You Are the Zombie Master

[David Johnston2]

Imagine for a second that you have the power to turn corpses into servants. The resulting lifelike automatons have Slave Mentality, High Pain Threshold, Unfazeable, No Sense of Humor, Callous, Hidebound and Cannot Heal (but you can repair them with your powers). Other than that, they have all the skills, memories, advantages and disadvantages of the person they were when they were alive.

Now abandoning all scruples, how can you use this to get money and power?

[Minuteman37]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Imagine for a second that you have the power to turn corpses into servants. The resulting lifelike automatons have Slave Mentality, High Pain Threshold, Unfazeable, No Sense of Humor, Callous, Hidebound. Other than that, they have all the skills, memories, advantages and disadvantages of the person they were when they were alive.

Now abandoning all scruples, how can you use this to get money and power?

First I do this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...the_paranormal

Then I become a detective or start a religion, you know the usual.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Minuteman37

First I do this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...the_paranormal
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Really? You think revealing publicly that you're bringing back the dead as your soulless slaves would be profitable?

[Minuteman37]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Really? You think revealing publicly that you're bringing back the dead as your soulless slaves would be profitable?

Only if you consider one and a half million US dollars worth of prize money profitable my friend.

[somecallmetim]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Imagine for a second that you have the power to turn corpses into servants. The resulting lifelike automatons have Slave Mentality, High Pain Threshold, Unfazeable, No Sense of Humor, Callous, Hidebound and Cannot Heal (but you can repair them with your powers). Other than that, they have all the skills, memories, advantages and disadvantages of the person they were when they were alive.

Now abandoning all scruples, how can you use this to get money and power?

Find a pseudo legal pretext to acquire corpses (medical research, or operating a crematorium.) Set the zombies up doing repetitive, sweat shop style manufacturing. It is profitable enough that people use trafficked slaves to do it. How much better with workers who don't need food, sleep, light, or temperature controls, and will never get sick or try to run away or avoid work. And even if the place gets discovered, while you could probably get in trouble for misusing corpses, it is way less legally problematic than living slaves.

[Nereidalbel]

Hello mining operations with no need for safety beyond preventing tunnel collapse? Zombies won't even need to worry about most toxic gases, or radiation exposure.

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

Hello mining operations with no need for safety beyond preventing tunnel collapse? Zombies won't even need to worry about most toxic gases, or radiation exposure.

You could also contract them out for toxic site cleanup.

Bodies that can be mutilated and repaired, ad infinitum? Injury research (ballistics, automotive, etc.).

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Minuteman37

Only if you consider one and a half million US dollars worth of prize money profitable my friend.

Before you decide whether a choice is profitable, you should first think about what it will cost you.

[CeeDub]

Do the corpses stop decomposing?

[Wavefunction]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Really? You think revealing publicly that you're bringing back the dead as your soulless slaves would be profitable?

I imagine a lot of people would pay a lot of money to have their loved ones back, even if they behave a little oddly.