of ordinary people are not that complicated, built from little trivial details. If you can improve 50% of those details, you can absolutely win the support of most ordinary people.

And in Shiller's view, the main reason why America's support rate is particularly high is that ordinary Americans didn't have a great life before.

America's wealth is not the wealth of the ordinary. Perhaps in the golden years long ago, it was indeed better than most impoverished small countries, but now it's fallen significantly.

Moreover, after reaping from the world for nearly a hundred years, the standard of living for ordinary people is just so-so. Even at its peak, the notion of a "blue-collar worker supporting a whole family" or the like was far from adequate compared to what they plundered from the world.

With the population, natural conditions, and the wealth America has gained later, it could have been built into a Divine Country on Earth. But unfortunately, by the Millennium, the living standards of the majority of the middle and lower classes had fallen significantly, and an era full of addicts and the homeless was beginning to take shape.

In this situation, as long as Brainiac does a little human work, he will naturally gain the support of most ordinary people. And in the era where America's influence still lingers, America's trend equals the world's trend, so Brainiac pays special attention to America.

Americans did not disappoint him either. This era is fine, and those policies that divide the lower classes have just started and haven't exerted their full power yet. The relatively prominent racial conflicts are also relatively manageable.

Under Brainiac's firm governance, the lives of most ordinary people have improved noticeably. Even when he was an invader, there were people with nothing better to do but praise him; now that he's really doing something, and doing it better than most presidents, the admirers are even more numerous.

So, even though Brainiac didn't deliberately foster leader worship, his image is still printed everywhere in many places. For example, on a wall on the side of the administrative building at Gotham University, students have spray-painted a portrait of Brainiac.

Even though the academic pressure has increased, Brainiac clearly values education. First of all, all student loans are abolished, no matter how much you've paid back, you don't need to pay anymore, and student loans are swept into the trash heap of history from now on.

Brainiac also introduced the college entrance exam in America, but all students who can pass the exam and enter university have free tuition, and all book fees, miscellaneous fees, and meal costs for activities within the school are waived, covering food, clothing, housing, and transportation, so they can focus on studying.

This move won the gratitude and praise of countless college students. After all, the best historical presidents only picked a few to reduce their student loans, while Brainiac abolished them all at once, and college students and graduates all over America are eager to replace the Statue of Liberty with him.

Additionally, after graduating from college, jobs are allocated, mostly related to your major. If a profession needs fewer employed people, then each university will close admissions for that major, thus avoiding a surplus of talent.

Moreover, since humans now have two planets to manage, even though Krypton is relatively small, it is very developed and severely understaffed. The positions obtained after graduation are excellent, even those PhD students who were cleared out can all be assigned a lab, or otherwise a director or chief engineer position; it's the era's dividend.

Shiller passed by the administrative building and glanced at Brainiac's portrait. The students had painted Brainiac's big green bald head particularly bright, even adding special light effects, making it truly an eyesore.

He walked a distance to the classroom where the students were already gathered. Although Shiller didn't intentionally make things difficult for them, the pressure to study given by Brainiac was already heavy enough; if they didn't come early to review, they would fail class assessments again.

Standing at the lectern, Shiller opened the lesson plan, cleared his throat, and said, "Today, we will discuss the definition of Developmental Psychology, please open your textbook to page 20..."

Shiller, indeed, was teaching straight from the book, but there's really no other way to discuss the basics of psychology at the undergraduate level rather than memorization.

However, he could clearly feel that the student body at Gotham University had improved a lot. The classroom was quieter than before, mostly filled with the sound of pen on paper, and students occasionally raised their hands proactively to ask questions, with fewer instances of "insane babble" in the submitted assignments.

Shiller began to think about having the new batch of students admitted through the college entrance exam arrive soon. Although Brainiac's designed exam wasn't very difficult, far from what Shiller experienced in his past life, America indeed has fewer people, and there's no need to be so competitive. Normal thinking abilities were enough.