Marvel’s Speedsters

After this impassioned and generous press conference, it immediately attracted the general attention of the whole society.

When was the last time such a heart-pounding declaration of war was —- the era of the Spanish-American War, or the period of the Revolutionary War?

As we all know, the former contributed to the rise of a country and brought it to the world stage, while the latter directly determined the birth of the most influential superpower in human history.

Compared with this glorious scene in human history, Ross’s press conference is nothing at all, but with the meager power of one person, forcibly prying a huge industry with an output value of up to trillions is an incredible feat in the modern society dominated by capital.

When his voice passed through invisible radio waves and was watched by thousands of households, almost everyone readjusted their understanding of Ross.

In addition to his aura of billionaire, playboy, great philanthropist, and peerless genius, Mr. Ross is a true man!

In the face of the provocations of brutal opponents, his decision is simply painful! Rather risk losing everything and directly confront the industry giants with a long history and scale, it is indeed worthy of being the leader of the new generation! Compared to Ross, Stark and Doom are simply weak.

After this announcement, no matter what views the outside people had about Ross before, whether they had a good impression or not, they now sincerely admired him.

With a weak enemy, after all, not everyone dares to do this, even if you have this guts, you must have the capital to jump on the arena.

Tony Stark may dare to ridicule senators and throw off the faces of senior cabinet officials, but behind him is the huge resources accumulated by his father Howard for decades, visible wealth is money status, invisible wealth is inextricably linked connections, his tentacles penetrate into all aspects of industrial society, and it is definitely not comparable to a self-made person like Ross.

But has Stark done anything particularly prominent so far?

With the exception of the weapons of war that fell on the heads of mankind, he spent almost all of his first half of his life repeating a lavish life and endless tireless gossip, hardly contributing to society as it did before the Obadi murders, at least when Stark Industries fed a large number of workers and provided tens of thousands of jobs. But what does he have now? It seems that only the handsome everywhere in the steel suit.

So after this incident, Ross’s status suddenly jumped, and he had completely surpassed Tony, kicking him off the throne of the most talked about, and now no one mentions any nicknames like New Stark. According to the results of a random survey by several consulting firms, most people began to think Stark was outdated, and now they are more willing to gather information about Ross and the cutting-edge technology laboratory to see how this wonder boy is facing the cruel and treacherous old monarch of Watsonton II.

Although Ross never named his opponent, no one misunderstood, and now in high society, the Watsons family has become a laughing stock and can no longer maintain a reserved and proud image.

Large newspapers may have had some relationship with Watsons in the past, and out of interests and credibility, they did not exaggerate it, but the small and medium-sized newspapers represented by the Clarion Daily completely ignored Watsonton’s anger and tried out to increase sales, and they wanted to directly replace Ross to sue Watsonton to court.

In their description, Ross became the last symbol of knighthood, the embodiment of virtue in Washington, Nelson, and Don Quixote, especially as his speech about dreams resonated with many.

For more than two hundred years, the propaganda of the American Dream has inspired young people from all over the world who have worked tirelessly to leave their hometowns in various ways to come to this land of miracles and try to realize their ideals, and the United States has benefited from it and become the leader of modern civilization.

The reason is, why can’t other countries do it, only this newly established emerging country? This is because the United States was founded on a colonial basis, vetoing the rights of the indigenous peoples and taking away their property, which cleared up huge space. For the long years from American independence to the end of the nineteenth century, vast tracts of land in the Midwest were unoccupied, and anyone willing to pay the price could legally occupy them. By the time of the Industrial Revolution, North America’s huge market and abundant natural resources continued to make rapid social mobility possible with the use of advanced industrial technology.

Under such conditions, the citizens have relatively more economic freedom and the role of the government is relatively limited, which makes the overall social mobility of the United States greater, and theoretically, anyone can reach the peak of life through their own efforts|.

But time has passed from generation to generation, and now it is no longer the era of gold everywhere, almost all resources have owners, people can not hunt, mine, expand living space at will, on the contrary, they are facing a high income, high tax, high consumption of the three high social era, social class plate is increasingly solidified.

Peter, the chief reporter of the Clarion Daily, consulted with the Treasury Department’s Internal Revenue Administration and found that the average household income in the United States is $48,000, a slight increase in recent years, but an overall increase of little amount. The salary income of various industries is very disparity, and a very small number of people at the top of the pyramid earn tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year, while the few are only 10,000 or 20,000 US dollars. Breaking it down further, six of the ten highest-paying jobs are related to the pharmaceutical industry, where medical representatives earn an average of $140,000 a year, far exceeding the salaries of government workers, engineers and workers.

Contrary to people’s dreams, such high incomes do not mean that they have the ability and diligence to match, but simply because they put the patient’s money into their wallets legally after some operation.

After discovering these insiders, Peter couldn’t help but complain in the newspaper.

For example, he received a salary of $4,500 a month by his superiors, which can probably support him to provide a house and buy a Japanese car, support his widowed aunt, enter a mid-range restaurant once a week, travel once a year, and the basic consumption level is passable, but daily expenses also need to be carefully calculated, in short, there is almost no money saved in a year. That number is still out of reach for many fellow journalists, and typically only journalists with more than five to ten years of experience can expect it.

But corresponding to this is the huge profit of the pharmaceutical industry.

