But if that actually decreases the farming labor, that will mean less food for themselves later on, because there'll be fewer workers?  Perhaps this is only a failure mode that exists when people don't have enough food to go around...

Keltham is also confused about how people would be able to credibly accuse random others they don't like of slacking; obviously there'd be one person assigned to monitor any particular other person's work and report whether they were slacking or not.  Are they sure they haven't just disproven the existence of corporations in general?

But if that actually decreases the farming labor, that will mean less food for themselves later on, because there'll be fewer workers?  Perhaps this is only a failure mode that exists when people don't have enough food to go around...

Keltham is also confused about how people would be able to credibly accuse random others they don't like of slacking; obviously there'd be one person assigned to monitor any particular other person's work and report whether they were slacking or not.  Or rather, if they weren't already doing that, they'd start once the accusations of slacking began.

If his students claim that can't work, are they sure they haven't just disproven the existence of corporations in general?