Moto Dorei Desu ga, Oni no Dorei wo Katte Mitara Seiryoku ga Tsuyosugiru node Sutetai... - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

[kawaii123456]

It seems the author heard Abraham Lincoln's famous quote

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master

Then went "OH YEAH"

 

[AlanAlanSteve]

1/10 No plot development in pilot chapter, meh art quality, blurry-ass pages, and overall shitty premise.

To the TL: Find a different manga, and FYI you have a page or two that are really scuffed and blurry (dunno if that's an issue with upload or whatnot but pls get it together)

Also, @Duralumin nobody's paying you shit, scanlation is illegal and you own jack shit as far as IP is concerned. Kindly fuck off and have a nice day.


And now, me being pissy about slavery in manga being treated the way it is:

Spoiler

God, the entire premise puts me off. Wth is with these uninspired hacks using slavery so immaturely. I mean I get it, it's Japan, and slavery is a relatively foreign thing to their monoculture, but I swear they treat it with the respect and sensitivity of a raging bull in a china shop having its ass set on fire.

 

[AMetroid]

Oh hey another isekai with slavery. Time to read some amusing comments from people virtue signaling and/or with no real understanding of slavery in a historical context. The only better comments are the ones defending women being promiscuous.

 

[Mojo]

@TNT261 You realize Nestle just had a Supreme court battle in 2020 for breaking it's promise to not use child slave labor, again?
"Slavery isn’t a sustainable or economical system except for REALLY primitive and poor societies"
I'm not sure if your sheltered or just naive, but slave labor(2 million children in West Africa) is what makes 70% of the 100 billion dollar world chocolate industry profitable. It's what every chocolate bar in every civilized country depends on.

That's not even taking into consideration the industries that technically don't use slavery but nearly do. WHY people buy Fair Trade coffee, tea, cotton, bananas, vanilla etc? because people are dying in bloody exploitation and near slavery like conditions of native peoples.
Slavery is SUPER profitable and a very modern problem, that the world economy depends and runs on.

 

[chessru]

@Mojo I think your fundamental misunderstanding of "profitable" is because you're not thinking about slavery in a utilitarian perspective. That is to say, sure, slavery is profitable from a corporation's perspective, but from a utilitarian standpoint, slavery is actually extremely inefficient. Slaves can't contribute to the market by buying or selling goods, nor can they specialize in labor and work in the areas that are best suited for them. Instead, essentially what you're doing with slavery is allocating masses of people into a single industry without care of how their skills could more efficiently be used elsewhere.

Which means that
1. You have less economic activity
and 2. Non-specialization means less efficiency

Honestly, I don't care about the humanitarian perspective, but from a societal standpoint, slavery is indeed unsustainable and economically inefficient. Of course, I don't doubt that Nestle profits hugely from slave labor, or Amazon is making billions by hiring nearly free labor, but it is in society's best interest to stop this kind of practice.

 

[Mojo]

@chessru Industrialization is all about not having specialized labor. Before factories people had to apprentice for years and learn specialize skills, now a person can learn in a matter of hours or weeks. Non specialization means cheap and highly replaceable work force, so there's no need to treat or pay them well, which means more profit. Exploiting cheap labor is extremely economically efficient, it's how China economy has boomed the past few decades and made it the world power it is today.

Slavery wouldn't still exist if was unsustainable and economically inefficient. That's why it brings profits, it is sustainable and economically efficient. The only societal standpoint that ends it is the humanitarian and moral ones.

BTW it occurred to me that "Slaves can't contribute to the market by buying or selling goods" well they ARE goods, so that's contributing to the market yes? "slavery is allocating masses of people into a single industry" that's not necessary true either, like with factory workers as I explained or in agriculture, one doesn't really need much training to move from job to job. Also free workers don't necessarily leave to "more efficiently be used elsewhere" For example, a person may be unemployed but not be willing to move across the country for an available job in their field. They rather work part time in an unrelated field to stay near friend and family. Free will is very inefficient.

 

[chessru]

@Mojo Your The statement that "Slavery wouldn't still exist if was unsustainable and economically inefficient" is flawed. As an example, look at monopolies. Standard economic theory states that monopolies should be broken up in most situations because they, overall, produce less goods and services than a free market. Although it's quite thorny to explain here, you'll have to take my word that monopolies are much less efficient than an open market system. However, that doesn't mean monopolies aren't profitable. Quite the contrary, monopolies are hugely profitable... but only for the individual firm. To the rest of society, it's extremely inefficient.

Again, what you're confounding is profit for an individual firm vs. most economically efficient for the entire market. Slaves are profitable. I agree. I'm not arguing with you on that. I'm saying that they are inefficient for the market as a whole.

I also want to address your point about China: the reason that it boosted with slave labor is because most of it's population was essentially unemployed. In other words, slave labor is still better than no labor. China was able to use its massive, and I mean MASSIVE unemployed farmer population EXTREMELY inefficiently (see slave labor) and still get amazing results because of the sheer number of people it has. Asian countries and developing countries can do this because in those countries, most of the population is previously jobless. However, in a more developed world, where most people already have a job, slave labor would be regression. Nor do developed countries have the population like China's to support slavery.

"BTW it occurred to me that "Slaves can't contribute to the market by buying or selling goods" well they ARE goods, so that's contributing to the market yes?"
Wrong, because that's part of the supply chain, not the demand chain. Essentially, slavery is a "cost" to the producer, since they have to invest (aka buy) a slave, therefore we consider it a cost. If you count that as part of economic activity, you're essentially double counting. Again, I won't get into the mechanics of this - you can read about this somewhere else - but that's why we don't consider, for instance, the cost of wheels in Tesla's car-making industry when accounting for GDP.

"Also free workers don't necessarily leave to "more efficiently be used elsewhere" For example, a person may be unemployed but not be willing to move across the country for an available job in their field. They rather work part time in an unrelated field to stay near friend and family. Free will is very inefficient."
Yes but most people, generally (of course), will tend to try and find the most high paying job they can. That naturally means that they gravitate towards the firm where their skillset is best used.

If you want to have an indepth conversation, I'm happy to explain to you any underlying mechanics or math to demonstrate the point. DM me and we can discord

 

[IdanaHamz]

A dear commenter below surprisingly has correctly predicted the near future

 

[Mojo]

@chessru
Nah fam, TLDR

Edit: Only got so much energy to read and argue about random things on the internet before I lose interest. And the walls of text is where I draw the line. Already was pushing it with few paragraphs. Blame it on short attention span. Peace out.

 

[chessru]

@Mojo Nah fam, you can't just take a stance on a purely economic issue, the likes of only which can be understood and refuted using economic principles, then say "Nah fam, TLDR" when someone presents to you an economic argument. You signed up for this. Not me. You did.

 

[LoliJuicy]

Great translation, but could have been worded more perfectly. This manga adaptation is fairly new. I wonder what happens next.

Someone said this series has smut? It's definitely going to be toned down here, of course.

 

[Ned_L]

thank you for the translation!
I can't help.. but I hope things get better for you soon ╰(*°▽°*)╯

 

[ROOR21ROO]

Ok so I just read the bit of spoilers that are out there, and this actually sounds good.

 

[DjAlexDubCheck]

A dear commenter below surprisingly has correctly predicted the near future

Who?

 

[hidgepidge]

This chapter feels like an MTL chapter. Combined with the "I need money" at the end puts me off.