Isekai Shounin - Skill <Isekai Tokou> wo Kushi Shite, Yuuyuu Jiteki na Okanemochi Slow Life wo Okurimasu - Vol. 3 Ch. 14

[hevensdragon]

An elf slave doing light work getting 1.5mil a month (though she was later said to make 350k/mo in this contract due to the potion payment) seems like a wild amount of money. I guess I don't know/remember exactly how much 1.5mil/mo is in this series, but just from the sound of it it seems like people would just be better off hiring regular employees to do work rather than slaves, for anything other than a romantic slave (which you wouldn't be able to just find a regular employee for, unless legal prostitution is a thing in this world too).

Your mixing up real slavery and this series version. In this series slaves have many rights and its heavily regulated. Your not buying cheap labor, your buying dedicated or specialized labor. They already said a main usage of the slave is that you can add things like oaths of silence, that they do the same work, but also cant spill secrets. Clearly they would cost more, the point of them is that they have added restrictions while doing the same work. As for if prostitution is legal in this series, probably, but not sure. I would be surprised if brothels aren't a thing given the setting.
But yeah to many people react to the word slave and think only of one type of slavery, forgetting that there are many kinds of it in our history. This series clearly defined how its done, and its clearly specialty workers not cheap labor. MC wants it for the ability to place a oath on her to keep his secrets, which granted he does need.

 

[PHDInSillyism]

I didn’t know what atavism even meant before this chapter, thanks!

 

[MagnaDrake]

In case anyone needs a reminder of what Tier 3 is about https://mangadex.org/chapter/2c5a2bad-c127-404d-9641-ecdb093edfb2/17


I'm honestly confused about this whole thing. Not only he bought her with the red potion, he will also need to give her salary? It's kinda weird that you need to do both, but I guess the potion (or the purchase cost) is like the signing bonus? Other than the confidential contract, I don't see the point of slave here.

Not to mention the merchant. Since the potion is used by the elf, how exactly is the merchant benefit here? Especially since it seems like they had to take care of the elf's "baggage" (the high elf that needs potion) for some time. Like what do they even gain from selling slaves?

Slavery in this world (or at least in the country they are in ) is basically just a government/magically enforced specialized work contract. The only "slavery" part in this tier is that the owner just, well, owns the slave as a property, and the magical oath thing so that the slave literally cannot disobey the owner (as long as it is within the specified contract).

Slave merchants here seemingly work as intermediary parties to set up potential buyers with slaves. Based on the dialogue with Allen I assume they get a comission upon the formation of a slave contract, and the share they get depends on what tier the contract is.

I do agree that it's a little bit convoluted and/or unnessecary. It could have been called by anything else than slavery and it would probably be a better label. I guess the author (or the editor team) just wants the slavery theme to be around because it's been the hot staple trend for isekai stuff.

 

[name_go_here]

The actual term we're looking for is "indentured servitude." A person signs a contract for either an up front sum of money, object, or service provided by another party and that person becomes explicitly employed to that other party for a defined period as compensation for the payment.

Without going back to look and see if the salary being mentioned is an actual payment I'm just going to assume its how the repayment process is being metered. Loan value is x and every month y is deducted from x til x=0.

 

[hevensdragon]

The actual term we're looking for is "indentured servitude." A person signs a contract for either an up front sum of money, object, or service provided by another party and that person becomes explicitly employed to that other party for a defined period as compensation for the payment.

Without going back to look and see if the salary being mentioned is an actual payment I'm just going to assume its how the repayment process is being metered. Loan value is x and every month y is deducted from x til x=0.

While yes indentured servitude is more specifically what it is, say actual term isn't really right. As indentured servitude is officially recognized as a type of slavery.

 

[dezzot]

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