According to their agreement, Tesla would pay him the dividends for his 50% share of the company once every three months. That means Tesla would pay him four times per year.
So he won’t receive anything from his partnership with Tesla until after three months. He can’t wait that long, which is why he asked Tesla to give him 100 gold coins first.
He has a lot of needs. He doesn’t care about what he eats and where he lives as long as what he eats is nutritional and where he lives can protect him from rain and cold. Currently, his living conditions can’t protect him from the cold, so he needs to fix that.
He also needs to start preparing to become a godclad. All of these will need a lot of money.
He should need between 10 gold coins and 50 gold coins for his preparation. But he asked for double his maximum estimate from Tesla just to be careful.
In this world, gold is worth a lot of money. A single gold coin is 100 silver coins, and a single silver coin is worth 100 copper coins.
Two copper coins can be used to buy the lowest quality bread called the black bread. This black bread is made from the discarded parts of processed flour. It is black and hard enough to be used as a weapon.
If someone is willing to eat this kind of bread and only this kind two times per day, it will cost them 4 copper coins. The poorest soup will cost them an extra 2 copper coins. In total it will cost them 6 copper coins per day to survive or 42 copper coins per week.
There is still the cost of clothing, housing, heating for the house, heating for cooking, medicine, and occasionally transportation. All in all, 100 copper coins, or 1 silver coin, is the barest minimum that someone needs to survive in a week.
He doesn’t need to pay rent for housing, and he doesn’t pay for heating, so he can afford to eat better with his salary of 1 silver coin per week. But even if he doesn’t eat and he doesn’t spend anything out of his salary, it will take him 19 years to acquire the minimum amount of gold coins he needs to prepare his existence.
If he saves 52 silver coins per year, it will take him 19 years to save 10 gold coins. If he needs 50 gold coins to prepare his existence, it will take him 96 years to save the money he needs. At that point, he will be dead, and it will be too late.
This is why it is difficult for poor people to become godclads. No matter how much someone earns, if they can only live from paycheck to paycheck, they will have no hope of changing their fate. The path of the extraordinary will never be theirs.
If they manage to save one silver coin per week, they will have hope, but it will be slim, and even if nothing goes wrong and they don’t have to spend their savings for an emergency, it will take them decades to prepare.
Only those who are rich or are incredibly talented and don’t need to prepare their existence, or are lucky enough to join organizations like the lamp bearers, have any chance of becoming godclads.
He was originally one of the few lucky ones who joined the lamp bearers. With them, he had a chance of becoming a godclad. He just had to put in the work and wait for his turn.
But that will take too much time. When he will become a godclad is also uncertain. He can’t wait that long, and he doesn’t want to continue freezing in his dormitory. So the 100 gold coins from Tesla will go a long way in changing his situation.
100 gold coins is not a big deal to a big business man like Tesla. It is a lot of money, but it is not enough for him to offend the god of steam and break the contract so soon.
After Tesla gave him the 100 gold coins, he began working in earnest. He became busy with transforming the patents into commercially viable products that will earn them both a lot of money.
Legion, on the other hand, went to the bank to receive one gold coin. He was given a sheet of paper for one crown. It is the economic equivalent of one gold coin and is lighter to carry.
Next, he went to pay off the money he borrowed earlier. While he was doing all of these, he was considering how to diversify his investment.
His partnership with Tesla is sure to be a hit. But just to be on the safe side, it is best that he has multiple options and streams of income.
Any unfortunate thing can happen that will spoil the partnership. Tesla doesn’t need to break the contract for the money to cease. Someone can kill Tesla and forcefully seize his company. So it is best that he has alternatives.
He can still invest in electricity since he only promised to give Tesla access to all his patents for that industry. It is not sole access or monopoly, so he can always find another partner in the electricity market.
But he doesn’t want to do that because he already has Tesla for that. It will be more efficient for him to invest in other types of industries.
The first option that came to his mind is the banking industry. This is an industry currently dominated by the goddess of wealth.
Banks rely on communication systems if they are to grow and have chains in any places. But currently, the best communication system that mortals are capable of is the telegraph. It is a communication system that is slow and tedious to use.
On the other hand, the communication with altars is fast. With altars, documents can be sent all over the world instantly without the risk of interception. So using altars is fast and secure.
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