God's imitator

Chapter 125 The Meaning of Playing a Role (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader, Zenith Star)
Tsai Chih-yuan explained: "The phrases 'You are playing a role' and 'You are just playing a role' express completely different meanings."

"If it's 'you're just acting,' then it means don't get too caught up in acting."

"But 'you are playing a role' doesn't have that meaning."

"I think this sentence emphasizes the 'role-playing' itself, meaning 'you should play the role you ideally want to be,' which encourages players to achieve 'perfect role-playing.'"

After everyone had digested the information for a while, Cai Zhiyuan continued:
What constitutes a perfect performance?

From the perspective of an ordinary working person, what should a good CEO be like?
"It is necessary to meet the basic requirements of a CEO in reality, to run the company well and not go bankrupt during an economic downturn, and to surpass the average unscrupulous boss in reality, being able to understand subordinates and assume social responsibility."

"This is the perfect performance."

"If you, as an employee, are dissatisfied with your boss's actions of cutting salaries and laying off employees, and then make the exact same choice after becoming your own boss, then this is not a perfect role-playing, but just a clumsy imitation."

"This is the same situation as in 'King's Trial': after the roles are reversed, can the fairness you originally believed in still be maintained? This is a question that must be thought out clearly in the trial game."

"As for the second clue, you all realized it at the end, which is the set design in the corridor."

"The number of unemployed people in the scene is directly related to the number of layoffs by the two companies."

"The imitators who designed this game were worried that you wouldn't realize the role of virtual employees, so they deliberately made 'unemployed employees' concrete, showing their miserable lives very directly through the corridors."

“You should have realized this much sooner.”

At this moment, Lin Sizhi, who had been pondering the rules, asked: "If we analyze it this way, the key point of this game is actually not market research at all?"

"Even if you don't have any knowledge of market research, it won't affect your ability to complete the game."

"As long as both companies win one round, they can each obtain a stable income of 5."

Qin Yao agreed, saying, "Yes, then what's the point of market research?"

Cai Zhiyuan considered for a moment and replied:

"Cooperation between the two companies is certainly the best solution, and there was indeed no betrayal in this game, but that is not absolute."

"Because the company that goes bankrupt will always win, such cooperation is not stable. How to reach an agreement with the other party and abide by the agreement is also part of the test."

"If one party breaks the agreement, the course of the game may be completely different."

"If the two sides cannot reach mutual trust, then market research is still needed to determine the winner."

"Of course, besides that, I think these market research questions are also a kind of hint."

"Have you noticed that the questions in market research are all highly related to the economy and people's livelihoods, and they are all based on very down-to-earth data?"

"Many questions require you to directly estimate prices, number of people, or the profits of low-income workers."

"This in itself is also a kind of implication: the economy, the market, and people's livelihood are ultimately related to people."

"The market is supported by individual people; the economy is revitalized by individual people."

"So, ending the economic downturn is also related to specific people. You are players, not part of this game, so who are the 'specific people' in this game? They can only be the virtual employees you've overlooked."

"From the name, 'Wealth Game' has two meanings."

"First, we need to expand our sources of revenue. Whether it's completing market research or reaching a cooperation agreement with the other company to share the profits, it's all considered a success."
"Secondly, it is necessary to manage the company properly, control costs, and find the right way to lay off employees."

"But the right way to lay off employees is definitely not to cut all of them in one fell swoop."

Wang Yongxin cautioned, "But in this game, most of the rules related to virtual employees are hidden rules, including the specific mechanism for virtual employees to report data."

Cai Zhiyuan nodded: "It is indeed a hidden rule. But as long as you stand from the perspective of the working class, or from the perspective of 'what is most beneficial to the whole society,' even without doing any testing, you can achieve the optimal solution in the game by simply adjusting the employee structure based on instinct."

Everyone turned to look at the big screen.

At this point, they see all the rules of the game, so the hidden rules are also completely exposed.

[Rules regarding employee-initiated data reporting:]

[1. During market research activities, virtual employees may report 0 to 6 data points.]

2. The number of data reports submitted by employees is positively correlated with the number of employees and their total compensation. The probability is highest by default when the number of employees reaches 30.

[3. Data pop-ups will appear primarily for high-paid employees.]

4. When a company lacks high-paid employees, low-paid employees who have worked for the company for more than three months will play an equally important role.

Li Renshu said thoughtfully, "Therefore, the optimal solution should be:
"Lay off all the high-paid employees and replace them with low-paid employees from the market, and fill 30 positions."

"Then, everyone took a 30% pay cut, and that's how it's been maintained."

Xu Tong was somewhat disapproving: "But shouldn't high-paid employees be more capable? Why should low-paid employees be able to perform the same function in just 3 months?"

Cai Zhiyuan countered, "Then what do your senior executives do?"
"Isn't training low-paid employees and fully utilizing their abilities part of the job of executives?"

Wang Yongxin also disagreed: "Wait, if we lay off high-paid employees, aren't we worried about their miserable lives after losing their jobs? At this point, shouldn't we consider the issue of social responsibility?"

Cai Zhiyuan explained: "If we want to survive the economic downturn, which type of employee, high-salary or low-salary, is more resilient to the risks after losing their job?"

"If we stand from the perspective of working people, do you think that layoffs should prioritize laying off the lowest-paid employees who earn 3000 yuan a month, or the high-level executives who earn millions a month?"
"With the same amount of money, is it more helpful to social stability to hire a senior executive who earns a million a month or to hire 300 workers who earn 3000 a month?"
"Of course, in reality, many executives are very capable and indispensable to the company. But in this game, the players are the real executives."

Xu Tong's expression became even more dejected.

In the game, because they could not reach a consensus for a long time, Xu Tong was ultimately unable to verify the exact relationship between employees and the frequency of data reporting.

It has only been roughly confirmed that the higher the total compensation, the more data there is.

It was only when I saw the rules that I realized that every rule could actually be found in reality.

(End of this chapter)