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Originally, I was going to get information about robots and recruit talented people, but after hearing something I didn’t expect, I get a bit dazed.
“Are there going to be new jobs to replace the vacant positions?”
It sounds so plausible because it was something said by a smart person.
But what if you believe that word and indiscriminately sprinkle skeletons and no new jobs are created?
Then all the hard work I’ve been working on for a peaceful retirement will be completely in vain.
“The ratio of human employees in both Ceron and its partner companies is around 3 percent.”
No matter how you think about it, there’s no way it’ll be possible to fill the jobs the Skeletons stole.
“You want more programmers? Or a pilot?”
I’ve been thinking about it over and over, but no matter how much I think about it, this alone isn’t enough.
It’s annoying as usual! just live! I would have hit him while I was doing it, but strangely, the last words Lee Do-jin said linger in my head.
“If we find a new breakthrough, we may be able to break through the limits of job loss.”
Until now, Seron may seem like crazy growth in the eyes of others, but in fact, she was moving with extreme restraint.
Naturally, this was because, in order to retire as a good person, only industries where Korean jobs did not overlap were nurtured.
But maybe there’s a way to break through that?
If that’s the case.
If he can find a breakthrough that can satisfy everyone like that, Seron will grow like an unbridled foal.
“It’s the flow of the world…”
Dojin Lee said.
It is said that breakthroughs are made naturally according to the flow of the world.
“Really? If you make a skeleton like crazy unconditionally, a new job will be created and everyone will adapt?”
Anyway, this is not what I think.
“Ah-oh. I was just looking for robot information, but suddenly, what is this?”
After being silent for a moment, I got up from my seat and said.
“Once pass.”
Of course, there could be a change as Lee Do-jin said.
But what if the change is less than expected?
And what if that resentment falls on me?
The peaceful retirement I’ve been dreaming of all my life is over.
“Let’s work hard at what we’ve been doing.”
A skeleton robot made like a machine, not the shape of an arm, automatically builds a car.
Attach the door and weld.
A skeleton robot that perfectly performs tasks without any error in making only a set model.
“haha. This is really great. A president.”
Joo Chan-bae said with a satisfied expression.
“It’s more like a robot than a robot.”
“I am glad that you were satisfied.”
Then, Chanbae Joo said with a puzzled expression.
“Something seems a bit off, are you okay?”
“ah. Yes.”
I decided to do something, but I still can’t forget Lee Do-jin’s words.
If it’s really possible, even Ceron’s infinite leap is not a dream.
Of course, the more Seron leaps infinitely, the faster the reconstruction of the Undead Legion will be, and the faster my retirement will be.
Then Chanbae Joo said in a quiet voice.
“By the way, just in case, is it possible to deploy worker skeletons? This is where the old line was overhauled. There are existing employees, but the new factory is literally a new factory, so there is no risk of job infringement.”
The mind of a very natural businessman trying to save even a penny in labor costs.
Will new jobs really emerge naturally in a world full of such entrepreneurs?
“President.”
“Yes.”
“perhaps. Really, if I refused to place a worker skeleton, I hired a human worker. But if suddenly a robot is developed to replace the job, would you use it?”
Then, without hesitation, Joo Chan-bae answered.
“Of course I write.”
“Will all the employees be cut off?”
“I don’t cut it. It’s just slowly reducing the size. We can’t do mass layoffs all of a sudden.”
Because mass layoffs cannot be done, we do not do it, but if we can, we will replace all employees with robots on the spot.
“It really doesn’t make any sense.”
“Yes?”
Do-jin Lee said that no matter how much I took away the role of a robot, eventually robots would gradually replace humans, and what was the meaning of a skeleton taking the role of a robot again.
Of course, it will take a considerable amount of time for the technology to develop that far, but it is the future that will come one day.
“Then where do those who lose their jobs go?”
“I will go anywhere. Eventually, new jobs will be created.”
Same reaction as Lee Do-jin.
