This is what you would’ve originally gotten if you’d just been honest. But now you only get this while doing much more work, suppressing your workers, reducing the number of chairs, and making everyone miserable. Good job.
Far easier to just employ cops directly and demand a fee for doing business in your territory. Then your costs drop substantially and all you really care about is the chair-making people generating enough surplus to pad your wallet. Spend a bit more and you can send your cops abroad, to seize lumber and extort labor from neighboring states. Install the existing chair makers as overseers who administer the bureaucratic chair-making state, pitting one against the other for the privilege of rank within the chair-o-cracy.
Yes, things do seem a bit less efficient than if you'd played fairly. But now you're making $20/chair warehouse, and you're rapidly expanding the number of warehouses in your domain. Your objective is no longer to make chairs at the lowest per-unit price, but to increase the rate at which chairs are produced and sold relative to the economy as a whole.
Far easier to just employ cops directly and demand a fee for doing business in your territory. Then your costs drop substantially and all you really care about is the chair-making people generating enough surplus to pad your wallet. Spend a bit more and you can send your cops abroad, to seize lumber and extort labor from neighboring states. Install the existing chair makers as overseers who administer the bureaucratic chair-making state, pitting one against the other for the privilege of rank within the chair-o-cracy.
Yes, things do seem a bit less efficient than if you'd played fairly. But now you're making $20/chair warehouse, and you're rapidly expanding the number of warehouses in your domain. Your objective is no longer to make chairs at the lowest per-unit price, but to increase the rate at which chairs are produced and sold relative to the economy as a whole.