And those idiots who try to screw every single hundredth-mark out of their workers deserve the loyalty they get in return, since it’s absolutely nonexistent, he thought caustically. Funny how starvation and loyalty don’t seem to go hand in hand, isn’t it. But see to it that they have affordable housing and healers, that there are schools available for their children, that they have the wages in their pockets to buy food and clothing, and that they all know you’re constantly looking for foreman and supervisors from among anyone with the wit and ambition to better themselves in your employ, and it will repay you a hundred times over just from a purely selfish viewpoint.