novelslam Chapter 456 Kiki's Delivery Service
Chapter 456 Kiki's Delivery Service
Chapter 456 Kiki's Delivery Service
The use of house elves to deliver couriers has been unanimously approved by everyone, but disagreements have arisen regarding the issue of remuneration.
Hermione insisted that house-elves should be treated well, not only with wages, but also with holidays and sick days.
Fred and George looked at each other and giggled.
"Salary and vacation?" Fred shook his head. "House-elves don't need that!"
"Yeah, they like to work," George agreed. "We can let them deliver express for free."
"Who said that?" Hermione retorted. "Dobby needs it, doesn't he, Dobby?"
Hermione looked at Dobby with encouraging eyes, stood up tremblingly, and said firmly, "Yes, Dobby needs a salary!"
"Okay." George raised his hand, "But, a strange creature like Dobby... Ahem, I mean, there are not many elves with personality."
"Yeah, it's their nature to work, and they like it, see?" said Fred.
"They don't feel comfortable if they don't work, and it's an insult to them to pay them."
"So you are going to continue to enslave them." Hermione gave a dangerous look.
The twins looked at William for help.
William raised his hand, signaling Hermione to be quiet.He said calmly, "Of course we have to pay wages."
Hermione lifted her chin and looked triumphantly.
"First of all, we need to recognize the most basic question, do you want to pay for the owl to deliver the courier?" William asked.
"Of course I do," said Fred.
Unless it is a home-raised owl, like an owl that delivers newspapers or an owl that delivers gifts, they all need to be paid.
Occasionally, they will ask for dried small fish with shamelessness, and if you don't give it, they will peck your arm.
When they saw beautiful hair, they would forcibly pull out some of them and take them back to make bird nests.
This also varies from person to person, and Professor Snape never has such troubles.
The owl that tried to do such a thing was smoked to death the moment it lowered its beak.
"Since owls have to be paid, why hire house elves to deliver couriers and not pay?" William asked.
The twins were silent.
"You've got one more thing wrong," said William, "who says most house-elves don't get paid?
The house-elves work in the wizard's house, and that's where they live and eat.
Although this is not equivalent labor, it is also a transaction. "
"We don't provide house elves with food and shelter. Naturally, we have to pay wages and let them get the supplies they need to meet their own survival needs."
To put it bluntly, on the issue of house-elves, wizards have deliberately blurred issues of pay and labor.
But is it not a reward to take care of food and housing?It's just that this kind of remuneration is much cheaper than the labor of the house elves.
William decided to let the house elves take care of themselves regardless of food and lodging.Then salary is no longer an issue.
It is impossible for any wizard to say: I don't care about food and lodging, and I don't pay for work, such stupid words!
So did William lose money?of course not.
House elves are a kind of labor resource. They use magic to do other things, which can create more surplus value than housework!
"Then how are their salaries calculated?" Qiu asked after thinking about it. "It's a lot of money."
"It's very simple. Since it's an express delivery, the delivery price is as good as the owl's delivery price for the time being." William said.
"That's not enough for house-elves to survive!" Hermione complained.
"Of course enough." William explained, "House-elfs are not like owls, they can only deliver once a day.
They can apparate, let's not talk about the closest ones, let's just say send them to London.
The basic price in the market is five nats, and you will have to pay more for overloading.
A house elf who uses Apparition can run at least fifty orders a day.
That's 250 Nats, which is 3.54 Galleons a week..."
"That's enough." Dobby said happily: "It's too much, and one Galleon per week is enough for me." "
Hermione stared at Dobby speechlessly.
"Hermione, we can't raise the treatment of house elves to a very high level immediately." William comforted.
"But this is just the beginning. Only when the price is low enough can we seize the market."
"When everyone adapts to this logistics method, we will definitely increase the price, understand?"
Only grown leeks are good leeks!
It is convenient to cut it like that!
Hermione's problem is that she wants to provide good treatment for elves, want them to have wages, clothes to wear, and a comfortable environment.
But there are only slogans, no real plans.
Hermione even thought that she could rely on the little wizard to raise donations, and persuade the elves to consciously ask for wages...
These practices are all useless efforts.Neither wizards nor house-elves respond to her.
But William is very simple and can solve this matter.
That is to rely on the Akali mysterious store to establish a new logistics system and liberate them from the role of family nanny.
This is a relatively mild improvement that can prevent riots from happening.
"What about their holidays?" Cedric asked.
"Of course it's 996." William took it for granted.
996 is the blessing from the previous life!
William has made a big change from the year-round house-elves that have always been.
"Too little, at least two days off a week." Hermione said.
"No! Too much!" Dobby shuddered, as if so much free time was dreadful.
"Miss... Dobby likes freedom, miss, but he doesn't want too much freedom, he prefers work!"
"..."
"There is also the question of clothing." William knocked on the table and said seriously: "Dobby, I don't care what you wear when you are resting.
But during work, the work clothes must be uniform, not fancy, and must be clean. "
Dobby nodded quickly.
"I'll let Mars, the elf from Nico's family, come and train you for two months."
William has even thought about the style of clothing, let's just use yellow overalls.
Wearing a helmet, he looked inexplicably kind.
It would be nice to have an elf equipped with a broomstick.
William is now working hard to transform the wizarding world into what he is familiar with.
Maybe in a few years, you will still see investment advertisements such as Ele.me and Meituan in Diagon Alley.
If you can't change yourself, then change the world!
"What's the name of our new shop?" Hermione asked eagerly.
"Just call..." William raised his chin, thought for a moment, and said with a smile, "Kiki's Delivery Service!"
"Remember, we are not here to make money." He stood up and waved his hand.
"We're not interested in money!
Our goal is to ensure that house elves receive reasonable wages and a good working environment.
We are not capitalists, we are real... philanthropists! "
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(End of this chapter)