I think what you’re complaining about is the fact that the MC isn’t ruthless and doesn’t try to squeeze all the money he can get. But—everything he does ends up benefitting MC’s company, not purely through money, but through reputation and popularity because he’s not greedy, which will end up gaining him more money in the long run. By selling the chess board dirt cheap, he ends up spreading it far and wide, carrying the Reborn company name with it, increasing its reputation. And like what you said with the soap, he gave up the formula. But, that formula would have been figured out later by other people. By giving it away now, he ends up gaining more money and the favor of people. Also, this is a slice-of-life novel. But, I understand that it’s not what everyone wants to read.

That wasn’t really what I was saying. Sure he could have been more greedy with his money and that would have made sense but that wasn’t the issue I had. The dollar values simply don’t make sense. The main character is still profiting off of the chess board sales which is impossible if he is selling them for the equivalent of $0.001. It is simply impossible to produce anything in any country for a tenth of a cent. It has nothing to do with the MC being greedy or not. Again my main complaint was that the economics of the novel simply do not work which could largely be fixed if the USD values were simply removed entirely from the novel. Although even then there would be issues, just not as glaringly obvious. As far as the soap thing goes that was more of a minor issue although it still made little sense in that regard. The soap was his main source of income at that point in the novel and he basically just gave away the production method for free in a holier than thou moment. That doesn’t make sense. There are many other ways this could have been dealt with like buying a stake in other soap companies and giving them the production method in return. In that regard it wouldn’t be purely charity that is literally giving away the market he created for little reason while still benefiting lots of people. Either way the soap incident in the grand scheme of things as I said was just one small problem out of the larger issues that I mentioned in my review.

I wasn’t trying to make a complete conversion of the currency in this world’s coins into dollars. I was just trying to say that if he had that much gold back in his previous life, he would have earned that much dollars. Like, if the gold coins were transported into his previous world, he could sell it for that amount of money. It would be impossible to make a complete conversion because the two worlds have completely different values for their gold, silver, and bronze coins, especially since they have different purities. You can’t say that chess boards are only worth $0.001 in this world because it’s entirely different from Earth. But if that’s your only big complaint, then I can assure you that dollar value is mentioned only TWICE in the entire novel, and only in the earlier chapters. And again, Michael is thinking of long term profits. If he was going to give the formula to only a select few, then the formula would eventually get leaked. It’s not that hard in a world without CCTVs. By giving it away now, the Reborn company would he seen in a good light, increasings its reputation, which will convert to profit later down the road.

LMAO, by the amount of times you mention dollars i thought the author shove dollars left and right in the novel to the point you got angry but turns out it was only mentioned twice?? But i do have to agree with you with that hour work, unless MC introduced shift work

It’s mentioned 4 times I believe over a span of 6 or so chapter. I don’t know if it is mentioned after that because I stopped reading due to the many logical issues not just with the dollar amount but also the pricing of items and just how the events played out in general.

small question or rather a opinion in form of question (I would like to know before i start reading it): In most cases when things are given for free "in buisness" they will be considered a pushover especially for company which is not well established brand or partnership. So the question will everyone that he gave the recipe to regards him in a good light or just one or two business? Will there be people who try to take advantage off him?

In a good light. It will end up making Reborn more famous and allow them to sell more. As for your concern about them being treated as a pushover or getting taken advantage of, that won’t happen. This is primarily a feel-good slice of life novel.

Ty for saving my time. Judging from authors replies it's clear he is stupid and can't read or respond to the actual criticism. Bless you.

How can he make money from giving sth away. He should have shared recipe for stakes or just bought out the companies. He didnt make any contracts just f words of a maid and owners. No one f follows sth on words alone. U gave me recipe why the f would I need to pay u sth for it? I can just say it’s my own thing or just give a bit, as there is no f contract. Ppl wouldn’t think he is good/great guy but idealistic naive imbecile. I thought this story would be great but this moment shows that mc is naive imbecile. If he wanted so much to go to heaven he betters offs himself and saves time and brain cells of ppl. This moment is more imbecilic then chinese fanfics.

Purity has nothing to do with the value of money compared in the two worlds. It's about the supply and demand of money, so starting to talk about the US minimum wage by comparing it to a maid's wage in a fictional world with a fictional currency is just plain silly. Making these kinds of comparisons is only useful for the reader to get a sense of what the currency is worth.

Thank you. If author is such a dumb stupid shit like this with such no logic reply to criticism, I can only imagine how his novel Mc would be.

giving away formulas for free to other businesses does not give your brand reputation. It will give the other company reputation. Do you think theyll mention you in thier marketing material? Fat Chance. There are many times companies acquire proprietary technology and most people dont know who created it because all of it is rebranded. Example- Microsoft bought the programs of most of what is in thier OS and microsoft suite from independant developers relatively cheaply. Most of the world now uses these developers programs everyday but does anyone remember thier names? No they dont. Giving free samples to consumers or giving free bars to the needy would. For instance bombas which gives a sock to the homeless for every sock sold has a great reputation. Do they even care about the homeless or is it just a marketing gimmick? Scientists time and time again have wanted to give thier discovery to the qorld cheaply or affordably because they were altruistic and in most cases what happens is large companies then take the product they gave freely and artificially increase the price and the persons well meaning intensions go down the drain. An example is insulin. Well I also gave a not so great review because when everything is too easy, its boring. This fantasy world has no grit.

i can't believe we have to read the comments to see the authors thoughts. Have you ever heard the saying: Show not tell. or in this case tell the story and not assume your reader will understand your thought process? Also why didn't the Mc have these benefits for each of the cases you mentioned, in his inner monologue or a discussion with someone? Instead of vague feelings that it will be bad for people? And in the end everything goes perfectly (which is not bad) for the mc for no reason. The good outcomes didn't materialize because the Mc created it, but instead they just happened....?

hmm so you telling me that the author wanted to write a story of an MC living a happy go lucky life with no hindrances, no character development (since there's no hindrances). You wrote that he also just straight up provided a fking soap recipe in the medieval world without asking any of return? Well I'd like to tell you. Yes, that doesn't make any sense at all. Unless our dear author straight up just dismissed the possibility of exploitation and used that recipe to take advantage and used it as their own then the story is fked up then. We believe we could be more interested if the story is more into "reality" than "fantasy". aight imma skip and scroll for better storylines then, thanks for letting me know.

Plss review a novel. 👌

In short, I feel like your points for a readers immersion being ruined are based on things that aren’t really true If I had to make a longer comment I’d say something like You shouldn’t expect the conversion to equate to a modern salary. The average “salary” in the past didn’t have the same buying power, nor were there as many things to buy as there are now. You can convert the value of money kings had in the 1200s in gold into modern dollars, and even considering inflation they may be well off, but no where the amount needed to run a country today. Additionally, you’re complaint about the working hours relies on the notion that medieval peasants necessarily worked more hours than people do now, which isn’t always true, not to mention that even up to half, in some cases, the year they would spend not working for their lord, but themselves, albeit not continuously Not that they didn’t have difficult lives, but they weren’t necessarily difficult in the way we’ve been led to believe This isn’t even considering what I believe is an assumption that you need to exploit people at least as much as is common, for a story set in different times to make sense. This may be the only thing I have a hard disagree on Anyway point is, based on how you’ve said things, it doesn’t seem like there’s enough reason for your immersion in the story to collapse as a reader Though I’ll be finding out once I read it I suppose (May delete and reword comment, as reply is rushed and may not convey intent perfectly or be clear)