When the World Became Witch: 1994
Chapter 424

New Positions

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If Britain around 1920 had produced a vast servant class because of the Industrial Revolution, then the witch world of 1995 had produced a great many jobs that people from parallel worlds found strange, thanks to all kinds of highly developed industries.

These two unrelated eras had something in common.

Modern people from parallel eras often found themselves puzzled by such occupations, wondering, Is this really necessary? But if they had come into being and continued to exist, then there was a need for them—at least on the surface.

Within witch high society, having large numbers of witch employees was important. It preserved the dignity of high-ranking witches and created jobs.

Witch Associations in every country had regulations stating that once a family's total income exceeded a certain amount, they had to employ a certain number of witches.

At Jiang Han's home, back in her hometown, they had hired a group of husbandry witches. They specialized in producing ingredients and raising animals, maintaining a positive, mutually supportive relationship with their employers. They contributed magic and labor, while their patrons provided wages and introduced them through part of their social connections, allowing them to study and take on better jobs.

The productivity generated by hired witches qualified for tax reductions and was not counted toward the "job creation tax," so once one reached a certain level, witches hiring other witches was both a matter of dignity and an unspoken rule.

This was also an outlet for witches without much combat ability.

From society's perspective, a witch with 1,000 magic power could follow stronger witches into other worlds and summon wind and rain. Yet in the witch world, they often needed around ten years of intensive study in a particular school of spells, evolving abilities such as "Nature's Whispers" and "Animal Companion,"

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