Blackstone Code

"No... no money?", looking at the honest worker with some surprise, he stretched out his little finger and picked his ears, "Aren't you kidding me, sir?"

Calling Mr. Foreigner has become a very common phenomenon, and some more extreme areas are said to have started calling Mr. Foreigner. The atmosphere here is less tense, and Lynch doesn't want anyone to do that.

Sir is a respectful title, but Master is not.

Therefore, if a local person calls Lynch's employee "Master", Lynch will ask the employee to correct the local person's statement. They are just "Sir", not "Master".

Looking at the honest local man, he pointed at the small iron pot and asked, "Can I pick it up and take a look?" He said and took out the work permit hanging around his neck, "I am a worker here, I will be here right away." I’m going to switch to a second-level job, I can make money!”

He seemed to be afraid that the foreign gentleman selling the goods would not believe him, so he even opened his work permit, which contained the date of his work revelation.

There are some wonderful similarities between Nagaril and the Federation on certain issues. For example, some people sneak into the construction site to work, so workers here also need to be issued work permits.

Every day they have to show their work ID to enter the factory. Each ID is for one person, which effectively eliminates those who want to get a job.

The foreign gentleman selling the goods nodded, "Of course, you can pick it up and take a look. This is the customer's right."

Watching the honest local man pick up the small iron pot, it was a very exquisite cooking pot that could put a lot of things in. At least he had never seen such an exquisite iron pot locally.

He also tapped it with his fingers. The lingering sound of the vibrating iron pot had a special rhyme.

It's solid, beautiful, and feels heavy in the hand. The honest locals who looked at it didn't believe it was free.

He put it back, wistfully.

He has been working here for almost a hundred days. He has improved his family's living conditions, brought some color to his family's faces, and even made some savings for him.

The appreciation of Galil this time made him, and many more people like him who have the habit of saving money, suddenly become rich.

They all used various methods to exchange their Galil into federal Sol or even Furah, so he was indeed very rich.

He wanted to do something more for his family, such as buying a small iron pot.

So far, his family has used a broken iron pot, the kind of thin iron pot that can make a pit when pressed hard with your hand.

The pot body, which is pitted and uneven and repaired, should be retired.

As a "rich man" with a stable job, his desire for consumption has actually been secretly stimulated. At this time, he saw what he wanted, and his desire for shopping began to spread uncontrollably.

"Sir, you just said it... doesn't cost money?" he asked the honest local.

The foreign gentleman selling the goods nodded. He picked up the small iron pot and knocked it. "There are two ways you can get it..." He looked at the honest local man and nodded repeatedly, indicating that he was listening carefully.

"The first method is that you can buy it with money. It only costs nineteen dollars and ninety-eight cents of federal sole, which is equivalent to your compensation for twenty days of work..."

As soon as I heard that twenty federal soles were required, the honest locals were a little discouraged. It was too much.

He didn't think this small iron pot was worth so much. He could spend less money and buy a decent iron pot instead of buying such a high-end small iron pot.

Unknowingly, the iron pot has become a "high-end" product in his eyes because of its price. In fact, this thing is found in many families in the Federation. It is just an ordinary cooking pot.

"The second method is that you don't need to spend so much money to buy him at once. I heard that you are going to upgrade to the second level?"

The honest local man nodded repeatedly, "Yes, I will be a second-level worker next week."

The foreign gentleman selling the goods continued, "You can take it now, but we will deduct a part of it from your daily salary. We call this payment method 'installment' payment."

He took a pen to write and draw in a notebook and said, "Because you are about to be promoted to a second-level worker, I can give you a one-hundred-day installment. You only need to pay twenty-eight federal soles every day. You can take it away."

"After a hundred days, you will completely own it. If for any reason before that, you lose the ability to pay and stop paying, we will take the iron pot back."

The honest-looking local who was introduced to the concept of "instalment" for the first time was immediately attracted by it. "As long as it only costs 28 cents of federal Sol every day, can I take it back?"

