"Once overtime became free, everyone gained the freedom to work overtime, and companies naturally squeezed their employees' time dry. After all, Lower Cultivators were the craftiest. If companies wanted to deal with them, they had to be craftier and nastier still, so they could drive the company forward instead of being dragged down by them."
"But Lower Cultivators would not just suffer in silence. They would resist."
She Yuzun knew that faced with ever-growing overtime hours, faced with the looming crisis of a 24-Hour Workday, Lower Cultivators could never simply sit and wait for death.
"These Lower Cultivators are masters at playing the victim. On the surface, they talk about doing it for the Immortal Emperor, for the Sect, for the enterprise, for the company. Usually, they look steeped in Sect Nature. But when something really happens... once their determination to be Heart Aspiring to Immortality is defied, they would dare to gamble money and lives even against the Immortal Emperor." "And what I intend to do next is exploit their resistance."
She Yuzun understood that under normal circumstances, in a new Law Article environment, companies and employees would each fight for their interests as they adapted to the environment, engaging in round after round of games.
"Just like when the Four-Hour Workday and Paid Overtime were first introduced, change would inevitably bring growing pains. After round after round of games, companies and employees unable to adapt would be eliminated, while every industry formed a new relationship between working hours and wages, reaching a new dynamic equilibrium." "During this process, whether the clashes between both sides shook heaven and earth or came like a gentle breeze and soft rain, and how much unrest and loss they ultimately caused, all depended on the cultivation and methods of the High Cultivator presiding