rather than a 7.25
its more like a 4
its your slightly below average slow life isekai
i dont get the MC... he wants to create a white company, some weird overly ambitious buzzword he keeps putting out there
i mean what is a white company in his view? gray company (if you could call it that) with extra steps would be more accurate
he's really just made a 5 day work week (presumably 40 hrs) with paid? vacation
see it doesn't seem that bad b/c everyone he's hired is doing the job they're good at and love but in essence its not that much a radical shift from the norm to justify it being called a white company
-its all production based economy with skilled jobs
-there is literally no unproductive labor
-no entitled striking baristas or hollywood writers or NETFLIX WORKERS and no money movers, debt collectors, or bankers
-unlike in America where our currency is backed by nothing, aren't these guys on the gold standard
he randomly observes his people and asks his advisor "'gee wiz' my people are working too much what do i do?"
-how he ascertained this, who knows
but his (and his advisor's) great idea in response to this is, rather than jus reducing the work day just spend more to employ people for entertainment.
this happens, i believe, after the advisor brought up the tight budget... which there's the question of why?
-they grow their own food
-materials + repairs i get
-maybe water?
but what else... what are these people hooked on, there's no social engineering by big businesses since big babyhood, no addiction to high fructose corn syrup based products pushed by some billionaire who will then sell you anti obesity meds (ye our world is fucked to the cooooore~ poison the mind + body of children for gains).
in fact, on that, everyone seems pretty damn healthy so its not like they need to be hooked on drugs that will never cure whatever could ail them (im not only talking about the ***** *******)...
no highly addictive time sink gacha games or "idle" mobile games either for that matter.
is there someone artificially inflating the cost of diamonds and convincing women to shame their girlfriends to shame their husbands to buy overpriced rocks? even if this was the case, how many people are about to get married here...
ignoring the rampant exploitation in employment, this world is just not saddled with all of our bullshit, so he literally doesnt have to settle for "hey we have better working conditions than the abysmal shit you guys are currently dealing with."
-dont get me wrong its fine if he does, jus dont get all shiny eyed and self righteous when you tout hurr durr white company
its all just painfully shallow
from the demon lord who gets pushed to be a bartender cuz ig being a depressed drunk means you know your way around a bar.
to the weird ass priest who's constantly in the know of what goes on in the Alenz territory
to the hero who became incredibly infatuated with aforementioned demon lord she was discriminating against literally 12 hours ago AT MOST, quite the worldview shift for some demon D...
and the lack of thought or care for narrative or the characters makes this a rather boring read pretty fast imo.
if this comes out monthly and you jus took a month break from reading this would you remember to come back w/o Dex?