Chapter 3123: Treating the Symptoms
With the emergence of KPIs and last-place elimination systems in modern society, many industries had inevitably become cutthroat. People's limits were tested step by step, and they were pushed to the absolute extreme.
Yet even so, even if they truly ended up among that unfortunate final ten percent to be eliminated, in the major countries of modern society, they would not starve to death. Their most basic material needs could still be guaranteed.
However, in the era of the Lord of the Mysteries world, a period similar to the First Industrial Revolution—
Although productivity had risen dramatically with the advent of machinery, the many workers who had lost their land and entered the cities were placed in an even crueler environment.
There were no clearly defined KPIs or last-place elimination systems, but its nature was even more brutal!
If the same final ten percent were eliminated, then in the Lord of the Mysteries world, that ten percent would likely lose their lives as well.
Even if the percentage who truly died was only one percent.
Under the pressure of death, that final one percent would struggle with everything they had, using all their strength to climb upward and drag as many others down as possible.
It was like ten people being poisoned with only nine antidotes available. The medicine went to the highest bidder, and the price would inevitably be the entire fortune of the tenth person.
Under the coercion of such primal fear, the intensity of labor was unimaginably terrifying.
No matter how many people were eliminated, there would always be an endless stream of workers coming in from outside to replace them, so factory owners had no need to worry about anything.
There were no proper working conditions, no basic protections, nothing at