I mean, there's a hell of a lot of people in my world willing to do practically anything for a job with health insurance or a pension plan or any of that. Throw in vision or dental and that's a pretty big carrot in itself.
[Steven would say that even if he hadn't spent the last two months before Arceus snatched him up doing day labor, for lack of a legal identity.]
But honestly, I think you're right that it really might be that most of what Team Rocket does... isn't that awful, at least compared to the way that organized crime works back in most of our worlds. I think the worst thing they've done since I came to this world was try to steal Lapras from the wildlife sanctuary--and even then, they did it so incompetently that Armin was able to assemble a team to rescue them within *days*--and this with a concussion!
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Date: 2020-12-30 02:38 am (UTC)[Steven would say that even if he hadn't spent the last two months before Arceus snatched him up doing day labor, for lack of a legal identity.]
But honestly, I think you're right that it really might be that most of what Team Rocket does... isn't that awful, at least compared to the way that organized crime works back in most of our worlds. I think the worst thing they've done since I came to this world was try to steal Lapras from the wildlife sanctuary--and even then, they did it so incompetently that Armin was able to assemble a team to rescue them within *days*--and this with a concussion!