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Over the <span class="mu-s">next few months</span>- things are going swimmingly. With Cijan quietly flying through hyperspace, you've been on your own for the time- and you've been making great strides.
It isn't just the projects you're undertaking now- its <span class="mu-i">everything</span> to do with the Reconqusita. Despite how early it is in the process, the Hazaar vassal state essentially just doubled the size of your empire. Newly found habitable and minable worlds- though many of those worlds have already been stripped, a few are heavily polluted from the Hazaars own economic endeavors from many years ago- regardless, just the boon of territory and population increase is going to have massive impacts down the line.
Already, you can see it starting. The massive increases of <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">profit</span></span>. While there are some strong critics, especially in the State Philosopher circles, your new plan of taxation and wealth concentration is going to change everything for the Hegemony!
In the Hegemony, Jaxtian citizens aren't exactly “taxed”. This is because everything they buy, work, or do is already weighed and calculated to generate profit for the state. Since the state controls all industry, and knows how much everything costs to produce and supply to everyone, it sets prices accordingly to generate profit. Workers are paid slightly less in disposable income for their time then their time at work produces for the Hegemony- with further reductions based on the cost of schooling, training, building and maintaining infrastructure, and so on. Money is just a shorthand for this “extra value”, and is an incredibly powerful tool that, you often feel, has been underutilized in the Hegemony's past.
Of course, Jaxtian citizens are used to this system and it works well. But Hazaar citizens are newly added, and have different ideas and behaviors and you can work that accordingly. Due to the Hazaar's innate sense of greed and desire to hoard wealth, their long lifespans, and their lack of traditional forms of spending from family and so on; you already know that the Hazaar will be skinflints of the highest degree. The solution is simple- taxes! Drain the Hazaar workers at a much higher rate then Jaxtians- or better yet, put digital codes that sets their money to expire so they can't even hoard it. Perfect!
“My lord.”
<span class="mu-r">”Oh great, it's <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Kerjak</span></span> again. Come to complain about how my new money market is “capitalist perversion”?”</span>
“...Err.. no. Though I still strongly advise against it- the value of currency without work or material benefit is empty- it is merely an inflator...”
<span class="mu-r">”You are not an <span class="mu-i">economist</span>, Kerjak. You are not qualified to speak on this. What do you want?”</span>
“It's about your Homemaker & Family Department head- that woman named <span class="mu-i">Aleed</span>. I have reason to believe she is a <span class="mu-i">Consortium spy</span>!”
