"If you haven't seen the city at five in the morning, you're not qualified to have dreams..."
A janitor rubbed his eyes, the light inside the bus was not strong enough to fully illuminate every character in the book, and he seemed to have difficulty reading it.
He was an immigrant, having just arrived in the Federation, and had just obtained legal immigrant status before finding a job sweeping the streets.
In Golden Port City, the cleaning work was contracted to several different companies. City Hall paid each person forty-two yuan and fifty cents, assigning them different areas to clean; this did not include the cost of garbage trucks.
But they only paid these workers twenty-two yuan, justifying it by saying they only needed to work two or three hours a day and they could find other jobs, so this was a reasonable amount.
Whether it was reasonable or not, nobody knew, but many were willing, especially the new immigrants to the Federation.