He was a little incomprehensible, knowing that his current daily salary was one dollar of federal sole. Even if he paid this amount, he would still have seventy-two points left every day, enough to support his family and deal with various possibilities. additional expenses incurred.

This little iron pot became more and more cute in his eyes. He hesitated for a while, and after discussing why it was "twenty-eight points", he finally decided to buy this little iron pot, which was just his daily income. A little less, but he can enjoy the changes in life brought by this high-end product in advance.

Just as he was about to leave, the foreigner selling the goods asked with a smile, "Aren't you going to take this exquisite steel spoon with you?"

"For the same hundred days, you only need to pay six cents more every day, and you can take them all away..."

…

A few minutes later, I watched the honest local man happily enter the construction site with an iron pot and a spoon, cleaning it repeatedly in the envious eyes of people.

If those two things are not made of steel, it is possible that the surface he rubbed has lost its luster and damaged the inner substance (bald skin).

After some curious people inquired, the small shop at the entrance of the construction site was overcrowded after get off work. In order to prevent anyone from reaching out and taking things they shouldn't, the construction site also arranged two security guards with guns to watch closely.

People's desire to shop is very strong. Even if they have money in a materially poor environment, they may not be able to find a way to release this desire to shop.

But now these problems are no longer a problem. Lynch helped them find this way, and it can also meet their consumption needs.

If they deduct a little money every day and then bring a brand new and expensive product back at once, they will not find it unacceptable, but actually think it is good.

Although some people feel that if they pay separately, they will pay more money than if they pay it all at once, but in the end they still choose to accept this method because it does not hurt and they do not even feel it is a loss, especially when some people start to take the initiative. require the use of federal sols when settling their wages.

Unexpectedly, in just one day, a large amount of goods were sold. It was hard for everyone to believe, is this still the poor Nagalil?

"I really don't understand, Mr. Lynch, why do people have such a terrible desire to buy?"

In the evening, some businessmen gathered at Lynch's place. They also sold these goods to their workers, and they did so according to Lynch's instructions and practices.

They quickly sold a large number of goods, which completely shattered their impression of poverty here.

Lynch sat on a chair with his legs crossed and a cigarette in his right hand. Everyone's eyes were fixed on him.

His right elbow was pressed on the armrest of the chair, and his forearm was almost vertical. He turned his wrist and said with a half-smile, "Gentlemen, what will you do if you make a lot of money?"

The previous businessman who asked the question immediately replied, "I'm going to go out for a walk, find some girls, or something."

Lynch pointed at him and said, "You are right. The purpose of making money is for better enjoyment. On top of this point of view, I also have a personal opinion that may be different from the mainstream view..."

He looked at the others, and everyone made a gesture of listening carefully. Lynch flicked the ashes of his cigarette and continued, "After receiving their salary, people actually have a kind of 'revenge' consumption subconsciously. to relieve them from the stress of work.”

"This kind of 'retaliatory consumption' is very willful. The more tired the work and the greater the pressure, the stronger people's revenge psychology and the easier it is to lose their minds."

"These people didn't show their desire for consumption before, because there was nothing that fit their consumption psychology."

"But when something appears that suits their consumer psychology, they will lose their minds just like you, like those housewives in the Federation."

"Commodities, entertainment, and culture are all things that can be consumed, and these things can be sold later."

"We even said that we can lower the total repayment amount in installments and let more people participate. In this way, we can sell the goods, and secondly, we can keep these workers with us more firmly."

“When their lives are dominated by installments, they cannot leave the jobs we give them, because once they lose their jobs, even just for a month!”

Lynch raised a finger, and there was something in his tone that people could clearly feel, a kind of confidence that everything was under control, "They will fall from heaven to hell, even if you are not good enough to them, If we deduct some of their wages or make their food worse, they won't be like those workers in the Federation."

"They won't hold a general strike or hold demonstrations, and there will be no workers' union to help them fight the lawsuit until you go bankrupt."

"Here, with nothing, they plead and thank you for giving them a job."

“For us, this is heaven!”