Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

”P5 wage slave at Ah Li here. My boss manipulates me all day, and my take-home is just over nine thousand. Honestly, I’d rather go tighten screws on an assembly line.”

Netizens, green with envy, left a stream of salty comments.

People in the tech industry usually worked from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., five or six days a week. It was no less grueling than tightening screws, yet their income was lower than a common factory worker’s. This really hit a nerve for a lot of people.

”@Chen Yansen I’m a loyal Orange Mobile Phone user. Can I get priority for a factory job?”

”@Chen Yansen I graduated from Xuyuan in ’06. For old times’ sake as fellow alumni, could you give me priority for a position?”

”@Chen Yansen Being rich makes you so great, huh?! Don’t you understand you’re ruining the labor market in Shencheng City?”

”Who forgot to zip up and let the guy above out?”

Before long, netizens flocked to Chen Yansen’s Weibo comments. Some were just teasing, but others were genuinely asking for jobs.

At the Orange Phone Factory, base salary and overtime were only the core income, not the full picture. There were also quarterly bonuses, a monthly housing subsidy equal to 20% of the base salary, meal allowances, social insurance and a housing fund, holiday bonuses, free physicals, and various other benefits.

All told, with four days off per month, the pre-tax salary was well over ten thousand yuan.

And with room and board covered, a worker could save a hundred thousand yuan a year.

Just then, an economics professor posted an article angrily criticizing the move: ”The wages at the Orange Phone Factory are too high and should be lowered to a reasonable level.”

A factory owner followed suit, furiously posting on Weibo: ”The Orange Phone Factory’s malicious wage hike has thrown the labor market in Shencheng City into chaos.”

This sent netizens into fits of laughter. A ”malicious” wage hike? Since when was that a thing?

”If raising wages is malicious, then I say bring on the malice!”

”I’m too pissed to sleep! Does anyone know what university this damned professor teaches at? I suggest we cut his salary to three thousand a month and see if he’s still squawking then!”

”The sanitation workers in my county only make fifteen hundred a month. Let’s see him try that for a few days.”

Netizens swarmed in, flaming the professor and the factory owner so badly they had to disable their comments. But when they checked their private messages, they found them full of ”sweet nothings” directed at their entire families.

The two were so frightened that they deleted their accounts that very night.

「Meanwhile.」

Chen Yansen hadn’t noticed the news online. He had been in a meeting with Wang Teng and the others all afternoon.

First, Orange Technology would establish an official open-source community for the Aurora Future System, called the Aurora Future Open Source Project (AFOSP). It would be geared toward development enthusiasts worldwide, with the goal of advancing the Aurora Future open-source project.

The source code repository would contain all the components necessary to build the Aurora Future operating system. Developers could use this source code for customization and development, and anyone would be free to download, view, modify, and distribute it.

Second, they would establish an Aurora Future Bug Bounty Program with a prize pool of up to thirty million US dollars.

Anyone who discovered a system bug and was the first to submit proof to the company would receive a bounty of no less than fifty thousand US dollars.

Chen Yansen knew full well that the more users the Aurora Future OS had, the more viable it would become.

After he and Wang Teng finalized the plan, he sent a video conference invitation to Mao Chaorong.

Next, Orange Technology would use channels like Mimo Short Video, developer BBS forums, Facebook, and *Wired* magazine to go all-out in promoting the Aurora Future OS.

”Wang Teng, help me win this battle.”

Chen Yansen said, patting Wang Teng on the shoulder as they were about to leave the conference room.

”Yes, Boss,” Wang Teng replied with a firm nod.

What Chen Yansen had said in the conference room had left his blood boiling with excitement.

’Fuck it,’ he thought. ’We’re going to topple the reign of Android and iOS in the smartphone world and build a mobile OS for the people of Hua Country.’

”Boss, people are going crazy online about the wage increase at the Orange Phone Factory,” Ye Qiuping reported, trotting over with a file in her arms.