68: Demand
Demand is the desire and ability of people to purchase a specific product or service at a given price. It reflects both interest in the item and the financial means to acquire it.
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JackCandem
I am afraid of what might happen to Gabi if they ever manage to actually hurt chiefs business (or he simply has a bad streak/the system turns on him).
For now it seems like he treats it as a game, like a sated cat playing with a mouse. He seems to be willing to share some secrets, explain and teach, but only because he IS winning and not even remotly at risk, but I feel that once/if that changes, the cat will make use of its claws, teeth and size.
So I think the "mentoring" relationship is only a byproduct of chief enjoying a little game, before the claw comes down
Nov 03 2025 11:08 
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Ralph S. (Assistant to the Emperor of Borgo)
Better wheels, will make the demand of wheels go down.. because they last longer..
Nov 04 2025 01:03
Gabital
Ralph S. (Assistant to the Emperor of Borgo), Ah, but those would require regular maintenance and checkups! Costly ones, too!
Nov 04 2025 06:50
Space_Slav
Ralph S. (Assistant to the Emperor of Borgo), "market economy breeds innovation" with the innovation being shit that is made to last for a year until the next model is released. There's a reason my grandmother's Yugoslav hairdryer lasted longer than the country itself.
Nov 24 2025 21:26
Rain Tree 113
I wonder if there’s any communication research on interactions between company higher-ups and their “lower-level” employees. How the frequency of direct interaction decreases over time as the business grows in size, and how the increasing distance between the two groups leads to the leadership making decisions without regard to how it may negatively impact their employees.
Chief is shown directly interacting with Gabi and the Goblins on a daily basis, whereas in real life I doubt that Jeff Bezos has done that anytime in the last 20 years. It’s easy to approve the firing of 14,000 people when you don’t see them and interact with them often enough to see them as real humans and not just statistics in a meeting.
Nov 04 2025 20:35
Gabital
Rain Tree 113, There undoubtedly are, but the conclusions of such research papers are likely to be too subjective and wildly localised to specific business areas. If there were a WHOLE LOT MORE - it'd be a different tale as we'd be able to squeeze out the median statistics. Oddly enough, the most "humane" business in its essence would be the one most detached from human interaction, focused strictly on objective value of labor and optimization of its processes. Such a machine is, however, unfortunately not really possible. In theory, scaling upwards would introduce more middle management who SHOULD have specialized skill subsets to keep "in touch" with workers and be able to pass up the feedback, but it also introduces progressively more of those major points of failure - the human factor.
Nov 05 2025 17:43