“Of course, retraining will be necessary.”
“re-education?”
“If a new job is created, shouldn’t it be accompanied by education about it?”
Programmers and pilots did.
It was literally re-education.
“It has to be supported to some extent. That’s how we can appease the public.”
Would that be enough?
It could be a robot, but with a skeleton, it’s a completely different situation.
As I was immersed in my thoughts like that, Chanbae Joo burst out laughing and said.
“Today, the chairman’s condition seems to be not very good, so let’s go with that for today.”
“All right.”
“Anyway, I really like the skeleton. You don’t have to worry about maintenance and the initial investment cost can be drastically reduced. It can’t be any better than this since it doesn’t even use electricity.”
···electricity?
“Wait. electricity?”
“Yes. To be honest, when it comes to cars of our time, the annual electricity bill alone is staggering.”
“Electricity … electricity? flow?”
I opened my eyes and said.
“ah! flow! Flow was a problem!”
After asking Chan-bae Joo for his understanding, I returned immediately, took out a notebook and started writing down various things.
“Company, market, people.”
All industries revolve around circular cycles.
A company makes a product and sells it to the market, and the market buys the product and sells it to people.
And that person is working for the company again to buy the thing.
Of course, this is what it is when it is drawn one-dimensionally by implying everything, but the basic framework does not change.
“Robots need electricity. Electricity is made in a power plant. And power plants use oil to generate electricity. And this oil is dug up out of the ground by a machine.”
And this person will buy products made by robots with the money he earned by working for a company.
In other words, although the direction and frequency are different, people and society are all connected as one.
without a single break.
“That’s why I said it was a natural flow.”
No matter how cheaply a company fires all its employees and uses robots to make things, there is no one to buy them for anything.
Of course, this cycle is not a cycle that is broken just because one of these links is forcibly cut off.
Are humans being replaced by robots?
Then the result is one of two.
A company with no target to sell goes bankrupt, or someone gives up first.
When one side is eliminated and disappears due to change, the cycle of society continues again naturally in search of a new link.
This is the natural flow that Lee Do-jin spoke of.
However.
I replaced Seron with this company and said.
“Ceron is out of this cycle.”
Even if robots replace humans, eventually, a company that will make the robot and its employees are needed, and electricity to drive the robot is needed.
Of course, this connected cycle creates a natural flow.
But with Seron, the situation is completely different.
“If the skeleton is a robot, then the role of the robot company is the Awoken who sells bones.”
So far, it is still connected.
But then there was the problem.
“horsepower. Magic is literally something completely out of this cycle.”
The magic that creates and drives the skeleton has literally nothing to do with anything that exists in this world.
Of course, I don’t have enough magical power, so I buy an Essence, but that’s the case when making high-level Undead, and I’m absolutely dependent on my magic power to maintain worker skeletons.
In other words, in this society where everything is naturally connected, Seron is an irregular who is disconnected on one side, and he was passing on the side effects caused by this irregularity abroad through the method of stealing jobs and industries abroad.
“What if I could somehow incorporate this magic into this cycle? Then, the natural flow that Professor Do-Jin Lee said could be created.”
A cycle in which everything is organically connected.
If I included magic power in this cycle, I didn’t know if I could solve everything I’ve been thinking about.
“But how?”
How do you include this in your cycle?
After thinking for a while, an idea came to my mind.
“Everyone has magical powers.”
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Magic is literally the source of life.
Even ordinary people have a small amount of magical power.
And this magical energy has natural restoring power, so even if a certain amount is consumed, it continues to recover little by little.
“Can I use this?”
When I was in Seron, the magic crystals provided to me were too burdensome, so I did an experiment in the Empire.
It is to create artificial magic crystals by gathering the small amount of magic that ordinary people have in units of thousands.
But this experiment failed.
There are two reasons for the failure.
First of all, everyone in Seron knows that they need to increase their magical powers to become stronger, so even ordinary people felt repulsed by taking their own magic.