Drug prices are growing much faster than inflation and promotions and salary increases, and after an old drug is monopolized by pharmaceutical companies, the price may increase by tens or even hundreds of times overnight, completely ignoring the life and death of patients. This is because pharmaceutical companies have strong pricing power, through lobbying and legislation, pharmaceutical companies have successfully monopolized profits, the largest buyer in the drug market, the federal government is not only prohibited from negotiating lower prices for Medicare, but also refusing to pay the base price of drugs, even the major insurance companies, those of the same bloodthirsty financiers, in the face of such a strong monopoly alliance, bargaining power is almost zero.

This is almost equivalent to collecting taxes from all citizens and other industries in disguise, and it is not allowed to refuse the taxee, using the health of patients as a tool of coercion to complete the robbers’ behavior, but also protected by law… There is such a shameless thing in the world!

How can such an evil enterprise not attract hatred?

After these similar reports revealed, the reputation of pharmaceutical companies represented by Watsons plummeted, and many people began to stand on the side of cutting-edge laboratories, hoping that Ross would succeed and change this unreasonable status quo.

In this fishing war, in addition to the improved situation of the laboratory, the Clarion Daily became the biggest winner. The continuous revelations have attracted a large number of readers, many of them have become its regular users, sales have been high, and finally broke the 50,000 mark, no longer the downfall nature of third-rate tabloids, and more or less got rid of the color of gossip tabloids, and began to extend to the field of strong credibility.

And the only losers were Ross’s enemies.

In addition to reputational damage, some reporters followed Ross’s hint to dig up the company’s research progress on mutant antibodies, and Watsons was forced to publish the experiment, announcing that he would soon find an effective cure for the abhorrent disease of mutants. Although this achievement won it the popularity of staunch opponents of mutants, it did not help the overall situation, its overall reputation was irreparable, and the outside world contacted the superpowers who appeared on the day of Ross’s assassination, which led many to suspect that Watsonton may have secretly controlled some mutants to work for him, which greatly increased its suspicions.

Just at this time, the Fantastic Four began to emerge, and Doom, who got superpowers, failed in his career, killed his partner in a fit of anger to vent his hatred, and was wanted by the New York police. As soon as the news broke, the already cooled assassination was hyped up again, people from all walks of life lamented the deterioration of the domestic investment environment, and in order to eliminate the bad influence, the police and Congress successively asked Watsons to cooperate with the investigation.

Even under the blow, Kenny Watsonton II could no longer sit still.

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“Watsons sent people again, and they wanted to make peace. The middleman said that the chairman of Watsington had agreed to set up a joint venture with us to produce Phinex Pharmaceutical, and they could not claim controlling rights, did not seek confidentiality of the formula, and only asked for a long-term supply contract with us. Pepper, the head of the lab, sat in Ross’s office, holding several documents to ask for his opinion.

“Now so well-behaved, what did you do earlier?”

Ross was watering flowers with a watering can on the balcony, and couldn’t help but laugh when he heard this.

“It seems that you really plan to have a shuffle.” Pepper knew his attitude, so he wasn’t surprised, just alerting the outside world to changes.

“Recently, Capitol Hill has been very lively, many lobbying groups are working hard, and the attitude of lawmakers is becoming more and more |ambiguous. In my opinion, now that the denunciation effect is close to the limit, it is impossible to go further, the pharmaceutical sector stocks are performing well, many foundations allocate a significant share, they will not see the industry fall into chaos, if we do not share the benefits with the outside world and continue to |entangle with Watsonton, maybe some people will change their views on us, and then the fishing wheel may turn overnight, which will be very unfavorable to us. “Pepper has seen a lot of things like this, and it is by no means a pure newcomer.

“Of course it’s not going to continue the chaos, it’s just about setting some new rules.” This rule will be established by us, and it will be the rule in our favor. As for Watsonton… He offended a lot of people, and I waited for him to pay for his actions. ”

Putting down the watering can, Ross smiled.

Watsonton’s fall is just a few days later, and he has sent people to get in touch with Magneto.

Upon learning of Jimmy’s existence, the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants is no matter how dissatisfied he is, he will not disregard his own people.

Ross waited for that good show to take place.

“That’s best.” Hearing Ross’s words, Pepper relaxed, she was worried that her new employer would be angry and do something irrational.

For Watsonton Pharmaceutical, the federal investigation is more of a change of direction protection than oversight, after all, Watsonton Pharmaceuticals has a stake in the vital interests of many people, as long as their appetites are satisfied, these real power holders can change the situation at any time.

Despite this, Pepper is calm on the outside, but very excited inside.

Before coming to the lab, she never thought that she would one day be able to decide the rise and fall of an industry with a single word.

Such an influence, not to mention that it could not be done when Tony was a secretary, even if it was the new CEO of Stark Industries, and even Tony himself would be extremely difficult to promote. But now, by using its own advantages and external support, the power of the laboratory has been magnified countless times, successfully playing the role of leverage in Archimedes’ mouth, prying up huge mountains.

Now that power seems imminent, and Ross trusts her to set the rules for the industry for the better. This is an achievement for Pepper that he never dreamed of. She is not a political creature, does not have the desire to occupy authority, but no one would refuse such an opportunity, and how could she not be excited about it.

Pepper thought quietly, breathing slightly | short, her eyes looked at Ross who stretched his arms on the balcony, saw him wearing a thin shirt, bathed in the bright spring |, and suddenly felt the urge to run over and hug him.