"I mean, that's - good point, but - now that you point it out, it's really just the capstone of a much bigger Problem Pyramid which, due credit, Avaricia was pointing out earlier, which is that the entire Chelish economy runs on coercion in various forms.  It's not just enslaved halflings on farms, it's all slaves everywhere and even in regular jobs, if they're a kind of job that some people get told they're taking, I'll need comparison data with other countries to see if that affected prices -"

"I don't know if we should have halfling slaves, but we should have halflings, it's just, I need to figure out if they can be paid halflings, and how that would affect the flow of money in and out of farms and the rest of Cheliax, by looking at other countries with non-slave farmers, then I need to figure out the same thing about miners and doctors and everybody else where Keltham is liable to start demanding prices.  And then, I guess, report to Sevar on whether I think I can fake an alterCheliax like that, and if not, realCheliax needs a lot of slavery, and then other countries need to not look better to Keltham if he asks about them."

"It would be easier, you know, if the prices in real Golarion made more sense to me.  Sometimes I'm looking at the cost of spells, magic items, scrolls, the cost of hiring a professional for a week, the cost of a slave, the cost of ladders and ten-foot-poles, and it all starts to feel like it was casually made up by somebody who cared less about their job than I do."

"I mean, that's - good point, but - now that you point it out, it's really just the capstone of a much bigger Problem Pyramid which, due credit, Avaricia was pointing out earlier, which is that the entire Chelish economy runs on coercion in various forms.  It's not just enslaved halflings on farms, it's all slaves everywhere.  Even in regular jobs, if they're a kind of job that some people get told they're taking or can't quit, like prostitution, I'll need comparison data with other countries to see if that affected prices -"

"I don't know if we should have halfling slaves, but we should have halflings, it's just, I need to figure out if they can be paid halflings, and how that would affect the flow of money in and out of farms and the rest of Cheliax, by looking at other countries with non-slave farmers, then I need to figure out the same thing about miners and doctors and everybody else where Keltham is liable to start demanding prices.  And then, I guess, report to Sevar on whether I think I can fake an alterCheliax like that, and if not, realCheliax needs a lot of slavery, and then other countries need to not look better to Keltham if he asks about them."

"It would be easier, you know, if the prices in real Golarion made more sense to me.  Sometimes I'm looking at the cost of spells, magic items, scrolls, the cost of hiring a professional for a week, the cost of a slave, the cost of ladders and ten-foot-poles, and it all starts to feel like it was casually made up by somebody who cared less about their job than I do."

"I mean, that's - good point, but - now that you point it out, it's really just the capstone of a much bigger Problem Pyramid which, due credit, Avaricia was pointing out earlier, which is that the entire Chelish economy runs on coercion in various forms.  It's not just enslaved halflings on farms, it's all slaves everywhere.  Even in regular jobs, if they're a kind of job that some people get told they're taking or can't quit, like prostitution, I'll need comparison data with other countries to see if that affected prices -"

"I don't know if we should have halfling slaves, but we should have halflings, it's just, I need to figure out if they can be paid halflings, and how that would affect the flow of money in and out of farms and the rest of Cheliax, by looking at other countries with non-slave farmers, then I need to figure out the same thing about miners and doctors and everybody else where Keltham is liable to start demanding prices.  And then, I guess, report to Sevar on whether I think I can fake an alterCheliax like that, and if not, realCheliax needs a lot of slavery, and then other countries need to not look better to Keltham if he asks about them."

"It would be easier if the prices in real Golarion made more sense to me.  Sometimes I'm looking at the cost of spells, magic items, scrolls, the cost of hiring a professional for a week, the cost of a slave, the cost of ladders and ten-foot-poles, and it all starts to feel like it was casually made up by somebody who cared less about their job than I do."

"I mean, that's - good point, but - now that you point it out, it's really just the capstone of a much bigger Problem Pyramid which, due credit, Avaricia was pointing out earlier.  The entire Chelish economy runs on coercion in various forms.  It's not just enslaved halflings on farms, it's all slaves everywhere.  Even in regular jobs, if they're a kind of job that some people get told they're taking or can't quit, like prostitution, I'll need comparison data with other countries to see if that affected prices -"

"I don't know if we should have halfling slaves, but we should have halflings, it's just, I need to figure out if they can be paid halflings, and how that would affect the flow of money in and out of farms and the rest of Cheliax, by looking at other countries with non-slave farmers, then I need to figure out the same thing about miners and doctors and everybody else where Keltham is liable to start demanding prices.  And then, I guess, report to Sevar on whether I think I can fake an alterCheliax like that, and if not, realCheliax needs a lot of slavery, and then other countries need to not look better to Keltham if he asks about them."

"It would be easier if the prices in real Golarion made more sense to me.  Sometimes I'm looking at the cost of spells, magic items, scrolls, the cost of hiring a professional for a week, the cost of a slave, the cost of ladders and ten-foot-poles, and it all starts to feel like it was casually made up by somebody who cared less about their job than I do."