Introduction to the novel "Happy Community"
AI has replaced 70% of jobs, and the government has implemented a "happiness point" system - basic survival is free, but additional consumption must be exchanged for "contributions." After courier Lin Bei was replaced, his happiness point plummeted and his family fell into embarrassment.
By chance, he accepted an oral history order from the "Humanities Archives" to record his last delivery. This record resonated, and countless ordinary people sent in "last-minute" stories - a retired teacher's farewell lesson, an old tailor's last measurement. Lin Bei had an epiphany: The most scarce thing in the AI era is "human warmth."
He united everyone to launch a non-governmental "humanistic contribution" mutual aid project, but it hit the official bottom line: his happiness point was frozen, his wife's position was in jeopardy, and his daughter was under pressure at school. During the crisis, he compiled hundreds of handwritten records from ordinary people across the country into the "White Paper on Human Temperature" and published it publicly. The community held a hearing, and Lin Bei stood at the table, with more than a thousand unfamiliar faces projected behind him: "Machines do all the work, but only humans decide which ones are worth remembering."
Finally, the official added a humanistic contribution channel, and the happiness point system included emotional mutual assistance and skill inheritance. The shrimp dumplings at A Fang Tea Restaurant were still steaming, and the old people began to tell each other about the past. A courier's last journey has evolved into a social experiment on "how to define happiness" - the answer is not in the algorithm, but in the second that people stay with each other.
