The survival mode of the professional team is simple and brutal.
After signing a contract with the company, the company will provide the professional team with minimal regular equipment maintenance services, and distribute subsidies for purchasing ammunition, medical supplies, and energy.
However, this level of service and subsidies is merely a drop in the bucket compared to the daily consumption of Fourth Level professionals, just a superficial gesture.
The real "benefit" held by the professional team is that under a First Level contract, they only have to bear an 8% fixed commission when selling their hunting results, which is 2% less than the 10% under a Second Level contract, a significant advantage over semi-professional teams and freelancers.
Of course, Ren Zhong, who gradually understood part of the economic system of this era, was keenly aware that this so-called benefit is fundamentally a joke.
A Level Four Ruined Beast Crystal Chip and carcass worth 10,000, you take away for two to three thousand, the procurement price of commodities gouges me by seventy to eighty percent, what significance does a mere reduction from 20% to 8% in commission hold?
The pricing standard of resource recycling companies for Ruined Beasts seems simple, but it is actually quite intricate, similar to the principle where wearing a rental Wrist watch while sleeping earns the wastelander 0.1 point a day, just enough to maintain minimum subsistence.
It won’t let you starve, you can always earn enough to survive through labor.
But it will certainly not allow you to become wealthy through labor.
As for the amount of profit it can derive from your labor output, sorry, this has nothing to do with you.
Unless you can achieve class transcendence, become stronger, become a higher-level professional, or gain the qualification for capital operation to grow money.
But with each step upwards, the shackles covering you only change from ordinary iron to better silver or gold.
This is the inevitability of a society under the absolute capital monopoly control structured by the Nine Major Groups.
Furthermore, from a transactional relationship perspective, the professional team is the supplier, and the recycling company is the buyer.
I produce raw materials, you purchase them, you pay, and that’s it.
There is no reason for a supplier to sell goods at a loss to the buyer and still give the buyer a commission ranging from a minimum of 8% to a maximum of 30%.
Of course, this commission can actually be understood in reverse, as the professional team being a higher-class supplier, able to secure a higher offer from the buyer for the same goods, which seems more reasonable.
In any case, corresponding to the so-called "benefits," the professional team also shoulders the responsibility of paying an astonishingly high quota for the hunting resources.
The specific quota size is determined by the head of each resource recycling company.
Without a doubt, the figure set by Yang Bingzhong is relatively high, even someone as strong as Lin Wang finds himself overwhelmed after just a few days of unsatisfactory fortune, leading to uncontrollable rage.
It is indeed challenging for the professional team to meet the quota solely by their efforts, necessitating the development of affiliated teams, which can be seen as a kind of benefit.
This way, the professional team can exploit others, savor a bit of the pleasure of being an Exploiter, and also somewhat ease their pressure.
But unfortunately, now Yang Bingzhong has also restricted the number and scale of affiliated teams.
According to Chen Hanyu, her parents once had nearly thirty semi-professional affiliated teams under their name, totaling nearly two hundred people. The average professional level of all affiliated teams even reached 1.7 Level.
Lin Wang, under Yang Bingzhong’s restrictions, went further, excessively skeptical, not only not cultivating affiliated teams but also suppressing them, which further caused him to be exhausted and on the run at the slightest disturbance, deservedly so.
If Lin Wang had six affiliated teams each with Third Level professionals, he wouldn’t have to handle everything personally.
Of course, this is just an ideal situation, one must also account for the production limitations of the resources around Starfire Town.
Starfire Town cannot support so many High Rank professionals.
Ren Zhong also considered the possibility of forming auxiliary teams through procurement relationships outside the affiliation system.
But with just a little calculation, he dismissed this plan.
Private transfers require a 10% tax, who covers this tax?
If the professional team handles it, then converting it means almost no profit, and would also catch the attention of Yang Bingzhong, marking you as ambitious.
If others cover the tax themselves, the professional team could earn slightly more, but they would still bear the risk. Moreover, others may not be willing, it’s such a hassle, risking everything, earning so little, selling directly to the company as a freelancer sounds more appealing.
So Lin Wang chose the mad dog approach, directly robbing, no cost, no risk.