WORKTHING SHORTAGE PROMPTS BAN ON ARTS FACTORIES

The Galactic Administration has today announced that they will be
implementing a ban on the building and running of factories producing
artifacts in the Solar System. The ban will take effect on Wednesday,
and once it is in place it will impossible to erect any new arts factories.
CEOs are advised to sell their existing arts factories before the ban
comes into operation because any remaining arts factories will be
confiscated - with no compensation to the owners.

A spokesthing made the official announcement and then added an
explanation: "With the increase in the number of people going into
business by setting up their own companies, we have seen a rapid rise
in the demand for workers on all the Sol planets. This has led to
inflation in the wages structure, with workers' pay increasing out of all
proportion to their counterparts in other fields of endeavour. Company
owners have been having to pay larger sums to obtain a workforce, and
there has been bad feeling between CEOs as they compete for the ever-
dwindling pool of labor. Meanwhile, workers in other sectors such as
retail have been disgruntled to see factory workers pay rise to enormous
heights, while their own stays static.

"A glance at the labor requirements for different types of factories
reveals that by far the most labor intensive facility is one producing
artifacts. On the face of it these factories seem a good buy, since they do
not require any inputs, but they suck up such a tremendous number of
workthings that the presence of 2 or 3 on a planet can severely curtail
any other industrial activity.

"This ban on artifact factories is intended to relieve the pressure on
workthings. We will be monitoring the situation and if it seems
necessary in the future, we may bring in a similar ban on other labor
intensive facilities, such as monos; however, we hope that will not be
necessary."

So to summarise: at Wednesday's reset, new code will go in which will
stop anyone from building artifacts factories, and will delete existing
arts factories - so sell up before then, or lose out!



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