Of course, if the human race is on the verge of extinction, wouldn’t that be a problem? By that time, my undead corps was active in earnest and pushed the Demon King’s army.
In a situation where the immediate sense of crisis had been relieved to some extent, there was no way that anyone could pass on his magical powers.
Of course, the Empire knew this too, so they prepared a compensation plan to some extent, but this naturally acted as the second factor in failure.
That is, the compensation plan prepared by the Empire was literally poor.
In the first place, he came up with the idea of collecting and using people’s mana to save money, so the compensation plan was inevitably poor, and this naturally added to the feeling of rejection, causing public backlash.
When the general public reacted like that, the artificial magic stone plan quietly disappeared.
But on Earth, things are different.
“People on Earth don’t have the concept that they need to develop their magical powers.”
It is the people of the Earth that sees gaining abilities through awakening as a concept of luck rather than effort.
Of course, the SS class controls magic by calling it an aura, so its existence is known, but unless there is a way to strengthen it or a reason to do it, magic has no meaning for ordinary people on Earth.
In addition, Earth’s magic is expensive.
“Each F-class monster essence costs 5 million won.”
At first, I thought that Ceron’s magic crystal was so expensive, but I realized it for sure as I continued to buy the essence.
The essence of the earth is overwhelmingly more expensive than Ceron for the same amount of magical power.
Hundreds of Essences are used to make one S-Class Skeleton, but 10 Spirit Stones of Ceron were enough.
“What if I pay money in exchange for collecting people’s magical powers to make artificial magic crystals?”
Then, the broken link of magical power is naturally connected to the general public.
People make money by providing magic power, and I use that magic power to create and maintain skeletons.
Literally, the perfect cycle itself, good for me and good for people.
At that time, I saw the essence of a monster that had lost all its magic power and lost its light.
I said raising the empty essence.
“It’s an artificial magic stone… Shall we try it?”
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My aides including Kim Deok-bae arrived after an emergency call was made to the president’s office.
“I am going to do an important experiment from now on.”
I took out an essence engraved with a magic circle that absorbs magic and handed it to Kim Deok-bae.
“Take this. By the way, even if you feel something strange, just stay calm. Should I just say I shouldn’t resist?”
“What do you mean by that…”
“It’s a little difficult for me to explain. Try it once.”
Kim Deok-bae, who received the essence I gave him.
“Well?”
Kim Deok-bae tilted his head for a moment and said.
“It feels strange.”
Even a person who doesn’t feel magical power can’t help but feel strange when something is forcibly removed from his body.
At that time, Kim Deok-bae said with a sagging face.
“I feel like I am losing some energy.”
At the same time, some of the magic that Kim Deok-bae had is transferred to the essence.
“I’m really tired all of a sudden, what the hell is this?”
“It was originally like that. I made it a bit louder to experiment. ruler. Then next.”
Then, Chan-su Kang, who received this time, said the same thing.
“I’m tired, but I don’t think it’s to the point where I can’t stand it.”
Unlike the older Kim Deok-bae, Kang Chan-soo, who is young and strong, adapts quickly even though he has absorbed his magical power.
Afterwards, I tested everything up to Baek Sang-ho and received the integer again.
I said with a bright smile.
“It’s a success.”
He succeeded in absorbing people’s magic.
Of course, the test didn’t end there.
I need to check which people have a lot of mana and how much natural recovery they have.
In this way, after completing the first test on close associates, the second test is conducted on the employees of the company’s partner companies.
How much money is appropriate, and whether there is no objection to people, etc.
So what if all the tests are finished and you start earning money to buy and collect magic?
“I can receive a stable supply of magic power.”
Even if it’s not, it’s an integer that’s in short supply, so if I overcharged and bought it, the price skyrocketed in an instant, giving me a headache.
Also, if people pay money and sell the magical power that will be recovered anyway, they will share some of the profits they earned from Seron, even though they are not directly employed.
“Natural flow. Let’s make one.”