Thoughts on the Future

"Doesn't it seem a little unbelievable?"

The other man looked at Emmett's expression and said with a chuckle, "I thought it was unbelievable at first too, so I split my production team into two groups. One group had a whip-wielding overseer and slaves."

"The other had a quality inspector and the same number of ordinary workers."

"The slaves were just normal slaves. They were fed and housed, but received no wages."

"The other group consisted of ordinary workers who received a very low base wage, plus additional pay based on the number of items they completed. There was no need to provide food or lodging; they handled those matters themselves."

"And the result was exactly what I just told you. They produced three times as many clothes as the slaves."

"That was only because raw material procurement still wasn't entirely smooth, and materials were sometimes lacking. Otherwise, I think reaching ten thousand pieces wouldn't have been a problem."

Ten thousand pieces wouldn't have been a problem!

Ten thousand pieces!

The same number of slaves could only produce three thousand pieces.

But these laborers could produce ten thousand pieces.

Had he failed to squeeze every last bit of productivity from the slaves, or were laborers driven by financial incentives really this terrifying?

Honestly, if laborers really were that productive, then using the money spent on buying slaves to hire laborers was entirely feasible.

He could even sell all his slaves and exchange them for countless laborers...

The key was that using laborers came with another advantage: when the market was large, he could hire many people; when business was poor, he could simply dismiss some of them.

That was not an option with slaves.

Once he bought them, he had to keep them alive.

There was another issue!

Emmett suddenly thought