"Online shopping? Yeah, we could probably make that work."
Ren watched Master Carl's creation while looking at the private messages from people wanting to buy it, muttering to himself.
There's a close relationship between consumption and industrial development—they influence and promote each other. Or rather, consumption drives industrial growth. Consumer demand determines the driving force behind industrial production. As consumer needs upgrade, diversify, and increase in volume, industrial output constantly adjusts its structure and improves efficiency and quantity.
Even though he didn't know if the God of War's signal was real or fake, Ren felt it was necessary to speed up industrialization—accelerate industrial output, speed up the transformation of agricultural workers, refugees, and slaves into industrial workers, expand literacy rates, and then have industry support agriculture in return to increase food production and expand the population.
