Respectfully, I can easily see a shared workplace at least encouraging screwing over customers. To me its an even more intense instance of the shareholder problem. Shareholders are obsessed with the money they’re getting back with no real work but the risk inherent in the bet they made. The workers are working, for a livelihood, and of course will want to improve their quality of life. They’re even more motivated to do so. And some of the best ways to do that, in the “make monkey brain happy” obvious short-term are the same policies the shareholders are already pushing. Will there be some pushback? Definitely, but you only have to sell a bunch of people on short-term easy money. And the lottery isn’t popular because people are smart about this stuff.
I want to talk about the real controversy here. What’s this about “relaxing” during Arcane training? There shouldn’t be time for relaxing. Being even an incompetent wizard is an educational bootcamp that consumes the first quarter of your life at best. There should be no “relax”. Where would all the mad wizards come from if aspiring mages relaxes, slept, or formed meaningful connections with long-term responsibilities? =P