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Per Amazon, candy is generally $0.50/oz to $1/oz. But that is with industrial economies of scale. But it's also with e.g. transportation markup. I still think it would be a reasonable estimate for production cost of ~homemade candy?
Cookies can hit $0.25/oz, because they have more water and flour per unit volume, I think.

This should probably ignore minimum wage inflation via ppp--assuming the cost of candy and labor scale similarly with inflation and with local wealth levels.

Modern minimum wage ppp (USD) ranges from $12/hr (New Zealand) to $7.25/hr (US federal) to ~$3 in much of South America. It can get much lower for non-preferred industries or countries with weird rules or no real minimum wage or messed up PPP.


I wouldn't expect more than $3/hr PPP USD in this feudal japan setting. If the Youkai have no alternative place to work, easily half that. If there are more Youkai available than jobs, perhaps halve that. Of course, somewhat dependent on the wealth and greed of those setting the salary.

Also, if magic can grow plants fast and replace fuel, that could depress the cost of candy.
On the other hand, if Youkai don't have living expenses/cost of living, that could depress the cost of labor.

EDIT: and don't forget having no income taxes can also reduce salaries, but no sales taxes can reduce the cost of candy. On the other hand, if living in the Bathhouse comes with defensive benefits (if youkai living outside are in danger of getting eaten by others or dying another way), that cost could be implicitly amortized into lower wages.
 
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I think in the movie it was once every 8 hours they got konpeito and Komaji had a meal. Because that's how dumb the soot sprites are, and they are happy with it. The amount given was constant, so if one wound up smooshed back into soot during meal time, oh well. Realistically, they were just Yubaba enchanting some soot to help Komaji because she didn't want to pay someone to shovel coal and they just need konpeito to duplicate via burning in case the magic animating them fails.
 
[X] A few handfuls is plenty

Given their size and that they are provided "room" and their needs, I think a few handfuls for the swarm is probably fine.
I don't know how to make it count this vote. Hmmm
 
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[X] Wait, we are getting paid for this? Oh, well. Now the soot sprite tribe just discovered mone-, hum, candies, kickstarting their civilisation.

Some soot sprites research how to maximize the coal flow to make even more candies, but there is only one furnacle and the competition is harsh. Thus, some sprites try to find alternate ways to obtain candies. After some ridiculous tests, one of them finally managed to convince a bath customer to give them candies in exchange to some (accidental) drawing on a paper, starting their cultural discovery and encouraging them to evolve in order to understand higher concept, therfore getting more efficient ways to get candies from that understanding.

Then, some soot spirits started to conquest territories (aka empty rooms) in order to set extra workshops, developping drastically an economy, completly axed on chains of production to get candies at the end. A merchant republic starts to develop, optimizing the cargo movements, while a foison of new jobs are created in order to secure goods, build infrastructure, colonize new territories, keep the Flame alive, fend of terrible beasts (such as cats) or learn about the world... all in order to get candies.

And let's not talk about religions such "The way of the flame" or "The blessed Candyland" (and the controversed religion "Chocolate is better").

At some point, a soot chemist (*keuf* cook *keuf*) reaches a critical breakthrough and finds a recipy to make candy. That provokes a major controversy in their society, between those who wishes to produce as many candies as possible (Candies are good, and nothing bad could come from it), and those who thinks that the "natural" candies given by the higher being should keep being their focus, and that they should not spend any time on such "second-rate candies".

The debate escalates, stronger and stronger, dividing the soot spirits, until it becomes war. Soot brothers stood against soot brothers, armed with dust broom and thowing mortal soap at each other, in a mad escalation to decide who get to remain and shape the course of their civilisation. After hours of conflicts and massive confusion, with several emplo... mercenaries corrupted to join a side or the other, the chaos was general in the bath house and the conflict total.

In a desesperate gambit, one faction took control of the baths from Baba (NEVER underestimate the motivation of a soot spirit in needs of candies... and at that point they technically had 95% of the building under their unofficial control) and changed all the entry price into candies, giving them the final edge to conquer their foes.

The surviving soot sprites now reign supreme into the bath house, and the reach of their civilisation does not seem to stop over the spirit world.

Meanwhile, Adam keeps eating candies and throwing coals (because it's fun!), oblivious of the madness he just brought into this world.



(... ... ... Yeah, I probably played too much Civilisation)
 
I want to vote but I cant figure out how, clicking the infobutton just gives me an overview?
Thats what I get for not playing with quests here I guess.

Maybe like this? Feels weird to have a dialog with details but nothing to click...

[X] A few handfuls is plenty
 
So, after examining the broken/badly made voting thing, I found the options you had for voting:
  • Proper Candy Pay Scale
    • - Just drown them in it
    • - One bag's worth
    • - A few handfuls is plenty
    • - I don't know uh... Four pieces?
    • - Be happy with one!
And I vote for : 4 pieces each per shift, or, one (big) bag's worth per day for them all.
 
Well, there's a description of how setting up polls works over here. Which makes it look like you accidentally set up the categories as what you intended with options.

Whereas you likely wanted to have the vote options listed in the post itself. But since you allowed write-in votes, that doesn't matter as much. I think. I'm not really used to this voting setup, rather than the vote counts done via just outright putting it in the post. As in not clicking the little 'vote' option available in the post option. Which appears to just automate the typing of the brackets + option. (and filling it in with the x, along with also putting in the 'suggested'/prior selections as options to put in.

And I'm guessing that in a situation with write-ins disabled, it would only pull options from the 'start poll' post. Which in this case is nothing. At a guess, you want to put the options that ended up as options for a category in that post, probably after a '[ ]' for each of them. Actually, if I'm understanding it right, it is an 'x' surrounded by brackets. Which I'm avoiding actually posting an example of here, since it'd be counted as a vote, unless I struck through it/put it in spoilers and I'm being a bit lazy right now.
 
Might really be borked worse, still nothing to click, assuming there can be something to click, no options listed anymore where I can see them.

So..

[X] All the Candy, all the time
 
Scheduled vote count started by theaceoffire on Jan 11, 2022 at 12:45 PM, finished with 20 posts and 6 votes.
  • [X] A few handfuls is plenty
    [X] 36 tons per year
    [X] Wait, we are getting paid for this? Oh, well. Now the soot sprite tribe just discovered mone-, hum, candies, kickstarting their civilisation.
    [X] All the Candy, all the time
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given the size of the darklings, one to two per shift, payable after the shift. One shift being one hour of coal shuffling.
 
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    • [X] A few handfuls is plenty
      [X] 36 tons per year
      [X] Wait, we are getting paid for this? Oh, well. Now the soot sprite tribe just discovered mone-, hum, candies, kickstarting their civilisation.
      [X] All the Candy, all the time
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