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Now there are plenty of guides about how to start, and operate companies. So if you want an actual guide, on how to make money, written by someone who actually knows what they are doing, find one of those! This guide will mostly focus on the job market, mostly because it filled with annoying people! It's also just a bit of a humorous thing I made because I was quite bored...
So, you’re a budding young businessman, you have your shiny new company, your starting capital, your raw resources, all you need now are the slave workers to run your sweatshop!
This is where the hell begins...
Some people head over to the job market, and see that the highest pay is, lets say 15 USD, now in the minds of cruel, evil, people, who annoy me greatly... they see that and go “Holy S***, I better put my offer at 20 USD!” And now the wages are higher, and your profits decrease, and the poor get a bit more money ( Rule #1 of Capitalism, keep those poor fools poor!).
Business can be described as a strategic game of chess, or a game of Monopoly. The job market is an annoying game of leapfrog. You want the highest paying job, so the slave workers, work for you. This doesn’t mean you have to raise the wages 30-bajillion dollars. Most of the time you see people raising it .01 USD at a time, which is effective, (somewhat annoying), and still keep those poor folk begging in the streets. But you don’t really have to raise the wages at all, and here’s why.
Most of the time, simply matching the highest offer is good enough, if the highest paying job is 20 USD, offer 20 USD as well. Contrary to popular belief, there is more than one worker out there.
Now sometimes, you just want/need workers NOW! You can’t wait 20 extra minutes, so you want the highest price. First of all check the current highest price, then check how many job offers that company currently has. If there is only 1 opening, it will be gone very soon, and you could wait. If there are a few jobs (3-5) up for grabs in that company, you might be waiting a bit longer.
So, you’re impatient, and dead set on driving wages up, so you can get that worker now, yet the company with the highest wage is hiring 5 people at once. You need to be sneaky, or you are going to be playing .01 leapfrog. Check to see if the player posting that job offer is online, if he is forget, about it, you’ll both just constantly outbid each other, raising the market price, everyone else will raise the wages, and then the poor working class will magically become rich and educated, and demand better working conditions which will lead to the complete and total collapse of our wonderful Capitalist society run by us few wealthy individuals! (Rule #2 of Capitalism, Utopian Societies are not very profitable.)
If he is offline... Attack! and pray to your god/saint/religious figure/pony princess/etc, that he does not come back online!
If you follow this advice (if you can even call it that...) you should be able to have some degree of success finding workers.
Now that you have your minions feverishly working away in your sweatshop, you want to keep them there, locked away from the outside world, far away from the ideas of minimum wage, unions, and labor laws (Rule #3 of Capitalism, If it’s good for the worker, it’s bad for business!).
Now there are a few ways to go about keeping your minions working.
#1. Never give raises. Hire new workers to replace those that leave.
#2. Be a generous employer, and keep wages above job market value. Constant raises. Remove your worker’s shock collars. (Some crazy people actually do this!)
#3. Make small wage increases when job markets prices jump up, or they level up their economy skill.
Method #1 is a bit inefficient and unreliable, and involves constant battle on the job market for a steady stream of workers. Method #2 is just pure insanity (yet quite effective... ). Method #3 is a decent way to go about this. Say you have an eco skill 3 worker, getting paid $25, he levels up to lvl 4, where the average wage is $30. In most cases you may be able to get away with increasing his wage to $28, or $27.99. (Rule #4 of Capitalism, .99 is the key to ripping people off!).
Nobody will switch jobs to make an extra 50 cents, or dollar! (If you ignore all the people who do).
I hope you managed to find some advice that was remotely useful, or at least got a small chuckle out of reading this crime against literature. And don’t worry, your workers won’t be able to discover your job recruiting secrets by reading this article... everyone knows the poor working class can’t read!
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